Whimsy and Stars

The end of the school year is quickly approaching and I need some school thank you's to send. This little Whimsy and Stars image has been one of my favorites for a long time, it's called Back to School. It's probably a favorite for me, because it looks a lot my DS #2 Liam.

Mabelle is having a special sale right now, too. If you order any rubber stamps, you can get a digi image for free. It's a great deal. And I can tell you the rubber stamps are awesome, great quality, mounted on ezmount and stamp well. So if you've been thinking about trying them out, now is a great time.

I've used a very CAS sketch from Freshly Made Sketches #37. Love the clean uncluttered look of it. I kept it embellishment free, so it wouldn't be too girly. Hard to leave off the ribbon!

Thanks so much for dropping by today. Hope you are having a wonderful week!

Card Recipe:
Image: Whimsy and Stars Back to School
Ink: printer, Palette Noir
Paper: PTI ssw, Pure Poppy, SU Summer Sun, October Afternoon prints
Extras: copics, nesties, Sakura stardust pen, SU edge punch, dimensionals

Here is the picture of the sketch:

Dare to Be Sassy Thursday

Happy Thursday, this week is flying by! Can't believe it's Thursday already. 

We have a fun challenge going on at Sassy Studio Designs for Dare to be Sassy Thursday this week. It's our monthly holiday challenge. Will help us all get ahead of the rush come December. The twist this month is to use silver or gold.

I've used the sketch from Sweet Sketch Wednesday #156. They have such wonderful sketches each week!

Card Recipe:

Image: Sassy Studio Designs Little Honey's Belle Honey

Ink: printer

Paper: PTI ssw, Pure Poppy, Ripe Avocado, PTI vintage holiday print, SU gold

Extras: copics, nesties, Sizzix embossing folder, Recollections brads, Offray ribbon, jingle bells, PTI twine, Sakura stardust pen, Champagne distress stickles, Viva gold pearl pen

Tuesday Morning Sketches #148

Happy Tuesday, it's time for another sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches. This one was created by me. Hope you like it and will give it a try. 


Our sponsor this week is Meljens designs. I found this cute Christmas cupcake image from them in my digi files, think I won it as a prize a while back.

Stop by the Tuesday Morning Sketches Blog and check out the DT creations for some inspiration.


Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you are having a wonderful week.


Card Recipe:
Image: Meljens, sentiment from Amuse
Ink: printer, Palette Noir
Paper: PTI ssw, Pure Poppy, SU Garden Green, patterns from my scraps
Extras: copics, stickles, nesties, MS border punch, SU ribbon, Doodlebug brads, Recollections brads, dimensionals

Corrosive Challenge

It's Sunday! We've got a fun challenge for you this week at the Corrosive Challenge blog! It's our Not too Shabby challenge. Make a card or project with a shabby chic feel to it. I really struggle with this. I did a lot of distressing and added some pearls and seambinding and pins. Hope I got a bit of the right feel.

Hope you will join the challenge this week over at the Corrosive Challenge Blog. Tickled Pink stamps is our wonderful monthly sponsor, they have so many great images in the shop, and very generously allowed us to select an image to use. Stop by the challenge blog and check out all the inspiration from the talented DT and hope you will play along to win a prize from Tickled Pink.

Challenges:

Aud Sentiments Challenge - 2W - (ends Jun-05) Any sentiment

Crafty Ribbons - 2W, SIO - (ends Jun-05) Easel cards

Paper Crafting Journey - 2W - (ends Jun-06) Anything for Kids

The Cutie Pie Challenge - 2W, cards - (2nd week) Easel with Sketch

Card Recipe:

Image: Tickled Pink Easter Pinkette Daisy August, PTI sentiment

Ink: printer, palette noir

Paper: PTI ssw, SU Blue Bayou, PTI New Leaf, patterns from Authentique

Extras: copics, stickles, nesties, Hug Snug seambinding, WOC pins, Prima flowers, Verve dies, sewing machine, Queen and Co pearls

Sentimental Sundays

Here is my weekly post for Sentimental Sundays. This week our challenge theme is Pocket Full of Posies, simply use some flowers on your card or project.  And as always make sure you include a SENTIMENT!

