Tuesday Throwdown

I was visiting Kim Scherrod's Studio again today and thought I would try another card. I used some retired CTMH items on this one. I have to change my ways. Start using up that paper! I used Amethyst and Heavenly Blue, Victorian Snowflake and the retired Christmas Scripts stamp set. I also used a retired snowflake button, amethyst ribbon and Background and Texture Paper. The White Daisy ricrac is from the Ricrac Collection. I embossed the snowflakes with Silver Pearl Embossing Powder.

A Tri Fold Card

I finally tried making the Tri Fold card everyone was talking about. Once I got all of the dimensions figured out, it wasn't hard at all. I used all CTMH products.

X7116B Sweet Home Paper Pack (reverse side)

Textured Chocolate Card Stock (lighter side)

Chocolate Card Stock

White Daisy Card Stock

Indian Corn Blue Card Stock

Basic Buttons

White Daisy Grosgrain ribbon

White Daisy flower dyed with Indian Corn Blue reinker

White Daisy Waxy Flax

Chocolate brad

D1370 Welcome Home stamp set

All of these products can be found on my website

We spent a great weekend in October at the Hotel Pattee in Perry. The weather was gorgeous, all of the family was there and we had some good food too. I got Jim to stop and poise by this fellow on Sunday morning.

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I decided to try a color challenge. I have been looking at so many great ideas over the past years, and this looked like fun. Over at the Sherrod Studio, Kim Sherrod is having a Tuesday Throwdown Color Challenge. Mary Vogel, a fellow consultant, suggested we try this. The color challenge consists of: Brown Bag, Buttercup and Cranberry. So here goes:

I used:
Spot On Backgrounds
With Love
Cranberry ribbon
Colonial White ribbon
Colonial White, Brown Bag, Buttercup and Cranberry card stock
Pop dots
Coluzzel

I am just loving the new Workshop on the Go projects! Here is an example of the cards you can make from the Twitterpated kit. The colors are a bit washed out in the picture, but in real life they are so cute.

Twitterpated Workshop Kit:

Twitterpated Level 2 Paper Pack

Exclusive Stamp Set Hello There

Designer Ribbon Rounds Chocolate Collection

Instruction Brochure for cards and layouts

In addition, I used:

Chocolate, Sorbet and SweetLeaf Stamp Pads

Dimensional Elements in Color-Organic

Natural Hemp

Basic Brads

Just give me a call or email me at tris0755ks@aol.com for more information on how to get the new Workshop on the Go kits. Or check out my website

www.kimschnoor.myctmh.com

Family

I asked for current pictures of the kids. They came through, so here they are. Katie and Kyle took a picture with their pups in front of their home.

Jamie and Cara were taking pictures around Iowa State.

So nice to see their smiling faces.

Some club projects

I saw an example of a card like this on my Uplines website. I just love the Caprice paper pack, and sometimes I forget about all of the wonderful paper that we have come out with. I used Crystal Blue and Honey cardstock with Chocolate ink.










I also showed my group how you can use one pattern from our fabulous card making books to make different cards. We actually made the birthday one. I used Wishes and the pattern called Gallery.
















Here are the other two cards made using the Gallery pattern from Wishes. I used Autumn Terracota fibers for the lion's mane.





This card idea came from Jeanette's blog.
She used a CD sleeve and covered it with paper. Made a little card to slip in the inside and voila! you have a cute card. I used Blue Ribbon paper for my card. Check out Jeanette's blog at
www.jeanettelynton.com