Let's Celebrate

The first challenge of the New Year over on the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog was to create a project that pertained to celebrating. I know it's a New Year, but any celebrating I did for that is over and done with. I have a wonderful friend, who taught me the real meaning of Celebrating your birthday. Instead of celebrating for a day, she says you should celebrate at least for a week. So we celebrate Birthday Week now. And if you're really wise, you'll celebrate each and every day of the year ahead.

This image from the Tiddly Inks Store is called By Royal Decree. I think she's spreading the words that Birthdays are more than a day's event. She's colored with Copics with some addition of Spicas to glitz it up a bit.

The papers are from a digital kit caloled Party Time from Shery K Designs. She has some fantastic paper kits that are very reasonably priced, plus if you're also into svg files, she's forever giving free svg packs. Be sure to check out her store.

Snow with a Sketch

I always tell me people that the only place I want to see snow is on a mountain in Colorado in February, when we head out for our annual winter vacation.  That's not entirely true. I am not averse to seeing it on a card. This week, Sassy Dawn threw out a Snow Challenge with the twist of a sketch on the Sassy Cheryl's Challenge Blog.

For my challenge card, I chose this delightful image from the Sassy Cheryls Digi Store called  Catching A Snowflake. I've done this and quite honestly, I'm betting you all have too. It was fun wasn't it? Now come on  fess up, you know you enjoyed it. I've colored her with Copics.

The papers are digital from a kit called BRRRRR from Just So Scrappy Too. She had a tremendous sale in December and I grabbed a bunch of great kits. I love printing papers from a kit of coordinating papers, since it also allows me to change the size, to make it work with my card without too much leftover. I created the Snowflake Die cut with MTC software and cut it with my Black Cat. The snowflakes and stars are a Cuttlebug Die.

Now you have until 5 p.m. EST on Monday the 16th to get a card entered in the challenge. You don't even have to use a Sassy Cheryl's image(although for the life of me I can't imagine why you wouldn't want to use one), but if you do you get two chances to win.

A Second Color Challenge Card for Phindy's Place

Yesterday when I was working on my first Color Challenge card for the Phindy's Place Challenge Blog, I was so successful that I immediately began on my second one. You're going to see a repeat of one of some of the papers(after all I need to be using the scraps, right).

This is image is entitled Patience, and she's so sweet squatting there after tenderly nursing the plant and waiting for it to perk up and BLOOM. She's another of the Phindy's Place Summer Cuties and can be purchased at the Phindy's Place Store.

The solids and floral papers are from the Summer Driggs Happy Mother's Day Kit and the brown gingham is from The Paper Studio. The corners are a Quikutz die that I got on the clearance aisle at Hobby Lobby a couple of weeks ago, and the die cut was a free svg from My Time To Craft, that I cut with my Black Cat. Can I tell you how much I love this machine?

Well that'll be all the entries I have time for this week, but I'm looking forward to next week's challenge, so stay tuned.

Phindy's Place with a Color Quartet

For the first challenge of 2012, the Phindy's Place Challenge Blog has issued a Color Challenge using the following Color Quartet.

This image is called Love Flutterfly and is one of Phindy's Summer Cuties. Isn't she adorable? You can find her along with a cart full of delightful images at the Phindy's Place Store. Please check them out. I promise you won't be disappointed.

I had to do some searching to find papers that I liked, that I thought worked for the challenge, as well as for me. The papers are from Summer Drigg's Happy Mother's Day Kit., and the sketch is from last week's Tuesday Morning Sketches.

New Beginnings at Sassy Cheryl's

Sassy Ann has set the challenge over on the Sassy Cheryl's Challenge Blog this week for New Beginnings. The DT did a fabulous job with their creations, so it was a challenge for me to come not to copy something they had done. It's a great challenge after all since this is the beginning of a brand new year. Sometimes I think the older we get the harder it is to see the NEW in things. All it takes is to watch the world through the eyes of a child. Seeing their eyes light up at something as simple as a butterfly in flight or a bubble drifting in the breeze, makes even the most hardened of individuals take a new perspective on the joy in the simple fact that we're alive and one of God's Glorious Creations.

With that in mind, I chose this sweet image called Nature Lover from the Sassy Cheryls Digi Store. I know that my grandson MonkeyMoo thinks it's pretty cool to investigate nature, and with a magnifying glass you get a whole different view of the world. She's colored with Copics. I can tell it's been awhile since I colored, as I struggled with the coloring of this one.

The papers are from my scrap box. I really am trying to get rid of some of the scraps. The sentiment was whipped up in Photoshop, but could just have easily been done in Word. I'm posting it at the bottom in case any one would like to grab it. Just right click on it and save it.

Thanks for stopping by. I better hurry if I want to beat the deadline for entries.

Using More Scraps for Phindy's Place

I want to personally thank the Phindy's Place Challenge Blog DT for the extra week on the challenge. With all I had going on during the past two weeks, this was a great break for me.

I actually got this card made earlier in the week. This adorable image is called Bedtime Story. I can tell that this little character really gets into her books and bedtime stories, and that her imagination is in overdrive. She's one of Phindy's cuties and can be purchased at the Phindy's Place Store. She's colored with Copics.

The papers are of course out of my scrapbox, and another reason I'm thankful to the DT. I have too many scraps, and this challenge forced me to use them. The sentiment is something I created a while back. Like this sweetie, I love my books  and the chance to let my imagination soar.

Snowman with a Die Cut

Well it seems like forever since I created a card or posted a blog, but it's time to get back to it. The Sassy Cheryls Challenge Blog DT had a two week challenge to create a project with a snowman and a die cut. It hasn't felt like snow men here lately, but there's talk we're going to be getting some cold temps over the next 48 hours.

For this card I chose this adorable image called The Love Struck Snowman from the Sassy Cheryls Digi Store. Doesn't he look as timid as Gomer Pyle or Goober and can't you almost hear him say, Aw Shucks or Shazam? I've colored him with my Copics. He and the backgrounds are cut using the Deckled Long Rectangle Die Cut from Spellbinders.

The paper is cardstock and the ribbons are some I purchased somewhere along the line. The sketch is this week's sketch for Tuesday Morning Sketches, so guess I'll be entering that challenge too.

Now I better get back to baking fruitcake cookies for my DH and a hunting buddy of his.