Mojo Monday Ready on Friday!

Good Afternoon Internet Friends.  No, I have not been in the "sauce" today.....I think....

My son has a birthday party to attend tomorrow and so I had to go out to get a gift this morning as I will be working this weekend.  I almost picked up a Birthday Card but decided I should probably make one since I have a plethora of stamps and paper in my craft room.  

There are far too many options in the craft room right now and with all my quilts in various states of "finish" I was about to give up when I spotted my Simon Says Stamp Card Kit of the Month May 2014.  I have used this kit once before (last May) for another of my son's friend's Birthday Party.

Along with a few die cuts here is what I assembled:

TAH DAH.

I used the Mojo Monday Sketch 387 for my inspiration.  Clearly, I cannot follow directions, but this will do for an 11 year old boy.

Today is also Friday and that means Friday share over at Karina's Krafting Crew.  I think it has been close to three months since I participated in anything over there!  ☺

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Knock, Knock. Who' There?

It's ME!!!

Good Evening Internet Friends!

It has been an entire week since my last post!

Got home from vacation, got my son ready for school, then his three day camping trip with school, and attended ACLS certification for the past two days!

I celebrated passing by crafting this evening:

Since my brain is "mush" right now, and I don't think I could "save" anyone at present, I decided to use the Mojo-Monday 361 sketch.

I used all Stampin' Up,  albeit expired, product (shame on me...).

After the week I have had this was a good break, although a little too complex to do right now.

Off to bed now, as lots of house work, baking and cooking to get caught up on over this coming weekend.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

A Mojo Monday Birthday Card. Summer Vacation Day 43.

Today before going to work I decided to sit down and make a birthday card that has been a little long in the making.  I could not come up with an idea or the motivation to make it for quite some while now.

I finally decided to use my August Simon Says Card Kit because it all looked so FUN.

Here is the card I made:

The format for this card is from Mojo Monday 357.  Sure hope the recipient likes it!  The great thing about this card kit was that all the supplies necessary to make this card were in the kit!  LOVE it.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Friday Feature Card

Finally had some time this evening to sit down in the craft room and open up my new Blendabilities Markers from Stampin' Up.

I do like the idea that colors coordinate with their product, and that because the markers are alcohol based they don't leave that streaked mark all over when coloring large areas, but these markers certainly are not my Copic Markers.  The shape of the marker barrel is not very comfortable, it's square, the lids are very hard to get off, the smell of the alcohol is quite a bit stronger, and I found with blending as you will see on the card I made the colors sort of just merge together giving a fuzzy look, and no it's not my photography, the cake slice looks blurry in person too.

So, here is the card I made this evening:

The design for this card is loosely based the on Mojo Monday 346 design.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

It's Monday...

Good Evening Internet Friends!

I have finally had the strength to make it to my craft room after another flare up of my asthma.  The experts are all saying it's a "hard spring" here in Alberta, well no kidding!!!  My use of puffers is border line ridiculous!

Anyways, I ventured to the my craft room to quilt, but by the time I made the 14 steps in total there I was tired out (looks like another night sleeping in the recliner).  Since quilting seemed like too much of a task (my craft room is not set up to be user friendly on purpose to force me to walk from the sewing machine to the ironing board) I decided to color with my Copic Markers.

Here is what I made:

The card design is based on Mojo Monday 344.

Am contemplating making another of these later in the week with a different paper theme I came across in the craft room for my Friday project this week!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Friday Feature Card

Good Late Evening Internet Friends!

I decided to participate in Karina's Krafting Crew Friday Feature Card.

I played with a whole bunch of my Stampin Up supplies and this is what I came up with.  The design is based on the Mojo Monday 343 design.  

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Friday Feature Card

Good Evening Internet Friends.

 I am doing some late night crafting tonight not just because that's how I roll, but because I am still up doing laundry at this hour for our road trip tomorrow!!

While I wait for loads to dry and finish up, I have been keeping busy in the craft room.

I decided I should play along with the Krafting Crew group and  Mojo Monday 336 again.  Here is what I made:

I love this animal stamp set.  It is just so much fun! 

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Friday Feature Card

Since it's Friday I decided I better get back into the habit of posting something on the Krafting Krew site.

I ventured down to my craft room which happens to have three quilts on the go right now, and I stared at all my paper crafting supplies with a big question mark over my head (seriously).  What to make?  No idea!

So, I decided it was time to reference my go to place when I cannot think independently and participate in Mojo Monday 335.

Here is what I came up with:

I love the bicycle paper as well as the recent bicycle stamp from Paper Pumpkin so all in all I think it's fun, and I plan to send it off to my friend tomorrow of whom I always seem to be behind on sending post to.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Friday Feature Card

I have been enjoying myself lately on Friday evenings playing with some of the fun stamp sets I have collected over the years.

