Tickle My Fancy @ Squigglefly

This week at Squigglefly the challenge is "Tickle My Fancy" which means make us laugh! So anything funny or humourous, whether it be the digi or the sentiment.

I went with both.......now those of you against rude gestures better hide you eyes.....



Isn't that digi just a scream? It's called Cranky Calvin and you can get it for yourself right here.

So why not giggle your way over to Squigglefly and enter the "Tickle My Fancy" challenge? You don't need to use a Squigglefly image but if you do use one you'll be eligible for this week's prize. There's lots of great images at the store if you'd like to purchase one, or if you'd like to try before you by, check out all the freebies right here.

Also for:

Craft Your Passion: bingo - buttons, free, sentiment
Stamps R Us: masculine
Pollycraft: anything goes
Paper Pretties: use a sentiment
The Kraft Journal: banners or border punches
Heartsong Inspirations: embossing or 3+ layers
Jen's Digi Stamps: polka dots
365 Cards: Day 239 - Celebrating the Everyday
Dream Valley Challenges: anything goes
Come And Get It: anything goes
Sweet Stampin': anything goes
Aud Sentiments: make us laugh

Back in the Game

I have a friend who had surgery on her knee earlier this week so this card is for her. She's very sporty, my friend, and she's sustained a lot of injuries requiring therapy/surgeries etc. She's also a year younger than me. I like to tease her that my slightly older body is just not as decrepit as hers and that is has nothing to do with the fact that she just "plays" way harder than me.

She's gracious enough not to smack me when I say that.



Just an FYI....my computer monitor is starting to go and in an effort to make it usable a little while longer I've cranked up the brightness. Fine for everyday use but it makes editing photos more guesswork than anything. So, if my pics ever look too dark or too bright or just plain wonky, please leave me a comment. Thanks!

For:

Digital Tuesday: buttons & twine
OCC: faces
The Kraft Journal: kraft + anything goes (There's not much kraft but there is a bit.)
Craft Your Passion: Lets get krafty!
That's Krafty Thursdays: kraft
The Paper Shelter: anything goes
Scrapbook Sisters: anything goes
Digi Doodle Shop: anything goes
Shelly's Images: tic tac toe - kraft, free, bling
Digi Stamps 4 Joy: double embellishments - 2 buttons

Super scary

Thought it would be cool to make a window card. So.....

This is a pic of the card closed:



This is a pic of the card standing:



And this a pic of the inside:



Digi is a freebie from Scribbles By Sandy.

For:

Divas By Design: something spooky
Inky Impressions: anything goes
My Mum's Craft Shop: spooktacular
Penny's Challenges: Halloween
The Sisterhood of Crafters: Halloween
The Paper Variety: Halloween
Die Cutting Divas: Halloween
Top Tip Tuesdays: Halloween
Kaboodle Doodles: Halloween
My Craft Spot: see through projects
Pollycraft: spooky goings on
Little Miss Muffet: clouds
Do You Stack Up?: Halloween
Moving Along With the Times: no girls allowed
Paper-Crafting Journey: use a digi
Paper Play: Halloween
The Secret Crafter: spooky
Card Makin' Mamas: die cuts
Crafty Catz: Halloween
Pattie's Creations: Halloween
the Poodle Parlour: lets hear it for the boys
The Stamp Man: night time
Stampin' For the Weekend: spooky
Just Some Lines: Halloween
365 Cards: Day 243 - Imagine This: Starry Skies
Di's Digi Design: Halloween

Too Cute To Spook

It's a great sentiment for those cutesy Halloween cards.

Another thing: I have now officially dropped the apostrophe from the word Halloween. Yes, for years I used to spell it Hallowe'en. Now does anyone know why it was originally spelled with an apostrophe? Well, for those who don't (and who care) the reason is because Halloween is actually short for "All Hallows Eve" and the apostrophe replaces the missing "v". [I don't know why the "s" doesn't rate some sort of symbol and where the heck the "n" came from. Really it should have been shortened to Hallow⌂e'e. (I picked that other symbol 'cause it could represent a haunted house. tee hee)]

Anyhoo, I've recently read the following from different sources: "Spelling Hallowe'en is correct but old fashioned" and "Both Halloween and Hallowe'en remain acceptable spellings. Though Hallowe'en looks kind of dorky." So in an attempt to look hipper (That's hipper not hippy. I have no desire to look hippy in the 60s way or the dipped into the kids' stash of Halloween candy too many times way.) I decided to drop that antiquated apostrophe.

