Heart to Heart Challenge 66

I've been trying to organize and declutter my craft area and although I knew I had a lot of retired (CTMH) items, my efforts have brought to light the enormity of the amount of retired paper, embellishments, and stamps that I have! Yikes! (And I do let my daughter use my things and I often donate items to the preschool where I work. There's just so much!) I think I had better get down to more creating!

So here's my entry for this week's Heart 2 Heart Challenge (using a number of retired items such as that cute ribbon). I don't know if you can tell from the photo, but I used Liquid Glass on the beak and on the little white dot on the irises.

Supplies used (all CTMH except Nestabilities): (C1362) You're a Hoot stamp set, (Z2116) Cranberry stamp pad, (Z2153) Sweet Leaf stamp pad, (Z2111) Chocolate stamp pad, (Z1361) Brads - Red Assortment, (Z679) Liquid Glass, (Z697) Round Sponge, Nestabilities Decorative Elements Dies
(retired items - ribbon, flower, paper)

Here's an image of the sketch from Heart 2 Heart.

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Woo Hoo!

I had a really nice time at my card workshop today (thank you ladies!). I had hoped to post a sneak peak of the cards we would be making at the workshop in advance during the week but it was a very challenging week for me so it just didn't happen. Anyway, here are a couple of the cards after the fact!

Supplies Used: (C1407) Hot Diggity stamp set, (C1362) You're a Hoot stamp set, (X7134B) Sweetheart Level 2 paper pack, (Z2166) Tulip stamp pad, (Z2114) Cocoa stamp pad

Supplies used: ( G1022) Mayberry Workshops on the Go, (1292) Crystal Blue cardstock, (Z2153) Sweet Leaf stamp pad, (Z2114) Cocoa stamp pad, (Z1151) Foam tape

Now here's something unrelated: I read a variety of different blogs, not really regularly but I browse here and there. Sometimes I concentrate on craft blogs (mostly scrapbooking and stamping, of course), sometimes I look through different teaching and educational blogs to help me with work (and my children), and sometimes I like to read food blogs. One of my favorite blogs is Taste of Beirut. Whenever I am tired of cooking the same old thing, I just browse through her blog for a new recipe. The other night, my daughter had to help plan and make dinner for extra credit, so we decided on Chicken Meatballs from the Taste of Beirut blog. I could eat the whole dish all by myself. We didn't have basil so we substituted parsley for it and it was fine. Sometimes I make the pesto noodles to go with it but we didn't the other night. It is just yummy. Even if you don't find a recipe you like, the pictures are just amazing.

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Pink Owl Card

Whenever I look at my daughter's comforter, I think of stamping! I love all of the adorable nature images on it so I thought I would try to make a card inspired by these images. I normally don't work with these colors so it was a good challenge for me...and it took me a good long while!

Here's a picture of the comforter above.

And here's the card it inspired:

Supplies used: (C1323) Whooo Loves You stamp set, (C1362) You're a Hoot stamp set, (D1372) Grown With Love stamp set, (X7121B) Caboodle Level 2 paper pack, (Z2117) (Z2138) Crystal Blue stamp pad, Orange stamp pad, (Z2108) Brown Bag stamp pad, (Z2338) Orange marker, (X5745) Textured Paper Summer Celebration palette, (Z578) Corner rounder, hole puncher, nestabilities, black acid free pen

By the way, this is a 5" x 7" card. Most of the cards on my blog are standard size, 4.25" x 5.5" but I couldn't fit the tree on a smaller card!

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