Here is my final card for PIO — and very possibly for the year 2009. My apologies for the bad quality of the photos; I was trying to catch the essence of my clear embellishments and to do so, I had to eliminate the flash. The challenges included in this card are listed below and I do look forward to checking out whatever it is that you decide to create this week! Many blessings to you and yours in the coming new year! Dont forget to drop on by in the future :)

Challenges used:

• Pile It On — Crystal Clear Item(s)
• Embellish Magazine — Light Blue, Brown, Kraft, Yellow & Snowflakes
• Mojo Monday — Sketch

Here it is ladies… a clean and simple card for this week’s Pile It On challenge! This week’s challenge is to use Glitter on your project (along with at least one other challenge out in blog land!) — perfect for the season! I do hope that you will join us and don’t forget to check out the other beautiful projects from the design team! Have fun!

My Challenges:

• Pile It On – Tinsel Town (Glitter)
• Flourishes Timeless Tuesday — Clean and Simple
• Spoonful of Sugar — Non-Traditional Christmas Colors
• La La Lands — Buttons
• Colour Create – Lilac, Aqua (Light Blue), Black and White
• Paper Play — Christmas Card with No Red or Green
• Stamp Something — Glitzy

Good morning, ladies…

Welcome to this week’s Pile It On challenge! This week we are challenging you to use Flowers and Flourishes on your project (along with at least one other challenge). This one should be VERY easy since who doesnt love flowers or flourishes?! I can not believe that this will be my last month with the Pile It On ‘09 design team — it has truly been a blast and I thank you all for taking the time to support us and our passion for designing. I especially hope that we were able to inspire you to continue to create beauty with your own hands!

My card was created using my new absolute favorite paper pack from My Mind’s Eye, Andrea Victoria. I am so in love with mustard yellow and gray right now! The weird part is that this is a very trendy color combo right now and I remember at the beginning of the year, reading a fashion magazine that listed it as 2009’s new “black…” how do they predict this stuff!! Anyhow, the Limelight Paper Craft challenge was to use their sketch, as well as your favorite patterned paper — so needless to say, it wasnt tough to choose from my favorite paper pack! It is gorgeous!

Hope you all will join us this week and the rest of the weeks to come before the new year! Take some time away from the busyness to relax and enjoy some creating — it will do you good!

Here are the challenges that I used on this week’s card:

Happy November!! I have a great feeling that this month is going to be a great one! I just love the holidays and all of the good times with family and friends that they bring. I already feel a bit behind on my Christmas projects (I know, it’s crazy!).

This week at Pile It On we are challenging you to create a thank you card or project! Easy enough right? Dont forget to pile on at least one more challenge to qualify! I love the fall colors and everything Thanksgiving. I think that we, as Americans, can really take things for granted, so I love that we have a day dedicated to being grateful for the blessings in our lives. For me personally, I am looking forward to giving thanks all month long!

For my card this week, I used the following challenges:

• Pile It On – Thank You
• Mojo Monday — Sketch
• ABC Challenge — G is for Green
• Crafty Creations — Thanksgiving/ Gratitude
• La La Lands — Ribbon
• Stampin Bees — Thanksgiving/ Autumn

Supplies Used:

• Colors: Kraft, CTMH Autumn Terracota, Olive and Chocolate
• Stamps: CTMH “Thank You”, PTI In Bloom
• Accessories: Pearls and Gold Organdy Ribbon

It is truly a beautiful day today! Us Southern Californians are totally being spoiled lately… where else can you have lovely rain for two days and then beautiful clear skies in the 80s the next week?! Sometimes I like to think that we pay for this amazing weather (even though I know that it is just a simple blessing!).

Anyway, welcome to Pile It On #21! This week we have an awesome color challenge for you! Blue, Green and Yellow, that is! I hope that you all enjoy my card for this week’s challenge… it came together surprisingly quickly considering the fact that I never work with these colors together. My mind wandered from pastels to bright to a more warm set of colors that has a more masculine feel. Check it out!

Challenges Used:

• Pile It On: Color Challenge — Blue, Green and Yellow
• Stamps and Smiles: Sketch
• TCP Tuesday: Buttons!
• ABC Challenge: F is for Flying

Supplies Used:
Colors: Blue, Green and Yellow
Stamps: PTI Everyday Button Bits and PTI Fancy Flourishes
Accessories: Buttons, Embroidery Thread and Ribbon
Tools: Fiskars Crimper for added texture

Thanks for checking it out this week! Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Design Team’s wonderful creations! Now Im off to the pumpkin patch :)

I would like to introduce you all to a new challenge that happens every other Sunday over at Aly’s Sunday Challenge blog. This is not your ordinary sketcher that you may find out in blog-land… this is a 10 year old little girl that is quite talented in stamping and creating cards. I encourage you all to go and check out her blog and join in her challenge. Aly has some creative ideas and her sketches are well drawn (and by hand too!). I am sure that her mama is very proud and happy to have a daughter that she can share her passion with!

So to support her new challenge blog, all of us over at Pile It On are challenging you all to join in on this week’s sketch that Aly has provided (along with at least one other challenge, of course!). I sure hope you will join us in welcoming Aly to the challenge world and letting her know how wonderful her and her sketches are! Here is my card using her sketch a long with a couple other simple challenges (listed below).

My Challenges:

• Pile It On: Aly’s Sketch
• Stamp Simply: Kraft and Black Papers…
• Caardvarks: Something Fab with Ribbon



Colors: Black, Kraft and Teal
Stamps: Ashley’s Blossoms by My Cute Stamps
Accessories: Hemp, Button, Eyelets and PTI Vintage Cream Ribbon
Technique: No Sew Ribbon Pleating shown in Scrap or Dare #19

Happy Sunday! This little project is called “Bat Poop!” I created a cute topper using an adorable digital image of a bat from Soft Pencil at Etsy. Then I took a sandwich baggie and cut it in half diagonally (into a triangle). Next, I poured in a tablespoon of yummy chocolate chips, folded the baggie closed and stapled the topper on.

I have three fun nephews that I will be giving them to sometime this month when they come over for a visit. First, of all, if I had had raisons, I would have used that instead of the chocolate chips. Since I had to use the chocolate chips, I thought we could possibly make cookies or celery with peanut butter and they could sprinkle the chips on top for an added treat.

Of course, this project is for this week’s Pile It On challenge , which is to use something 3D on your project plus at least one other challenge out there in blog land. I suppose that my whole project is considered 3D, but I also popped up the cute bat using foam squares. Here are my Challenges:

• Pile It On: 3D Items
• CCEE Stampers: Digital Image
• Fun With Shapes: Halloween

Thanks for visiting!

One of my favorite sayings is “I love you like a fat kid loves cake!” It just makes me smile and laugh every time. There is a specific friend of mine that actually introduced me to that phrase, and I love her in that very way. It was her birthday and I have been working on her birthday gift… I really wanted to make her some cards that would be cute and special to their future recipients. So here they are! I am going to make a set of these three different cards and put them together in some cute packaging for her gift. I cant wait, because I know she will love them.

This week’s Pile It On challenge is to use some kind of pastry on your project. I immediately knew exactly what I would use for my “pastry.” The cupcake and stand image was a downloadable file from the Cutting Cafe, a past PIO Sponsor, called All About Cupcakes. I LOVE the cute stands in this file and was waiting for the perfect use for them! I wanted these cards to be more elegant than usual when it comes to cupcakes. I hope that I was able to achieve that! I personally think they are lovely :)

Here are all of the challenges that I used for these cards:

• Pile It On –Let them eat cake! Some kind of pastry on your project plus at least one other challenge
• Stamps and Smiles — Sketch
• Our Creative Corner – Monochromatic Cards
• One Stop Craft Challenge: Die Cuts
• Whimsy Stamps: Buttons, Buttons who’s got buttons

Welcome to Pile It On challenge #15! This week the challenge is to use Black and White with a pop of one other color (along with at least one other challenge). The fantastic Sponsor this week is The Cutting Cafe! You will have a great time searching through their plentiful files of printable stamps, cutting templates, invitations, shaped cards and much more — all of this at an extremely affordable price! Also, dont forget to check out Pile It On’s Design Team Samples using some of the Cutting Cafe’s fun files!

For my cards, I used the All About Cupcakes file that includes tons of fun cupcake images for cards and other projects. Since we had to choose only one color to “pop” off of the black and white, I thought of the color that most reminds me of cupcakes — that color would be PINK! I also decided to use my 3″ Scalloped Circle Punch to create some mini cards. I simply folded a 3.5″ x 7″ piece of paper in half and punched it so that the fold was still in tact. Below are the additional Challenges that I used on this project:

Pile It On — Color Pop – Black & White with one other color
Stamp Something — Your Favorite Embellishment (PEARLS!!!)
Practical Scrappers — Basic Punches