Have you been good or bad?

This is something I wonder every time I come home.....and see my Siamese cats....have you been good or bad?  My cats are gorgeous, but can be soooo naughty.  My boyfriend has 2 Siamese and I have 3.  He can have fresh flowers and plants, I can't.  He can leave a pen/pencil out on a table, I can't.  He can leave rubberbands out, I can't.  And his have claws so I don't know if this is payback.  We both LOVE our cats and all of our cats our spoiled!  It is interesting when I pick up food for all of them since his cats each eat different foods and mine eat differently than his so it looks like we have a cat farm.
For my card, the adorable sentiment is from TLC and the image is from Bugaboo.

Patterned Paper:  Me and My Big Ideas

Cardstock:  Bazzil;  Core-dinations; Recollection

Stamp:  Bugaboo - Christmas Cat

Sentiment:  TLC, Create (see above for direct link)

Spellbinder:  Elegant Ovals

Border Punch:  Fiskars

Ribbon:  Ofray

Button:  Stash

Circle Punches:  EK Success

Divine Twine

Challenges

Stella Says Sketch - Sketch 316

Cat Lover's Blog Hop - Anything Cat

Eureka - Ch. 164 Pets/Animals

12 month Christmas link up - Ch. 10

May your Christmas be shiny & bright

For this card, I used the adorable Rudolph from Imagine That which is perfect for your Christmas cards.  I used the pre-colored image.  Kris has an incredible deal to get a bundle of the new images for a great deal and save some money.

Patterned Paper:  DCWV; Recollections

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollections

Stamp:  Imagine That - (see above for direct link)

Spellbinder:  Small and large circle

Divine Twine

Border Punch:  Martha Stewart

Bling:  Recollection

Challenges

A Snowflake Promise - Ch. 8 Anything Goes

CHNC Extra - October 

Polkadoodles - Wk 43 Add Sparkle, bling or glitter

12 months of Christmas link up - Ch. 10

Crafty Ribbons - Ch. 131 Rudolph

Vintage Thanksgiving Greetings

Paulette at TLC has monthly clubs and she has this wonderful image for this club.  She has put out an invite to join the next club which will start on November 1st.  It is well worth the money to get all the images, sentiments and papers.  Since my son is in the Army Reserves I felt drawn to this image.  If you like vintage images, Paulette has a separate site with freebies at Vintage TLC.

Patterned Paper:  Sweet Shoppe - 

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollection

Stamp:  TLC, Create - Thanksgiving Greetings Tag Turkey and Flag

Buttons:  Stash

Hemp:  Hemptique

Washi Tape:  Recollection

Spellbinder:  Banner

Tim Holtz distress tool

Challenges

Sketch Saturday - Sketch 384

TTCRD - Anything Goes

CHNC Patterned - October

Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 206 Anything Goes

Happy Halloween sea lion

Miss Rach is having a challenge that starts today and goes until Friday October 30th that is Halloween by the Sea and here is a sample card for that.  For this card, I used an adorable sea lion that is available in the ETSY shop for $1.  For the sentiment is from a great set at TLC.  She will also have a FREEBIE that will be posted today also and I have a sample of that too.

Patterned Paper:  Sweet Shoppe

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollections

Stamp:  Miss Rach - Halloween sea lion (see above for direct link)

Sentiment:  TLC, Create (see above for direct link)

Pearls:  Recollection

Flower:  Prima

Hemp: Hemptique

Challenges

Sweet Wednesday Sketch 2 - Sketch 72

Sweet Stampin' - Halloween

QKR - Ch. 162 Halloween

4 Crafty Chicks - Ch.269 Happy Halloween

Eureka - Ch. 163 Halloween

Glitter 'n Sparkle - Ch. 159 Halloween

Always be yourself unless....

This week at Miss Rach will be a challenge Halloween by the Sea and she will have this adorable FREEBIE.   For my card, I used a sentiment from TLC.  Miss Rach has some wonderful other images such sea lion with pumpkin, Halloween octopus, Sea otter with sea bag that would also work for this challenge and they are available in the ETSY shop for $1 each.

Patterned Paper:  Echo Park

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollection

Stamp:  Miss Rach - Pirate Flamingo

Sentiment:  TLC, Create - (see above for direct link)

Twine:  Hobby Lobby

Gems:  Mark Richards

Anchor:  Martha Stewart

Card die:  Sizzix

Challenges

Papertake - All about the base

Southern Girls - Rocking the Stripes

Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 396 Anything Goes

Brown Sugar - Ch. 169 Anything Goes

Cherish - so sorry

Today I had to drive to my hometown for a family visitation.  My daughter was coming home for the weekend and had appointments scheduled so I will not be attending the funeral tomorrow.  I made this card with the wonderful set that I use over and over again at TLC.

Patterned Paper:  Sweet Shoppe - Cherish

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Core-dination; Recollection

Sentiment:  TLC, Create (see above for direct link)

Spellbinder:  Small and large circle

Die cut:  Lifestyle crafts - Doily circle

Flowers:  Wild Orchid Crafts

Pearls:  Recollection

Really Reasonable Ribbon

Challenges

Tuesday Morning Sketches - Sketch 323

Crafting from the Heart - Ch. 82 Anything Goes

Craft your Passion - Ch. 284 Anything Goes

Sparkles - Ch. 73 Pearls and/or lace

Homemade

I love vintage images and cards, but I find that I usually don't make them instead I just drool over them in awe.  Paulette at TLC has many that she has in her club as well as she now has a separate Vintage Blog where she gives FREEBIES.  This week in her October club she gave out this gorgeous image and I had to make a card with it.  So this is what I came up with.

Patterned Paper:  Teresa Collins
Cardstock:  Core-dinations; Bazzil; Recollections
Stamp:  TLC, Create Homemade
Tim Holtz distress tool
Divine Twine
Flowers:  Wild Orchid Crafts
Metal Gems:  Prima
Embossing Folder:  Cuttlebug

Challenges
Cheerful Sketches - October
Gem of a Challenge - Ch. 155 Spots or Stripes
Creative Knockout - Ch. 111 Metal mode
Creative Corner - 3 Embellishments
Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 205 Anything Goes