Catching Up with the Mojo

Hi All!

I hope you all had a great labor day weekend. Our trip to New Jersey was fabulous and now we are getting ready to kick full gear back into the regular school routine. The first day of school is tomorrow for two of them and then Friday will be Jonathan's first day of pre-school. I did get a chance to do yesterday's Mojo sketch earlier today and then got busy, so I apologize for posting a bit later than usual.
I decided to use my new Paper Pretties stamp in honor of the beginning of school. I love to read and I hope to pass this love for books onto my children, so this stamp is just fabulous for me!
I chose an old Kwerner color inspiration combo of Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin, Pretty in Pink and Pomegranate for my color palette. It was as simple to put together as it looks, so I won't bore you with the details and I need to finish catching up on a few things around the house. Have a great day and thanks for stopping by to visit me!

Get Sketchy 4: Hello Flowers

Good Evening!

Wow, I think this is the latest that I've posted in the day in a long time. I got my card done earlier in the day; but just haven't had time to sit down at the computer. We are heading out of town for the holiday weekend, so I've been busy doing laundry and packing etc. Reagan and I went out this afternoon for pedicures and then we spent time together this evening watching Hannah Montana and doing hair and I even got a massage! It was great...I love spending time with her and bonding over girly things.
So, here's my card for today's Get Sketchy challenge. I decided to keep it very simple and in fact only used one stamp, which was from the SU Polka Dots and Paisley's set that I stamped on the Melon Mambo background. I had such a good time use my Thickers from American Crafts the other day that I decided to break them out again, only this time I decided to use the green ones. The flowers are from Flora Doodles and were the inspiration for the rest of the card. The scanner makes the 3D images of the letters a bit blurry...sorry about that.
Ok, so I know this is super quick; but I still have some things to do. As I said, I'll be out of town this weekend, so I'll be back on Tuesday. Have a great holiday everyone!

Halloween Cards

Hi Everyone!

Today I want to share a couple of Halloween cards with you. These are two of three designs that I will be making to send out to family and friends. The third one will be the Halloween Wiper Card that I showed in an earlier post. Yesterday at Michael's, I found a set of Halloween stamps from Inkadinkado. They have a bit of an elegant flair to them which made them quite appealing to me, so I decided to treat myself to them.
As you can probably tell, there is quite a bit of embossing on these cards. For the first one, I embossed the "Happy Halloween" sentiment with white embossing powder and on the second card, the "Trick or Treat" is embossed with Versa Mark and Clear powder. I embossed the pumpkin with black powder. For both cards I used more of my SU "Cast-A-Spell" paper with cooridinating pieces of Pumpkin, Olive, Perfect Plum and Black paper. I also used my Top Note Die with my Cuttlebug as well as my Oval Nestabilities for the first card. These two cards are proof positive that you can create totally different looks with the same colors, one package of pattern paper and the same stamp set.
So, I hope you like them. Have a great day!

Keepin' it Simple.

Good Morning!

What a busy day yesterday! We went school supply shopping and got the oil in the car changed and did a lot of little things around the house and we played outside for a while too. I didn't get a chance to sit down and stamp until about 4:00 yesterday and then when I got done it was time to start dinner and so I didn't get a chance to post anything.
I actually made two cards yesterday, which is amazing given my complete lack of Mojo on Monday. If you saw Kristina Werner's MACM video this past week, the first card will look very familiar to you. I just loved the card and realized I had all the same materials and thought I would make my own version. I didn't have any of the Ranger paint daubers that she did, so I used a sponge dauber from SU and some acrylic paint and did my background with that. I used Kraft and Cameo Coral for my colors, with Chocolate Chip ribbon. It was super easy to put together and only took about 15 minutes to complete.
The second card is for yesterday's MMSC 17 challenge. Now, I looked at the sketch at about 8:00 yesterday morning; but didn't get around to doing it until later in the afternoon. I didn't go back to review the sketch before I started on it, so I was relying on memory. After I did it, I realized that I forgot the horizontal piece across the top. I really wanted to keep it simple. I don't know about you, but sometimes I really overthink my crafting process. I decided to just go with what I was thinking as I was thinking it instead of trying to plan and replan and then do. So, I grabbed some Grey, Sage Shadow, Ruby Red and Baja Breeze and used those as my color. I had not used my Fresh Cuts notes or that set in a long time and it seemed appealing for the layout (as I could remember it at the time) Again, this was a quick card and 30 minutes later this card was the result.
So, that's all for me today. We've got another busy morning; but I plan to do a bit of blurfing later. Until then, have a great day!