Cutting Cafe BINGO

I make all the birthday cards at work and I needed to make a guy card.  I really like how Regina's bingo cards are so versatile.   I used one of the images from the blank Bingo set from The Cutting Cafe to create this guy birthday card.  It's almost monochromatic...just a little bit of orange added to the black and creme.  Love how the vintage ad looks on the bingo card. 

 Then when I saw the ad said watches on the bottom, I thought about the Tattered Angels frame and the clock faces I had.  One of the clock faces fit perfectly! 

Printed Happy Birthday in BlackAdder (a font I really like).   I just love going through my buttons when it's time to add one to a card.  Vintage buttons just make me smile.  And these are no exception!  Hope you've had a great start to your week!

Pixie Dust Tea Party Favor

Hi, everybody!  I have another project to reveal for the October kit by Pixie Dust Paperie.  I love tea!  Most days, I have it in the morning and in the afternoon, too!  I come home, start up the tea kettle, and cozy up in the library with a great book.  And even though my daughter is in her own house in another state, I know she's doing the same thing at about the same time. As she's gotten older, she's gone more for the green tea type, while I've stuck with the strong Irish black tea.  A tea party is on my agenda...not exactly sure when, but soon.  I thought the Maya Road kraft journal cards would make a perfect mini book as a favor for the tea party.  They needed to be easy to create, but also cute.  I had a few stickers and scraps left from the pretty papers, so I used those as accents for some of my favorite sayings about tea.  The first one by Eleanor Roosevelt is my all-time favorite.  (And I think it's so true!) 

And here's a bonus idea for the journal cards (especially the ones with the pretty thick black frames):  Halloween treat tags!  Just stamp and add ribbon. 

 Pretty easy, but frightfully cute!

Enjoy every minute!

Life...we should enjoy every minute!  Most of the time, I'm very happy.  I'm very lucky:  great family, great friends, great place to work... When it's hard, I find smiling (whenever possible) seems to help.  Also, this is may be a little strange, but I tend to enjoy every minute when it's cooler outside!  How about you? 
 This card is for the sketch at I(heart)2stamp.  I have noticed that the  most awesome sketches are available there.  I decided to give this week's a whirl. 

 I've had this cute cuckoo clock stamp for awhile  - it was definitely time to get it out.  The background papers are from Echo Park and they are so pretty! 

That vintage button came from the huge collection I lucked into awhile back.  It's such a rich, pretty brown.  Are you ready for the weekend?  Speaking of good friends, I get to have lunch with one of my favorites, Lisa, tomorrow!

Cutting Cafe W I T C H

Halloween!  I love it and I love The Cutting Cafe's Bingo Cards!  The Halloween Bingo set is no exception.  I started this Halloween banner by aging and roughing up the bingo card a little.  

 Awhile back I made some felted beads, which I thought were a perfect color for this.

  Look at that cute green and purple polka dot paper framing the little witch - those papers are from The Cutting Cafe, too.  I really like the little velvet flowers which trim the vintage lace quite nicely. 

 You know how much I like vintage images... the witch is darling, but that little black kitty won my heart!  It reminds me of my sweetest ever black kitty!  Right now my daughter and son-in-law are gagging - they don't think he's sweet at all!  (He tends to be a little prissy when they're here.)  Oh, well...thanks for stopping by!

Milk Caps!

I found the most awesome milkcaps at an antique store by my house.  They are orange like the one I used on this Halloween treat and some are yellow.  Cool, huh?  This little treat embellishment is easy, but oh, so unique with the milk cap.  I used a Jennie Bowlin bingo card and the circle stamp is from Papertrey Ink.  Then I added a stamped bat and some pretty black and orange ribbon I bought at Michaels. 

 It's so cute attached to a glassine bag with an office clip.  Happy Trick or Treat!

Pixie Dust Butterfly Card

Hi!  I have a card to reveal today using lots of things from the October Pixie Dust Paperie kit.  The butterfly is part of the sticker sheet.  I pressed it to cardstock so it would stand off my card and added some tiny scallops to its bottom wings. 

 The striped scallop and the polka dot frame is also included on the sticker sheet.  How about that beautiful velvety brown ribbon?  It's wonderful!  I aged the pink seam binding ribbon with a little distressing ink and roughed up that pretty yellow flower.  Topped it off with a little tag, a couple of rhinestones, and stamped circles on the background paper.  Check out the Pixie Dust Paperie blog for lots of inspiration.  Thanks for looking!

Thanksgiving Flowers

The challenge this week by Cheryl at City Crafter is any holiday, any project.  My contribution this week is a Thanksgiving Flower Pail.

  Although the little girl is walking with a turkey, I decided to make the banner say FALL.  I figure that way it's a little more versatile and I can put it out sooner.  I used the banner from The Cutting Cafe.  I added the letters using Papertrey Ink stamps and the orange swirlies are the end of a PTI frame stamp. I pinked some orange polka dot paper to put around the banner.

I punched out a couple of leaves to use at the ends of the banner and colored them with Copics.

I came across these little pails at Michaels months ago and bought them when they were on sale.  I had no idea what I was going to do with them, I just thought they were cute.  Do you do that?  Just buy on a whim, thinking that sooner or later you'll use it? 

Just about everything in the pail is from Michaels, except for the vintage images.  The pumpkin seed packet is from Majik Designs.  Thanks for stopping by!  Hope your weekend has been fabulous.