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Thursdays with Lindsay

2009-11-12T08:27:00.004-05:00

Good Morning! I have a late post today because my kids were home yesterday and I didn't get anything done! Oh well, I enjoyed the day.

Today's Thursdays with Lindsay card is from a tutorial I followed on SCS for a recessed card. When I first watched the video I thought to myself that I would never do that card. Then I watched again. I've had a few chats with my friend Joni and we've been talking about "raising the bar" in our crafting. So with her words echoing in my head, I decided to try the card and I love it!! It's a bit crooked, but that's OK.

I featured her set called Leaf Prints that she released several weeks ago. She is releasing a new set today, but what I wanted to do with it, I needed more time then what I had. And this fit a couple of challenges. The first challenge is for The Pink Elephant with a theme this week of being thankful. The other challenge is from The Color Dare to use Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue and Really Rust. A color combo I don't think I would've ever put together on my own. This photo doesn't do the ribbon justice - it's a very rich rust color ribbon that I hoard as much as possible. There's not a lot of embellishment because I wanted to keep it clean and simple and I wanted to be sure the leaf print paper wasn't hidden - it's too pretty to cover up.

Be sure to visit Lindsay for today's release and freebie. Don't forget to visit the rest of the team to see what lovely treasures they have to share with you today.

Thanks for stopping by.

MyGrafico Challenge Wednesday

2009-11-11T05:01:00.000-05:00

Hi there! Quick post today - the kids are home from school. Happy Veterans Day!

Go check out the MyGrafico Challenge blog for all the fun details and to see the prize in full - this is a really cute digi-stamp set! Monday's challenge was to add stitching. But now we've got an awesome sketch from Marvelous Mary. Here's the sketch:

And here's my card:

I'm not sure if you remember me saying the other day about Hollyanne's Friday Feature that she reminded me of a stamp set I have... well in the set are these great stitching stamps. How easy can this be?! This sock monkey is too cute and I really stepped outside my comfort zone and put this bold red with these cooler shades of blue. So not like me and I so like the results. I hope you do, too. Give it a try and be sure to link up so we can see.

Oh! And there's only a few more days left to apply for the design team. It's been a pleasure and so much fun to have been on this team. You will love it!

Thanks for stopping by!

Baby it's cold outside...

2009-11-10T10:19:00.004-05:00

** This is my second post for today, please scroll down for Tuesday Morning Sketches. **

Have I ever told you that I am such a sucker for snowmen? Well, I am! Winter and I get along only so-so. I don't like being cold, but I love the snow covered Rocky Mountains. I love the powdery snow that glistens like diamonds when the sun is shining, not great snow for building a snowman, but beautiful to look at! But I don't like ice! That's what we get a lot of out here in WV, ice - not much snow. But there's nothing more heartwarming than a snowman built by children's hands with such love and detail.

I love this snowman from Inktegrity. It's part of the Little Helper set that released last week. I just had to play along with a couple of great challenges... First challenge was the sketch from JUGs - great fun! The second challenge is from Digital Tuesday which is to create a holiday greetings card and what better way to greet the holidays then to start singing a favorite Christmas song of my Mom's. The snowflakes I found when googling coloring pages.

I hope you like my card - thanks for the second visit.

Tuesday Morning Sketches

2009-11-10T07:03:00.001-05:00

Good Morning! The card I have to share with you today is from my challenge blog, Tuesday Morning Sketches. If you've never visited, you really should. I have fun sketches (in my humble opinion) and GREAT sponsors!! Prizes every week!

Here's the sketch that we're playing with this week....

And here is what I created using an adorable stamp from The Pixie Cottage...

Make sure you click on the photo so you get a better look at the detail. I created this card by first cutting the brown circle base using my Coluzzle big circles template. I also added doodles with this really cool template from Chatterbox that I think I added dimension to the "center of the flower." The image is colored with Copics. The sentiment is from Unity. My son looked at my card and said that bear doesn't look like he's feeling very blessed with all those mice on him. I laughed and said he's blessed with all these friends! OK, then I punched out 1 3/8" circles and ran them thru the Cuttlebug with the Distressed folder. I sponged each circle with Summer Sun ink and then adhered to the back of the card. Then to secure and finish the back, I cut a big circle and adhered over the little circles.

I'm also very excited that my sketch works with Humble Pie's challenge, too, to create a round card.

I hope you enjoyed my card and I really hope to see you over at my challenge blog.

