Just to let everyone know...

My old puter DIED!! I lost everything I had...*cries* all my programs, pictures, bookmarks...I am hoping to be able to retrieve it, or this puter whiz do it for me, lol. BUT for now, I have a new puter, it has windows vista, which I am NOT liking. So I am trying to get everything set up again, trying to find what I did with all my cd's to load stuff from 4 yrs ago, lol. So if you dont see a card from me for a few days, that is why! Such a pain to do this....ug...

--CAT

Ghirardelli® Box

In this weeks SCS Weekly Inkling, Beate has a tutorial on this box. I thought it was just too cute to pass up, had to try it! Here is the link to the tutorial:

Beate's Tutorial

And here is my version:



And it opened:



I show the picture of it opened because I did the closure a bit different than the tutorial shows. I rounded the flap corners so it would tuck behind the scallop border I made and put the dimensionals on the top part instead of the bottom of the scallp medallion I made. This was soooo super quick! and lots of fun to make. Gonna make a few more now! LOL!

Thanks for stopping by today and Happy Hump day! Week is almost over! Seems like its flying this week to me. We didnt get much of the ice that was predicted for us (told ya! LOL) Just on bridges on windshield on DH's truck this morning. So that is a good thing! ( to quote Martha, haha!)
--CAT
Box Details:
Stamps: Studio G dollar stamp
Paper: SU! cardstock
Ink: memento tuxedo black
Accessories: SU! marker, scallop circle punch, circle punches, scallop border punch, ribbon, piercing tool, dimensionals, MS clear gem sticker, terrifically tacky tape

A color and a sketch challenge!

Well, you would think this card wouldnt have taken me too long to do, since the colors and the layout were all done for me, but noooo, not me! I still take forever fiddling with a card, lol! I made this for the color challenge at SCS today (baja breeze, pacific point, and garden green) and for Jen del Muro's sketch challenge from Saturday. I have been wanting to participate in her sketches for the longest and this is my first time to do so, and I do so love sketch challenges! Ok, on to the card:



I tried a bit of watercoloring on this card. I used the lids of the above listed inks. Wasnt a whole lot of coloring on this image, and will try it again. I just was playing today, lol. I also got the idea for a tailored bow from Joanne B....she has issued a challenge in the Gina K forum but this isnt my card for that, lol. I have another idea for that one.

We are under an ice storm warning tonight. The worst of it seems to be up north of us right now and I am hoping it STAYS there, lol! But if I do happen to disappear, it would be because we lost power...I soo hope not. Back in 2000, we had that bad ice storm and was without electric for SEVEN days...it was HORRIBLE!! But got candles, hurrican lamps and some canned stuff today just in case. What usually happens, if they are predicting it for us, we dont get it, lol! Anyways, heres hoping for the best!

Thanks for stopping in and hope you are having a wonderful week!
--CAT
Card Details
Stamps: Unity Stamp Co.
Paper: SU! cardstock
Ink: baja breeze, garden green, pacific point, memento tuxedo black.
Accessories: circle nesties, cb embossing folders swirls and swiss dots, scor-pal, brads, hodgepodge hardware, ribbon, water colored with above listed inks using the lids of the inks, paper piercer, pop dots.

How Tweet!

Well, not necessarily my CARD but the person receiving this definitely is! LOL! I made this for a challenge in the Gina K forum at SCS. The challenge was issued by Theresa and it was to make a card with the theme 'sweet'. So this is what I came up with. It does say sweet, or tweet, lol.



I had to stick the sentiment there because as I was attaching everything, I dropped the bird and oval onto an ink pad...you would think I'd know better than to not put the lid back on IMMMEDiately! LOL! It got a spot of black ink on it so had to cover it up! I kinda invented my own breed of birds here too, lol! Isnt that one fun thing about stamping animals? You can make them any color you want! I was just pulling colors out that matched the dp I wanted to use and ended up with this little orange birdie, lol.

Ok that's it for today! Hope you have a wonderfully creative week!
--CAT
Card Details:
Stamps: Home Tweet Home from Gina K Designs
Paper: Basic grey cupcake dp, SU! carstock
Ink: memento tuxedo black
Accessories: basic grey cupcake brads and buttons, (which I got from someone that just made my day!) scallop corner punch, circle, oval and rectangle nesties, swirl clip, ribbon, scallp edge punch, copic markers and prisma pencils with OMS.

Happy Birthday to me! LOL!

Ah well, I was trying to ignore it, but it still comes around, darn it! LOL! Sooo, I had birthday on my mind, and my SIL's birthday is coming up in March and she sent me a card about an old hag (store bought, lol...all my family tell me they hate sending me cards because it doesnt compare to what I send, lol!) , so this fit perfect to send one back to her! LOL!



I love these witches from Starving Artists. They are so much fun to color! I thought she needed a bauble in her hand too so glued a dew drop there. I made this for the LS challenge at SCS today, to use black as a card base. I had already colored her up, wasnt planning on using black for that, but just switched stuff around. She's bright huh?! Yea me and my love of bright things! LOL!

I got so upset last night... my mouse just quit working, would not scroll or anything (and right during the Gina K release party at that!) Well I worked on it and got it working again..(where does that crud come from down in there???) and its ok for now, but I am going to have to buy another one. I always put it off till it just completely dies though, lol! I am having to give it a good shake every now and then to work now...lmao.

Well, that's it for today! TGIF!! Hope everyone has a wonderfully creative weekend!
--CAT
Card Details:
Stamps: Witches Trio from Starving Artists
Paper: SU! cardstock
Ink: memento tuxedo black
Accessories: prisma and koh-i-noor pencils with OMS, rectangle nesties, tag nesties, brads, ticket corner punch, ribbon, fancy corner punch, silver craft thread, pop dots, dressmaker tool to distress on the pink a bit which you cant really see