Wednesday Sketch Challenge!

Oh how I love Wednesdays! I just love doing the sketch challenge in Splitcoast Stampers! The routine of it is all so fun! Everyone makes the same card, posts it, and then comments on everyone else's cards. I just love the comments I get and the fact that I can comment on others' cards. It is just such a great community! Well, if that didn't convince you all to become stampers I don't know what will!

We are counting down only days until demonstrators can pre-order from the new Stampin' up catalog. I am most excited about the new colors and the new stamp sets! Friday is the day to order. I already have my list ready! CAN'T WAIT for that box to come in the mail. The fedex man has become a very important person in my life! Don't worry, Matt isn't concerned! :) He's pretty sure that if someone stole me away from him they would bring me back because I am too expensive!

I have to get myself back in the mindset to go back to work tomorrow. All good things must come to an end, right? Actually, I am looking forward to the routine of my life. I like my job and my co-workers so it is not too tough to convince myself to go.

Well, back to stamping! The supplies I used with this card are:

Stamps: My Favorite Things, Papertrey, Ink, Printed Pattern from Stampin' up

Ink: black pallete ink

Accessories: copic markers, white grosgrain ribbon from SU, brads from local store, cuttlebug and an A-2 embossing folder

Paper: orchid opulence, lovely lilac, whisper white

I tagged me!

I tagged myself because I never have played any of the tag games. The object of this game is to answer the questions with one word answers.
You can only type one word. No explanations…
Yourself: Reflective
Your Partner: sweet
Your Hair: curly
Your Mother: cheerful
Your Father: industrious
Your Favorite Item: laptop
Your Dream Last Night: None
Your Favorite Drink: latte
Your Dream Car: mini
Dream Home: city
The Room You Are In: Living
Your Fear: conflict
Where You Want to be in Ten Years: therapy
Who You Hung Out With Last Night: sweetie
You’re Not: quiet
One of Your Wish List Items: Paris
The Last Thing You Did: sneeze
You Are Wearing: Sweats
Your Favorite Weather: fall
Your Favorite Book: Evanovich
Last Thing You Ate: danish
Your Life: blessed
Your Mood: content
Your Best Friend: Matt
What Are You Thinking About Right Now: homework
Your Car: mini
What Are You Doing At The Moment: talking
Relationship Status: Married
What Is On Your TV: Oblivion
What Is The Weather Like: dark

Tuesday color challenge

Well, I am just about the biggest dork ever. I was out all day today so didn't get the chance to do my card for the color challenge until this evening. I had checked out the challenge this morning and then went out for the day. So after I uploaded my card and I sat down to see everyone else's cards. I thought to myself, "hmmmmmmmmmmmm.......why is everyone else's cards a different color green than mine?" Then I thought, "duh........everyone else's color IS different than yours!" I feel badly because it was a particularly difficult color combo to work with so I feel like I cheated. I really don't have time to do another one tonight or I would. I am normally anal about following all the rules in the challenges!

Supplies for this card:

Paper: glorious green, stampin' up dp spring flowers

Ink: black palette ink

Stamps: bees from stampendous, Papertrey, Ink

Accessories: brads from scrapbook store, mega giga scalloped square punch, chocolat ribbon

from Stampin' up, scalloped scissors

Blog Candy Winner: Patty H.

Well, girls, you are serious about your blog candy, aren't you? I had so many fun responses and had so much reading them! I will have to do blog candy again soon. What a fun experience! My husband (the math genius) put together a random number selector on my computer so I used that program to select a commenter randomly for the blog candy winner.

The winner is Patty H! I tried to track you back from your comment, Patty, but was unable to so shoot me a comment or an email at Melissawohlers@charter.net to claim your prize. I will also throw in one of my handmade cards! I hope you all had a great Memorial Day weekend and for you Canadians, I hope you had a nice weekend. I learned that in Canada they have a holiday similar to Memorial Day in the US, but it is a week earlier. It is called Victoria Day. How interesting! Thanks all for playing and hopefully you will check back again for my next blog candy give away!

Featured Stamper Challenge!

Well, normally I wake up on Sunday morning and do the Sunday Challenge, as we so affectionately call it in the Wohler's household, but tonight, I couldn't wait. I know, get a life, right? I took a much needed break from a difficult paper I am working on and used some of the new toys I got this week! I bought the die cut and the matching paper this week having a feeling a day would come when it would come in handy. Well, girls, that day came soon than later. This was the perfect combo for the card I chose to case from KED's gallery on Splitcoast.

I used bashful blue from Stampin' up, bow and brads from Michael's, and the rest is from the Magnolia collection. I did not stamp the main flower. It came like that. Nice, huh? This one was easy easy easy. I am thinking I will do another card tomorrow on another break from writing.

This is my most favovite challenge of the whole week.

BLOG CANDY!!!!

Well, I reached 4,000 hits yesterday so I think it is time to give away a little blog candy. I was at the local scrapbooking store this morning and they were running a little special. I you bought a few things from American Crafts, you got a gift with purchase. I thought this would make an excellent blog candy give away. I will send you the things I bought as well as the free gift if you leave a comment on this blog entry!

I will be pick a winner on Monday so make sure to leave a comment by then! In your comment tell me what your favorite thing to do on Memorial Day weekend is! There are a few ribbon spools, brads, buttons, some chipboard die cuts, some rub-ons, a special pen (not quite sure what it does but look pretty!) Also, not in the picture is a set of chipboard letters that would be fun for scrapbooking or cardmaking!

Good luck to you all!

Patchwork planet

This is a card I made for the sketch challenge on Splitcoast Stampers. I made a card similar to this one last week, but it fit the sketch challenge so well that I thought it deserved another go. I had this patchwork idea going around in my head these last couple of days ever since I sewed on my card last week. I think what would be really fun would be to make a quilt block on a card. I never got too much into quilting, but I know someone who could probably help me with that. (You know who you are!)

This card is very straight forward: I used a square punch to punch out the squares, then taped them to the cardstock, sewed it on zig zag stitch with the sewing machine, and the stamped and colored my image. I used regular stampin' up markers for the coloring. The brads and paper are all from Stampin' up as well. Most of the paper comes from the Stampin' up 6 x 6 sampler pad, which I thought was perfect for a project like this one.

Well, everyone, have a great Thursday. I have the day off tomorrow so don't be surprised to see more cards posted!