Sunshine Monday

2009-11-09T05:03:00.000-05:00

Good Morning Everyone! Happy Monday to you. I hope you had a wonderful weekend.

Today is Sunshine Monday and let me tell you - I had a hard time getting my project done because I kept having to slap hands away from it!

Everyone wanted to steal the m&ms! I dressed up a frappucino bottle and filled it with mint chocolate m&ms. I used All I Want for Christmas is... stamp - my intention was to leave this altered bottle for Santa instead of the usual milk and cookies. It's not going to last past tonight! I colored the image with copics, then layered on a Garden Green mat to match the boy's coat.

Here's a close-up of the top of the bottle. I created my own paper bow and then just added a little collar around the neck of the bottle. I chose this paper because it tied in the brown color around the lid so this made it a very quick and easy project.

I also have a couple of announcements. First of all, Sunshine & Giggles has a new home! Janice has been hard at work setting up a new blog that has some great new features! Be sure to check it out. Follow the blog and sign up for the newsletter so you stay up on everything that Janice is doing. Another announcement to share, sadly, December is approaching very quickly and the end of December marks the end of the current Design Team's term. So Janice is on the look-out for some really awesome designers for the next term. So if you're interested, be sure to check out the blog for all the details on how to apply. Janice is the sweetest lady and I will miss designing for her.

Thanks for stopping by. Now go visit Janice and the rest of the team to see what great ideas they have waiting to share with you.

Relax & Unwind...

2009-11-08T09:41:00.003-05:00

Good Morning! Words to live by - Relax & Unwind. We all need to do that everyday! I normally don't post on Sundays but I didn't get back in the craft room yesterday, well, not until last night anyway.

This is just a quick post for a card I made for All That Scraps challenge for this week, which is to pull out an old set. Well, I do have one old set but mostly my stamps are newer. I was organizing some stuff last night and was looking at the card kits I'd received in swaps and there to my pleasant surprise was kit containing images from My Rubber Duckie. Cute set! So I decided to actually USE a kit (instead of collecting them) and I used the awesome sketch from The Sweet Stop.

I hope you like it - I had a lot of fun with it!

Have a pleasant day! I'm off to start laundry. Yippee.

Digi-Scrapbooking Day!

2009-11-07T09:13:00.002-05:00

Hi all - quick post today to tell you that today is Digi-Scrapbooking Day and to celebrate MyGrafico is having a 25% off sale! All your favorites... Dilek... Mujka... ReviDevi and Lindsay's Stamp Stuff - just to name a few. Go on over and stock up! I saw some really cute Christmas sets I want in my collection!

OK - might be back later with another post if I can get into my craft room today.

Hugs, Mel

Friday Feature

2009-11-06T05:03:00.000-05:00

Good Morning! I am getting a bit nervous for my interview this afternoon. Guess I better craft all morning long to distract me. LOL

I have to tell you what I saw the other day. I found my daughter sitting at her dad's computer perusing You Tube videos. She also had her little sketch book out and a pencil. She would watch for a bit, pause, draw and then watch a bit more. This cycle continued for about 30 minutes. After dinner she went down to our craft room and was busy working away. So you know what this means? I have a Hollyanne Friday Feature for you!

I am thinking that she got this sketch from one of Dawn Griffith's videos, but I am not certain. She used a stamp set that, frankly, I had forgotten I owned. It's Shapes & Stitches by Lizzie Ann. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. She made a very nice CAS card.

I have a Thanksgiving themed card to share, too. I made this using one of the accesories in the new set just released called Little Helper. You can find it and all of the other wonderful images Inktegrity has to offer here. I did use the sketch from Twisted Thursdays - the month of November they will be featuring challenges for Holiday stamps so this week they are focusing on scarecrows, pilgrims and turkeys. The twist is to either use Kraft card stock or a brown paper sack. Here is my take on the challenge....

I created the sentiment on the computer.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a super weekend!!

Thursdays with Lindsay

2009-11-05T05:01:00.002-05:00

Good Morning everyone! I hope you're all well. I had a phone interview yesterday and I have a face-to-face interview scheduled for Friday. I'm not sure I want to go back to work, but wish me luck anyway.

Today is one of my absolute favorite days! I love my Thursdays with Lindsay posts. I am really excited about these cards I'm going to show you because I am soooo proud of them. Before I show you, I need a disclaimer here. No! I am not ready for Christmas! With that said here's a card that I made with Lindsay's release from a couple of weeks ago. This is actually a set of cupcake wrappers and toppers, I just used a topper for my focal image.

