365 cards challenge -- KISS

Keep It Simple, Silly!

So here it goes:

365cards challenge: create a Clean & Simple card using only 1/3 of the space provided.  The card size and theme are entirely up to you.

I even pulled out the sewing kit for this. This was sewn by hand people! BY HAND! No machine here....only because It still takes me 12035061 mins to thread that darn thing. 

Only 2 more days to go and I would have completed a week at 365 cards. Not bad for a rookie if I say so myself. 

On another note, my parents come visit tomorrow!  They are here for almost a month, so if I don't post as much. You know why :) 

Lovelove

Divide and Conquer

Day four.  I was so tempted to leave this till tomorrow but I pushed on! (If only I could be as determined as this in a diet/workout/insert other health lifestyle options here)

The challenge was to divide the background into 6 parts and decorate each part differently. Here's hoping I did this one right. Following directions is not one of my strong traits.

Here is my entry:

Four down three more to go! 

Can you spot the opposites?

Still going strong, today's challenge (from 365 cards) was to make a card with "Opposites."  I really liked this challenge because it really got me thinking and by thinking I mean: actually writing out a list of opposites  googling a list of opposites. Ok I know I copped out but I was thinking so hard and all I could pull out of my little brain were silly things like big/small...hungry/full (I was doing this around 4pm) sleepy/awake....that kinda stuff so I was like alright Ruth (yes when I talk to myself I call myself Ruth)  I'm just going to let the internet help me out. It came through. I got some good ones.

Can you spot them?

Well i'm hoping you can. Because if you can't...that just means I have seriously FAILED on my challenge. Yay me. So if you want to play along, leave your answers in the comments. Answers will be posted tomorrow. (Also my sneaky way to see if anyone is reading this lol) 

So here is the link to the challenge -- http://365cards.blogspot.com/2012/05/day-83-opposites-attract.html

Play along. Upstage me. Just have fun :) 

3 days down. Still going strong.

*** UPATE:

• Thick chevron/Thin chevron (background)
• Big fish/small fish
• Large Polka dots/tiny polka dots 
• Square vs Circle

Day 82- Colors of Spring

The challenge for today is to make a card that has a minimum of 5 colors that remind you of spring. Here is the inspiration.

And here is my card.

To play along: http://365cards.blogspot.com/2012/05/day-82-colors-of-spring.html

colors used -- pink, yellow, red, green, turquoise and blue! 

wonder if white counts....Daisies are white and they are so "spring!" lol 

2 days down *fingers crossed* I can stick with this :) 

Some discipline (to blog) would be good

A year and 2 months since I have updated this blog. So much has happened since then.  Friends had babies (Hi Sarah), friends moved away, friends got engaged, got married, changed jobs...i turned 30. WHAT! Yes...I said byebye to my 20s and now I have a 3 in front of my age. But through it all I guess one thing remained constant. I kept up with my cardmaking and scrapbooking. No, I take that back, scrapbooking has not been as successful as I would have liked. I did keep up with documenting my life though, I took the easy way out and made photobooks. (Thanks Shutterfly!)

Well I guess I do have an announcement to make...something rather big is brewing but I can't announce it yet. But it is a BIG BIG BIG reason why I am writing and keeping up with this blog again. So you guys gotta stay tuned to find out. Ok who am I kidding...I say "you guys" like I have a multitude of followers. I guess *you* gotta stay tuned to find out. But if you are reading this. Thank You.

You being....

• the random person who happened to find my blog while google-ing for lyrics or bible verses with "in all things" 
• friends who know that I have a blog and come by once in awhile to look around
• friends from some other website that were linked here
• friends who know that I now need to start writing here more

Thank you. Please leave me a comment to let me know you are reading. It will be good for my self esteem and keep me going.  Till I can make the announcement. Here are some pictures of some cards I have made recently.