Tuesday Morning Sketches #209

Good Morning!

I hope you're week is off to a great start.  My Monday was good, pretty productive at work.  So that's a great thing.  I'm actually caught up!

This week's sketch is up and it's the last one of  "classic" sketches.  This week's sponsor is Your Next Stamp and they're having a DT call.  I'm thinking about applying, but I'm not sure I can handle anymore rejection.  I've applied for a couple of teams recently and didn't make it.  I know there are TONS of people out there that are way better than I am, but it still made me sad.  Oh well, we move on.  Anyway, YNS is our sponsor and I am very pleased.  Wait til you see the line up - the girls did a great job with their images.  I didn't get YNS image, because I'm stupid and forgot to request one.  But I still like my card....

I'm still playing with card kits - the flowers I had in my stash.  Love these colors!!

We'll see you over at TMS - I can't wait to see what you make for this challenge.  Have a great Tuesday.

The Pink Elephant Challenge Monday

Hello everyone!  I do hope you had a good weekend.  I am coming out of a funk that I've been in, my uncle passed away on Wednesday and I've just felt very weird and sad.  I had a good weekend of a lot of downtime and just relaxing with my kids.  Hollyanne and I had a mini beauty day, I got my hair cut and she had her eyebrows done and then we went to Target and I bought new bath towels.

Well, this week's challenge is up at The Pink Elephant.  This week's theme is...

Masculine

This is another challenge for me, even though I have two boys, it's still hard for me to create with a masculine theme.  I couldn't find some pictures of my youngest son that I wanted to use, I've been sharing so much of Brendan that I figured I am boring everyone with his graduation that I decided on a different route.  One of my cousins, Matthew, was a good route.  My cousins are HUGE Oakland Raider fans, so I thought I'd give it a shot.  Don't let him fool you either, his tattoos and appearance make him look kinda scary but he's not, he's the biggest teddy bear ever and a man who has the biggest soft spot for his children.

I did pick a picture where he's actually smiling, this softens him up a lot.  Yep, the bottom picture is of his arms with the largest Raiders tattoo I've ever seen.  He has to lay one arm on top of the other for one to see the full tattoo.  He's also since shaved off that scruff from his chin.  Thank goodness!  LOL

Please join us this week for challenge - make a card or do a scrapbook page - it doesn't matter, we love seeing it all.  Have a great Monday!

Delightful Challenges

Hello!  How is everyone.  Really quick post today to share this week's challenge for Delightful Challenges.  This week's challenge is called Make A Wish.  Candles or stars need to be featured in this card.  I have been wanting to create a card like this one for awhile now....

I made birthday candles with scraps of decorative paper and pieces of twine.  Then I added Birthday Sentiments sentiment over top.  This was so easy to create and a lot of fun.

Please head over to Delightful Challenges to see what everyone created to share with you to inspire you and delight you.  Have a great Thursday.

Tuesday Morning Sketches #208

Good Morning!  Happy Tuesday.  I am so happy Monday is over, it wasn't the best Monday.  Not that anything bad happened and it wasn't horrible at work - it was just a blah Monday.

But now it's happy time, because the sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches, we're still re-visiting some previously played ones and having a great time.  Our sponsor this week is CC Designs - my favorite!  So, I'm still delving into the card kits.  I believe I'm the one who hosted a CC Designs card kit swap.  I found little Pixie Pumpkin and some great paper!  I'm guessing that Pixie Pumpkin is a retired image, because I couldn't find it in the store.

I'm certain the paper is an old Fall design from SU! - I love this paper!  So sad I only have the couple of squares that was in the kit.  I created a pumpkin from one of designs and my oval cutters - that was way easy to do.  I am pleased with this card - I hope you like it, too.

We'll see you over at TMS.

The Pink Elephant Monday

Good Morning!  I hope you had a nice weekend.  I did - it was over way too quickly, but then again, aren't they all?

This week's challenge is up at The Pink Elephant and this week we're doing the Monochromatic theme.  I find this a challenge, but a fun one!  I created a page featuring a picture of me and my friend Cathy.  Yes, once in a great while I allow the camera to aimed at me.

They were visiting in Florida summer after we moved here.  It was so great to see her and her family.  They were here just a couple of weeks ago, but we didn't take any pictures.  We looked at a lot of them.  She was sharing their trip on the Disney Cruise and I shared Brendan's graduation book and Hollyanne's recital photos.  I'm hoping Levi will go out for sports this year so we have photo ops of him.  Right now, all I'd get is him gaming.

I used a great sketch from Digi Sketch to create my layout, kept everything in yellow hues with just a smidge of green which magically matched what Cathy and I are wearing.  I designed the layout first then found the picture. What luck!

Have a super Monday and please, join us at The Pink Elephant!

Delightful Challenges Thursday

Good Morning!  I hope everyone is well and happy that the week is on the downhill side.  I'm looking forward to the weekend - I hope to get a lot of crafting done and to pick up a new printer.  Not something I really want to do, but I can't live without a printer.

This week's challenge is ready to go at Delightful Challenges.  This week we're going sparkly with bling or glitter.  I chose metal which is shiny.

So I told you earlier this week that I'm pulling out the card kits.  Well, I found this one that has Changito images in it.  Not a big Changitos fan but I loved the bright paper in this kit and the great embellishments.  The metal paperclip is an "at" symbol which is so cute!  I'm translating this one an "a" - like a birthday girl.  OK so that only works in my head, but hey, the card is still cute.

I'm also not a huge fan of bright colors like this simply because I don't work well with them, but I'm pretty pleased with this card.  I am using the sketch from this week's Tuesday Morning Sketch (again, without the twist).

I do hope you'll join us at Delightful Challenges.  This week, we're sponsored by

Tuesday Morning Sketches #207

Good Morning everyone,

It's such a lovely day today - know why? Because it's Tuesday and that means we have a new sketch, well, this one is old because we're remembering a previous sketch.  And we have a great sponsor - My Creative Classroom is with us and offering a pretty sweet prize.

This week it's the Judged Challenge week, so Angela said we needed to play with animal images.  OK!  I'm in trouble - I don't have many of these types of stamps and I can't print digi's at the moment because I broke my printer.  Yep!  The one I just got a few months ago.  Uh, yeah, it didn't appreciate being dropped in the move.  But aside from the printer woes, what was I going to do for this challenge.  Well, a very long time ago I used to do a lot of swaps on Splitcoast - love the card kit swaps.  I have TONS of kits!  So it was time I went through them and used them.  This is what I came up with for my card thanks to a kit from swapper Linda Palmer.

I haven't played with Penny Black hedgies in forever!  And it's perfect for the Christmas in July sale My Creative Classroom has going on.

I also created this scrapbook page minus the twist....

This is Hollyanne in the Jazz costume - Kansas City was the song they danced to.  I love how this turned out!

Thanks for visiting me today and I do look forward to you playing along with us this week.