I am really loving my bargain purchase of DCWV Christmas Mat Stack papers. I colored Santa with Copics and then dressed his hat up with a bit of Sugar Glitter. I did use a great sketch from Lord Have Mercy! - Mercy has a sketch challenge every Tuesday and they are always so user friendly.

I took this photo because I wanted you to see the dimension that I added by pop-dotting the focal image between each layer.

This next card is a new release. This little guy is called Cool Yule and he is way cool!

OK, you're going to need to click on the photo in order to see Lindsay's other release. It's called Embossed Mats, as Lindsay put it... think digital Nestibilities. She also has a great freebie that features an embossed mat that is today's freebie. Just go visit Lindsay and she will give you the download. I created this card for JUGs challenge - wild card for a photo. So I laid this out very carefully in a word document so that the mat, penguin and greeting are printed as one layer. Then I cut out the inside of the mat and then layered to the red card and cut again. Fun card!

Thanks for stopping by! Now go visit the rest of the team to see what they have ready to show you. I've heard there are a couple of really cool tutorials that Lisa and Shannon have! They are all linked up in my sidebar.

MyGrafico Challenge Wednesday

2009-11-04T05:01:00.001-05:00

Good Morning! Did you check in with the MyGrafico Challenge blog on Monday? The challenge this week is to use Purple, Cerise and Gold. And now that it's Wednesday - we have a sketch thrown into the mix. It's a great sketch by Mary, our Team B Coordinator.

Here's my card...

I had a rather difficult time photographing this card. Didn't matter what lighting I had, the colors didn't come out quite right. In one sort of lighting, the Elegant Eggplant looked dark brown. And I chose a long card, which is challenging anyway. But I couldn't believe how lucky I was to find this awesome scrapbook kit with the perfect colors.

I can't wait to see what you make for this challenge. Thanks for stopping by.

God's Promises

2009-11-03T06:00:00.001-05:00

Good Morning! Hope your week is off to a great start! I had such productive day yesterday, I am very pleased with myself.

I shared a couple of weeks ago that I have been given the honor of being November Guest Designer for Inktegrity. I thank Joni from the bottom of my heart for giving me this gift. Did you do the hop on Sunday? If you did then you met Bizzy. Today is the release day for Bizzy and his accessories. The hop was so much fun and he is such a happy guy. Well after a hard day's work that he put in he's ready for bed...

This is Bizzy Praying. He releases today, too. The sentiment is one of God's many promises... When I pray, you answer me! You encourage me by giving me the strength I need. Psalm 138:3 --I would say that after the day Bizzy had on Sunday, his strength needs to be renewed and who better than to get that renewal from?

The card turned out to be clean and simple, which I don't think was my original intent but I am happy with the results. I used paper from a Bazzil card stock pack that I rarely pull out and I'm not sure why - it does contain some really cool colors. I did participate in a couple of challenges with this card: I used Mojo Monday's sketch and the color challenge from The Pink Elephant. The colors are brown, yellow, neutral and one other color. The base of my card is sort of a bittersweet dark chocolate color. The other colors I chose are gray, yellow and dark green. I colored Bizzy with Copics.

I hope you like my card. Thanks for visiting me today.

Sunshine Monday

2009-11-02T05:33:00.003-05:00

Good Morning! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. I am too happy to put Halloween behind me now. On to the next one, Thanksgiving. Ugh! Still not my favorite holiday, but this one comes with great news. After being unemployed for 9 months, my sister Karin got a job that she really wanted and they are still going to let her come out here for Thanksgiving. Whoo-hoo!!!

For this card I used Sunshine & Giggles Snow Day stamp. This is honor of my other sister's students who will hopefully have a snow day today as Denver got something like 13" of snow! I used the sketch/recipe challenge from Crafts4Eternity. I found this super paper in my stash and when the sun is out again, I'll get a better photo. Seems I'm having to do this every Monday lately!

I hope you enjoy my card and don't forget to visit Janice and the rest of team (linked in my sidebar) to see what they did to share with you! Thanks for stopping by.

Inktegrity Holiday Blog Hop

2009-11-01T05:59:00.002-05:00

Thank you so much for joining us today as we are so excited that you are here! Be sure to leave a comment on each of these blogs for your chance to win the latest release called "Little Helper" as well as your choice of one accessory for his platter. These will be in the store on November 3rd but you get to see him here first!