And our sponsor this week is the Digi Doodle Shop, they have some adorable images. They very graciously allowed us to select an image. I picked this sweet Mare and Foal. Hope you will play along for a chance to win a prize from them.

Thanks so much for dropping by today. Make sure and pop over to the Sentimental Sundays blog and check out all the fun creations from the DT.

For my layout I've use the the new sketch from Sketches by Carly #57, another fabulous sketch from Carly! I've substituted the fence for the baner along the bottom of the image. If you haven't checked out Carly's sketches yet, run over there, she's a talented young lady!

Thanks so much for dropping by today. Hope you are having a wonderful weekend!

Card Recipe:
Image: Digi Doodle Shop Mare and Foal, Verve sentiment
Ink: Printer, Palette Umber, SU Bashful Blue
Paper: PTI ssw, Dark Choc, Kraft, SU Garden Green, Green print from Cosmo Cricket
Extras: copics, MFT fence and grass dies, MS flower punch, rhinestones, SU corner punch, Tim Holtz wood grain folder, sewing machine, nesties, sponges

Phindy's Friday Challenge

TGIF! Time for another Phindy's Friday Challenge! The challenge this week at Phindy's Place is a recipe challenge (1 image, 2 patterned papers and 3 embellishments). I love recipe challenges! 

I went with Vacuum Viv for my image this week. Wish I looked this good vacuuming. Phindy has lots of great images in the shop that would work out perfectly with this challenge.

Hope you will pop on over to the challenge blog and see what the DT has created this week. Play along with the challenge to win some prizes. It's not necessary to use a Phindy image, but if you do you get entered twice, so that is some pretty good incentive!


Challenges:
Little Miss Muffet Challenges - 2W, 1E, SIO - (ends May-30) Anything goes
Southern Girls - 2W, 1E - (ends Jun-06) Die-cut or punch
City Crafter Challenge - #110 A Rose Is A Rose
Top Tip Tuesday - 2W, 3E - #77 Dig out the old (use something older than 6 months & name it (Week 1) ribbon is several years old
Use It Tuesdays - 2W, must use hoarded supply's & say what you used -  Use Two hoarded Items (Week 1) the ribbon and yellow pearls are older hoarded supplies
Sketch and Stash - 2W - (1st week) Sketch* (ends 3rd June) patterned papers are new, ribbon and pearls are older stash

Recipe:
Image: Phindy's Place Vacuum Viv
Ink: printer
Paper: PTI, SU, Lilly Bee
Extras: copics, sakura stardust pen, nesties, MS leaf punch, Queen and Co pearls, WOC rose, sewing machine, SU ribbon

Dare to be Sassy Thursday

Happy Thursday, this week is flying by! Can't believe it's Thursday already. 

We have a fun challenge going on at Sassy Studio Designs for Dare to be Sassy Thursday this week. It's called "Hats Off to You".  All you have to do is incorporate a hat into your project in some way (image, paper, embellishments). And crowns, caps, bandanas and tiaras all count. Should be fun to see what people come up with.

I've used the sketch from Cards and Things sketch challenge #121:

Card Recipe:

Image: Sassy Studio Designs Flapper Femme

Paper: PTI ssw, Dk Choc, Spring Rain, Making Memories patterns

Extras: copics, stickles, PTI ribbon, card candi, MS border punch, dimensionals

Tuesday Morning Sketches

It's Tuesday, that means time for another sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches.


This one was designed by Melissa. Such a fantastic and versatile sketch. I Hope you like it and will give it a try. 

Our sponsor this week is Clear Dollar Stamps. Hope you will play along for a chance to win a prize from them.

Stop by the Tuesday Morning Sketches Blog and check out the DT creations for some inspiration.




Card Recipe:
Image: Changito
Paper: PTI ssw, New Leaf, SU Tempting Turquoise
Ink: Memento
Extras: copics, stickles, gems, nesties, SU ribbon, prima flowers, cuttlebug embossing folder

Whimsy and Stars

Happy Monday! It's rainy here, not really beach weather, but little Amelie from Whimsy and Stars is ready for the beach.

