Southern Breezes

Gobble Gobble Goodies

Robyn stopped by the shop this morning and dropped off this super cute turkey!!

 It's always a treat to see Robyn - she is one terrific person and she makes the cutest darn things ever!! What you can't see is that his body is a mini Reeses cup! Such a cute idea.

It's sorta hard to see his feet, but they were made from a snowflake!  Robyn said she cut a snowflake using the Slice machine and then cut a couple of the "fingers" off the snowflake to make the feet! Now that is really clever! 

Thanks for the yummy treat and the great idea, Robyn!

Check out Robyn's blog to see how she created these adorable gobblers!

Saturday Night Challenge

This has been one hectic week.  A quick trip to KY on Monday - it's a 14 hour drive so does that really constitute a "quick trip"??? Anyway, drove to Ky on Monday and back to NJ on Wednesday. Felt fine on Thursday but it all caught up to me on Friday! I could barely stay awake at the shop :(  

It still fascinates me that it is usually colder "down south" than it is here in the northeast!! Good thing I took a sweatshirt cause it was really chilly down there - we even had frost on everything both mornings we were there! And since returning home it's been really chilly here, too.

Not much card making while on the road but I've tried to make up for it today.  But first let's get to the challenge for this week - to make a gift card holder.  Check out these great ideas...

Shelia

Robyn

Pam

Great job ladies!! Thanks for playing along.

All the chilly weather lately had put me in the mood to make wintry cards such as this juggling snowman...

You can't see it in this picture but the top half of the card is veyr pale shades of blues that were airbrushed onto Neenah white cardstock using Copic BG10 and B01 with a hint of Y11. This was my first time to actually use the Copic airbrush system on a card.  I've been hesitant to use it for fear it would be difficult, but it wasn't.  The system is amazingly easy to use so you'll probably be seeing lots more of it on my projects!

Now it's your turn - the challenge for this week is to make a wintry themed card.  When your project is finished simply link to it in the comment section of this post.  As  always, anyone, anywhere can play along! Have fun!

Supplies include: Memory Box's Tree Silhouette and Dewberry papers; A Muse's Juggling snowman, Got Snow sentiment stamp, green sheer dotted ribbon and crystal twinkles; white Neenah paper; Doodlebug white sugar glitter; Copics BG10, B01, Y11 and YR18 for the snowman's nose.

 

An Award From Robyn

I received this award from Robyn...



The rules are this: I need to pass this award on to five people, post on their blog to let them know I left this award, and then I need to answer a list of questions in ONE word. Fun!

1. Where is your cell phone? bathroom

2. Your hair? reddish brown

3. Your mother? Frances
4. Your father?Homer

5. Your favorite food? potatoes

6. Your dream last night? Nightmare

7. Your favorite drink? Classic Coke

8. Your dream/goal? contentment

9. What room are you in? family room

10. Your hobby? papercrafting

11. Your fear? heights

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? mountains

13. Where were you last night? home

14. Something that you're aren't? mean

15. Muffins? vanilla

16. Wish list item? travel

17. Where did you grow up? Kentucky

18. Last thing you did? bake

19. What are you wearing? jeans

20. Your TV? on

21. Your Pets? cats

22. Friends? priceless

23. Your life? good

24. Your mood? sleepy

25. Missing Someone? yes

26. vehicle? Vue

27. Something your not wearing? shoes

28. Your favorite store? One Little Spark

29. Your favorite color? red

30. When was the last time you laughed? this afternoon

31. Last time you cried? weeks

32. Your best friend? reliable

33. One place that I go to over and over? bathroom

34. Facebook? sometimes

35. Favorite place to eat? out

Thanks Robyn - you're super nice!! Now I have to pass this on to 5 people - Wow! hard to narrow it down to 5 - there are so many blogs that I like to visit and get inspiration from. Gotta thin about this for awhile.

Saturday Night Challenge

I hope you all have had as much fun as I've had today! I love Halloween, I love cool weather and I love to see all the kidlets dressed in their costumes!  So many cute ones at the parade today!

we've been doing lots of Halloween themed challenges, but, even though tonight is Halloween, we're going to do something different.

