Back to School - Vintage Style

Back to school and back to neutral colors...

 

Haven't used SU! Greeting card set for quite sometime.

Love the Campbell Soup kid look.

 

Inspirational challenges are listed...

Crafty Card Challenge - Browns/Creams with optional choice of tag

Catered Crop - Distress

Allsorts Challenge - Anything but square

Everybody Art Challenge - Anything goes

Party Time Tuesday  - Anything goes

Totally Stampalicious - Anything goes

Simon Says Stamps - Anything goes

No Matter Which Challenge - Die cuts and/or punches

Sugar Creek Hollow - vintage school days

Lollipop Crafts - Back to School

Ribbon Carousel Challenge - Back to school

Crazy Challenge - Anything goes

4 Crafty Chicks - Back to school

Creative Belli Challenge - Back to School and use forgotten supplies,

   which is everything on this card!

Do You Stack Up? - Back to School

Pixie Dust Studio - The Bell is Ringing, Back to School

Cute Card Thursday - Stitch in Time (mine is faux, if you could see

   my house now you would know why I didn't get the machine out!

Simply Create Too - So Old or vintage

Deconstruction Sketch -

 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

SAM 

BACK TO SCHOOL...

Oh yeah, Back to School! That's where I've been - getting ready for the kids! Did 2 large bulletin boards and helped the librarian with hers. Then it  was clean and put my office/classroom back in place. Paperwork, lesson plans, meetings, and lots of etc. Oh and then we (DH  and me) gutted the kitchen. He has the cabinets  in but still waiting on the sink/counter. It's been 3 weeks, how long do you wait for a sink/counter to be delivered? Getting anxious to get it done, floor in and just look at it and not cook!

Think I'll give this card to my new principal.

She has really put in some time acclimating

to her new building and getting to know all of us.

 

 

but you didn't expect that - did ya?!?

 

Love making slider cards, just haven't done it for quite some time

so had to dust off my engineering degree and get everything to work.

Toot is on Split Coast if you want to give it a try.

 

Inspiring challenges are as follows:

 

The ABC Challenge - "V" is for Vanish (my hidden sentiment!)

The Ribbon Carousel Challenge - "Bump Up", add embossing

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Feeling Fruity

Pixie Dust Studio Pixie Challenge - Pixie is play Chef

Lollipop Crafts - Anything Goes

Crazy Challenge - Anything Goes

Lexi's Creations - Back to School or College

Simply Create Too - Back to School

Crop Stop Challenge - Back to School

Simon Says Stamps Challenge - Back to School

 

Thanks for stopping by and by the way -

The cute girl image is from Dearie Dolls (free!)

 

Have a great week!

 

SAM

School Girl...

Memories of starting school.

I was the kid who liked going to school.

In my 50s before I stopped going to school.

And now...

I work at a school!

So many school challenges and so little time...
Raise the Bar Challenge - Primary colors of red, blue, green
Designed 2 Delight - Progressive free image challenge "Maisie Belle"
StampinB Design team challenge - easel card

Belli Challenge - gingham

Digital Tuesday - Cute and Girly

Craft us Crazy - anything goes

Crop Stop - anything goes

Totally Gorjuss - As you like it

All Sorts Challenge - Back to school

Crazy Challenge - Back to school

Paper Craft Star - Back to school

Paper Play Challenge - Back to school

Party Time Tuesdays - Back to school

Ribbon Carousel Challenge - Back to school

Totally Paper Crafts - Back to school

Just Add Ink - something from your stash 

[flower soft, had to have it and this is the first time I've used it!]
365 Cards, Day 177 - album inspired

I'm a TOP SPOOL winner!

Well, best get off the computer and get ready to get "BACK TO SCHOOL" tomorrow!

SAM

School Daze

Quick post, off to my first Copics class!

365 Cards, Day 170 - vintage plus blue

Color Lab Color challenge - pool party, pear pizzazz, soft suede

Creative Inspirations - back to school

Cupcake Craft challenge - sketch

Desert Island Crafts - I picked: dry embossing, real machine stitching and vintage

Speedy the Cat's Friends -emboss
Paper Craft Star Challenge - inspiration photo
Papertake Weekly - bingo: free, ribbon, lace
Pile It On - blue
Polly Craft Challenge -distressing
Simply Create Challenge - time to distress
Stamping Bs Challenge - distressing
Sugar Creek Hollow - vintage/buttons/bows
Pink Elephant - stitching
Truly Scrumptious - lace
Tuesday Taggers - anything goes
Simply Create Challenge - time to distress
Color Create Challenge - blue, green, white, red and brown
Deep Ocean Challenge - light blue
Challenge Up Your Life - no patterned paper
Craft Us Crazy - anything goes
Paper Crafting Journey - anything goes
Little Red Wagon - Back to School
Paper Pretties - Back to School
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge - Back to School

Till next time - SAM

Back to School!

Once upon a time there was a lady with 3 boys! One day, her youngest son started Kindergarten, her middle son began his first year in high school and her oldest is heading off for his last year of college. What a spread of years for these young men!

Anyway - I made a card to welcome the youngest to Kindergarten, decided her middle son would have his feelings hurt if he didn't get one (after all, I was there when he started Kindergarten, just didn't make cards back them) and then I knew the oldest would enjoy a card from Mrs. McDonald, since he started Kindergarten the first year I started teaching Kindergarten! Whew, shouldn't have said all that, it's making me feel old!

So here is the card I made for the oldest son:

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

The Cat's Pajamas for the color scheme of denim, kraft and candy apple red - gorgeous!

Hand Stamped Sentiment to follow this inspiration photo.

Pals Paper Arts to KISS (Keep It Simple, Sweetie) challenge, make it a masculine.

Hand Full of Stamps to think of September and October, I though about back to school.





The next card is for the son starting High School - Go Knights!

This card is being entered in the following challenges:

Treehouse Thursday Challenge  - Back to school theme

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge is looking for a man's world.

Stampin' for the Weekend is going back to school

ABC Challenge is focusing on the letter A, which for my school district is going back to work/back to school!

The Wildflower Patch wants embossing

Sentimental Sunday is anything goes!

Friday Sketchers to use their sketch
Alphabet Challenge to use ovals for 'O'
The Shabby Tearoom to use the soft, neutral and shimmery colors in the photo or the theme ... or BOTH!

And the final card is for the youngest son, one that I made sometime ago so I won't be entering it in any

challenges.

Thanks for stopping by!

SAM