She was released along with our May blog hop, she's so cute, you can find her here, she's called Amelie to the Beach.

My sketch comes from Jen del Muro, it is the SFYTT for May. A really great one, that I'm sure I'll use again!

I've colored with copics, added some stickles and paired her with some cheerful Echo Park papers.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Hope you are having a great day!

Designed2Delight Monthly Release blog hop

Welcome to the Designed2Delight monthly release blog hop. Faith has created a bunch of wonderful new images, these will really make making masculine cards a breeze!  We are hopping to show all the new images today. If you arrived from the very talented Michelle P.'s  blog  you are in the right place.  If you just happened upon my blog you will want to start at the Designed2Delight blog, so you don't miss anything. You can find all the new releases in the store right here.

For my first card I went with the Lighthouse image. I used copics to color it in and some fantastic October Afternoon papers that had a great beachy feel. My sentiment is from Verve. The sketch is from Splitcoast Stampers (SC385).

For my second card I used the Wild Blueberry Blossoms image. This one is so pretty. Just found out that they should have been whitish in color, oops! They call that creative license, right? I've colored again with copics and added some stickles to the edges of the flowers. The patterns are all from my scrap bin. A few glittery brads and some seam binding to finish it off.

My sketch here is from the May 17th sketch over at the Willow Sketchie challenge blog.

Now for some fun stuff! All new release images will be 20% for 3 days! Don't you love a sale?! And Faith has generously allowed us to give away an image to, so leave a comment with your fave new release image and you will have a random chance to win it. I'll announce the winner 
Wednesday morning.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I'm the last stop on the hop. Make sure to comment as you go for chances to win prizes. Have a wonderful rest of the weekend.

Sentimental Sundays #103

Here is my weekly post for Sentimental Sundays. This week our challenge theme is "whimsical". So go ahead and make a card or project with a bit of whimsy! Don't forget to add your sentiment!

And A Day For Daisies is our sponsor this week, so exciting, I love Tammy's digi images, they are sweet and unique. She very graciously allowed us to pick an image. I selected this gorgeous Water Play image. So much fun to color. I've added gloss to the water and some stickles to her wings. Sentiment is from Pink Cat Studios. Patterns from October Afternoon 5 and Dime collection.

Make sure and pop over to the Sentimental Sundays blog and check out all the fabulous creations from the DT.

My sketch comes from Deconstructing Jen. This one is Deconstructed Sketch #52. Another great sketch this week.

Sassy Studio Release Day

Welcome to the May release for Sassy Studio Designs blog hop. If you arrived here from the super talented Rachelle's blog, you are in the right spot. If you just stumbled upon my blog, start at the beginning on the SSD blog, so you don't miss anything.

My image is called Chelsea's graduation. I've used the Midnight Madness sketch (MMSC138) for May for my layout. She's colored with copics and I've used October Afternoon patterned papers.

We are talking flowers this time on the hop. The question is what is your favorite flower. That's a hard one, I have lots of favorites. I love roses, daffodils, tulips, violets, pansies, hydrangeas, gerbera daisies, sunflowers, cherry blossoms and on and on. Really hard to pick a favorite. Wish I was better at growing them, lol!

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Now, go and hop on over to my teamie Rebecca's blog and see the magic she works with copics, prepare to be amazed!

Hope you will stop by the chat tonight to celebrate the release with us. It starts at 10 pm EST and the link is right on the SSD blog.

Phindy's Friday Challenge

TGIF! Time for another Phindy's Friday Challenge! The challenge this week at Phindy's Place is Summer is Coming. Feels like it is here this week, nice sunny weather. Hope you will play along with us.

I went with Splashy Sienna for my image this week. Such a cutie. Phindy has lots of summery images in the shop that would work out perfectly with this challenge.

Hope you will pop on over to the challenge blog and see what the DT has created this week. Play along with the challenge to win some prizes. It's not necessary to use a Phindy image, but if you do you get entered twice, so that is some pretty good incentive!


