Stamps, Paper, Glitter #11

Stamps, Paper, Glitter Sketch Challenge #11. Karin has come up with another great sketch for us to follow:

And here is my card:Not too sure I like this card, but hey, maybe that will inspire me to make something better!

STUFF I USED FOR THIS CARD:
STAMPS: Merci SU
INK: Basic Black SU, Real Red SU, Only Orange SU, YoYo Yellow SU, Lovely Lilac SU
ACCESSORIES: MS border punch, ribbon, dimensionals, corner rounder

OSW & Stamp Something

A OSW is a One Sheet Wonder. This is where you can take one sheet of paper (usually double sided) and make all the embellishments for so many card layouts. This one is by VerveGirl at SplitCoastCrafters and it is using a 6X6 sheet of paper to make all the designs on the paper before you put your focal on.

I found this at SCS and used it as a guide for a color challenge by Stamp Something. The Color challenge this week was to use BLUE, YELLOW, and GREEN.

Now, I don't have any DP (design paper) that is two sided, so I used two sheets of single sided DP. For this reason, I ended up with 8 cards instead of just 4, 2 cards for each sketch.

Here is what the 6X6 looks like before you cut it up:
And here are the sketches for each of 4 cards, along with my interpretation of the sketch directly after each sample sketch, along with the color challenge using the green, blue, and yellow:
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These cards used the SU (Stampin Up) stamp set called Year-Round Cheer for the sentiments.
TWOThese cards used the SU sets Merci (the flower) and Be Happy (sentiment Laugh Play Share).
THREE The 3rd chicken from the left is raised on a dimensional. I tried to get a close up, but nothing would cooperate and it was way to blurry to really see what I wanted you to see :(These cards have the Studio G stamp for the Chickens.
FOUR These cards sentiment is from SU's Season of Friendship set.

Gettin a little post happy! ;)

I found a template and tutorial at http://danniesdesigns.typepad.com/ by Dannie Graves for a stationary box. I thought it really looked cute, so I went ahead and gave it a shot. Here are my results!:



This is the outside of the box with the lid ON!

And then with the lid OFF!

And then this is with the box open.

These are the tags and some of the cards that can be found inside the box:

Request Fullfilled

A fellow Blogger asked me to post some of the cards I have made recently... So Here They Are! I also posted some cards before, in October 2008.

The blog Titles are

(1) Just Another Saturday, &

(2) Some More Creativity.

Most of the new ones were not original ideas since I went to some websites that have examples of what other people have done with the stamps I own... So it is a copied original since with doing this stuff, each person rubs off on their work, and I don't have some of the "company" paper & ink colors that many people use because they all match and they don't have to spend time getting the paper and stamp ink and and and and... to look good together! (I think that was a bit of a ramble!)

Hope you all enjoy my crazy hobby!

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This technique is called "black magic" - saw this technique on a demonstrators website and followed her lead, but the stamp used and the look was all my own!

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This was an original thought I had all by myself!

Just Another Saturday

Where to begin.

The Bogner Family Just arrived home from yet another trip to Colorado on Thursday! We headed out last Saturday Evening because there was moisture moving in from California that had been a hurricane! That moisture was destined to meet up with a cold front moving south from Colorado, and so, while we were away we got over 4 inches of rain. North of the farm there was about 5 inches, and some of the locals in town said they only got 3 inches, but I am sure it was more than that since there was still water sitting when we got home 5 days later! The tail water pit at the Adobe Walls farm is completely full and Chris said that he had never seen it full, even when it rained for a week straight shortly after we moved to the panhandle.

Colorado was a good trip. Just before we left, on Friday Night, Hunter decided to stop having diarrhea, and throw up instead. He acted fine on Saturday, so that morning I went to a StampinUp party (which was lots and lots of fun), and then left Hunter out at the farm to build fence with James (a hired hand for harvest), Chuck (Chris's always hired man), my dad, and Chris. By the time it was over, all of them where covered in mud and soaking wet (it had already started to rain by the time the fence started to go up). By the time I got back to the farm, Hunter has been stripped of his clothing and was hanging out in the backseat of Chris's new farm truck... a 2008 Silverado! Hunter was glad to see I had brought him some warm jam-ies with feet in them so he could get warm, though he still wanted to be out in the rain! He loves the rain.

So while on the trip, Hunter did really good, though he would get the runs almost everyday. Poor baby. We were able to see all the Hunter's grandparents (not hard since they live a mile apart), and all the Great-grandparents except for my Grandpa LaVern.

When we got home, Hunter's bum still hadn't fixed itself - I thought he could have been because of teeth or something like that so wasn't too worried until it had been a week - so I called the Dr.'s office. The nurse told me to take him off of milk for a day or so and see if that helps. Hunter was really NOT happy about that decision. I took him off milk on Friday morning. On Saturday, Chris, Hunter, and I went to the neighboring town to go get a bolt that cost over $125, go to WalMart for some C batteries for Hunter's new to him Vtech game, to the pharmacy to get my prescription, and to the barber shop so Chris wouldn't look so scruffy! As soon as we got the the barber shop, Chris got out of the truck, and Hunter threw up EVERYWHERE!!! Yeah. So now he can't have juice either. He is on the BRAT diet. Banana, Rice, Apple Sauce, and Toast. Hunter is a bit of a picky eater anymore and so today he ate a banana, ginger ale mixed with water, a sippy cup with rice cereal mixed with water since he won't eat it any other way, and then he acted better so I let him eat our dinner of stir fry ~which has rice in it!

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I've picked up a bad habit I would like to confess! I have started branching out from my scrapbooking and have started making greeting cards! I have made quite a few. I went to a StampinUp party about 6 months ago and bought some stamps. I decided that I hadn't been using them enough so I decided to make a few birthday cards. Then I went to the new StampinUp party and purchased a few more stamps as well as made a few cards at the party. I wanted to show my cards off to my mom so I took them to Colorado with me and while there I showed them to Chris's Grandma Bogner since she always sends out birthday cards and I figured I could give some of them to her. When she looked at the cards she said, "I'd take about 1/2 a dozen of this one. " and then that one and this one and this one! So I have been busy trying to get them done since I got home. I have all but one set done, because I am waiting for my newly ordered stamps to arrive because one set is sayings like "thank you" and "wish big" and I thought one of them would look good on the last card. That is all I need to add to the last card and they too will be done! But since I need a picture to post with all these words, here are a few of the cards I have been making!: