Sketchy Thursday.....what's that you say?

It has been SO LONG since I have played along with Tracy's Sketchy Thursday! Honestly, it has been months and months! So here's a shout out to all those faithful Sketchy Thursday players!!! It feels great to play along with y'all once again! Oh, how much I have missed it.

The past day or so has been a bit crazy and stressful for me. I had this idea for this card in my head when I saw the sketch....and it wasn't till today that I need a little 'time out' from all the stuff I've been dealing with, so I decided to relieve my stress by gettin' my craft on!

Gonna keep this short, as I have to feed Kellan a little something before we head up to school to pick up the other boys!

Thanks for stopping by and have a beautiful day!

Supplies:

Paper: Whisper White, Crumb Cake (SU), Basic Grey Kioshi Papers

Ink: Chocolate Chip (SU)

Stamps: Happy Birthday (A Muse)

Other: Jute Twine (PTI) Pink Rhinestone (stash)

A Card for Sketchy Thursday #86

I am so happy to be able to play along with my friend Tracy with her weekly sketch challenge, Sketchy Thursday!I had my 6 week OB apt. on Friday, and since I was down in Seattle, I decided to stop by my favorite stamp store and I picked up this super cute paper from Memory Box that I used on this card.

Gonna keep this short, Kellan is sitting in his bouncy chair, and getting REALLY cranky.....he needs to be cuddled to sleep!

And of course I have to post a pic of Kellan....Dylan has been very into my camera lately.....usually the pictures he takes aren't that great(mostly because of the subject matter a six year old chooses......ya know the inside of his brothers mouth or something like that).....but this one of Kellan turned out okay.

Oh, and if you haven't checked out my new blog, you can do that here!

Thanks for stopping by and have a beautiful day!

Polka Dotted Flowers for Sketchy Thursday!

So here's the card I made for Tracy's Sketchy Thursday! I just love this little Polka Dot Flower set! So cute!I did get to use a sentiment from one of my new PTI sets as well, so yeah for new stamps and old paper!

And this card used up more of the patterned paper that I have....although I think that every card I have made in the past week or so has used some, I have not even made the slightest dent.

And, naughty me, I bought more today......would someone please plan an intervention!!!!!

Well, I just wanted to get this posted today, I don't have much time so this is going to be super short.....we have another baseball game this afternoon! And New Moon came out on DVD today, so I'm going to try to get the kiddos to bed early so Kerry and I can have a movie night tonight.....he went and saw Twilight in the theatre, but never made it to New Moon.....I hope that he'll be willing to watch it with me!

Thanks for stopping by and have a beautiful day!

Sketchy Thursday #73.....on Thursday!!!!

Can you believe it? First off, this is my second post for the day......before lunch, mind you.....(there must be something in the water), and not only that.....but I haven't been able to play along with Tracy's Sketchy Thursday in a few weeks. I had to make a card for this sketch today, or things might have ended up like they have the past few weeks.....where Wednesday night rolls around, and I haven't made a card.

I used this stamp set that I actually got a couple of months ago, but just haven't played around with it that much.....I just love these little houses!!! Super adorable. And the sentiment is one of my favorites as well....we have some good family friends, and this sentiment has kind of become an inside joke with all of us!!! Good times!

Well, I am so very happy to have finished this card this morning, and I think I might even have a bit of time to pop in some laundry and clean up a little before I have to go pick up Sam at Pre-school.

Thanks for stopping by and have a beautiful day!

Supplies:

Paper: Soft Suede, Whisper White CS, both SU. Patterned Paper.....unknown ( it was from a Taylored Expressions monthly kit from a while back)

Inks: Soft Suede, Baja Breeze, Rididng Hood Red, Tangerine Tango, More Mustard, Pretty in Pink, all SU

Stamps: Good Neighbors, Small Sayings, both SU

Other: Uniball White gel pen, dimensionals!

A litttle love for my neglected stamps!

Oh, I'm so happy I got to play along with Tracy's Sketchy Thursday before Wednesday night at midnight, like I did last week! LOL!

I saw that Tracy used some of the Basic Grey Origins line for her card, and well, Tracy, you inspired me! Only I didn't use the pretty patterns. I decided on the more utilitarian ones....well mostly because I don't really know how well flowers go with robots and little boy birthday cards! Also, it seems like I always use up the amazing "pretty papers" first, and then have all these "not so exciting" papers left over, which I hang onto for what seems like forever and then realize I'm not going to use them and let my kids have them!

