Happy Birthday Sassy!

Good Morning,

If you have arrived here via my Tuesday Morning Sketches blog, super! If you're starting out here, super! Go visit the Tuesday Morning Sketches challenge blog to join in the birthday party for my sister Theresa.

I have a couple of cards to share with you that Hollyanne and Levi made for their Sassy using this week's sketch.

This is Levi's card. He did very well picking out the stamp set - he used one of the Unity KOM stamp sets. I cut the pieces for him and helped with the bow, but other than that he did the card himself. He said that he wanted the ribbon to look like the card was a wrapped up present. And he's such a boy... he put the rhinestones on and even though they stick all on their own, he had to hammer them down!


And here's Hollyanne's card. She also used a Unity KOM stamp and decided a handwritten sentiment was the final touch. She did this card all on her own, I didn't even have to help cut the pieces.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SASSY!!

Also, don't forget to visit Theresa's blog for her awesome birthday blog candy. And please leave her some love. It's her birthday twice over, her birthday and she's celebrating two years cancer free!

Feeling Cozy

Hi all! I have a late post because I was waiting to participate in a Wednesday challenge. I did just one today - Color Throwdown. I love the colors they throw at you to use each week! The challenge this week is to used Always Artichoke, Regal Rose and Chocolate Chip. Such rich colors.


I dusted off my much neglected Guidelines stamp set from Papertrey Ink. I used the little flower from another Papertrey Ink set, Limitless Labels. These two sets created by background and then cut the scallop out with my nesties die, added the ribbon and then adhered to a chocolate chip base. I used the teapot and sentiment from Unity June KOM. Really super simple card - I can't take credit for it, I saw this on a You Tube video, here. I created the sentiment mounting with a Martha Stewart border punch and then to tie in the little holes from the border punch, I did a bit of paper piercing in the scallop window.

I hope you enjoy my card. Thanks for stopping by.



Oh, a word about MyGrafico Challenge blog - there's another great give-away, just make a "Sweet" card featuring candy to enter to win a super cute Back to School digi-stamp set.

Happy Wednesday part 2

Hi All - I hope you had a great day! I have a double post today because I found a couple of great challenges that I just had to try.



The first challenge is from Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Arlana and her team has created a great line up of cards and the sketch was really fun to play with because it allows for several images without getting overloaded. The second challenge is from Color Throwdown which required Garden Green, Lavender Lace and So Saffron. Colors I never dreamed of putting together, but they did work very well together.

I used the Unity June KOTM, actually I used the free set that accompanied the set if you were a new subscriber. It's called Bevy of Butterflies and it's such a wonderful set. I still haven't used it to it's fullest potential, or the June kit for that matter and the July one is already on it's way!

I had a great time with this one. Thanks for stopping by!

Gimme some Sunshine

Hello! How are you today?

My post will be short and sweet. Literally! My daughter is hosting her own swap - she's addicted to ATCs and wanted to do a swap. She actually got on me the other day about the fact that I hadn't even started my ATCs yet! LOL - she's tough. So I sat down over the weekend and started working on my swap cards. This is what I came up with...



Remember a few weeks ago I showed you the awesome kit of the month I purchased from Unity Stamps? The ice cream cone is from that set! Cute, huh? I colored it with Prismacolor pencils and OMS. It's a real simple design and I am happy to report - my daughter is pleased with my work.

Thanks for stopping by today. And don't forget - today is opening day for Tuesday Morning Sketches. Hope to see you there!

OHHH My GOODNESS!!!

Hello everyone! I am SO EXCITED!!

OK, so I participated in a sketch challenge over at Card Patterns. This was a week ago, I guess. That challenge was sponsored by Unity Stamps and I really wanted to win the set they were giving as a prize, but they also pictured their June Kit of the Month and I thought, wow, that's cool. $24 for a set of stamps and get set free. So I ordered and well it arrived yesterday....


OBVIOUSLY I didn't pay attention to the description. When I opened this package, I was completely blown away!! I had no idea that I'd be receiving all these great stamps and they're huge! I expected an itty bitty set and I got THIS! Wahoo!!! This is fantastic! And I am faced with storage dilemma.

So we had a bit of time before going to rehearsals last night, so I snuck in some play time. I went with a favorite color combo of mine. I am sending this to a friend of mine who needs a little pink pick-me-up!


I also used a great sketch from Crafts 4 Eternity that they are featuring this week. I love this. I really wish I had had some natural daylight to photograph this card because this picture is seriously lacking the way cuteness to this. I'm mailing it off tomorrow, but will perhaps make another one.

Thanks for stopping by. I'll not be around for a while now. Auto-post is ready to go for Saturday's challenge for Modern Sugar Blvd. I love that feature! Tonight is dress rehearsal, Friday night is the first show and Saturday holds two shows... AND my sisters and brother-in-law are driving all the way from Denver (1600 miles) to see the recital. My sister-in-law will be here, too, with her 3 boys, so it'll be busy around here to say the least!