The challenge for this week was to make an interactive card.  It's been a busy, busy week for everyone but we still got one player for this challenge...

Pam

Robyn

Thanks Pam! Now the rest of you gals should be rested up and raring to go for this next challenge...a gift card holder.

This is a simple gift card holder created using a Sizzix Die and Basic Grey's Eskimo Kisses paper.  Once the paper was cut, it was only a matter of folding and adhering the two side flaps and adding a piece of A Muse ribbon and a cute little glitter trimmed tag to the front! Now it's your turn to show me what great ideas you can come up with for a gift card holder.  Once you rproject is complete simply link to it in the comment section of this blog! Have fun!

Supplies include: Sizzix Gift Card die; Basic Grey Eskimo kisses paper; Neenah white card stock; A Muse sheer white ribbon; Memory Box Merry Christmas sentiment stamp; Memento Danube Blue ink; Doodlebug white extra fine glitter.
 
 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Thought I'd share a few photos from today's local Halloween parade. The parade began outside the shops where One Little Spark is located and I'd say there were well over 200 people with their kids, homemade floats and fantastic costumes!! Take a look..

My favorite little dragon trick-or-treating Lee for an eyeball sucker...

the dragon's best bud...

Seafood anyone?

These poor gals lost their heads over someone...

How could anyone pass up these cute "kittens"..

How about this cutie pie?

Even the animals got into the spirit...
 

The next two pictures are not from today's parade, but from yesterday's All Hallow's Evestamp/scrapathon (a combination event with One Little Spark and the Scrapbook Cafe). Everyone had a blast and a few people did dress for the occasion, notably Colleen (she's the one on the left)...

 
 
 and this mysterious pumpkin head ( we know you're in there Ann!)

 

Have a spooky, creepy Halloween!!
 
 
 
 
 

I've got my EYE on you!

I told you last night that I had stocked up on suckers to make another cool treat so here they are...

EYEBALL suckers! Ok, maybe they're a 6 on the gross-out scale but still sorta neat, don't you think?

The eyeballs are clip art that I found online and printed on basic white card stock.  Then I used a 1 1/2 inch circle punch to punch them out and adhere them to a piece of black card stock that had been punched with a 1 3/4 inch round punch. The finished "eyeball"  was then adhered to the sucker with a glue dot.

Super quick, super easy and super fun to make.  Actually the hardest part of this project was finding plain little flat suckers.  I tried three different stores before I found the ones I wanted. Sure hope the goblins that show up Halloween night enjoy them!

Trick or Treat, Smell my Feet...

give me something good to eat!!

I have had so much fun the past few days making treat boxes!! I've done pumpkin baskets, mini totes, gingerbread houses (ok, that one is Christmas themed, but I still made some and it was fun) and lots of different sizes of small boxes.

But here is my favorite treat!! I came up with this one for Make and Take Monday tomorrow at One Little Spark.  This is not exactly a treat box per se, but I still had a blast with it. 

It's a simple topper for a treat bag which contains a "ghost smore"!! That's right, a ghost smore! This just makes me smile *lol*

Who doesn't remember making smores?  This kit contains a graham cracker, one ghost peep and one mini Hershey candy bar. This is too dang cute, especially the ghost peep!

Supplies include: Basic black cardstock; A Muse orange gingham paper, sentiment and ghost stamps; Copic BG10 ; Memento Tuxedo Black ink; cellophane bag; 1 graham cracker; one ghost peep and one mini Hershey Bar.

This evening I stocked up on suckers to make another cute treat that I will post tomorrow night!  It's really gonna be an eye-opener!!

 

 

Saturday Night Challenge

The last challenge was to make a treat box and this is what our talented ladies came up with...

Shelia

Gotta love that one from Shelia!!

And this one from Robyn...

The reason Robyn's pumpkin basket is in this post is because she brought it to me at the shop last weekend. Isn't it the cutest darn pumpkin ever?? Oh yeah, it was filled with mini Krackel candy bars.  By mid afternoon there was only one left and as soon as this picture was taken that one disappeared, too!! yummy, yummy!!