Okay, enough blabber....here's my card:

This card is really simple, perhaps too simple, I don't know....this was the first time I have inked up this little robot guy.....I think I've had him for almost a year now! Poor little guy has seen now love until now!

Boy cards are SO hard for me, which is most likely why my boys never get a card on their birthday from mom! Isn't that sad? I think I might save this and give it to my little Sam. He will be 5 in April, right about the time the baby is due.....I just hope they don't end up with the same birthday!

Well, I gotta go and get dinner going!

Thanks for stopping by and have a beautiful day!

Supplies:

Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, (SU) Basic Grey Origins

Inks: Basic Black, Crushed Curry, Garden Green, Basic Gray, Close to Cocoa, (SU)

Stamps: Lots of Bots (SU)

Extras: Nestabilities, Black 5/8 Grosgrain Ribbon, dinemsionals

Sketchy Thursday Just in the nick of time.....

I have had SO much going on, that I didn't even realize that I hadn't posted in a week! Are there any of you still out there that come and stop by? I really can't get into details, but there has definitely been a lot dumped on my plate of life.....and I'm still trying to figure out where do begin to dig in!

But enough about that.....I had such good intentions of playing along with Sketchy Thursday, but then by today, I realized that it most likely was not going to happen. Luckily for me, Kerry took all 3 boys to his soccer game tonight, so that allowed me a little bit of time to myself. After taking the dog for a walk, I was going to take a warm shower and just crawl into bed with my book, but something was calling to me from my craft room!!!!

So without further ado, here is the card that I put together for this weeks' Sketchy Thursday! I just bopped over to Tracy's blog, and I was so excited to see so many entries for this week's challenge! I flipped the sketch onto its side to make a vertical card.

And here is the inside.

There is so much more I could say, but I'm going to keep this short as I still do want that shower and a little more quiet time before the circus comes home!!!

Shortest Post EVER: A sketchy Thursday Challenge

Hey there!

Things have been crazy around here.

I actually made this card on Monday, but I'm just now posting it and need to get it done super quick as I have card swap with all my girls in an hour and a half, and I haven't prep'd AT ALL!

I better get busy.

Anyway, here is the card I did for Tracy's Sketchy Thursday!

Thanks for stopping by and have a beautiful day!

Another Try....Sketchy Thursday #66

This is today's 3rd post, (I know, I know) so keep going if you would like to see what else I have been up to today!

I disliked the first card I submitted for this challenge, and I've been thinkin' about it all week. I wanted to make another card, but just never did it until tonight!

So here is my second take on the challenge! I still wanted to use an owl, but I think this guy fits the paper better than my first one.
Gonna keep this short tonight...I'm really tired, but I did want to get this posted!


Thanks for stopping by and have beautiful day!

Supplies: Paper: Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Baja Breeze; SU. Bo Bunny Love Bandit PP. Inks: Chocolate Chip, Baja Breeze, Rose Red, Certainly Celery, Close to Cocoa. Stamps: Owl image, Hero Arts; Sentiment: Picture This, SU. Extras: Chocolate Stain Ribbon, Baja Breeze Corduroy Buttons, Mini Stapler!

A simple card for Sketchy Thursday #66

I promised myself, even though it was Sketchy Thursday, that I wouldn't make a card for it today. I would wait for tomorrow, since I have my craft room all cleaned up and ready for card class tonight.

Well, that didn't work.

And to boot, I don't know how keen I am on this card. It's cute, but nothing spectacular. And I just realized as I am looking at the card on the screen, that the owl is really crooked! Oops! We'll blame it on hormones! Perhaps I'll just have to make another card for the challenge this weekend!

I've been stamping a lot this week, which is fabulous, but I have also been blog hopping WAY too much, and there are so many talented women out there, who make so many incredible cards and paper crafts, I just don't know if I should be entering all these challenges with them. I do love to stamp, and it definitely is an outlet for me, I just wonder if I should keep all these things I make to myself! There are so many of you out there who truly inspire me. And I just don't feel like I should be in the same arena.

Okay, enough whining for one day....sorry to all you who read my sappiness.

Thanks for stopping by!

-Amanda

Supplies: paper: whisper white, Baja Breeze, Bo Bunny Persuasion and Love Bandit Papers. Inks: Chocolate Chip. Stamps: Fox & Friends, Owl together. Extras: Red string, Pink ribbon, Red Corduroy button, Mini staples.

Sketchy Thursday #65, and some eye candy for Tracy!!!

Hey all!

