Happy Halloween

This is a Jeannie/Vicki Challenge card. I needed a break from wedding stuff today so I said something to Jeannie about we need to do a card and she wanted to make one too. I only had flowers and rings on my mind so I told Jeannie I couldn't come up with something to do so she took on the task of finding us our next cut. She picked one of the trees from Stretch Your Imagination. As soon as I looked at the cart I knew exactly what tree I was going to use. I have been seeing all the halloween and fall cards that all of you are posting and that inspired me. I have know from day one of getting Pooh and Friends that I wanted to use those pumpkins so it all worked out just fine. I am really proud of this card. I love the paper, this is the new fall pack of paper from DCWV called Indian Summer. I absolutely love it. When I saw it I knew those orange colors would make perfect pumpkins. I hope you enjoy looking at this one as much as I enjoyed making it. Thank you for looking and thank you for commenting. Thank you Jeannie for getting my mind off of wedding stuff....

SYI- tree cut at 3 1/2" twice and layered- the I cut out the leaves and just glued them wherever I thought needed a leaf

PDDU- cat cut in black- because halloween cats need to be black- I used my white gel pen for his face. The cat is cut at 3". The moon is also PDDU and is cut 3 times on flip and layered with glue dots. The bats are cut at 1 1/2" Pumkin on the inside is cut at 3"

Pooh and Friends. The pumpkins are cut at 2 3/4" once in green and three times with the layers. I alternated what color paper I was going to use for the top of the pumkins so all three would be different.

Wild Card- the word Boo on the front of the card is cut at 3" and the Happy Halloween on the inside is cut at 5".

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Pooh and friends - Vicki's take

Yea!, Jeannie and I got our challenge in this week. While we were trying to figure out what we were going to do for our challenge this week Jeannie looked on her calendar and noticed that August was National Pooh friends month. So of course we decided to do a pooh card. I have to tell you guys I struggled with this card. I knew right from the start what I wanted to do on the inside of the card. I knew I had to use this Winnie the Pooh quote....It was a must. Now all I had to do was build a card around a quote. That should be easy enough....wrong....I couldn't figure it out at all until last night. I sat down at my craft table and looked at the Pooh quote and the card just came to me. I hope you like the end result. I am pretty pleased with how it turned out.

Pooh and Friends- Pooh cut out at 3" twice in black on shadow and once on regular cut in the pooh color. I used glue dots to pop him off the card. The butterfly is also from Pooh cut at 1" twice. I glued the butterfly together just in the center so it would look like it was flying. The catepillar was cut at 3/4". I had to use a catepillar so it would relate to the butterfly.

Beyond Birthdays- Hello Friend cut at 2"

Plantin Schoolbook- scallop along the edge cut at 1" and I trimmed off one hump.

Zooballoo- grass cut at 2" on regular cut for the back of the grass and then on shift lowercase for the shorter grass.

The flowers are a punch and I added brown stickles to the center of the flowers and inked the whole card.

thanks - Vicki's Take

Jeannie and I just couldn't wait to do another card so here we are. The husband of a lady that I work with was in a really bad accident. He was on a garden tractor going across a small bridge and the bridge broke and the tractor overturned on him. He has went through numerous surgeries and is just really lucky to be alive. Well, we live in a very small town and everyone knows him and has been great in pitching in and doing things for them and helping them financially, they have 3 small children, and it is so hard for the mom to do everything. It is amazing how a small community comes together when there is a need. Well, she came to me yesterday and asked if I could make her some thank you cards for her to send to everyone that has helped. I was honored that she would want my cards to give to everyone. So I am making a bunch of thank you cards for her. I hope she likes them and I hope everyone that receives them likes them too. For the challenge Jeannie picked the flower from George (one of my favorite flowers) and we used the saying thanks for going above and beyond. I hope you like it. I can't wait to see Jeannies. Believe it or not, I did 90% of the card while talking to Jeannie on the phone.
George flower cut at 3", 3 1/4" and 3 1/2".
Plantin Schoolbook- leaves at 2" #4 cut at 1 1/4" and also shadow cut
Mini Monograms- Thanks
I think Jeannie had thought I had lost my mind because I told her I had to wait a few minutes before I could take my picture because my card was in the freezer, yes the freezer. That is the fastest way to dry stickles.... I used the stickles on the ends of the flower petals. I am still laughing because she sent me a pm and it said freezer?????? do tell. I know she thought I had sniffed too much glue .

Cute as a bug

This is also a Jeannie/Vicki challenge. I think we both were just itching to do another challenge. Neither one of us could come up with a good cut so Jeannie handed the book the Madison and told her to pick a cut. She picked the lady bug and also had one other request. We had to use glitter. I can't believe we even got this card in last week. Jeannie was so busy planning her daughters wedding and getting everything just so. I was so surprised when she said "let's do a challenge today". I hope it was a good break for her because I am sure she was busy busy busy. I cut the lady bugs were cut at 1 3/4" and 2 1/4". The scalloped circles were from mini monograms and the leaves were from plantin school book. The font is base camp. I felt like I had glitter everywhere after putting glitter on the lady bugs and on the tips of the leaves. It was a lot of fun as are all the card challenges with Jeannie. I hope you enjoy seeing them as much as we enjoy making them. Thanks so much!