Without further ado, I introduce Inktegrity's latest family member named Bizzy:

Doesn't he look so happy to be of service? On his tray is a yummy festive martini. He's dressed in his party uniform that's made of primsmacolor pencils & OMS. His body was colored with a gray Copic but then was shadowed with a black prismacolor pencil. I cut a piece of cardstock that I ran through the dots and snowflakes Cuttlebug embossing folder and then added some raindrop snowflakes. The dp is from DCWV Christmas mat stack.

Bizzy comes with 9 images for his platter that, as a bonus, can also be used as individual digis as well! Not only does this set commemorate special holidays, but it also celebrates the everyday occasions too.

I hope you enjoyed my sneak peek, now hop on over to Sheri's blog
to see the next goody that Bizzy will serve up!

And just in case, here is the list for you to follow this little mouse.

Afterall, he is quite Bizzy today (heehee!):

Anita

Dana Joy

Heather

Jennifer

Joni

Melissa

Sheri

Tammy

Inktegrity Blog

Pretty Christmas Tree

2009-10-30T09:14:00.005-04:00

Good Morning,

I'm running a bit late for my post this morning and that's because I failed creatively last night. Oh well, I still have a pretty card to show you that I made for my Monthly Card Swap. Marji provided the gorgeous paper and the pretty tree. The challenge was to create a tall card.

I find that I do love long cards but they are rather difficult to photograph. I colored the tree with Prismacolor markers and I provided the striped paper and the base of Always Artichoke. The polka dot paper under the tree is the other side of the striped paper which is from Making Memories. I love this paper!

Here's a close-up of the tree with all it's pretty ornaments. Marji sent along some very pretty brads and I added only a few of those and filled in with some other bling, as well as some stickles.

No, I am not ready for Christmas yet, but I guess I should start thinking about it.

OK I'm off the computer and to my craft table. I hope you all have a wonderful day. Have a safe and fun Halloween and don't forget to set your clocks back an hour. And we'll see you back here on Sunday for the Inktegrity Holiday blog hop. It's going to be so much fun!

Thursday's with Lindsay

2009-10-29T05:05:00.000-04:00

Good Morning! I am so excited about Lindsay's new stamp set! It's so wonderful. It's called Doodle Flowers and it's available here at Lindsay's Shop Handmade Store.

I decided this flower was screaming to be paper pieced. I had so much fun putting this together.

It comes with this really fun circle sentiment. I used it in .png format so that I could layer the flower inside the sentiment and then printed the base and cut it out using a circle cutter. Then I deleted the sentiment from my word document and printed the flower on 3 different papers, cut the pieces out and glued to the base. (I have a tutorial on digi-stamp paper piecing here.) Instead of another piece of paper for the button (which does print out on the flower) I opted for a real button for more added dimension.

And yes of course, I followed a few challenges.

The sketch I got from iheart2stamp. I did flip it a little.
Crazy4Challenges said to use geometric shapes, so my card contains circles, rectangles and little triangles.
Just Us Girls said to add a 3D flower. I failed at the attempt to make the pretty tissue paper flower that they have featured, so I used a couple of primas layered and pop-dotted.

I also want to share my final Halloween project. This is what I made for the Halloween Costume Party I am having on my Tuesday Morning Sketches challenge blog and since I featured Lindsay's images, it's perfect to share today!

Thank you for stopping by today! Please be sure to visit Lindsay and the rest of the team. And if you haven't heard, Lindsay has an open Design Team call for Designers and Guest Designers. It's a really fun team to be on and I'm very thankful to work with some very amazing and wonderfully talented people!

Oh - one more thing! Starting today, Halloween sets are on sale at MyGrafico. 30% off!! So if you haven't scored Lindsay's crows or other Halloween images you can do that, too!!

Have a great day!

MyGrafico Challenge Wednesday

2009-10-28T05:00:00.000-04:00

Welcome to the 2nd installment of this week's challenge over at the MyGrafico Challenge Blog. The challenge is to create a Thank You card with dry embossing, but today we add a sketch to it. Be sure to head on over to the challenge blog for the sketch and LOTS of inspiration! Here is my card...

I love this set by Mujka and you can find it here at the MyGrafico store. It's a Mix and Match Stems set and I think the silhouette images are stunning! There are line flower images and you'll see that Team A did a fabulous job with them!! Wow - they are awesome!

I hope you join us - I look forward to seeing what you create!