I'm so happy that Sketchy Thursday is back! It was nice to have a break, I don't think I stamped for like 3 weeks, though! Yikes! Just got carried away with all the craziness of Christmas! I have been stamping this week like crazy....well it probably just feels like that! But I've made 4 cards this week, and hope to get another few done this morning before Sam has his Indoor Soccer and then I have to pick up the other crazies from school!!!

Tracy totally inspired me with her card, to use some Taylored Expressions stamps! So I pulled mine out, but didn't really see any that I felt like using.....kind of a stampers stupor, I guess. Finally I decided on the little purses....I had never inked them or the sentiment up before! And it's the most perfect card to send to my best friend in Colorado! (Hope she doesn't read this before it gets to her in the mail!!!)

I used some PP that I had laying around from one of my TE Key Ingredients Kits, I just wish I could remember what company or what the paper is called, so if you recognize it, let me know! Thanks! I subscribed to those kits for about 6 months, loved 'em. The only thing is that I acquired way too much solid card stock from them. I wish you could just order the PP and embellishment parts! Plus I was trying to cut back on spending, so I've given it a rest for a while.

Here's a close up of the image and sentiment:

And now for a bit of eye candy......I have to laugh because although I love Edward, and I'm all about Twilight, I'm not obsessed with Rob per say (hopefully he doesn't read my blog and won't find out!).....perhaps if I were 15 years younger!!!! LOL! But I was in Blockbuster before Christmas, usually we Netflix, so I'm not really ever at the video store, and as I was looking at all the new releases, there was this one called 'Robbert Patinson, All Access' Oh, my, I was laughing so hard! I couldn't believe that it as actually a featured new release film.......

Okay, so I think I've been long enough today, really I meant to keep it real short! Oops!

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great Weekend! Happy Friday! (I'm hoping for a date night tonight, but that probably means I would have to shower! LOL!)

Supplies: Paper: Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Patterned Paper from ?. Inks: Riding Hood Red, More Mustard, Baja Breeze, Basic Black, Blender Pen. Stamps: TE Downtown Diva set. Extras: Chocolate Chip twill ribbon, Martha Stewart Border Punch, Nestabilites Dies, Rhinestones!

Sketchy Thursday #64

Whew! I think I just made it! I had wanted to make a card for Tracy's sketch challenge this week, and have had this idea in my mind, but I don't know where the time went! I promised myself this year, that the craziness of the season wouldn't get the best of me, but here we are with just over a week to go, and I feel like I have so much left to do! Anyone else feel that way?

And the fact that the kids are out of school this Friday, makes things even more crazy! I'm trying to come up with loads of fun activities that we can do next week where we don't have to go out and brave the traffic and the crowds.....perhaps we'll just go swimming at the Y a bunch! And make sure we have a bunch of good Dukes of Hazard re-runs around!

Well, here's my card, it's a little simpler than I had planned on it being, I wanted to be able to see more of the flower, but oh well!

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek! Hope you all are doing well and surviving the Christmas season!

Supplies: Kraft, Very Vanilla and Chocolate Chip CS, (SU); Baja Breeze, Riding Hood Red Inks (SU); Cheery Chat & Fabulous Flowers Stamp sets (SU); Dazzling Diamonds Glitter (SU); Buttons (PTI); Chocolate Chip 1 1/4 striped ribbon (SU)

A little bit of Sketchy Thursday

Hi!

I know what y'all are thinking....2 posts in 2 days.....it's a festivis miracle! Yup, I can't believe it either....but if I really want to get technical, yesterday's didn't really count cuz it didn't have a card.

But I do have a card to share with you today! I have so very much missed regularly playing along with Tracy's Sketchy Thursday sketch challenges....and so now that I'm finally starting to get back to life as normal, I'm hoping that I will be able to play along quite often.

With that said, when I saw the sketch she gave for this week, I totally had this awesome card in my mind, the problem is that once it made itself into a physical representation in paper, it didn't really live up to the beautiful perfection I had in my mind....does that ever happen to any of you?

But, it's growing on me, and although I know these aren't traditional Christmas colors, they are one of my favorite Christmas combinations.....a friend of mine has a Christmas wreath, that has all these turquoise, blue and olive green ornaments on it, and it is absolutely stunning!!!

You'll have to excuse the bad photography....I'm going back to my regular camera....my "bad boy" as I call it.....I had just been using my little point & shoot, but thought I would get better pics with my old one, problem is, that I haven't' used it in a long time, and I think it's going to take some practice.....that and I think I want to make a light box as well, but that's a whole separate issue to tackle....I think I'll try to get through Christmas first!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Amanda

My First Sketchy Thursday in a LOOOOOONG Time

Well, here's the card I did for Tracy's Sketchy Thursday! It's been so long since I've been able to play.....like months! I'm so happy I got a chance to play. I got home from getting the boys at school, and sat down to check email, and then bopped on over to her blog, and just decided to make a card right then and there.....It's now, like an hour later, and I haven't seen my kids since I started. Perhaps I should do this more often.