Challenges:
Cards and Things #120-sketch

Waste Not Wednesday - JFF - always "use your forgotten stuff" (used some patterned paper that I've had for years)
Crafters Companion - M, cards only, SIO, P1 -  Here comes Summer
Desert Island Crafters - M, 2W, P1/15 - choose 3 or more from the list (7 something old - patterned papers, 8 something new - my image, 10 something blue - card stock and copics)


Card Recipe:
Image: Phindy's Place Splashy Sienna, PTI sentiment
Ink: printer, Palette Noir
Paper: PTI ssw, Blueberry Sky, SU Regal Rose, Doodlebug prints
Extras: copics, stickles, nesties, EK Success wave border punch, SU brads, dimensionals

Dare to be Sassy Thursday

Happy Thursday! It's time for a new challenge at Sassy Studio Designs.

The challenge this week is called Triple Play. Simply use three of something on your project.

I've used this new Sassy Mom image, she was a freebie on Mother's Day on the SSD blog, but if you didn't get a chance to grab her, she will go on sale in the store this weekend.

My sentiment is a freebie from Create with TLC. Isn't it funny! Perfect for one of my "chard" loving besties!

My sketch comes from Try Stampin on Tuesday, challenge #66. A really great sketch from them.

Make sure you stop by the SSD blog for the release on Saturday. We'll be hopping and having a chat on the party blog, too. Hope you can join us!

Tuesday Morning Sketches

It's Tuesday, that means time for another sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches.


This one was designed by Melissa. Such a fantastic and versatile sketch. It would even look great with just some patterned papers in the squares. Hope you like it and will give it a try. 

Our sponsor this week is DRS Designs. They graciously allowed the DT to select images, however since I'm trying to work way ahead, I wasn't able to use one of their super cute images this time. Hope you will play along for a chance to win a prize from them.

Stop by the Tuesday Morning Sketches Blog and check out the DT creations for some inspiration.

Card Recipe:
Stamps: Heart-2-Heart from PTI
Ink: Palette Umber, PTI Pure Poppy
Paper: PTI Kraft, Dark Chocolate, Pure Poppy, SSW, PTI bitty dot prints
Extras: PTI buttons and twine, PTI die, dimensionals, corner rounder

Corrosive Challenge

It's Sunday! We've got a fun challenge for you this week at the Corrosive Challenge blog! It's a really girly theme this week, Flowers and Bling and Doilies - Oh My! I love all three so I used them all, but you will only need to use two out of three to play along with us!

Hope you will join the challenge this week over at the Corrosive Challenge Blog. Tickled Pink stamps is our wonderful monthly sponsor, they have so many great images in the shop, and very generously allowed us to select an image to use. Stop by the challenge blog and check out all the inspiration from the talented DT and hope you will play along to win a prize from Tickled Pink.

I've used the sketch #56 from Sketches by Carly. She is such a talented young lady, love her sketches and try to play along when I can!

Card Recipe:

Image: Tickled Pink Party Pinkette Pippa

Ink: Pritner

Paper: PTI ssw, Lilly Bee patterns, SU Tangerine Tango, PTI Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores

Extras: copics, stickles, nesties, Cherry Lynn doily die, MS branch punch, WOC flowers, Recollections pearls, crystal effects on shoes, dimensionals

Sassy Studio Designs sneak peek

Today we start our sneak peeks of the upcoming Sassy Studio Designs release. This image is Classic Marie Antoinette, she will be released on May 19th.

Stop on by the SSD blog today and all week long to see some more sneak peeks of her and the other images yet to be released. She's a real beauty. Love her full and fancy ball gown.

I've used the sketch from Deconstructing Jen for the layout here, Deconstructed Sketch #51. Another really fun sketch to work with.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Hope you are having a wonderful weekend. And Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there!

Card Recipe: 
Image: Sassy Studio Designs Classic Marie Antoinette
Ink: Printer
Paper: PTI ssw, Harvest Gold, SU Going Gray, Basic Gray, Authentique prints
Extras: copics, stickles, nesties, WOC rose and pearls, Cherry Lynn border die, Hug Snug seam binding, dimensionals, Viva Decor Ice White pearl pen

Sentimental Sundays #102

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms and grandmas out there!

Here is my weekly post for Sentimental Sundays. This week our challenge theme is birthday using embellishments that start with the letter B. I've used brads and bows here. Don't forget to add your sentiment!

