Blog Hop Wednesday -- October 26, 2016

Trick or Treat!  So this is my last Halloween card.  Today I started working on my Christmas cards.  I need to get them finished for mailing in a couple weeks.  Can you believe Christmas is only 2 months away!  Oh  my gosh, where did this year go?

Did you come to my blog from Liz's blogsite?  Love her card.  We did some crafting this afternoon so I got a sneak peek even before she put it on her blog,    When you leave me you need to continue to Robbie's blogsite.

This is my card.  Another with those scary eyes.  I bet I will still be using those eyes long after they retire.  They are so much fun.

Next week we will start on our November cards.  We will be working on fall thank you cards.  See you next week -- or maybe before.  One of these days I'll put more on my blog, but in the meantime have a nice week.

Crafty Hugs,
Sandy

Blog Hop Wednesday -- October 19, 2016

Happy Wednesday!   It is time again for our blog hop, and today we have a full house.  I believe everyone is here.  You should have arrived from Liz's blogsite.  Since Liz and I were crafting together on Sunday, she knows what I planned and I know her plan.  Isn't her card cute!  Love that teddy bear.

I hope everyone out there is having the weather I am having.  Wow!  Temps are a little high for this time of year.  We had 80 today with blue skies and a bit of breeze.  Perfect.  Combine that with all the leaves that are changing and I could sit outside and stare into space all day.  I think we have a couple more days of this so I plan to get outside again tomorrow.

Oh, right, we are doing a hop today.  We are challenged all month to do Halloween items.  I did a card for today using the scary eyes in the Jar of Haunts set.  I just love those eyes and have been using them all over.  I've started sending out cards to a few friends and have put them on the envelope.  On another card you open to the inside and there are those scary eyes looking at you.  I think they are the best of the set.

Ok, so here is my card.......

So easy.  Some designer paper, a little Pumpkin Pie glimmer paper, a jar with eyes, and a cute card is born.  You should head on now to Robbie's blogsite.

Have a wonderful week.  See you soon.
Sandy

Wednesday Blog Hop -- October 12, 2016

Welcome everyone.  I'm baaaaaack!  Hubby and I took a driving trip to Maine for a few days of relaxation, and then to Connecticut to visit 3 of our grands on our way home.  We had a great time at Booth Bay Harbor where we played tourist, took a day trip to an island, and ate our fill (for now) of lobster.  This time we did not try to coordinate our trip with fall leaves although we saw a few.  We only wanted to get away for a few days and then see 3 of our grands for a few days.  The whole trip was a lot of fun.

Now I am back to re-join our Wednesday hop.  Our theme for October is Halloween.  My contribution this week uses the test tubes from our September Paper Pumpkin and is a sample of one of the treat holders I plan to send to some of our grands for Halloween.  Every year I try to send them something cute and something holding at least a little candy.  My sample here has tic tacs in the tube only because that was all I could find around here that was small.  I plan to put M&Ms or some other Halloween treat for the actual treats I send.

I am loving the Cookie Cutter Halloween and Christmas stamps, and the punch makes it so easy to cut them out.  They fit perfectly with what I want to do for our grandchildren both Halloween and Christmas.  I've already used them several times and plan to use them more.

You probably hopped to me from Liz's blogsite, and when you leave here you should continue to Robbie's blogsite.

Have a wonderful week.  Since I am working on lots of different things right now, I hope to do a little more blogging.  However, I always have good intentions.  We'll see what happens.

Happy Crafting,
Sandy

Blog Hop Wednesday -- September 21, 2016

Hi blog hoppers.   It is time to check out the creations for our hop. You probably arrived here at my site by way of Liz's blogsite.

Once again our theme is fall with lots of leaves.  I decided to use Thoughtful Branches.  At first I was going to use the big die with all the leaves.  However, no matter what I did I could not make it look the way it was in my head.  So I changed direction.  However, I still wanted Thoughtful Branches, but I created a different scene.  I am loving that set, and will be sorry when it retires.  I wasn't going to get it, but I see so many uses that I just had to have it.

So here is our fall picture.


And here is my piece.


