Back in the Swing with TECC48

I'm definitely past ready to get back in the swing with my stamping and scrapbooking. It seems life got so crazy in 2008, I let it fall by the wayside. I'm not saying that life is any less crazy now...only that I don't want to let it interfere with what I enjoy any longer! LOL

There's nothing like a great sketch to jumpstart my creativity. So I loosely followed Taylor's Sketch 48 for this fun birthday card. The stamps are Sweet Skunks and Ordinary Greetings, and the paper is from the Kaleidoscope Boyz collection.

Craving the Fall Colors & Quad Challenge Card

Yep! You read that right! This card was made with FOUR challenges in mind. Sometimes I wonder if I ever have an original idea. LOL But when there are so many projects floating around in your head, letting other people tell you what to do takes the away the agony of the decision-making process.

I found out last week that a neighbor at our old house just had knee replacement surgery, so I'll be getting this in the mail to her tomorrow.

First, Beate is back! After taking the summer off for some well-deserved family time, she started posting weekly sketches again. I always love participating in her sketch challenges and Sketch #54 was so fun to work with.

The Dutch Dare Challenge blog asked for Get Well cards this week.

Our Creative Corner's weekly challenge was a color challenge: Ruby Red, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie and Chocolate Chip.

And the new card challenge at Scrap Attack Scrapbooking was to make a card with fall colors without a fall sentiment.

The stamps are Butterfly Bits and Ordinary Greetings. I used a smidgen of patterned paper by Scenic Route, my Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder, and dimensionals for the top layer of the butterly. Did I nail it? I love it when I can mark four things off my list!!

Gerbera Daisy

I've been busy this weekend participating in an online scrapbooking crop at Creative Scrappers. I'm still trying to finish up an album for my niece, and all the challenges are helping me get more pages done for her!

I did take a quick scrapbooking break last night and made this card for one of the card sketch challenges. In addition to using the sketch, the challenge was to use cardstock only and one stamped image. Gerbera Daisy is one of the most classic images I know! The sentiment is from Ordinary Greetings.

Beate's Weekend Sketch #34

It's been over a month since I've found time to play with one of Beate's weekend sketches. I've been waiting anxiously to use my new Sweet Skunks stamps and I love the colors in A Little Whimsy paper collection. The sentiment is from the Ordinary Greetings set. The picture is a little dark, but I'm so happy with how this turned out. I've already cut the cardstock and paper to make three more of these! (The fact that I'm already late on sending a few birthday cards might have been a small factor in that decision too). Now I'm just waiting for naptime to stamp off a few more of these adorable skunks and pull out my Prismacolor pencils and OMS. :)