Thursday, July 23, 2009

Thursday with Lindsay

Hi All,

I hope your Thursday is off to a great start. Mine will be a busy one!

I love just about everyday of the week now. I am embracing being a SAHM and I really love it. I've been schooling the kids just a little. It amazes how quickly their brains become rusty when school lets out for summer. But we've been spending some time on reading, math and spelling. They do it with very little kicking and screaming. LOL

I was going to show off a new digi that happens to be free this week - in order to get it, you have to visit the design team members to find the link. The new digi-stamp is so sweet and I just couldn't do it justice. So I went with my original plan.


I apologize for the picture, taking pictures at late hours of the evening isn't a good idea right now. I am very excited that a new Michaels is opening up and I have 50% off coupons. I am going to build my studio-in-a-box this coming week.

This the daffodils in a jar image and I just love it. I colored the image with Koh-i-noor pencils and OMS and then went back with an eraser to lighten the color more - it really looks like water! I also used a sketch from challenge blog Truly Scrumptious. I used the sentiment from The Greeting Farm's set For Someone.

Please visit Lindsay and the rest of team. Get that freebie and there's not much time left to Lindsay's awesome sale. For every $5 you spend you get one free!! You'll find the links in my sidebar.

Thanks for spending some time with me today.

OH! I almost forgot! I am so excited. I won the blog candy for last week's Color Throwdown Challenge. I'm getting lots of DRS Designs goodies and I can hardly wait for them to come in the mail. Yippeee!!!

15 Encouraging Thoughts:

Unknown said...

Very pretty! I love this stamp too! You did a wonderful job!

Lindsay Weirich said...

Beautiful Melissa! Have fun building a photo box!

Sheri Gilson said...

Fabulous card mel! Love the image and sketch. I need to make a lught box too!!

Kim said...

Beautiful card, you water looks so realistic!

Erin... said...

so pretty! have fun at your new michaels!

Row said...

What a sweet card. You did an awesome job coloring the daffodils.

Sharon said...

This is lovely, what a beautiful image and perfectly coloured. Thanks for joining us at TS.

ljurecek said...

Love those soft colors! I've really been working the brights this summer, but it was refreshing to see your soft palette, especially with those daffodils!

Mrs. Fence said...

Beautiful coloring and beautiful card! I love it!

Michele Roos said...

Such a pretty card. Love the image you've used and the colouring also. Thanks for joining us this week at TS. Hugs Michele x

Melissa Bove said...

Beautiful card Melissa!

Mina said...

what a gorgeous card Mel, I love that softly coloured image...thanks for joining in with the Truly Scrumptious challenge
Mina xxx

Katt said...

Very pretty! Love the addition of the paper flowers to go with that stamp!

Margie said...

Very pretty! Love how you colored it!

Dawn said...

Great image and the colouring is great

Thanks for joining us on TS

Dawn

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