CCEE1844 - Turkey

This week's challenge is to use a turkey on your card. This turkey is from a very old Stampin' Up Thanksgiving set. I stamped the small leaves as a background, and put it all together with a gingham print dp and my self made plaid.  I added a few leafy gemstones.  This will come in handy for November cards. 

Check on the other turkey cards from the team on the CCEEStampers blog you can find HERE.

Retro Rubber Challenge #98

I always love a chance to get some of my old stamps out and use for a card. This pumpkin is a Recollection stamp from Michaels that I bought years ago, and the sentiment is an old Stampin' Up stamp from 2007. I am using distress oxide inks on m card, colored pencils, versafine black ink, and washi tape. I made a mistake when I stamped the sentiment the first time, so I used the washi tape to cover my mistake. Since the letters acturally were seen through the white dots, I had to even be more creative to hide it, so I added the little sequined leaves. So, creativity really plays apart when you are trying to deem a card, and it makes you think a little past your original ideas.

You can find the Retro Rubber Challenge HERE.

Pumpkin Spice

I had such fun with this pumpkin stamp this fall season. Today I used it on the "Pumpkin Spice" challenge over at Heart 2 Heart challenge.  I loved making the background for this card as I used up lots of scraps from my paper scraps. I am not sure of the source of this stamp, but I used spiced marmalaid distress oxide ink for a watercolor smash onto the white paper. Then I stamped the image with versafine black ink. To make the leaves and stem the colors I wanted I used colored pencils. I really liked the way you could work the pencils on top of that DOI. I added some shading to the pumpkin with colored pencils as well.

I hope eveyone is having a great fall season. It is my favorite time of the year and I love the fall colors.

CCEE1843 one layer cards

Okay.....here is this week's challenge.....

Many of you do fabulously wonderful fancy

fold cards, which is not my

thing. So today I am going to challenge you to make a true one layer

card....no layers, no popups, no embellishments. All your work must be

on the base layer. Embossing is fine, of course.

I used my new Unity stamps on this card and I  used distress oxide inks on this too. 

Check out the other one layer wonders of the team over on the CCEEstampers blogsite. HERE

If you load your card to SCS please use CCEE1843 as your keyword. 

CFC pink and gray challenge

I did this card for the pink and gray challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays challenge. I wanted to keep in one layered and mostly white, but I inked the inside of an embossing folder with pink and smake distress oxide inks, spritzed it with water and smalsed my paper in the middle of it. I stamped the ribbon in pink, and the flowers in gray. I then colored in the flowers with pink colored pencil and added gray pearls for the centers.

I have many friends who have had to fight this battle. I made this in honor of their bravery and courage they have shown in the eye of the storm. Love you all.

CCEE1842 - Masculine card with beards

This week's challenge is for the guys.......

Today is No Beard Day, so let’s make some masculine cards with

mustaches, but NO BEARDS.

CTD515 and SC719

I did this card for the sketch challenge on Splitcoaststampers and I also did it for the CTD515 challenge to use green, white, and tan.

Halloween moon

I did this card for the TLC challenge on Splitcoaststampers and also for the moon challenge over an AAA challenge.  Used distress oxide inks. I loved how it turned out. 

CCEE1841 Dogs

Joanne here with a challenge close to her heart....

As you all know, I love my two pups. They are both rescue pups from

Tennessee. Well, October is Adopt a Shelter Dog month. Let’s create

cards with dogs on them.

So,  Joanne, I had to use a dog that is a favorite of many over the years, Snoopy. I used colored pencils to color my image. 

Please join us with your cute pup image and post it to the cceestampers blogsite link here. While you are there, check out all the team's cute collection of dogs. 

ccee1840 - Non-traditional Halloween

Hi.....Joanne here as hostess for  the first of the October challenges.

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Nontraditional Halloween cards

This week we are going to make Halloween cards with nontraditional

Halloween colors.

If you don’t celebrate Halloween, do the same for

Thanksgiving cards.

I used Distress Oxide inks, some old SU stamps, and a new cat stamp from Repeat Impressions.