Try it on Tuesday - Fancy Edges

 Fancy Edges 

 -must see 3 different edges punched or die cut or even fancy scissors

I think this is a fun challenge, to get out those border punches, decorative edged scissors or even to cut a border with your die cutting machine...or maybe tear an edge! Mix and match them and have fun, that's the important part of making anything, isn't it?

 I layered all 3 of my edges together with a running stitch along the top piece.

Cricut - Paper Trimmings. p. 53

Bug Bites - sentiment

Martha Stewart - drippy edge punch

Fiskar - waterfall punch

S.E.I - paper and border

Faber Castell - PITT pen

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a little excerpt from vacation :)

http://www.bubblews.com/news/1016847-odonata

Wellesian: adjective

From Orson Welles (1915-1985) American

Think: cinematic pyrotechnics done to technical and dramatic perfection.

( weird that they offer it as a word, but it's not IN their dictionary )

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Fab 'n' Funky - Challenge #179 - Christmas In July

Cut it Up - Christmas in July - Challenge #23

Although the mittens might look like they are hanging

 freely, they are actually attached.

And when you remove the gift card from inside the buggy you have a small hidden sentiment. Inside the card you have plenty of room to write in.

Cricut - Stretch Your Imagination, p. 71

Ranger - stickles

S.E.I - stickers

Robins Creative Cottage - sentiment stamp

Really Reasonable Ribbon - lace, twine

Hero Arts - small sentiment stamp

atone: verb

to supply satisfaction for

 to make amends

pronunciation

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LittleScrap Pieces - Fun Friday Shape UP!

Moxie Fab - The Gift Card Holder Challenge

Sparkles Monthly Challenge Blog - #44 Monochromatic

I think this gift card holder would be perfect for someone going back to school.

Since I didn't have a zipper to use, I took some small ric rac and colored it with a metallic gelato.

  

Cricut - Doodlecharms, p. 119

Autumn Leaves - stamp sentiment
Really Reasonable Ribbon - ric rac
Faber Castell - gelato, PITT pen
Echo Park, S.E.I - pattern paper
Helmar - 450
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I made it to the top 3 finalists for designing a wooden book for Genuinely Jane Studios, would be honored if you would go visit there and cast your vote for me...( I designed the camera. )

tchotchke: noun



knickknack, trinket

 

pronunciation

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Today is the start for Frosted Designs Challenge - Chevrons, so head over there and play along with us....oh did I say US? I sure did, I am now officially designing for Frosted Designs. < big smile >

 

Our sponser for this challenge is:

Who has kindly offered a $20.00 Gift Certificate to the winner!

 

 

Here is my 10th card for the 30 Mother's Day cards in 30 days challenge issued by the Art MoB....I made a card using chevrons to play along, although my first "official" card for this challenge will be posted on Monday on the Frosted Designs Blog.

 I hope you come back to see it :)
 

SEI - papers
pearl button - misc. ( removed the shank )
Helmars - 450 ( to hold that big bad boy button firmly on my card )
 

skin of my teeth: phrase

Narrowly; barely

  

The phrase first appears in English in the Geneva Bible, 1560, in Job 19:20, which provides a literal translation of the original Hebrew:

"I haue escaped with the skinne of my tethe."

Teeth don't have skin, of course, so the writer may have been alluding to the teeth's surface or simply to a notional minute measure - something that might now be referred to, with less poetic imagery than the biblical version, as 'as small as the hairs on a gnat's bollock' ( testicles )

  

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Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2012

 

Whew, just got the last tag in by the skin of my teeth. I wasn't even sure I would make it, but make it I did! I just couldn't make it the same way TH did though, but I like it none the less.

I didn't make the extra tag, I am all out of Christmas. lol

 

also entering this in:

Little Scrap Pieces - Fun Friday "Winter" Challenge ( I wish we would get some snow here! )
Divas by Design - Challenge 66 Anything Goes
Simon Says - Anything Goes
 

 

Ranger - Broken China, Symphony Tissue Tape

stickles - Orange Peel, Stardust

Cricut - Winter Wonderland cartridge, p. 69 ( Brrrr )

Stretch Your Imagination cartridge, p. 80 ( tag )

Stampabilities - silver ink

S.E.I - Holiday Cheer stickers ( snowman )

Martha Stewart - Winter Snows glitter

Reminisce - white pen

K and Co. - pearl

American Crafts - Holiday House plastic snowflakes

Faber Castell - PITT pen

Glisten Gloss - white tinsel

 

The best laid plans of mice and men: paraphrase

No matter how carefully a project is planned, something may still go wrong with it.

 

From Robert Burns' poem To a Mouse, 1786.

 

 It tells of how he, while ploughing a field, upturned a mouse's nest.

 The resulting poem is an apology to the mouse:

...
But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane [you aren't alone]
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft a-gley, [often go awry]
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promised joy.

 

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In retrospect, I needed to turn my stocking the other way to make a shaped card, lol Oh well, the best laid plan of mice and men! So I put it on a brick paper background instead, as if it was hanging on a chimney. The stocking is cut from Cricut's Doodlecharms cartridge, the layers are hand stitched for a homespun country feel.

 You can see a little better, a close up of the French knots, and the hand sewing for the cuff of the stocking. I also cut down a S.E.I. tag to make it size appropriate. Then stamped "Be Jolly", from an old Studio G stamp, finished it off with Ranger's stickles for glittered balls!

 

entering this in:

 

Perfect Sentiments Challenge - Bingo with a sentiment 

( I went straight across the middle, lace, glitter, die cut )

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Sending out thoughts and prayers to all those in the path of Hurricane Sandy. We are on the outside edge of it and have HOWLING winds right now as I am typing this post up. You can only imagine what it would be like to be in the direct path of one of these storms! I hope everyone stays safe!

This is a recording of the wind taken last night, it sounds almost like the ocean surf or a train rumbling by, but it's the wind. And mind you, this isn't directly in the wind, but the sound recording is on my protected balcony!