Ah, I feel much swankier now.



For:

Delightful Challenges: Halloween
Shelly's Images: anything goes
Crafting For All Seasons: Halloween
I Brake For Challenges: Halloween
Digital Tuesdays: Halloween
Papertake Weekly: spooky hues
Ribbon Carousel: photo inspiration
Colour Q: colour pallette
Challenge Up Your Life: Halloween
Craft Your Days Away: Halloween colours
One Stop Craft: Halloween
Crafty Boots: Halloween
KB Cute Monday: anything goes
The Crazy Challenge: Halloween
Cupcake Inspirations: photo inspiration
Scrappin Chics Challenge: Halloween plus green & purple
365 Cards: Day 234 - Opposite Day - cute and sweet I am not!
Color Throwdown: colour palette

Face Your Fears @ Squigglefly

This week at Squigglefly the challenge is "Face Your Fears" which could be interpreted in any number of ways. You could make a Hallowe'en Card (like me), or you could try a new technique that you haven't worked up the nerve to attempt yet or you could even make a card about a something that scares you personally. (I could have totally made a card with butterflies on it for this challenge.)

But, like I said, I went with Hallowe'en.



I used Witch Moon witch (Tee hee, see what I did there?) you can get for yourself right here.

So why not creepy-crawly your way over to Squigglefly and enter the "Face Your Fears" challenge? You don't need to use a Squigglefly image but if you do use one you'll be eligible for this week's prize. There's lots of great images at the store if you'd like to purchase one, or if you'd like to try before you by, check out all the freebies right here.

Also for:

Challenge Up You Life: Halloween
Craft Your Days Away: Halloween colours
One Stop Craft: Halloween
Paper Pretties: Halloween
Creative Card Crew: spooky fun
Scrap-Creations: Halloween
Card Makin' Mamas: Halloween
Fussy and Fancy: Halloween
Cupcake Inspirations: photo inspiration
Through the Craftroom Door: Happy Halloween
Dream Valley: Halloween
Gingerloft: Halloween

Timbrophobia - Do I have it?

(I'll wait while you Google it real quick, or if you're willing to just read on you'll probably figure it out.)

I had made this card for my son to take to a birthday today. He was less than thrilled with it (and can't say I blame him too much, it turned out a little more young and less boyish looking than I had planned). So, being the wonderful mom I am (who was not looking for an excuse to be able to sit and craft at all) I made this card for the birthday instead.



And you'll notice that this card, like a number of the ones I've posted in the past short while, does not have any stamps on it whatsoever. In fact, the last five out of the six cards I've made (if you're really keeping track, some of the cards posted were made quite a bit before they were posted) have absolutely no stamping on them at all. None. No digi, no sentiment stamp, nada.

In fact, I have found myself completely avoiding stamps. I was thinking about using a monster truck digi for this card but went with this instead. So back to the original question, is it possible that I have timbrophobia?

Answer: No. Seeing as timbrophobia is actually a fear of postage stamps, and seeing as I just mailed a card the other day, I think it's safe to say I don't have it. And chances are I'll probably get back to using digi stamps in the near future. Though while perusing a list of phobias I will admit there are a few phobias I could definitely see myself developing. Like ballistophobia (fear of bullets or missles); helminthophobia (fear of being infested with worms); mottephobia (fear of moths, I'm already half-way there on that one) and zemmiphobia (fear of the great mole rat - I have no idea what a great mole rat is but I'm thinking I would definitely be very afraid of it).

I also found a couple of phobias that would totally suck to have, like optophobia (fear of opening one's eyes) and thaasophobia (fear of sitting). (I know "suck" is a little more potty-mouth than I normally am on my blog but really, the only words I could think of that were cleanish were "suck" and "bite".) And I found this one: pteronophobia (fear of being tickled by feathers). Really, did this one need to have it's own special name? You'd have to explain what it meant to anyone coming at you with a feather anyway.

And finally, I have to leave you with this one: hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia which is a fear of long words. Okay, that's just freakin' funny. (Again, I feel the "freakin' is totally justified.)

For:

365 Cards: Day 227 - Fun With Floss (yes...no....yes....no....I'm waffling as to whether this fits the parameters of the challenge)
Charisma Cardz: in stitches
Southern Girls: slugs, snails and puppy dog tails
Divas by Design: button up
The Sisterhood of Crafters: birthdays
Corrosive: flying things

All-Purpose Birthday Card

Yep, that's about all there is to say.



