Think Spring SNSS Customer Blog Hop

Good Morning!  Are you excited about this 2nd customer blog hop from Sweet n Sassy?  I am!!  Sweet n Stamps features so many wonderful images, but Korin's recent releases in digi and stamp mediums are AWESOME!!  So if you have no idea what I'm talking about or you know what I'm talking about and you want to join the fun, click here to find out all about it.

So here's my card for the hop....

I think my card is shouting Spring!  What do you think?  The soft colors, flowers and butterflies.  I am featuring one of the newest stamps sets called Polka Dot Silhouettes.  Now, for those of you who know me, you know I love love love polka dots so you know I had to have this set in my collection and it's a big set - flowers, butterflies and lots of great shapes.  The layout for the card is from Twisted Sketches.  This was so much fun - really made me think.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Bashful Blue, Always Apricot, Whisper White
Stamps/Ink:  Polka Dot Silhouttes, Holding Flower Bethany (sentiment), Pretty in Pink, Bashful Blue, Perfect Plum, Pale Plum, Always Apricot, Barely Banana
Tools:  Cuttlebug, Swiss Dots embossing folder, border punch (Martha Stewart)
Embellishments:  baubles (Michaels)

I do hope you'll join us, the fun lasts all weekend and be sure to check in on the SNSS blog for new entries posted.  Have a great day and Happy Friday!

Tuesday Morning Sketches #84

Good Morning!  I hope you're Tuesday is off to a great start.  I am a bit sad today... my oldest son turns 16 today!!  Where did all the time go?  It seems like it was just yesterday when he graced my life with his presence and changed it forever.  I feel that way about all of my children, I am just having a hard time dealing with him being 16.  *sigh*

Anyway, I have a really fun sketch challenge over at Tuesday Morning Sketches for you.  This week we're creating a gatefold card with cut out.  Be sure to check it out.  Our sponsor this week is Digis by Phooka, such sweet images.  Here... let me show you.

So here's the front of the card.  I'm using Phooka's adorable turtle image from her In the Zoo collection.

Here's where you can really see that the card is a gatefold card.  And then here's the inside....

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Old Olive, Barely Banana
Paper:  Daisy paper (JoAnns)
Copics:  R11, Y11, Y15, YG03, YG67
Stamps/Ink:  Pond Pals (SNSS), Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Tools:  Large oval punch (SU!)

I hope you join us this week.  It'll be a lot of fun!!  Thank you so much for stopping.

Hugs,
Melissa

Happy Monday Challenge...

Good Morning!  I hope everyone had a great weekend.  I had a pretty good one - enjoyable, productive and pretty fun.  And I think I am finally over my illness, the coughing is all gone now.  Yippee!

So today is Monday, which means there is a new challenge over at Happy Monday Challenge with Deedee's Digis.  I have to tell you something... I have actually worked a little ahead for the challenges so that I can be better organized.... I CANNOT WAIT to show you what's coming up!  *Squeal*  But for this week's challenge, it's all about Pretty Pastels.  This is the perfect time of year for it, too, we're nearing Springtime.  So here's my take on the challenge.

So I think I this is an adorable Easter image from Deedee, this one is called Gifts of Spring and is so sweet.  I did also get some other inspiration for this card from Truly Scrumptious (sketch) and Cute Card Thursday (Signs of Spring).

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Bashful Blue, Pink Pirouette (SU!)
Paper:  Nana's Kitchen Matstack (DCWV)
Copics:  B00, BV00, G00, E53, E57, RV000, RV10, V93, Y11, Y17, YG03, YR61, YR68
Embellishments:  flower brads

I hope that my card inspires you to join us this week at Happy Monday.

StampFairy Friday

Good Morning!  Happy Friday!  I am so glad the weekend is about here - I am looking forward to relaxing weekend and I'm taking my son out for his birthday.  Ack!!  My oldest son turns 16 on Tuesday.  So not ready for that!

My StampFairy Friday card is featuring a new StampFairy character that was released this week.  This is Patsy and I had the honor of being able to name her.  I think she's so adorable.