I am participating in Karina's Krafting Crew again this week and here is what I came up with:

The layout of course is courtesy of Mojo Monday 329.  Ironically I do my Monday projects on Friday.  Seems appropriate for me!!!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Friday Feature Card

Hello Internet Friends!

It's that time of week again where I participate in Karina's Krafting Crew by making my Friday Feature Card.

This week I chose to use the Mojo Monday Sketch 327 for the inspiration for my submission.

Here is what I made:

Now, off to do some late night quilting for the weekend!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Friday Feature Card

Okay, it's that time of week again, however, I had to have a little nap before I could do this project this evening.  

As you may have heard there is this nasty little thing called H1N1 floating around out there.  I had not yet for some reason managed to get myself into my local health unit this year to get my flu shot and was feeling pretty good about the fact that I had not got sick when all of a sudden there are all these ill people out there.  I still hesitated about getting it a little longer, then realized my son is going back to school next week and one of the things that frustrates me about parents today is that there are a lot of children out there who are not vaccinated for anything!  The consensus seems to be: why should they expose their children to the "risks" of vaccines when these diseases are almost gone!!!

Anyways, we went to one of our local public health units today and got immunized!  OUCH!!!!

After all this "fun" my son and I went to the Terwillegar Rec Center for swimming.  It was FUN!

Now for my Friday Feature Card for Krafting Crew, I decided to make a Birthday Card for my Grandmother's 87 Birthday next week.  I used Mojo Monday Sketch 326 for this card and once again have managed to use only Stampin' Up product:

 I think that my Grandmother will LOVE this card.  It is bright colored, has flowers and more flowers on it!

Happy Early Birthday Grandma (don't worry - she will not see it, she does not know what a blog or facebook even are)  ; )

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

I think I'm Ready...

For Christmas that is!!  

After a power shopping trip and being super organized when I departed the house on Saturday morning my shopping is done, presents are wrapped, and yesterday my brother picked up the presents to take with him to Saskatchewan.

Yesterday my son and I baked cookies, made chocolates, squares and bread so even the holiday goodie platters are ready to go, and if you were to stop in for an unexpected tea  there would be goodies for you too!

This morning when my husband left for work I got up and since I am on vacation and nothing really to do, this is what I did:

I made another Christmas Card using Mojo Monday's Sketch 325!

It was fun having nothing really to do, and just playing in my craft room, after breakfast and playing in the snow, I think I might even start on some of those block of the month quilting projects I am behind on...

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Cardinal Christmas

I decided to play along with Mojo Monday again this week.  

Here is my version of Sketch 324:

The glitter exploded on me so I have a little extra, but maybe I just need to come to terms with lots of glitter!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Friday Feature Card

This evening after dinner I actually had some time to go and sit in my craft room, and play!  It was awesome!  Between being ill and working overtime this last week, I am exhausted, so it felt good to just sit and relax!

Since I was not overly creative, I decided that for my Friday Feature card for Karina's Krafting Crew weekly post I would simply use the template from Mojo Monday again.  This is design # 314:

Yes I used retired stamps!!!  But I think they're fun!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Friday Feature Card

I'm not very creative feeling today, still battling this upper respiratory thingy..... I have germs.

So, I used Mojo Monday 312 for my inspiration for today's Friday Feature card:

Now off for some more lemon tea with honey.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Friday Feature Card!

Alright, so some of you have sent me emails wondering what the in world I am up to as my blogging has fallen behind.  Trust me, it's not that I haven't been doing things, but rather have not had the time to sit down and blog about it.

Firstly, I have worked 13 out of the past 15 days.  I am off for the weekend (unless everyone else at work is sicker than I, in which case I better screen calls tomorrow, but alas I will feel guilty, so better leave the house).  On top of that I have been battling a TERRIBLE head cold.  I cannot remember the last time I had one of these, I either get bronchitis or good old pneumonia : ), and to top all of this off I still have all the "mom" things like laundry, nutritious breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and of course piano, violin, and swimming lessons, and PLAY TIME!

Today of course is time for my Friday Feature card for Karina's Krafting Krew Group.

I am again using a Mojo Monday sketch sort of, (this one is Mojo Monday 311), because ever since my very first entry into the group won a prize I am a FAN of this group!

Here is my card for this week:

I am going to a baby shower tomorrow for the baby of a scrapbooker friend, so of the course the card MUST be made.  Now, here's a little known secret....I am not a very "girly" person at heart, and all of my child/kid stamps since I have a boy are of little boys and puppies etc.  So, this is as "girly" as I can get!  I even tried.....

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy