Boo To You by Deasy Designs

I've known about Deasy Designs for awhile but I've recently been using stamps more and had to check out their latest release. The two new holidays sets are so adorable! I love characters and designs I can paper piece. I ordered my stamps last week and the shipping was super fast but I had to wait until the weekend to play. This card admittedly was a little labor intensive but boy do I love that happy witch. This card is also for the Shopping Our Stash challenge to use your favorite things because anything Halloween is my favorite (I have a whole bucketful of stuff but only make a few cards a year). Maybe it's because I was born so close to Halloween but I love everything about it and am excited that it's almost time. I love all the Halloween items in stores right now. Anyway this is some old K and Company paper so even though the stamp is new the paper is from my stash.

Scrappers Cove August Kit

Each month my LSS Scrappers Cove offers a card kit for $5. The kit includes two sheets of cardstock, two sheets of double sided patterned paper and some embellishments (this month: trim, a stick pin, and chipboard keys).

I made these 6 cards with only a few extras such as a little extra cardstock, glossy accents, and some sentiment die cuts. 

But overall I'm happy with the amount of cards I can make for so little and I always challenge myself to use up the whole kit in one sitting because I don't need to hoard anymore than I do. Any extras that I don't use I give to my mom to add to her kit.

The best part? You get to bring a card back using a little of everything from the kit to be entered into a drawing for a $25 gift card. Love it!

They also offer layout kits. So if you live in NJ and love a bargain/pretty papers, ask about kits at Scrappers Cove.

Shopping Our Stash 62

This week at Shopping Our Stash the challenge was to use something that we bought but never touched again with the idea of "What was I thinking?!" On my card, my "What was I thinking?!" item is the birds. They are so cute but I until recently I didn't even stamp (but I bought stamps) and so these birds just sat there uninked for a long time. Even now they aren't exactly my style. I seem to enjoy paper piecing and stamping on patterned paper and these are kind of hard to use with those techniques. But maybe I will try to give them another shot because they are so stinking cute.

Feast with Friends

The Basic Grey blog has been posting some awesome sketches lately. Whenever I see BG papers in the clearance bin at the LSS I stock up so I'm using some older Indian Summer paper and stickers for these photos of a squash themed potluck dinner my friend hosted last fall. I followed the Basic Grey sketch from 7/23. I have the week completely off so I'm excited to craft while watching the Olympics. 

Shopping Our Stash 61: Something New

The challenge this week at Shopping Our Stash is to use something new. Of course the idea is to use your stash so this means something in your stash that you haven't used and is therefore still new. Well for me that is the Basic Grey What's Up collection. I had to have it a few weeks ago at the LSS but was waiting to get the matching embellies which arrived last week so it was perfect for the challenge. This is also for the Basic Grey Challenge blog challenge to use things with wings. I've been trying focus on making some cards for the Cards foe Heroes drives out there. In my car is a pack of cards ready to be mailed to the Lawnscaping drive which you can check out here. 

More with Perfect Sentiments

Perfect Sentiments allows you multiple entries and I have a tendency to make more than one card before I'm done playing with a set so there is a another card with some old Basic Grey and Avocado Arts Zip N By set. Some of the hearts are from other sets of theirs as well. I also used my fab Kreaxions Punch 917 to create a simple border for the bottom of my card. Remember the Perfect Sentiments challenge is Anything Goes and they are offering a fab Avocado Arts set as a prize.

Perfect Sentiments with Avocado Arts

I recently discovered Avocado Arts stamps at the Scrapbook Expo in NJ. I love their stamps because you can build scene with them and many have multiple uses. For instance the top of the hot air balloon is also used to create a globe with this set. While checking out the sneaks for the upcoming set on their blog (I'll be adding the new set to my collection as soon as its released) I found a link to a challenge they are sponsoring. The challenge is at Perfect Sentiments and is for anything goes with a double entry if you use Avocado Arts. For this card I used up some really old Basic Grey papers and the Zip N By to Say Hi set from Avocado Arts. An Avocado Arts stamp set is up for grabs so check it out!