Halloween Party

2009-10-27T09:32:00.004-04:00

Good Morning,

I hope you're all doing well. It's cloudy and rainy today - typical Fall weather I guess. I'd like to invite you over to my challenge blog - Tuesday Morning Sketches. I have Halloween Party going on over there and I'm sure you'll have some fun.

What I have to share with doesn't quite fit the theme of altering something for the party, but it's a really cute card that I followed the tutorial on Dawn's You Tube channel for a gift card holder. You can find it here. I made this to send in a Halloween Goodies swap but it turned out so cute that I wanted to share it with you before I mailed it off.

This is a really simple little card. It measures 3 x 4 1/4 finished and has a belly band to keep it closed. The image is from CC Designs from the Fall Kit that my sister had sent me. I love these stamps and soon it'll be time to put them away and break out the new Winter stamps that I just got yesterday. Anyway, she's colored with Prismacolor Pencils and OMS. I did use Copic markers for her face.

Here's the inside view and I'm not quite sure why the picture looks like this, I did fix it and it looked fine a minute ago. Oh well, you can see where I tucked the card into the middle portion that is created and a simple stamped sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you over at the TMS Halloween Costume party.

Sunshine Monday

2009-10-26T09:02:00.005-04:00

OK - My Monday isn't starting off very sunshiny. Hollyanne is home today with a sore throat today... I wasn't able to work on my Sunshine Monday card until after the boys left for school (which is good because I'm able to participate in a couple of Monday challenges)... and I finish my card pretty quickly but the camera battery just died! So... here's a scan of my card and I will take and post a better picture when it's all charged up.

Ugh! This looks awful. I don't like scans! Sorry about that friends. I promise I will post a better picture as quickly as possible.

Edit to add photo. Hmmm... not sure it looks any better.

I did use the new Skier stamp from Sunshine & Giggles new winter line. I'm not a skier, although a native Coloradan where the skiing is some of the best around, but this little guy looks like he's having no difficulty at all. He probably doesn't even have to do the bunny trails.

The challenges I participated in are: TechnoStamper (the sketch) and The Pink Elephant (black, hardware & distressed). It really is very cute and very masculine - I'm not linking up until I have a better photo.

Thank you for stopping by! Have a Sunshiney Monday with lots of giggles! (corny - heehee) Don't forget to stop by Janice's blog and the rest of the team. They are all linked in my sidebar.

Inktegrity's First Annual Holiday Blog Hop

2009-10-25T11:23:00.002-04:00

Inktegrity invites you to our first annual Holiday Blog Hop!

Come and celebrate the magic of holidays and every special occasion throughout the year.

Stop by all 8 blogs and meet the latest little character to join the Inktegrity family.

Leave comments for your chance to win him + your choice of one 'accessory',

1 lucky winner will receive the entire set of November 3rd releases, just by blog hopping.

We hope to see you then, bright and early starting at 6am EST

on Sunday, November 1st.

Create with Inktegrity!

Happy Saturday!

2009-10-24T05:35:00.000-04:00

Hello! Thank you for stopping by. I don't know that I say that often enough, but I really do appreciate your visits.

I have a quick post today to share a card I made for the new All That Scraps Challenge blog. You all know how much I love love love Christine's stamps and you know how much I love to play along with challenges, so I couldn't pass this one up. The challenge was to create a tall card. I've noticed that they have been so popular lately. They are fun to do - a bigger canvas to paint. The image is a new member to the Pixie family, her name is Birgitta.

This is one of the many reasons why I love digi-stamps. You can re-size digi's to any size you need for your project. I super sized Birgitta - she's approximately 5 inches tall from head to toe. I colored her with Copics, Prismacolor marker (just one) and highlighted with a white gel pen. Her wings have coarse MS diamond glitter on them. I created the additional sunflowers from scallop Nesties dies and circle punches. The sentiment is created from a stamp out of the PTI Boxes, Bags & Tags set and the actual sentiment is from Scrappy Cat Summer set. Please be sure to click on the photo so that you can see her pretty face a little closer up.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a super weekend. For my son... GO PATRIOTS!!

I have Inktegrity!

2009-10-23T05:30:00.001-04:00

Good Morning Everyone! Happy Friday!!

I have some really exciting news. I have the privilege of being Inktegrity's Guest Designer for November, but Joni let me play along this week for a super give-away that she has going on this weekend. You'll have to click here or here for all the details and the download, but it's this adorable mug that is actually part of a set that's coming in November. You're gonna love it!! Here's what I did with it...

