UnstampaBelles Challenge: Monochrome

It's November...can you believe it??  We're already past Halloween and cruising right into Christmas.  We're still unpacking in our new place (and making sloooow progress).   But I'm excited to say that the craft room is at least out of boxes :-)

Good timing too, because it's already time for another challenge over at the Unstampabelles!  This month, the theme is Monochrome.  The other designers have given us some really beautiful inspirations pieces as well.  We can't wait to see your creative take on this challenge, and remember...No Stamps :-)  Really stretch that stash, ladies!!

This month's challenge is also sponsored by:

And the winner gets a $25 gift certificate!  So exciting!!

So, please swing by the Unstampabelles Challenge and show us your own gorgeous (stamp-free) monochrome project!

Go Fish! Color Challenge

Just in time for fall, Go Fish! is bringing a Autumn themed color challenge to you!  I hope you're able to pop over and show us your fabulous fall inspiration :-)

My craft room is still a disaster, but I was able to dig some things out of my boxes to create this card :-)  It's a modern take on a fall Thankful card.  I will be most thankful when I finally get my craft space organized and user friendly again!  It's true that you never know how much stuff you have until you move!

Hope to see you over at the Go Fish Challenge!

Practical Scrappers: Halloween

Happy early Halloween at Practical Scrappers :-)  Today the design team is showing us some spooky creations to get you excited for the upcoming fright fest!  I have to admit that I LOVE Halloween.  Not only is it my birthday, but strangers will give you CANDY just for showing up at their door.  As a child...it was a magical day :-)

For my card, I used a new Cricut Cartridge that I picked up at Walmart for just this occasion called, Bump in the Night.  So many cute little monsters on this cartridge it was hard to choose.  I finally settled on Fang since he looked so lovable :-)

Please stop by the Practical Scrappers site for more Halloween spookiness...

Our new place

Here's an pic of my little doll house.  The kitties are loving all the low windows :-)



It's so exciting to have grass and trees again! In Las Vegas we had a beautiful view of the mountains behind our house, but gravel and pointy-poky shrubs in our yard.  Our new backyard has a giant primrose bush that's blooming bright pink flowers and taking up the long side of our deck.  We also have a very confused mourning dove who has a nest in the middle of our backyard on the ground!  She has two babies in it, and now I'm not sure how long we'll have to wait to mow our lawn.  I'm obsessively checking on those little babies, but they're big and fluffy, and not going anywhere :-)

I managed to get a good portion of the kitchen boxes unpacked yesterday, so hoping to wrap that up today and then start on the bedroom.  Like the movers said, you never know how much you have until you move.

Off to snoop on the baby birds and enjoy the cool fall Carolina weather on my patio.

Carolina on my mind...

We are officially in our new house in North Carolina and have internet!!!  Yahooooooo!!!!!! I've been trying to stay connected on my phone, but 4 days in the car traveling across the country did not leave me with stellar web access.   I'm so happy to be here, but slightly less thrilled with the boxes stacked to the ceiling I'll be dealing with. :-)

We decided to move into a smaller house this time around and now I'm not sure where my (possibly excessive) collection of cookware and dishes are going to live.  Luckily we have crawl spaces and an attic for all the seasonal stuff we used to stash in our massive closets.

I do love this house though.  It's yellow and white and reminds me of a little doll house.  The cats are loving it too, and are pretty thrilled to be out of the car.

Tomorrow I tackle the unpacking and I'm really hoping I'll have my craft room unpacked by next week.  There are so many cute craft and sewing stores in North Carolina, I can't wait to expand the "stash" :-)

Practical Scrappers: Using Canvas

The ladies of Practical Scrappers are showing us some great ways to incorporate canvas into your cards and layouts.  I know I have a bundle stashed in my fabric box, so it was fun to dig it out and play around.  I used mine to create ruffled rows on a Thank You card.  I've used a similar technique on a set of pillow covers, so I used that ruffle and shrunk it way down :-)

Here are my pillow covers:

And here's my interpretation for my card!

Please stop by the Practical Scrappers site and see what the other creative ladies of the design team have come up with!

Unstampabelles Challenge: Recycling

October 1st is a busy day here at Paper Pie!   We've had lots of project in the que so I'm excited to be sharing them today.

The ladies at the Unstampabelles Challenge are thinking Green and showing us paper crafted items featuring recycling!  I love to repurpose (partly because I'm a cheap-o) and it's fun to think of ways to bring new life to old items.

For my card, I repurposed the lace I found at a thrift store, the bird (which is from the packaging on some gift wrap), the background is a from a card-gone-wrong and has been living in my stash for months and the sentiment is cut out from the cover of an old notebook.

Please swing by the Unstampabelles Challenge and show us how you used recycling in your project!