Well, it's down pouring outside, with thunder and lightning to boot! What a great night for date night.....but it has to happen, now that I'm feeling better.....I think the last night out we had was like mid summer....oh yeah, but we did have a week in Hawaii.....I guess that counts!

Hope y'all have a fabulous day! Thanks for stopping by!

A thank you, some crazy news, and a card for Sketchy Thursday!

First of all, thank you, and I mean THANK YOU to those of you who listened (read) to me ramble on about how I've just been kinda 'out of it' lately and just not feeling it, if ya know what I mean, and who have bravely come back! I promise not to do that for a long time.

And now for some crazy news: My kitty Titan got hit by a card right in front of our house yesterday evening. Don't worry, he's okay, he only suffered a fat lip (it's pretty funny on a cat), and some lost brain cells, which he obviously didn't have many of in the first place since he went running into the street when a car was coming. The car was going pretty fast, though, which is a completely different issue altogether, I will spare you from my rantings about that! I guess cats really do have 9 lives! Titan is now down to 8.

And now for what you all came here for in the first place, and that is my card for Tracy's sketch challenge! I decided to use another one of my little poppy 'gnomes' for lack of a better word to call them. I just love this little guy holding his little bird on a stick!

Edited to add: OH MY! I can't stop laughing....did y'all notice up there in the post when I was telling you about Titan, that it says he got hit by a CARD?!? I think I've been crafting too much! Well, he actually got hit by a car, not a card, although sometimes when he comes jumpin' up on my craft table, I do swat him with a card!

Thanks for stopping by!

The Goods:

Paper: Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Mellow Moss, Marigold Morning all SU; Cosmo Cricket Earth Love PP

Inks: Chocolate Chip, Mellow Moss, Not Quite Navy, Basic Black, all SU

Stamps: Bobby Bird, Poppy Stamps; Sentiment, The Cat's pajamas

Extras: Chocolate Satin Ribbon, Michael's; Nestabilities, Scallop Edge Punch, Copics, SU Markers, Sponges

An Owly Sketchy Monday...and some more Dahlias

Well, I didn't get as much accomplished today as I wanted to, but hey....do we ever? I did get a chance to chat with my neighbor, Heather, for an hour or more....sitting outside on this lovely day, so I can't complain.

And I did get this card done for Tracy's Sketchy Thursday. I picked this owl stamp up today....at Michael's, believe it or not....the few times that I have purchased stamps there, I say, really, with all the INCREDIBLE stamp companies out there....you're buying a stamp from Michaels.....? Oh well. I do like this guy. He's super cute, don't ya think?

The patterned paper I received as a "bonus" on an order from Two Peas. I just happened to pull it out late last night.....hadn't used any of it.

It's a totally simple card, I know, but sometimes ya have to do simple! And I love that little sentiment....I debated whether or not to even add the sentiment.....perhaps just have some buttons, or a flower or something, but the sentiment won out!

Oh, and here are a few more pics of the Dahlias.....

This last one, I wanted to put my hand next to the flower, so y'all could get the perspective right.....this Dahlia is HUGE! It's gorgeous......probably my second favorite to the deep red.

A Simply Sublime Sketchy Thursday, and a bit of eye candy!

This is my second post for the day....so scroll down if you'd like to see my entry for Dawn's Color Challenge! Okay...I'm finally playing catch up from being so 'out of it' yesterday! Here is the card I did for Tracy's Sketchy Thursday! This was a super fun sketch...but then, I think all the sketches she's done are fab!

Someone gave me a card a few years ago using these colors.....and I've loved 'em together ever since! And it gave me a chance to pull out one of my OLD In-Colors....it was a bit tricky trying to find the scrap of matching cardstock, mind you!

The Goods:

Paper: Whisper White, Real Red, Tempting Turquoise, Marigold Morning

Inks: Basic Black, Real Red, Marigold Morning, Tempting Turquoise

Stamps: A Muse: image and sentiment

Extras: Hemp twine, SU Buttons, Sponges, Blender Pens, Copics

Oh, yeah....and I was dorkin' around on the computer earlier and found this little beauty.....Tracy, I know you'll enjoy this....hope everyone else will too! I can't wait until November! Am I worse than a 14 year old girl, or what? LOL!

