Tuesday Morning Sketches #225

Good Morning!  It's Tuesday and that means a great sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and an awesome sponsor is joining us this week.  We have Paper Pretties joining us and I couldn't be more excited.  This week's card features one of my favorite images drawn by ARTish called Esspress Delivery.

This is certainly how I feel I need to function some mornings.... just give me a caffeine drip!  I know Jessi is going to love this card because she's got a deep and meaningful relationship with coffee - like me.  I am also thrilled to get to play along with Just Us Girls' challenge (color)!  I haven't joined one of their challenges in so long.  Have you all missed me?  LOL  Don't answer that.

Now head on over to TMS to play along, leave some love for my team and just enjoy yourself!

Delightful Challenges Thursday

Hello my friends!  I hope you're week is going well.  Mine is going quite nicely, I think the OT is finally winding down and I can assume a somewhat normal life again.  As I write this blog entry, I am eating a small dish of ice cream (not something I can have very often) and Publix has their holiday flavors available.  I'm enjoying Egg Nog ice cream and it is too die for!  Yummy!!

Speaking of holidays, here in the US we have Thanksgiving quickly approaching.  Not one of my favorite holidays, but it'll be nice to be off for a couple of days.  That's something to be thankful for.  I've noticed that many of my friends are posting on Facebook what they're thankful for and although I'm not doing that I am truly thankful for my health, my children, my job, my family & friends, my hobbies and my Kindle.  What are you thankful for?  Who do you need to say "thank you" to?

This week's challenge at Delightful Challenges is all about being thankful.  However you wish to interpret that.  Thank you, Thanksgiving, Veterans....

So I started out making a suspension card with these images, but I messed up, so it became a window card!  I love sunflowers and fall colors so this card was really fun to put together.  Easy, too.  It really did become a happy mistake.  My card features Fall Sunflower and Thank You sentiment.

I can't wait to see what you create!

Tuesday Morning Sketches #224

Good Morning!  Happy Tuesday.  We've got a brand new sketch up on the TMS blog and it's the Judged Challenge week, so the added twist is THANK YOU cards.

This week is sponsored by There She Goes Stamps, my card features Fabulous and You're a Hoot, two of my favorite sets....

Please head on over to TMS to see some really fabulous creations by the design team!  Have a great day.

The Stamp Doctor

Hello friends,

Today is my day to post on The Stamp Doctor blog - this month the Dr. Mechele, RN Lizzie and the EMTs are sharing holiday cards.  I really meant to something for Thanksgiving, but I have been enjoying playing with Christmas cards.

You know, every now and then, I enjoy making CAS cards and playing along with some challenges.  This is a perfect opportunity for me to spread the word about The Stamp Doctor's wonderful stamps and join in challenges that I rarely get to.  Let me show you my card....

I think this is a great clean and simple card and packs a lot of punch.  I would enjoy receiving this card during the Christmas season.  My card features Santa Claus Circles, Beaded Circles Spellbinders dies and this great Christmas paper called Santa's List by Teresa Collins.

The challenges I'm playing along with are:

The Kraft Journal - Any Sketch
Creative Knockouts - Get Punchy
Freshly Made Sketches - Sketch (missed the deadline and I played with too many challenges)
Sister Act - Card Challenge
CAS-ual Fridays - Embossing

Delightful Challenge Thursday

Good Morning!  I hope everyone is enjoying their week so far.  Mine is going pretty well, still working tons of extra hours but yay, I'll have Christmas money.

This week's challenge is up and this time it's....

ALL THAT GLITTERS

We're also using some super duper cute images that have just be released.  I'm featuring Festive Monkey.

I am also featuring Christmas Hugs sentiment set.  The card layout is from this week's Tuesday Morning Sketches sketch.

This angle was supposed to show the glittered hat brim and snowflake.  Maybe it's the lighting I am typing by, but for the life of me, I cannot see that pretty glitter.  It's there I promise.  Also the flower is pretty shimmery which reminds me of glitter.

At any rate, come on over to the Delightful Challenge blog and play with us!  Then head on over to the shop to score some great digis at 20% off a purchase of $10 or more.  Just use the code THANKFUL.

Tuesday Morning Sketches #223

Good Morning!  It's Tuesday and it's time for a new sketch at Tuesday Morning Sketches.  I love this sketch, so pretty.  This week's sponsor is My Creative Classroom.  I simply must take one of their classes!  They look so fun and so informative.

So I made another scrapbook page to share - I started on Saturday and I haven't been able to stop!  I have not created a page of my oldest sister, Karin, so it was high time I did....

This picture was take a few years ago of Karin and I - I just love this picture and I am so happy with how my page turned out.  It worked great with the sketch.  Please come join us!

Deedee's Digis - November Challenge

Good Morning!  I hope you had a great weekend and enjoyed that extra hour.  I know I did.  Saturday was Digital Scrapbooking day so I played along with the challenges that MyMemories had going on all day.  Yesterday I slept in and still got up on time.  It was nice sleeping til 8:00 body time but 7:00 daylight savings time.  Then I worked on cards and did more scrapbooking and even did a little crocheting.  Yep, that's what good weekends are made of.

So I really enjoyed the scrapbooking, so much that I kept going and created a page using Deedee's Digis newest set Daniel's Tree.  This starts the progressive challenge for the month.  You can read all about the challenge here on the blog.

The picture of my kids was taken 9 years ago.  We were at a Christmas tree lot picking out our tree.  Daniel's Tree was perfect for this page as well as the sentiment.  It was such fun to put this page together after being inspired by so many talented scrapbookers on the MyMemories Facebook page.

Have a Happy Monday!