Seasonal Stamps Added to For Sale Section

I just added a couple of stamp sets that work great for this time of year. To check them out, click on the For Sale tab above.

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful weekend!
Sharron

The 12 Kits of Occasions: October, "Let's Go" with Joyce

Hi all! The 12 Kits of Occasions are posting a day early this month so as not to interfere with all the little goblins out and about tomorrow night! We have a theme that we have never done before. Joyce, Cards-by-the-Sea, is out hostess this month and she selected this fun theme of things relating to travel. Of course, we all like to travel! She sent lots of wonderful patterned papers and stamped sentiments and images. The die cuts included lots of these fabulous suitcases (my favorite!) I loved adding them to most of my cards!

We also have TWO guest designers! Kara Vrabel, with KandR Designs, and Jackie Southas from What did I do today. Kara is one of our inactive 12 Kits members and Jackie will also have lots of fantastic designs for us to see. Connect with their blogs, as well as the blogs of all our members, over at the 12 Kits blog HERE.

So sit back and enjoy our little trip around the world!!

Thanks so much for letting us share. Hope you get a little inspiration, or at least an urge to pack your bags and plan your next adventure!

Sharron

Hop to Stop National Domestic Violence

I learned of this challenge from sweet friend, Michele at I Card Everyone. Over on Becca Cruger's blog, Damsel in Distressed, a very special event is going on.

"You see, purple is the color of National Domestic Violence Awareness month. 

1 in 3 women will experience domestic violence over the course of their lifetimes. 

Let that sink in - 33% of all the women you meet.  And women aren't the only people who are affected! Women, men, transgender - gender doesn't matter. Domestic violence is something that exists regardless of gender, socioeconomic status, religion, education level, etc."

So the blog hop is to raise awareness of this very important issue in our society. It has and may in the future touch many people in one way or another. 

Please click HERE to find out about the rules so you can take a few minutes to join the hop! There are also many wonderful sponsors.

Your card does need to contain some purple! I chose this sweet image from Tiddly Inks and a wonderful sentiment from WPlus9. I don't have many purples in my Copic collection but with a little mixing I tried to create a bouquet of different shades! The yellow is my favorite 'happy' color!

I'm also submitting this card to the 30 Day Coloring Challenge over at The Daily Marker.

Thank you so much for dropping by!

Have a blessed weekend,

Sharron

W&W World Cardmaking Day: Masterboard Background Building

Masterboard Background Building is just one of the great challenges that Winnie & Walter Stamps is hosting. World Cardmaking Day was a week ago but the challenges are running until Sunday night. Click here to see a few of the fabulous background designs Shay provided for us. 

I decided to use The Party set and stamp my large paper with just the streamers.

For this card I added additional images from the set. The sentiment was stamped on a separate paper and cut out. The present was stamped, colored with Copics and fussy cut out. The circles are from a SSS Circle Loops die.

There are several great challenges that you can check out over at Winnie & Walter. I hope to make something else if I can before the deadline.

Please come back for my The Hop To Stop card that I will post tomorrow morning.

Have a great weekend,

Sharron

WPlus9 Throwback Thursday #7

LINK TO CHALLENGE

I know I'm super late to post for this challenge, especially since I started on my card more than a week ago! It features the Pretty Patches and Country Charm sets from WPlus9. I have all or part of all four of these sets and love the country look.

Another thing I wanted to try was making my own background panel. A sweet friend, Kara from KandRDesigns, is a master at this. Here is a link to one of her recent ones. I am in no way as talented but below is my first attempt. 

I started by embossing a sheet of white cardstock with Sizzix Circles which provided spaces to stamp my images. I'm not ready to plan out a complicated design!! I used the apple set and stamped the gingham heart and a green leaf. Vellum was used as a cover, with the sentiment from the same set. The square was cut from Clear Cut Stackers: Pinking Squares (WPlus9) and a cream-colored twine was placed underneath. For the card base, I used Green Acres cardstock, also by WPlus9.

I've been busy making cards so will be posting more later!

Thanks for coming by,

Sharron

The 12 Kits of Occasions: September with Jessica "Welcome to My Nightmare"

It's that time again! It's the last day of the month which means we are hosting a 12 Kits reveal and it's also the beginning of the fall season, my favorite! Jessica, The Paper Parade, is our super talented hostess. Bet you can guess the theme with all the little ghosts and goblins! Below is a picture of the fabulous kit we all received. Tracey was so sweet and put together this collage. There are wonderful fun images and embellishments and the coolest papers. I used elements from the papers in all my cards, even cutting out images for the last two! This was a fantastic playful month and I really enjoyed putting together my cards. Thank you so much, Jessica--loved your kit!

Sadly, Cathy Weber, Empty Nest Crafter, has had some family issues that will prevent her from finishing out the year with us. Cathy has been in our group since the very beginning and we are really going to miss her. But of course, family is the first priority so we are sending her big hugs and wishing her the all the best. She has asked Lisa Elton, My Paper Tales, to take over for her. Lisa does wonderful work and you are going to love seeing her creations over the next few months. Be sure to visit her blog and wish her well! To connect to the 12 Kits blog, click HERE. You will find links to all the other members' blogs. A list of supplies is available by opening the Monthly Kits Supplies 2015 located at the top of the blog page.

PHOTO BY TRACEY

NOTHING SCARY HERE! MY SWEET FRUIT BAT IS JUST CHECKING OUT THE JAR FULL OF CANDY CORN! SENTIMENTS ARE FROM WPLUS9 AND WALTZINGMOUSE.

I JUST RECEIVED THIS NEW DIE SET FROM MEMORY BOX CALLED VINTAGE HALLOWEEN LETTERS AND THOUGHT THEY WORKED GREAT WITH THIS PAPER AND FUN IMAGE.

THE BRICK WALKWAY IS DONE USING A MY FAVORITE THINGS STENCIL.

THE CUTE GHOSTIES AND PUMPKINS ARE CUT OUT FROM SHEETS OF THE PAPERS THAT JESSICA SENT IN THE KIT. THE BANNERS ARE FROM WPLUS9 AS IS THE SCALLOPED DIE CUT.

JESSICA INCLUDED A SHEET OF EMBOSSED BLACK PAPER THAT WAS COVERED WITH SPIDERS. I FUSSY CUT A FEW OF THEM TO PUT ON THE EMBOSSED WEB. THEY REALLY ADDED A LOT OF DIMENSION. THE SENTIMENT IS FROM MY TIME MADE EASY, A COMPANY NO LONGER IN BUSINESS.

Thank you so much for visiting and letting me share my 12 Kits Creations. Have a wonderful October. Hope you have a beautiful fall if you live where the trees change!

Enjoy the hop!

Sharron

CAS(E) This Sketch #138

This is my second post for the day. Please scroll down for the 12 Kits of Occasions August reveal.

SKETCH  #138

It has been forever since I last did a card for this challenge! I haven't been doing challenges at all lately so I'm hoping to break my bad habit!! When I saw Heather Nichols (Pine Is Here) from PTI post a batik technique, I knew it would be great with this sketch. I was going to use white for the base but switched to Hawaiian Teal for a rich contrast. I cut out the rectangle and placed the finished watercolor paper behind. The embossed leaves are from Turning a New Leaf (PTI) and the zebra (my take on the sketch challenge stripes) and sentiments are from another PTI set, It's a Jungle Out There.

Of course, I had to made a mask for the zebra so he wouldn't have green stripes but wished I had some masking fluid as that would probably have worked better!

Hope you enjoy! Try this technique if you can. It's very cool!

Thanks for letting me share,

Sharron