Sketchy Thursday, and a Kitty!

I went out last night, mostly just to get in the AC in the car, but also because one of my favorite local stamp stores was having a sale.....and they never have a sale. Only to find out that the sale was only for online orders, but oh well. The stamps I wanted were not available online.

This card uses one....wait, actually two of the stamps I just got. Don't ya just love this little sweet thing? My oldest son came over and said "Nice Gnome, Mom!" I had to laugh. Her name is Peggy Polka Dot, and I just love her.....I also got a little boy as well, I'll have to make a card with him real soon so y'all can see how adorable he is too!

Anyway, from looking at the sketch from Tracy, I knew I wanted to use some of my Early Bird PP, and so that pretty much decided my color scheme. This was such a fun sketch to do, thanks Tracy!

I haven't really been all that thrilled with some of the cards I have made lately, but I really really love this one. I think I'll have to use it for my August Card Class.

And now some non stampin' stuff. Ever since I saw the picture of Tracy's new kitty, Jinxy, I have thought that she is the spittin' image, only in girl form, of our newest kitty Titan, or Tininan, as he is best known in our house. We have this crazy habit of having multiple names for our pets. Kinda crazy, but oh well. So I just had to post this picture of Titan, so those of you who have seen Jinxy will know what I'm talkin' about!

Sketchy Thursday.....on Thursday!

It's crunch time. We're leaving for the beach house tomorrow morning.....so I have a bunch to do so we can get out of town! And when I say I have a bunch to do, I mean stamping! I suppose there's also laundry, and packing and such, but our babysitter is coming this afternoon for a few hours so I can go out and get all my errands done without my 'helpers'.

Well, I decided that if I didn't make a card right now.....it might not happen before we leave, so here's what I came up with.

I've been wanting to try this color combo; Chocolate Chip, Bermuda Bay, & Crushed Curry, so I thought I'd give it a try for Tracy's sketch. And since I loved the line of buttons I used on this card, I thought I would try it again. What do ya think? Does it work?

So glad that Tracy is back...I totally missed her Sketchy Thursdays. And I am so happy that she has a new addition, Jinxy!

Two gals at card swap last night used the French Script background stamp, and I was totally inspired. And since mine hasn't seen ink in a LONG time, I thought I'd try it out! The little bird stamp, which I think I have fallen in love with is from a hostess set from the new catalog. Usually I don't end up using hostess sets or liking them all that much, but I love this little bird! The set is called 'Of the Earth'. The flower is from a new set as well, 'For all you do'.

Finally got around to Sketchy Thursday

I am so happy that I made a bit of time today to stamp. I needed it. I am starting to get SO anxiety ridden in regards to the construction starting tomorrow. Cody helped me, and we got the bathroon all emptied out....it looks so strange without all the junk in it!

I have wanted to make a card for Tracy's Sketchy Thursday since.....well, Thursday! It came to me fairly quickly. I had my card box sitting on my table, which I used for the color inspiration for this card. And the flower stamp was just sitting on my table because I'm using it for my card for card swap tomorrow night. So there ya have it! Hope everyone out there is having a great week!

ESS #43 - Oh me, Oh my, Oh Razzleberry Pie!

Well, I promised another post today, and here I am to deliver. This is the card I did for Tracy's Eat Sleep Stamp Sketchy Thursday! I know I've said this before, but I just love her blog, her ideas, sketches.....she is one talented cookie! Plus she's got some super sweet followers....every time I post a card to her blog, it seems like there are always a bunch of super nice comments on mine! And she loves Twilight.....all good things! What a fun sketch this was. I decided to pull out a stamp set I haven't used much, and since Tracy used one of my FAVORITE stamps for her sample card, I decided to go along with the flower mojo.

I also wanted to use some of those new yummy in-colors from Stampin' UP. I'm not really a purple person, so when I saw the Rich Razzleberry, I figured it would be one of those colors that I probably wouldn't use that much. Well, I pulled it out for the first time today, and I think I love it!

Here's the Goods:

Paper: Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry, Melon Mambo, Cosmo Cricket PP

Inks: Basic Black, Crushed Curry, Dusty Durango, Melon Mambo, Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive

Extras: Crushed Curry Polka Dotted Ribbon, baubles, Scallop punch, dazzling diamonds glitter

BTW, don't forget that I am still going to be giving away something (stamp set) from the upcoming Stampin' UP catalog to one lucky follower, when my count reaches 20! So if ya haven't signed yourself up- you should, you might win something fun!