And Bugaboo is the sponsor. They very graciously allowed us to pick an image. I selected this super cute Ballerina Brat image. I printed her twice so I could pop up her tutu and hair bow. She is such a sweet little image and fun to color in and glitter up.

Make sure and pop over to the Sentimental Sundays blog and check out all the fabulous creations from the DT.

My sketch comes from the Ruby's Rainbow challenge 28. I saw my online friend Angela who is on their DT use it and had to give it a try. Such a fun sketch to play with.

Card Recipe:

Image: Bugaboo Brat Ballerina, PTI Tiny Tags

Ink: Printer, SU Green Galore, Palette Noir

Paper: PTI ssw, Raspberry Fizz, New Leaf, Doodlebug prints, DCWV purple dot

Extras: copics, stickles, nesties, foam dots, PTI ribbon, tag die, Twinery Twine, Doodlebug brads

Phindy's Friday Challenge

TGIF! Time for another Phindy's Friday Challenge! The challenge this week at Phindy's Place is Christmas in May. I don't know about you, but I do love to get some cards done during the year to avoid the crush come December. Hope you will play along with us.

I went with Gingerbread Delight for my image this week. Such a cutie. Phindy has lots of Christmas images in the shop that would work out perfectly with this challenge.

Hope you will pop on over to the challenge blog and see what the DT has created this week. Play along with the challenge to win some prizes. It's not necessary to use a Phindy image, but if you do you get entered twice, so that is some pretty good incentive!


Challenges:
Sketch and Stash - 2W - (1st week) Sketch (New item is the paper, stash is the image and felt)

Crafts and Me - #83 punches and diecuts
Digital Tuesday - include a digital element - #159 All about ribbons & Buttons
Oldie But Goodie Challenge - 2W, must use something at least 6mts old  & state what it is- Die Cuts & Punches week 2 (Image and felt are over a year old)
Paper Take Weekly - Cute Cute Cute
Shopping Our Stash - C13 - #51  Use 3 or more Designer Papers
Tammy Scrapin Corner - Punches/Die Cuts.






Card Recipe:
Image: Phindy's Place Gingerbread Delight
Ink: Printer
Paper: PTI ssw, Dark Chocolate, Raspberry Fizz, Echo Park patterns
Extras: copics, stickles, crystal effects, PTI ribbon, felt, twine and button, Nesties snowflake die, SU border punch

Dare to be Sassy Thursday

This week we are having our sketch challenge at DTBST over at Sassy Studio Designs.

Here is the sketch:

Hope you will play along for a chance to win two SSD images. You don't need to use a SSD image to play along, but you get two entries if you do use one, pretty good incentive!

Thanks for dropping by today. Hope you are having a great day.

Card Recipe: 
Image: SSD Little Honey's Sailor Honey
Ink: printer
Paper: PTI ssw, Kraft, SU Night of Navy, DCWV polkadot
Extras: copics, stickles, Sakura glitter pen, Doodlebug brads, PTI twine, button, Cherry Lynn Nautical Doily die

Whimsy and Stars

Happy Wednesday! Where is the week going, it's just flying by! I realized today that it was now or never for the Eat Sleep Stamp Sketchy Thursday #171, so I got right to it. When I saw the sketch it looked really tough, to me, but I love Tracy's sketches and wanted to give it a go. I did flip the sketch to fit my image. And in the end, it wasn't that hard, lol. It's a great sketch to use up some scraps of patterned paper, too.

My super cute image is from the newest release from Mabelle at Whimsy and Stars, she is called Amelie, and is so sweet! Love to color and glitter up Mabelle's images.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Hope you are having a wonderful week.

Some other challenges I would like to enter:

Creative Craft Challenges - 2W, 3E - Anything Goes week 2

Paper Pretties - SIO - Use Ribbon

Totally Stampalicious - SIO - Sparkle

Card Recipe:

Image: Whimsy and Stars Studio Amelie

Ink: Printer

Paper: PTI ssw, Pure Poppy, Aqua Mist, SU Summer Sun. October Afternoon prints

Extras: copics, stickles, dimensional, PTI twill, Recollections pearls