With about one month to go before Thanksgiving, I am trying my best to make my Turkey Day cards, but the snow tonight made it a little difficult - how on earth can it be snowing when all the leaves haven’t even fallen off the trees yet?

I decided to play along in the ColourQ Challenge as well as the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge this week. The cQc colors were a little bit tough for me, mostly because of the two shades of yellow. This is my first time playing along in Freshly Made; I love the idea of this blog because the sketches aren’t too CAS nor are they too complicated for my style. Here are the two challenge photos…hope you’ll play along too:

It has been too long since I’ve played along with the ColourQ Challenge! This week’s colors struck me just right, mostly because I’ve got little bits of Rich Razzleberry (RR) stockpiled in my craft room and various scraps of all the others colors are strewn across the room right now.

I started off with a RR base and added some of Amuse Studio’s woodgrain paper as a background and then stitched along the edge after adding the strip of lime green patterned paper from Echo Park.

I got a little fancy with the Plum Divine Twine, RR ribbon and PTI button with small BOO! tag, as well as some leaf pins from My Little Yellow Bicycle:

Have you started your holiday cards yet? Have a fun day!

I am leaving for a trip to Denver for the Free to Breathe Forum, which is a meeting of all the Free to Breathe lung cancer event organizers, so I won’t be able to craft anything for about the next week or so.

But in the meantime, I’d say head on over to the October Afternoon blog, where they posted my card today in a post about Mother’s Day Inspiration…it’s my card from the Play Date Cafe Challenge a few days ago (YAY!)…and there are lots of cards from some other super-talented people there as well! Lots of EYE CANDY!

And then tonight I made this card really quickly for this week’s ColourQ Challenge:

I know it’s not my style, but I still haven’t packed and it’s late and I can’t see half of my supplies. Like I said, I made it QUICKLY.

Have a great week…see you when I get back!

Here we are with a new card for this week’s ColourQ Challenge…on time this week. The colors took me out of my comfort zone with those soft pastel-y tones to them. I have been itching to use some enamel flowers that I picked up at Michael;s and this seemed like perfect opportunity:

Yesterday was my sister’s followup appointment with the hematologist. We waited for over 3 hours to see the doctor, but that’s a minor detail at this point. LOL! Most of her tests were negative - so no lymphoma or endocarditis…but one of her tests that is linked to rheumatoidy type of things was slightly high. So no definitive answers yet, but the bad things have been ruled out. So this means we are celebrating by making meatballs this weekend. Yes, I am going to share my perfected recipes with my sisters this weekend if they are up for the challenge.

Woo Hoo for Second Post of the Day! Because that means I got home from work earlier than I thought, thus proving that I can get twice as much work done when nobody else is around. Maybe I should make this a habit and see if I can trade that for 2 free days during the M-F? Nah. They won’t buy it!

I have been trying lots of new challenges lately. They help me use up my supplies so I can buy more. This is my first try at the ColourQ Challenge, I hope you will play along too! The colors this week are bold, I wasn’t sure how I would put them all together, until I realized that my Echo Park papers came in this color assortment:

So here’s my card, which I just realized is too late to be entered for the week (OH SCHNAP), but oh well…(MEMO TO SELF: read the instructions!!!) I love it the same.

Enjoy your Sunday…