Another creative Sunday!!

   Happy Sunday !  Can you believe another week has flown by....?  Yikes where does the time go?  On top of that it's getting close to the end of the month and November will be here before you know it.  I guess I really need to get going on my Christmas cards and my shopping too.  I used to be one who had almost all my gifts bought and wrapped before Thanksgiving, but now, that rarely happens!!!

   Today, has turned out to be a very fun and productive day for me in my craft room.  I'm very excited to be here to share some new cards and also tell you about some other fun craft-related news.   I met another goal in helping others this week and finished up a package of Christmas Cards for the wonderful card drive "Caring Hearts Card Drive" being hosted by Vera Yates.  If you love to create cards and can help out, please go HERE to read all the details on Vera's Blog!   It's a wonderful cause and one of the best things about cards is how happy make people, so every little card can help!!

    And if you happen to love to help out year round or often find you have lots of extra cards from playing in Challenges - I would like to suggest that you consider donating them to Operation Write Home and you can find all the details on supporting that wonderful group on their blog HERE!!   Speaking of which I love to play in their weekly challenges, and my favorite is always the Sunday Sketch Challenge, which you'll find here  This week, I made a super cute and fun Halloween Card and although it's too late for this year, I will likely save it for a batch I sent for new year!   Keep in mind that creep or death like cards are not at all appropriate for OWH, but a sweet card like this would be perfect for a Soldier's child!!   This is a copy of our sketch for this week and I hope you'll consider playing along -- My cute little digi is from Pink Gem Designs!

Sketch # 143

My Card

       My next card is also another fun little Halloween inspired card and this card was created d by the new Copic/Alcohol Marker Challenge hosted every Friday at The Outlawz.  Our theme this week was a choice of Halloween or Fall Colors  and I went with the Halloween theme and colored up with cute little card for the challenge.  

 This fun little Halloween digi image is from A Day for Daisies and it's once I have owned for a couple of years. I have always admire the wonderful artistic skills that Tammy has in drawing her amazing images  I also LOVE the wonderful image - Blossoms for A Cause - that Tammy gifted to everyone this week for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  Thank you for another wonderful image - I am looking forward to using it on a card later this week!  If you would like one of your own, please visit the A Day for Daisies Store HERE!!

   I also have this fun Fall-Themed card that was created for today's new "Clean and Simple" Challenge, also hosted at The Outlawz.  This week the girls has asked us to created cards using a Fall-Themed colors, but to limit our choice to three of these colors - Red, Brown, Yellow, Green and Orange -- I chose to use Orange, Yellow and Brown along with another digital images, this one being from MelJen Designs.  This card was also colored with Copics and could also have been used for the Copic Challenge.

  And next we have another really fun and cute Halloween card which I created using my wonderful Silhouette Cameo along with a cute cut file I bought at the Silhouette Store.   Instead of cutting mine on a variety of colored cardstocks, I used the Paint and Pattern fill options and turned the image into a new Print and Cut file.  This card was created for the brand new Silhouette Challenge at The Cameo Spotlight, where were are now working on Challenge #6 - Halloween! 

  As you can see I used a black and white polka dotted patterned fill for both her hat and hair and then filled her face and nose in with shades of green.   I did not cut the eyes that were part of the file, and instead using my own googly eyes, which I love for the extra dimension.   You can find the original image in the Silhouette Store HERE!!   If you hurry you can buy it now on sale too, as ALL the Halloween images are on sale for 75 cents through the end of the month!  :) 

   I also have one more card that was created and inspired by Saturday's Paper a la Mode Challenge, also hosted at The Outlawz and this week, our challenge is called "Inspired by Nature" which you can use in any way you like!   I thought immediately of Spring, because our weather has been so warm and nice for the past two days and that had me back to using one of my favorite Hero Arts Background stamps (Large Lotus Pattern) and an assortment of inks to create this bright and fun floral inspired card.

    And speaking of Hero Arts -- I am very happy and excited to be hosting my very first 90-Minute Scramble which will be played next Saturday, October 27th, at 3 PM - Eastern Time.  You can find all the details over at the Hero Arts Flickr Group and EVERYONE is welcome to play along and this fun group is also open to anyone who has a love for Hero Arts products!!   I have some fun prizes that I'll be giving out and Hero Arts also donates a digital prize to one lucky winner!   These scrambles are a lot of fun and everyone always comes up with some fantastic card.  If you would like more details of how the Scrambles works, please go to the Flickr Group and read this thread!!!   

    Phew....that was a long post and now I'm beat!   Heading back to my desk, to clean up this mess?   Tell me, does your desk always end up looking like this, after you create?   I start off with a clean desk every day, but Yikes...what a MESS I have now!!