Feeling like Fall

Hi! Good morning! I hope you all had a super weekend!

I am late to participate in the challenge to win the new releases from The Digi Shack but I wanted to share my card anyway because I just love this image and the sketch was great fun.


The apple basket was a freebie recently that Toni offered. Did you know she gives a free digi every Monday? Pretty cool! But remember it's only for a week and then it goes into the store. At the time of this post she doesn't have one posted yet - I think she's still recuperating from the awesome blog hop she and her Design Team had over the weekend!

There are many other companies that offer free digi-stamps, too. Paper Makeup Stamps offers them every Friday, and I still have the freebie posted for Lindsay's Stamp Stuff until Wednesday and then Lindsay will have a new freebie on Thursday. And who doesn't like free?

Thanks for visiting me today!

Tuesday Morning Sketches

Good Morning Everyone,

I think we've recuperated from the flight ordeal and not enough sleep. I don't have anything different to show you, meaning anything separate from what I made for Tuesday Morning Sketches. Yesterday was not a day for the craftroom, it was a day to spend with my hubby and my kids.

But I have posted a new sketch and some fabulous cards from the design team on the Tuesday Morning Sketches blog and I hope to see you over there. This is the card I made using an adorable image from The Digi Shack. This little guy is sooo sweet.


Just a quickie post today - I have to work on some Design Team stuff and there are some other fabulous challenges out there that I have to play along with!!

Thanks for stopping by today!

This fairy needs to retire!

Hi Everyone - Happy Middle of the Week! I hope you are doing well.

I have a super cute card to share with you that uses an image from The Digi Shack. A big congratulations to Toni for her much anticipated Graduation! I hope you got in on her sale yesterday when she was selling her wonderful images at half off.

As most of you are aware, I am a huge fairy fan. And this image found at The Digi Shack is no exception! I bought her when Toni had another sale!!


I created this card with a retirement theme because this sweet, little old fairy looks like she needs retirement. She's so funny, I have to chuckle every time I look into her fairy-dust weary face. The sentiment on the card is supposed to be reminiscent of a wish-granting chant that I wrote (be nice) that goes: Golf and gold watches, gardens and sore knees... Happy Retirement, you can do as you please. Now when I first started playing with this sentiment I was trying really hard to rhyme 'retirement' - did you know there isn't a word that rhymes with retirement? So I had to change it up a bit - I like the results.

I hope I'm not too late to join Toni and her design team and their awesome sketch challenge. If I am, this was still a BLAST to make.

Thanks for stopping by.

The Digi Shack Challenge

Here's my 2nd post for the day.

Have you heard of The Digi Shack? This is a company owned by a really nice lady named Toni and has some awesome awesome images. Joni is one of the Design Team Members. Anyway, there's been a release party all week with challenges, contest and prizes!



I made this card for their color challenge and it's also fitting for one of my very good friends at work. He's retiring soon and I know he'll love this. I am really going to miss him... I love this man so much, if I were to have ever been able to pick out who my father could be, he would've been it. The color combo is dark brown, navy blue, white/ivory and kraft. So I used kraft, Not Quite Navy and this great digi-paper that I got for free from A Cherry On Top.



I CASEd this card from a tutorial that I found on You Tube - it's from a Hero Arts video. This is the easiest slider card ever and it doesn't involve a grocery bag. So simple and I love simple. This video also offers a couple of other techniques that I am itching to try.

The image is intended for Father's Day, but I think it works great for my retirement sentiment. I printed the image twice. First on white card stock and then again on the blue mottled paper. I cut the chair and ottoman out of the blue. I colored the rest of the image with prismacolor markers (Dark Green, Eggshell, Warm Gray 10% and Buff), then did the paper piecing. Then pulled out my Nestabilities to create the layers. Added a few buttons and a rhinestone flower that I received from the very first Color Me Happy swap Joni hosted. Viola! Done in about 20 minutes.

I hope you like my card.