Thursday with Lindsay

Hi Everyone! I am so glad you've come back to see me. I am super excited that Lindsay's Stamp Stuff is sponsoring Tuesday Morning Sketches this week and I just found out that the winner will receive 10 digi's!! What a great prize!



This is Primitive Bird and I love this digi-stamp! This is such a great image. This is the card I made with the sketch that I drew and posted for this week's challenge. I used an awesome paper pack - Martha Stewart Classic Woodland paper pack that I picked up at Wal-Mart for $8! I usually bring the digital image I'm going to use into a word program and resize it that way. While I was there I added my sentiment right underneath so that it printed as one image. I colored it with Koh-i-noor pencils and OMS.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to visit the rest of the Design Team, they were going to play along and one of the members has the link for a free digi!! They are all linked up in my sidebar.

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!

Happy Wednesday!

I am so sorry that I didn't post yesterday - I gave 100% of my attention... well, OK, 96% of my attention to my children and a friend came over yesterday. Besides, I had to formulate a plan on how many challenges can I pack into one card. I managed 4 - there's this one gal that Joni has told me about that has managed 9... NINE challenges in one card. Amazing!!

Here's my measly 4.



Challenge #1 Mojo Monday... the sketch. Great sketch!!

Challenge #2 My Grafico... It's Fruity. I found the pear image on a homeschool site for fruit coloring pages. It was created a bit cockeyed so I printed it twice, cut it out and then adhered to a base (one directly on, the other with a pop dot). I colored the images with Koh-i-noor pencils and OMS. I'm rather proud of myself, they almost look real.

Challenge #3 The Pink Elephant... Red, Light Blue, Darker Blue. My colors are Bordering Blue and Night of Navy and the red came from the Martha Stewart paper pack. I had meant to use the design side and then the coordinating plain side, but I ended up with both elements being the design side. It worked!

Challenge #4 Digital Tuesday... 1-2-3 Challenge (1 digi image, 2 dp, 3 embellishments). OK the images are digi-images, there are 2 pieces of dp used and just in case that doesn't count, I did Cuttlebug my background which in my mind is home-made dp. The embellishments are 1 bow and 2 brads. One of the brads is sorta hidden by the bow, but it's there!

Whew!

See how many challenges you can fit into one - maybe you'll want to include my sketch that is currently posted on Tuesday Morning Sketches. Thanks for stopping by today!

Sunshine Monday

Good Morning! It is a gorgeous day here in Martinsburg, WV - I hope it is in your neck of the woods!

This will a real quick post, this is my first day as a SAHM and I'm late already!! Thanks for joining me today for another Sunshine Monday and I actually combined two challenges into one!! Proud?


This is Sunshine & Giggles Future Hall of Famer stamp. He's got a big uniform and shoes to fill, but he'll do it someday! Kids grow so quickly. I used red, white and blue because my son Brendan's favorite team is the New England Patriots. I used more of the great GinaK digi paper and the sentiment is from Papertrey Ink Boxes, Bags & Tags.

Now, I said I combined two challenges. The first is one that Sunshine & Giggles sponsored over at Cute Card Thursday which was to create a Thank You card for the teacher, well coaches are teachers, too. The second challenge was a sketch from Friday Sketchers - easy sketch to use! It's great!!

Have a super day, thanks for coming to visit me and don't forget that I post a new challenge tomorrow on Tuesday Morning Sketches.

Edit - I removed the apostrophe Ms. Winslow!

Saturday Sugar Challenge

Every Saturday Modern Sugar Blvd. issues a challenge. The DT members get to a host a challenge and this one is brought to you by Joni. Easy challenge, just use a tag somewhere on your card.



I had originally planned this card differently and I couldn't make it work, but these are the results I ended with and I am pleased. This card uses one of my favorite lines in the Modern Sugar Blvd collection, this is called Welcome Home by super talented artist Pam West.

Images: Welcome Home by MSB, Sentiment from Papertrey Ink
Cardstock: Bashful Blue, Barely Banana, Neenah Solar White
Ink/Markers: Close to Cocoa, Prismacolor Markers
Accesories: Ribbon from Offray - I did attempt the scorelines, I do not own a Scor-Pal

Thanks for stopping by!

Did you catch the New Releases??

Yesterday was another big day on The Boulevard - Modern Sugar Blvd., that is. In order to catch them all, go visit here, but let me share what I made for the release.

This is Sports Mama and she's ready for it all! I liked that this image incorporated so many sports but it left me with a dilemma - what to do with it! So then it hit me... what's the next best thing to Game Day? The food!! So I found this yummy dip recipe on All Recipes.com and made my own recipe card.



What doesn't go better than bacon and eggs? Mmmm - and this image is so cute! It's one of a couple of breakfast favorites perfectly paired. I used a free digi-paper design from GinaK in hopes of giving the impression of a napkin. I had a scrap of the gingham paper, so the napkin and tablecloth are featured a little backwards, but it's a fun card! Just look at their sweet faces - they really are meant to go together.



I love this image! It is the perfect little boy image ever! And it made the easiest boy birthday card. I found the flags by googling them and got so deep into coloring images, I don't even remember where this came from. But they worked great with my card. I made the sentiment on my computer and pop-dotted it over the flags. The image is colored with prismacolor pencils and OMS.

I hope you enjoyed my preview of the newest releases. Thanks for stopping by!

Thursday's with Lindsay

Hello! Well, it's Thursday, only one more day and I'll be on summer vacation. I'm actually looking forward to it, I really am, but I have to admit that I am still a bit nervous about being without a job to go to on Monday.

I am very new to Lindsay's Stamp Stuff and I am loving her designs so much! I couldn't pick which one I wanted to use but I knew I wanted to be able to use it with Mojo Monday's AWESOME sketch challenge for this week. And I guess I'm on a baby kick... no I'm not expecting.


I picked this image - which actually is an entire digi-stamp set! It's awesome!! It's called Buttons & Bows Collection and this set contains the most wonderful baby images... there's a ribbon banner that says WELCOME BABY, a rattle, a bunny, a shoe and so much more. You might be saying to yourself, "yes it's great and we've seen, have it, love it" but as I said, I am new to these images so I'm a kid in a candy shop!!

The sentiment came from a new set offered by Whimsie Doodles for 99 cents!! Another great deal.

Images by: Lindsay's Stamp Stuff, Whimsie Doodles
Card stock: Neenah, Stampin' Up! Bashful Blue, Barely Banana, Certainly Celery
Markers: Prismacolor Light Cerulean Blue, Avocado, Tulip Yellow
Accessories: button, Cuttlebug folders Swiss Dots & Paisley, embroidery floss

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to visit Lindsay and the Design Team, all linked in my sidebar.