Birthday Cupcake

This is also a Jeannie/Vicki card challenge, little did Jeannie know that this was also her birthday card from me. I hope she was surprised when she got it in the mail. Jeannie actually picked the cupcake cut. We had both just gotten the new Home Decor carts and we were just dying to make something with it so the cupcake was first. I knew right away what paper I wanted to use, I was really pleased that I was able to make the cupcake match the paper. I cut the cupcake at 3" and cut out 4 different layers. I knew this card was going to Jeannie so I really wanted to make it Pop! I used lots and lots and lots of glue dots and stickles. It actually turned out to be one of my favorite cards after it was said and done. I hope you enjoy it and much as I enjoyed making it.

Chick Chat over coffee

Jeannie and I are having way too much fun doing these challenges. I get so excited each and every time that we do one. I think I could do one every day. I had several cards to make for a lady that I know that is in what is called the Pink Ladies, this is like the red hat society only the ladies are "too young" to wear read. Anyway, she wanted some "pink chics" because that is what they refer to themselves as. Jeannie thought it would be fun to make it a challenge so we both could see how we both interpreted the choice. We knew what bird we was going to use and we knew we were going to use the "let's chick chat over coffee" but that was it. It was so wild because we thought so much alike on this one and we both decided to put our "chicks" over the coffee. My coffee was actually on the paper that I chose and her coffee was in a cup that she put on the front of her card. We both had a ball doing this one. I hope you enjoy it as much. the bird is from Home Decor and the circles are from mini monograms.

Turtle Friends

This is yet another challenge with Jeannie, I just absolutely love these challenges. This we decided to use the turtle from animal kingdom. I think Jeannie thought I had lost my mind when I suggested the turtle.

I used the Nana's baby paper pack which I think is my all time favorite paper. I also used stickles all over my turtles shell and even painted her toe nails. I added ribbon to the corners and added dear friends on the ribbon. I added 4 flower brads to the corners of the paper. The turtle was cut at 3" and layered. I used lots and lots of glue dots to make it 3-D. I hope you like it.

Hoppy Birthday

This is also a Jeannie/Vicki Challenge card. She needed to do a birthday card for Madison so we both decided to make it a challenge card. I had a lot of fun with this card. I love lady bugs as long as they are on cards and outside, not inside.... but that would be a whole different story.

The lady bug is from walk in my garden and the leaves are from Plantin schoolbook, I think as far as leaves go they are some of my favorite to use. With the lady bug on the inside of the card I actually cut his head off and placed it in a different place to make it appear like he was looking behind him. I drew the faces on by hand and added ribbon to the corners and then added brads on top of the ribbon. Jeannie and I actually have done two lady bug card challenges, this one and then we also did the lady bug from home decor. That was a lot of fun too. I hope you enjoy this one. I know it was a lot of fun to make. I think the funnest thing about these challenges that Jeannie and I do is the fact that we both post at the same time. It is like we are two little kids waiting for Santa... I can't wait to see her card and she can't wait to see mine. It truly is a blast....

I love you card

This is another Jeannie/Vicki challenge card. I believe this turned out to be one of my favorite cards that I have done to date. I just love the hefalumps and woozles stories with Pooh anyway. Jeannie and I decided to make a card using Lumpy the hefalump from Pooh and Friends. We also decided to use a love you theme. I used the I love you more and Jeannie used the I'll love you forever. I came up with my I love you more because when my son was small he used to tell me I love you and I would say I love you more and he would say, no I love you more... and so on. I thought it worked great with this card.

Lumpy was cute out at 3" several times and layered. I also cut the butterfly out from Pooh and friends and put it on lumpy's trunk. The grass is Zooballoo and the flowers are George. I love the flowers from George especially when they are layered so many times. The flowers on the inside of the card are also pooh and friends. I almost forgot the clouds are also from Pooh and Friends.

Thank you Jeannie for wanting to do Challenges with me!

I hope you enjoy

Hello Friend

This was the second challenge that Jeannie and I did and I believe it is one of my all time favorite cards. For this card we used the flowers from Pooh. I cut them at 3" and layered them 3 times each. I used the Nanna's Baby girl paper too. I used lots and lots of glue dots too. I honestly don't think I can make a flat card anymore. The hello birthday is from beyond birthday cut out at 2" and the butterflies are from indie art. I cut them out in sizes of 1 1/4", 1",3/4" and 1/2" and layered them. I hope you enjoy looking at this card as much as I enjoyed making it.

Rooster card

This is the start of mine and Jeannie's card challenges. I wanted to do the rooster for something and Jeannie came up with the idea to use Goodmorning Sunshine. It just evolved from there. In no time we had decided that we were both going to make a card using the rooster and using the phrase Good morning Sunshine. We had so much fun that we decided to do it again and again. I love doing these challenges with Jeannie because I truly believe she makes me a better card maker.

Make sure you keep an eye on the message board and also on our blogs because we are planning on doing many many more challenges.