Inspired By Cracked Glass

It is Friday night and surprisingly I am still awake.  I decided to get a jump start on Saturday's Inspiration Challenge at SCS.  This card came together very quickly compared to some of the time consuming, lack of mojo, cards lately. 

I love how this turned out.  Here is my inspiration piece-

I stamped a piece of Whisper White CS in Black Craft ink with the Sanded Background stamp and then clear embossed it.  I sponged Pool Party and then Island indigo at the bottom, So Saffron and More Mustard in the middle and then Cajun Craze at the top.  The panel is mounted on Basic Black CS and has a narrow band of black CS with the sentiment from the Teeny Tiny Wishes set stamped in Black craft, clear embossed and then sponged with So Saffron and More Mustard layered on top. 
All products are Stampin Up. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a blessed weekend!

Lee Ann

Wanted: MOJO

I seem to have misplaced my MOJO.  Have you seen it?  And while you are at it, if you see any creative bones out there, let me know because I don't seem to have a creative bone left in my body!
As this is the week of Thanksgiving, it seems a good time to ponder things I am thankful for.  I am thankful for my son and our home-that we even have a home and that I have been blessed with a good job. I am thankful that God loves me even though I do such a lousy job of loving Him.  I am thankful that he has faith in me even though I usually rely on me rather than Him. I am thankful that He has given us the ability to be creative.  And I am thankful for this community of crafters/stampers in blogland and at SCS; who knew we could have so much fun sharing with people hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles away?!
Now on to stamps!  The Shining the Light Challenge at ODBD this week is to use silver or gold on our card.  Sounded easy enough, but without MOJO, not so!!

Edit-11/18/12-5:50pm
I have been having a rough time getting good pictures of cards lately, so I was playing with the settings on my camera to see if I could brighten up the photos.  Here is a retake of the one above-it may be too bright!  At this point my eyes are so blurry from looking at pictures I don't know what looks good and what does not!

 I wanted to make an easily mailable card, so that meant it would be flat.  I seem to be gravitating to nature lately, enjoying all of the beauty that God has for us, so I chose pine branches to frame my scripture verse.  My background is embossed in silver and my pine branches are glittered with silver Stickles, but it really is not showing up in the photo.  The scripture verse is stamped in Bravo Burgundy craft and clear embossed.  Though simple, I still like how his turned out.   

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Enjoy this week of Thanksgiving and the official start of the Christmas Season!

Lee Ann :)

Supplies Used-
Stamps-ODBD Worship the Lord, Stampin' Up Watercolor Winter and Sanded
Ink-Versamark, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Always Artichoke, Bravo Burgandy
Paper-Whisper, White, Bravo Burgandy, True Thyme
Other-silver ep, clear ep, silver stickles

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This card is for the Featured Stamper challenge at SCS.

  I just LOVE the dsp that comes in the Holiday Mini Scrapbook kit!  Gray and cream are sooo pretty together. I scored around the edges of the white card base and highlighted the edges of the Pool Party panel by heat embossing it with silver ep. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies used (all Stampin' Up)-
Stamps- Teeny Tiny Wishes, Serene Silhouettes
Paper-Basic Gray, Whisper White, Pool Party, Very Vanilla, dsp
Ink-Versamark, Basic Gray
Other-white and silver dsp, Window Framelits, Simply Scored, Polka dot ef     

Plate Full of Poppies

Happy Saturday and Happy November!  It is hard to believe that Thanksgiving is less than 3 weeks away, but I say bring it on!  I love Thanksgiving and don't like to see it lost in between Halloween and Christmas.
 I am enjoying a long weekend so more time for stamping! This morning I played with a stamp I just bought; it is from Penny Black.  It was perfect for the Inspiration Challenge at Splitcoast Stampers today.  Here is the Inspiration I used-

And here is my card-

This is such a fun image!  I also used Stampin' Up's Whisper White, So Saffron and Poppy Parade cs.  DP is also SU.  The image was stamped in SU craft black and embossed with clear ep.  It was colored with Poppy Parade, Pumpkin Pie, and Old Olive using an Aqua painter.  The background image is sponged with Baja Breeze. I used SU's scalloped edge punch for the border and Tiny Tags paired with the jewelry tag punch for the sentiment. 
Thanks so much for stopping by and visiting my blog.  I will be back later as I stamp away my day!

Lee Ann :)

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Hello Everyone!  Back again with a card for a few more challenges.  Most importantly, it is for my father, who will be having surgery sometime in the next couple of weeks.   I have finally jumped in to the Queen for the Day Forum at SCS.  This week's Queen has a wonderful gallery and I chose to case this card.  What a great masculine card!  Here is my version-

This card is also for the ODBD challenge-masculine card-this week.

Thanks so much for visiting!  Have a blessed weekend!

Lee Ann

Products used:
Stamps-Stampin' Up Trust God and Sanded;  ODBD Keep My Lamp Burning
Paper-Very Vanilla, Soft Suede, Black
Ink-Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Momento Black, Craft Black from Stampin' Up
Other-Apothecary Framelits (SU), dimensionals, twill, burlap, Fiskars corner punch

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Hello, again!  This is the last card for the night.  I feel like Christmas should already be here for all of the Christmas cards I have done!  This latest one is for the Merry Monday sketch.

As you can see, I turned the sketch again (I have a habit of doing that)! 

  I really wasn't sure how I was going to use my Snow Festival Christmas dsp with the village houses on it, but when I pulled this snowman out, it seemed a perfect way to make a snowy scene.  This card did not have a banner or ribbon feel to it, so I went with the wintry pearl flourish to blow in the snowflake. The snowman's (or woman's) scarf is paper pieced. 
Thanks so much for taking time to visit my blog!

Lee Ann

Products for this card include:
Stamps-Sweet N Sassy Stamps-Welcome Jesus; Verve-Glad Tidings
Ink-Stazon Black, Pumpkin Pie, Baja Breeze
Paper-Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Gumball Green, Snow Festival dsp
Other-Verve snowflake die, pearl flourish, black pearls, polka dot ef, snowflake ef, dimensional, Scallop edge punch