Christmas Cards At Phindy's Place

This week it's a Christmas Card challenge on the Phindy's Place Challenge Blog. That's a safe and sure challenge for all of us, because you can always use a Christmas card or seventy or so.

For my image, I've used this adorable Winter Cutie called Shy Boy from the Phindy's Place Store. You really need to check out the Phindy Place Store because she's recently added some fabulous new images that will be perfect for Christmas or birthdays. I have actually had this image colored all week, but just haven't had time to get it into a card. Thank goodness I didn't have to make Thanksgiving dinner, because it gave me a few minutes today for some creativity.

I actually had an image colored and a card base put together. There was just one small problem. They didn't work together. On Tuesday, I went to Tupelo to spend the day with my sister hitting the craft stores and stocking up on embellishments and sale goodies. The papers I used for this card were from the DCWV Christmas Matstack that I found for 40% off at JoAnn's. Aren't they perfect with this image?

The sketch is from this week's Card Patterns challenge. Now let's see if I can convince myself to go color an image for a second entry for the challenge.

Anything Goes Phindy Challenge Card #1

It's the first full week of the month, and you know what that means don't you?That's right, it means that over on the Phindy's Place Challenge Blog, it's anything goes as long as you use a Phindy's Place image. The only problem is WHICH Phindy Image to use. Well I quickly picked out 3 images and the papers for all of them. I've actually got two made and even have the sketch for the 3rd one chosen. Now to get the first two blogged and the third one made and blogged.

For my first card I chose this image called Hyacinth and Ivy from the Phindy's Place Store. I've had this image for awhile, but this is the first card I've made with it. I think hyacinths may be one of my all time favorite flowers. They just smell soooooo good. I've colored the image with my Copics. Not much shading because the leaves were really small.

I found this delightful sketch over on Card Patterns. It was last week's sketch, but that didn't bother me. I found this delightful paper on the Raspberry Road Designs digital paper site, from the Moving Day Collection. It was a freebie, but  I have to tell you they have a whole bunch of Dollar sets and a great sale going on right now. Just followed the sketch and finished up with some pearls. 

Now off to blog card number 2.