SOS124 - Halloween

Good morning! It's time for a new challenge to help you shop your stash. This week's theme is Halloween. Alternately, you can use orange & black.
I don't make many Halloween cards, so I don't own many Halloween stamps  - but I found some fun stickers in my stash and I used them on this card:

cute and fun, right?

House of Card Sketch in Blue & Silver

This month we have a sketch challenge at House of Cards and this week it's Classic & Elegant cards.

and here is my card:

I started with sentiment and the I was playing with various Spellbinders die shapes.

Challenges:
Brown Sugar - Blue, Gray & White
Stampin for the Weekend - anything goes

SOS123 - Notebook with ribbon & lace

Good morning! This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is to use your oldest ribbon - easy, right?

for my notebook I used my very old pink seam binding and even older lace. Paper is also from my oldest pack (I was just sorting through it last weekend and discovered some pretty ones)

CAS Ornament Cards

Since I'm a big fan of non-traditional Christmas cards, I made couple more for Flourishes Christmas with a twist challenge.

This time I used ornament from All That Glitters set and made them very clean and simple. Color panel is made using acrylic block technique.
and a closer look:

Flourishes - Santa in Gold

here is a card I made for Flourishes Christmas with a twist challenge - that means Christmas card with no red and green

I used Santa, I Believe set, stamped him in brown Memento ink - lightly colored him and used gold accents. The gold background paper is embossed with musical score embossing folder.

SOS122 - Embossed Tea Light Candle card

Good morning! This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called "EMBOSSING TIMES TWO".
We'd like you to use two or more colors of embossing powder or two different embossing folders, or mix it up and do both dry and heat embossing!
I'm getting into Christmas spirit and decided to make a little card with a gift - a tea light  candle card

I used my neglected Inkadinkado Christmas stamps and 2 color of frantage embossing powder - shabby white around the image and vintage gold on the background panel (that's also embossed with musical embossing folder).
The candles inside are from IKEA and they have a wonderful cinnamon smell. :)

Challenges:
Quick Quotes -  use stamps & ink
Crimbo Crackers - embossing
Delightful Challenges - Holiday spirit
Creative fingers - anything goes + lace

Little paper gifts

Since it's already October and we are getting close to Christmas, I'm starting to think about little paper crafted gifties/stocking stuffer.. to give and to sell on a craft show.
Here is what I made so far...
I made several mini sewing kit holders - great to have with you for emergencies :)

and the inside - each sewing kit is factory sealed, so it's hard to take a good picture

I also made some Post It holders - for mini and regular Post Its using leftover Christmas papers and hand made flower

Challenges:
Creative fingers - anything goes with ribbons
Crafty Catz - anything goes
4 Crafty Girlz - anything goes
Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

SOS121 - Christmas in Pink

It's Tuesday and we have a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash. This week we ask you to use pink as your primary color in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month. An alternate theme is cancer awareness or support. Since I don't have any stamps related to cancer support/awareness - I went with pink... and made a Christmas card.

I used Strawberry Slush ink and paper, Stamp is from my old(ish) SU Snow Swirled set, die cut is from the Apothecary framelits. The just a ribbon and a bit of bling and a card is done.

Challenges:
Holly Jolly Christmas - no patterned paper
Crimbo Crackers - embossing
In The Pink - bling it up
Bloggers challenge - Bling It On
Sparkles weekly Christmas card challenge - anything Christmas goes