I'm keeping this short tonight because I had a big workshop today and I am really tired.  We started with a typical Stampin'Up! workshop, but continued with a craft day.  I'm heading off to bed shortly (I do this blog the night before).  But first, let me link you to Robbie's blogsite.  Take a look to see what she has done for us.

Happy Crafting,
Sandy

Blog Hop Wednesday -- September 14, 2016

Whew!  Another Wednesday.  Hard to believe that we are heading into fall when it was 94 degrees today.  However, there are many leaves falling, so it is starting to look like fall.  The other day my hubby already used the leaf blower.  So this hop we are starting to work with fall ideas.  You should have come from Liz's blogsite.  Yay, Liz, so glad you are back.  Hope you are feeling better.

Here is our inspiration piece for this week.

Here is the card I did using our fall idea.

Tomorrow I have one of my monthly craft meets.  I will be starting to work on Christmas ideas for my upcoming workshop.  Wow, I just said it is hard to think about fall.  Now I have to think about Christmas, and it is not that far away.  I hope I can get cold ideas when it is so hot outside.

Well, continue now to Robbie's blogsite.  She is doing some really nice things on her blogsite.  I've been getting some inspiration from her, so get on over there and get ideas too.

Crafty hugs,
Sandy

Wednesday Blog Hop -- September 7, 2016

Happy Wednesday once again.  The weeks are really going faster and faster.  Do you realize it is only a little more than 3 months until Christmas.  Oh shame, did I say that??!!!  It is a good thing our new Holiday Catalog is ready because it is time to start those holiday cards.  I think today is a farewell to summer colors.  I think next week we will start in on the fall colors.  You should have come to my blog by way of Joni's blogsite.  I need to go back and take a look, because she is so talented and I don't want to miss anything.

For today we have some pretty blues and I have a special card today.  I can't take credit because I CASE'd from Debbie Henderson's blog.  Usually when I CASE I try to change it up enough to make it mine.  I'll use a few different stamps or colors.  Today I loved her creation so much that I copied it and only changed the colors a little so they would apply to our challenge.  Actually, I made one other change.  I do not have By The Shore dsp, so I made my own piece of dsp by using Very Vanilla cardstock, one of the dies from Swirly Scribbles, and a sponge.  Go take a look at her video showing how she did the window with the water look.  She used hand sanitizer with a drop of color for the water look.  Now maybe everyone else knows all about this technique, but this was a first for me.

This was a fun card to do, and it surprised me that it really wasn't hard at all.  I think my grandson will love this for his birthday.  I'll just add a really nice birthday sentiment inside, some money, and there it is.  My grandson's birthday is this Friday and we are having a party on Saturday.  He loves fish and he has his own aquarium, so this is very appropriate.  Thank you Debbie for your inspiration.

Now you should continue to Robbie's blogsite if you did not start there.  She also makes some really nice creations.  Let's see what she has for us.

Have a fun day, see you soon,
Sandy

Blog Hop Wednesday -- August 31, 2016

Here we are with another blog hop Wednesday.  Liz hurt her arm and shoulder a couple weeks ago, so she has not been doing a lot of crafting.  Therefore she is not with us this week and Joni is before me. Joni always has something nice for us.  If you haven't checked her out that go back to her blogsite, then you can go forth to Robbie.  (go forth sounds like something from Sunday school, hmmmmm).  Anyway, here are our colors.....

They are red, white, and blue for the upcoming Labor Day holiday.  Wow, I can hardly believe that summer is already coming to a close.  I think I love fall the best because of the beautiful colors and the beautiful, crisp, weather.  Oh, but I do not like to think of the drab, chilly, months right behind.  Oh well, I will enjoy what we have today.  I hope you will be having a great Labor Day picnic to finish off the summer.  We are having a neighborhood picnic, which we do every year.

So enough jabbering.  Here is my holiday card.  Plenty of red, white, and blue.  I could not find any stamp that said labor or anything close.  So I just went with happy day.

Hope you like my card.  Now continue on to Robbie's blogsite to see what she has done.

Have a happy holiday,
Sandy