For:

Card Patterns: sketch

Holy Magnolias, that's it. Geez. I must be slipping.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Gobble Gobble to all my follow Canucks.

I'm participating in the 52 Weeks of Mail challenge. It's kinda nice to give my cardmaking a bit of a purpose other than for my own enjoyment. Hopefully, I'll be able to last the whole year. Not that I think I'll flake out...when I start something it's rare for me to quit....I'm hoping that I know 52 people I could mail a card to. I can just see it now, sometime next summer my dentist will be staring, puzzled, at my card thinking, "Why on earth would a patient send me a "Canada Day" card?"

Anyway, I whipped up this quickie to mail to a lovely woman who's a friend of my deceased grandmother. I usually send her a card at Christmas but I thought it would be nice to send her this card too.



*giggle* When I was proof-reading my post my warped sense of humour reared its ugly head. The woman receiving the card was friends with my grandmother before my grandmother passed away, not friends with her now. (That would be quite a feat, eh?) My warped sense of humour is making me leave the post the way it is.

For:

Shopping Our Stash: Thanksgiving - die cut is from last Thanksgiving
Crafting For All Seasons: pumpkins
For Fun Challenges: leaves
Sentimental Sundays: anything goes
Unstampbelles: fall/autumn
ABC DT Challenge: pumpkins

Eat pizza!

No, I'm not telling you to eat pizza (though you should, pizza is delish!).



He's telling you to eat pizza. And really, can you blame him?

For:

Crafty Boots: animal
Daisy Doodle: Thanksgiving
Cupcake Inspirations: photo inspiration
Stamptacular Sundays: photo inspirations
Sundays With Crissy: Thanksgiving
Just Some Lines: fall colours
Bearly-Mine: 3 X dp
Scrap-Creations: fall
Papertake Weekly: anything goes
Ribbon Carousel: anything goes
Stamp-n-Doodle: fall
Do You Stack Up?: brown
Moving Along With the Times: fall leaves
Paper Play: autumnal colours
Cooking It Up With Katie: fun, fabulous and feathers
Crafts and Me: use a digi
Divas By Design: button up
Little Darlings: fall

Paper Piecing Pizazz @ Squigglefly

This week at Squigglefly the challenge is "Paper Piecing Pizazz" which means to use one of my fav techniques - paper piecing!

Yep, it's one of my go-to techniques and Squigglefly has a lot of great images that make paper piecing so easy. If you want to see some of the other cards I've made using paper piecing and a Squigglefly image just click here, or here, or here, or here.

But you didn't come here to see old cards. You came to see my card for the challenge this week, right? Okay, here it is.



I used Baby Hammock which you can get for yourself right here. And, you'll notice (if you click on the link) that the baby in that hammock is facing to the left while the baby on my card is facing to the right. That's because with every Squigglefly image you buy you get the image flipped left and right so you can use the one that works best for you. Cool, eh?

So why not head over to Squigglefly and enter the "Paper Piecing Pizazz challenge? You don't need to use a Squigglefly image but if you do use one you'll be eligible for this week's prize. There's lots of great images at the store if you'd like to purchase one, or if you'd like to try before you by, check out all the freebies right here.

Also for:

Crafty Purple Frog: lots of layers
Shelly's Images: tic-tac-toe - flowers, digi, buttons
Crafts and Me: flowers
The Paper Shelter: for the girls
Designed 2 Delight: coloured pencils
365 Cards: Day 215 - Lovely Layers
CES Challenges: pretty girls
Paper Sundaes: lots of layers
Cutie Pie Challenge: bingo board - flowers, punch out, ribbon
Craft Your Passion: anything goes + ribbon

Happy World Card Making Day

I hope you are all celebrating today by getting crafty. I managed to squeeze in some crafty time and finished up a card I started last night. I figured that today, the most holiest of days for cardmakers, would be the perfect day to say "thank you" to all of you out there who have visited my humble corner of Blogdom.

So thank you, my friends.



And really, what better way to celebrate World Cardmaking Day than making a card on card? (I would love to claim this idea for my own but it came from 365 Cards. Cool idea, eh?)

For:

365 Cards: Day 213 - Card on a card
Little Red Wagon: postage
Papercraft Star: lace
Lollipop Crafts: anything goes
Crazy Amigos: the letter red - red, roses
Scrap-Creations: It's a girl thing
Top Tip Tuesday: 2 or more ribbon/twine/lace/fabric
Simply Create: older than 6 months - brads, flowers
Crafts 4 Eternity: anything goes
Allsorts: at least 5 flowers