Great job ladies!

Now for the next challenge.  Part of this week was spent learning how to make different interactive cards.  They're really fun but can be challenging at times.  After 4 or 5 unsuccessful attempts at making a "Swing Card" the technique finally clicked and this is the result...

This is the front of the card.  The center section with the deer is the "swing" portion of the card.

When the card is opened, this section swings around to reveal the back side of the swing section...

 

It's not easy to see in these pictures, but there is a fine line of glitter underneath the tree line on both sections.

If you'd like the cutting guide and instructions for this card, just email me.

Your challenge this week is to make an interactive card.  There's so many different ones out there it'll be fun to see what you all come up with!! Once you have completed your project, link to it in the comment section of this post.

Have fun and enjoy the weekend!!

Supplies include: Basic blue card stock, Memento Tuxedo Black ink; Copic E57 and BG10; Doodlebug white glitter; Memory Box's Elegant Reindeer , Pine Border and Peace, Love and Joy wood mounted stamps; A Muse blue sheer dotted swiss ribbon.

 

Saturday Night Challenge

The weeks are flying by way too fast!! It's hard to believe it's already time for another Saturday night Challenge, but it is! The Challenge for this week (actually week before last) was to add dimension to a card.  Check out these great creations...

Robyn

Shelia

Pam

Great job ladies! 

With Halloween only a couple of weeks away we could all use some neat ideas for treats. Not the treats themselves, but something super cute to present them in!! I recently bought a Sizzix die that cut the cutest darn little boxes ever!!

Since Heather has been visiting this week, we decided to take one day an do something we hadn't done in ages - stamp just for the fun of it!! We both started with the same die cut box and then we went our own creative way.

I used orange paper from Papertrey Ink to make the box.  I then stamped the image on white Neenah and cut the paper with the classic oval Nestabilitiy die. When this oval was cut a large portion of the image was also cut off, which was fine since I planned to paper piece the skeleton over the original image.  With black paper I cut a second, slightly larger scalloped oval to place under the white oval. Another skeleton image was stamped and then paper pieced over the original image.  Before the ovals were adhered to the box, I placed rub-ons, also from Stampin Up!, on the box.

Super cute and easy peasy to make! Now all I need is candy to place in it!
Now it's your turn! Anyone anywhere can play along!  When your project is complete, link to it in the comment section of this blog.  Have fun!!

Supplies include:Papertrey Ink's orange and black papers; Neenah White paper; Stampin Up! markers, rub-ons, and  skeleton stamp; Spellbinder Nestability scalloped and classic oval dies.

Saturday Night Challenge

Another week, another challenge!  But first, let's take a look at the entries for the last challenge, which was to make a nice, simple card.  Please check out the following fantastic cards...

Pam

Robyn

Shelia

and this card created by CJ...

 and delivered to me along with the following gift...

Thanks CJ and Robyn - a yummy blueberry pie from my favorite place - Emery's Farm!!! Such a pleasant surprise! You guys are super nice and it was really great to see you again!

Now that I've had dinner and dessert I guess I should move on to the next challenge - to add dimension to a a card...

After stamping the wreath with Memento's Tuxedo Black ink, I sponged on faint colors with Kaleidacolors' Autumn Leaves.  Tiny red twinkles from A Muse were placed along the wreath for berries.  I then tied an A Muse green stitched ribbon along the bottom of the card. 

The birds were stamped using Magenta pigment ink.  After heat setting the images, I cut them out and then used dimensional dots to "perch" the birds atop the edge of the ribbon.

Now it's your turn.  As always, anyone, anywhere can play along! When your project is complete, link to it inthe comment section of this post.  Have fun!

Supplies include: Memory Box bramble wreath, bird silhouettes, vanilla paper and sage card stock; Memento Tuxedo Black ink; ColorBox Magenta pigment ink; A Muse green stitched ribbon and red Twinkles; and Kaleidacolors' Autmun Leaves ink pad.