The mug actually has a fine dotted line in the center that can be paper pieced or colored to appear like a glass mug with a drink inside. I chose to cut along the dotted line to reveal a window. First off, I followed the tutorial for the Mini-Pizza Box on SCS and before gluing it together I created and cut the layers... one layer at a time. Then I punched out two circles of white card stock to form my snowman. I used scraps of the decorative paper to create his scarf. Click on the photo to enlarge it, you'll see that I even cut fringe on the ends of the scarf. I free-handed the hat and added the trim. I added the details to face with Copics.

On the inside of this Winter Survival kit I added a packet of hot chocolate mix and a yummy sugar cookie.

I hope you enjoyed my little project. Now go visit Joni to get this great download and have some fun with it. Have a super weekend!

Thursdays with Lindsay

2009-10-22T05:30:00.001-04:00

Good Morning Everyone! It's been gorgeous weather here in WV - true fall weather.

I have a really neat project to share with you. I know you all have seen these stair step cards before and I've been wanting to make one, so I finally got brave and did it. This features the Haunted House and Spooky Pumpkins from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff.

I should've staged this better to get a better photo, but I ran out of ideas late last night when I finally had time to get this put together. But I guess it's showing pretty well.

I created the sentiment using the standard Chiller font and I've had this candy corn ribbon for forever and finally got to use it! The Spooky Pumpkins I colored with Prismacolor Pencils and OMS. The Haunted House I colored with Copics first and then went back over it with a black Prismacolor Pencil and OMS to give the ominous shadows. I made the ghost float with a bit of fine wire taken from some wire-edged ribbon. This is going to look so cute on a teacher's desk for a little festive decoration.

Hollyanne got to be honorary Junior Design Team Member - or better known as the Mommy & Me blog post. My daughter has discovered white craft ink and had a blast! She used Lindsay's Crow Tree image to create this fairly CAS card.

Please be sure to visit Lindsay and the team (linked in my sidebar) to see what wonderful eye candy they have to share with you. Thanks for stopping by.

MyGrafico Challenge Wednesday

2009-10-21T06:45:00.004-04:00

Good morning! I hope you're all well and having a great week so far.

This is the 2nd part of the MyGrafico Challenge blog challenge. This week's set that is up for grabs is a fun vintage appliance set. Today's edition throws in a sketch to play along with the color challenge of red, turquoise and polka dots. And in my world, polka dots are color. Have fun!

My images ended up being larger than I had planned but this was a fun and super easy card to put together. I the percolator pot reminds me of my Grandpa. I created the sentiment with a very fun font called Good Dog (dafont.com) and when I got this together my adorable black ribbon with white polka dots couldn't be seen. So with my trusty white gel pen I added dots everywhere else!

I hope you join us with the challenge this week and every week! If you haven't visited the MyGrafico store lately, you really should - we have some great new artists and super deals!

Enjoy your day!

Tuesday Morning Sketches

2009-10-20T09:08:00.005-04:00

Hi All! Just a quick post here. I am so pleased to announce that TMS is teaming up with There She Goes this week so be sure to head over to my challenge blog and join in the fun! Here's the card that I made using a couple of images from TSG Bloom set. I love this set!!

The paper I used is from the Recollections paper pack Autumn. This is such a fabulous shade of blue. I colored the image with Copics and added a couple of black metal buttons to fill the space that I left because I didn't measure right (and it was getting late). I found the perfect shade of ribbon in my big box and then added the dangling embellishments.

Here's my sketch and it would also look fantastic as a longer card, too. I hope that you join us. You have a couple of chances to win, too. My blog and the TSG blog are both offering prizes. I can't wait to see what you do.

Sunshine Monday

2009-10-19T05:30:00.001-04:00

Good Morning All! It's the beginning of a new week. Levi gets his cast off later this morning and he's very excited about that! The parade went well, the girls were very brave to dance in the cold and rain and my feet are still sore.

I have another new stamp to share with you from Sunshine & Giggles. I am NOT admitting the snow is coming but I guess it's the inevitable. I also used a FABULOUS sketch from Friday Sketchers to create my card. I'm pretty happy with it.

I had received these great snowflakes from a winter swap and I love them!! I couldn't get the swirly motion, but I like them anyway. The stamp is called Hang On! and you can find it and the rest of the winter release here. I colored them with Copics and then added "snow" with a white gel pen on the trees. Then did a final touch with dazzling diamonds glitter to create my favorite kind of snow - the kind that really looks like dazzling diamonds. I hope you enjoy my card.

Thanks for stopping and enjoy your day!