This is actually Toothfairy Patsy, but you can also see the other Patsy images that was released here.  It is also with sadness that I announce that today is my last day to post for StampFairy, my term on the design team has come to an end.  I have enjoyed every minute of being a teamie and I thank Gerda and Jackie for giving me the opportunity to have been a part of the original design team for StampFairy.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Pink Pirouette
Paper:  Nana's Kitchen Matstack (DCWV)
Stamps/Ink:  I Still Believe (TGF), Tuxedo Black (Momento)
Copics:  B00, B000, C10, E00, E02, E33, E57, R11, V93, V95
Tools:  Border Punch (Martha Stewart), Scallop Circle Nesties (Spellbinder), Cuttlebug

I created my card using a modified version of this week's sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches.  I hope you join us.

Big inky hugs and glitter kisses to Gerda and the teamies!

New Releases at Sweet n Sassy Stamps

Good Morning!  With a new month comes new stamps and digis at Sweet n Sassy.  If you hurry, you have a few more days to enter in the entire release give-away.  That's a $55 value!!  Go here to enter.  And to see the entire release, just go here to the store.

And now for my card that I made to share featuring Holding Flower Bethany.

I did use a great sketch from Our Creative Corner for the layout of my card and also part of their challenge was distressing.  Not a technique I use too often, but it's so much fun.  No where else can you wad up paper, smooth it out a bit and call it art!  LOL

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Milled Ivory, Kraft, Chocolate Chip
Paper:  For the Record (Echo Park)
Stamps/Ink:  Holding Flower Bethany, Benjamin Bunny, Rich Cocoa, Desert Sand (Memento)
Copics:  C10, E02, E29, E30, E57, R00, R11, R27, R29, RV29, Y15, Y17, YG03, YR16, YR68
Tools:  Circle cutters (CM), corner rounder (CM)

I hope you like my card.  I enjoyed creating it to share with you.  Also, I hope you noticed the badge - SNSS is having another Customer Blog Hop.  Be sure to click on the badge to find out how to participate.  It's going to be so much fun!

Bee Crafty #48 - Spring Florals

Good Morning!  It's the beginning of another month so that means there is a new challenge over at Bee Crafty.  This month we're celebrating the coming Spring so pull out your favorite digis - if you have any Bee Crafty images, we'd love to them and your prettiest flowers and have fun!

Now I know I probably went with hot Summer colors, but this would be Spring in Florida.  LOL!!  This is Little Lady Skipping Rope - such a sweet little image.  The layout for this card came from Sunday Sketch & Stamp.

Supplies:

Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Green Galore, Pumpkin Pie

Paper:  Hippie Chic Matstack (DCWV)

Copics:  BG05, C8, E00, E02, E29, E57, G05, Y06, Y15, YG03, YR09, YR16, YR20, YR61

Tools:  Border punch (Martha Stewart), Scallop Circle Nesties, Cuttlebug

Embellishments:  Flowers (Creative Treasures)

I hope you join us - you have lots of time play along.  Have a super fun day!

Tuesday Morning Sketches #83

Good Morning!  I hope your week is off to a great start!  I have a really fun sketch for you this week over at Tuesday Morning Sketches.  I am really excited about the sketches I've come up with for this whole month, so I hope you'll come back week after week.  Here's my card for this week....

OK, so I there are moments when I will stamp up or print out images and color them up with the intention for a current project and then my mind changes and I end up going in a different direction and just have single colored images laying around.  This card was created from two of those images.  They are from CC Designs last Spring collection of Swiss Pixies.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Kraft, Black, Real Red
Paper:  Polka Dot paper (Recollections)
Stamps/Ink:  Swiss Pixies (CC Designs), Tuxedo Black (Momento)
Copics:  100, B000, E00, E02, E29, R00, R11, R27, R29, W-3, YG03
Tools:  Apron Lace border punch (Martha Stewart)
Embellishments:  Buttons (my stash)

Well, I hope you join us!!  Have a great day!