Sassy Cheryl's Challenge #2

I've just recently found Sassy Cheryl's Digi Stamps and I just love her work. I am not a big fan of digi's because I don't have the best printer at home and printing one image at a time gets expensive. I find that most digital stamps don't have the detail that a "real" stamp has. However Cheryl's digis are just wonderful (they don't look like something out of a coloring book). I was excited to see some images that appealed to my teacher side of life. I look forward to putting together some projects for my students with her images.

I love this birthday cake -- all the cupcakes piled high. I'm trying to get myself slightly ahead. My niece's birthday is coming up and this beauty is for her. Now I need to make birthday cards for my teammates at work. It seems that everyone on the 2nd grade team's birthday is next week. I'm the odd man out, my birthday is in October.

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Let the Sunshine In (TSG45 & SSS46)

I can't believe it! This is my fourth posting in a row - I am trying to get on a roll!! If I can't have spring yet - I'll let the sunshine in with my cards.

I loved my yellow card the other day so much that I had to make just one more. I had posted the OCC card on the 7th and wouldn't you know it TSG posted a challenge on Monday for a yellow card with flowers. Well I just had to do another one. This time I combined TSG's challenge #45 using the sketch from The Sweet Shop Sketch Challenge Blog's challenge #46. I love the sketch and of course I love my Flowers of Happiness set from TSG.

Don't you just love how I managed to layer the flower? It looks like I made several layers, but there is only three layers. I just love it!!

Thanks for stopping by. I am off to work and I'm already late!!

Tuesday Morning Sketches

This week's Tuesday Morning Sketches sponsor is Pez-a-Doodle. What I like about this sponsor are all the Studio G stamps. For my submission I used six different stamps. I am so in the mood for spring. March is Colorado's snowiest month and I hope we don't get any snow between now and my spring break. I want to see flowers blooming, grass turning green, and have warm weather. I want to get out and ride my bike - I call her Jello! I'll have to post a picture sometime. So my card was made with spring and renewal in mind.

Be sure to stop by Tuesday Morning Sketches to check out the sketch and the other DT member's cards.

Have an awesome day!

Our Creative Corner

Many of you know that Silke Ledlow is my all time favorite crafter. I read her blog on a daily basis. I just love her work. Well she is the host for this week's Our Creative Corner and it's her last. I certainly had to join in. This is like the first time I've stepped out to join challenges beyond There She Goes and Tuesday Morning Sketches. I want to break out and get noticed, someday I'd like to be on some design teams - so I guess I better get busy!!

I love how this card came out. It's a thank you card that is two weeks overdue. We had our JA day at school and I had the best volunteer I've ever had. The kids and I just had the greatest time. It took me nearly two weeks just to get the kids to write their thank you letters - so I hope she'll understand.

Anyway, I love the colors and the DP. The sketch was fun to work with. I think the only thing I goofed on was the rounded corners. My corner punch wasn't cooperating!! The stamp is the newest from There She Goes and I had a blast using watercolors to color it.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great night.

TSG44 Meet The New Trendsetters

As I have said before, the only thing constant in life is change. This week Jessica, owner of my favorite stamp company, There She Goes announced several new Trendsetters. I'm sad that Maki Jones will no longer be one of her designers. However, after spending hours perusing the new Trendsetters I am impressed!! I look forward to seeing their work.

This week I decided to join the TSG Challenge. The challenge was to CASE one of the new Trendsetter's cards and change 3 things. I took a liking to Kim Teasdale's work. Her watercoloring technique is just amazing! I chose to CASE her Peter Rabbit Inspired card that she made in 2008. I changed the DP but kept the color scheme, I replaced the stitching with piercing (I can't sew a straight line), last I changed the stamp and used the newest Hunny Bunnies set from TSG. I gave it a go (my first try) at watercoloring - I think it came out pretty good.

I'm off to tell Kim I CASED her card. Thanks for stopping by have an awesome day!

Tuesday Morning Sketches

It's amazing how time flies. My newphew's 15th birthday is at the end of this week. I wanted to make a card for him, but somehow my card turned out a bit more feminine that what I planned on. So I'll have to start over and make him something different.

This week, Integrity is Tuesday Morning Sketches sponsor. I chose this lovely piece of cake. I was dreaming of German chocolate cake as I was coloring it - my favorite. I haven't had a good piece of cake in years. I'll just have to stick with the paper kind!

Hope you join us at TMS this week. Thanks for stopping by.

Tuesday Morning Sketches

I love this week's sketch, because it isn't a sketch, it's a color challenge. I was so excited to be able to ink up my new There She Goes Aim for the Clouds set, which I won by the way!! The colors in the challenge are Chocolate Chip, Light Orange, and Vanilla. I don't have space to keep a lot of SU paper colors on hand - I just like hoarding DP! So I use colors that come close.

I just love the way this card came out. I love the orange and vanilla DP. I colored the balloons with Chocolate Chip and Only Orange SU markers and used a blending pen. I am just tickled with this set and will need to come up with lots of reasons to put it to good use.

Please come join us at TMS...I'd love to see all your creations.