Long Time, No See...

It's been a long time since I posted a card. Things have been very hectic with work, church, and home life that I am now just getting to making a card. I am not entering this in anything, just something that I made for a friend at work who is leaving. Thought it turned out pretty cute.

Supplies:

Image: Spike and Flower from Digi Stamp Boutique

Copics: E33, YR24, E09, RV11, G17, G07, YG03, Y15, RV29, R08, 0

Papers: From my stash

Ribbon: Michael's

Flowers: Calypso Tin from Michael's

Brad: Hobby Lobby

Gemstones: Affinity by The Paper Studio

Distress Ink-Brushed Corduroy: Hobby Lobby

Hope all of your holidays went well. We had a great time spending it all with family. Here's to a fabulous New Year!

Sweet Sketch Wednesday #69 - Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

Wow! Where did September go? We have another new sponsor! We are so fortunate to have Leah, from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps to sponsor us this week.

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps is a Christian digi stamp company offering a wide variety of hand drawn digital stamp designs and sentiments for the digital stamper or scrapbooker. We started out as a clear stamp company back in November 2007 and made the change over to all digital in February 2010. We have hundreds of fabulous digis to choose from starting at just $.99. Check us out at sweetnsassystamps.biz.

The winner will receive a $10 gift certificate!

Here is the sketch:

Here is my card:

Supplies:

Image: Scarecrow

Copics: B14, B05, E33, R29, YG03, G28, BV11, G24, YR04, E37, Y13, Y15, and B32

Paper: DCWV Cardstock Stack

DPs: DCWV Holiday Matstack (name?)

The Paper Studio All Seasons pack

Ribbon: Jo-Ann's

Sentiment: Li'l Davis Designs Vintage Wood Smal Words - "Thankful" 3 pack

Flower: Calypso Tin from Michael's

Brad: Hobby Lobby

Sweet Sketch Wednesday #68 - Tiddlyinks

September must be the month of firsts. Tiddly Inks is a new sponsor for us and you will just love their images! They are just darling! I had a hard time picking the one that I was going to use! Christy is offering the winner of this week's challenge a $10 gift certificate! How awesome is that?!?

Here is our fun sketch from Arlana. You'll have a lot of fun with this one. Head on over to Sweet Sketch Wednesday to check out what the other DT members have done!

Here's my card! Isn't it just so much fun!!!

Supplies:

Image: Higgelty

Copics: C7, V09, YR04, E00, G07, W7, W5, C9, E37, and Y15

Papers: DCWV Cardstock Stack

DCWV Holiday Matstack (name?)

DPs: Paper Studio All Seasons Pack

Ribbon: Michael's

Embellishments: from the Higgelty image

Sweet Sketch Wednesday #67 - Digi Stamp Boutique

Here are a few pictures from our camping trip. It was pretty fun!

September is rushing by and here we are halfway through the month. Hope you are all ready for another challenge.

We are so lucky to have Sally Ann at Digi Stamp Boutique to sponsor us every month. I just love her images! She is offering our winner 10 free digi images!!!!

Here's our sketch from Arlana and I would get busy and enter!

Here is Lucas and Freddo. This image is just too much fun! I used my Copics (E33, E37, G24, G07, YG03, YR24, B14, 0, E00, C1, and RV29) to color him up. The cardstock is from DCWV The Cardstock Stack and the DPs are from DCWV Holiday Matstack (not sure on the name) and The Paper Studio All Seasons pack. The ribbon is from Michael's and the jewel embellishments are Martha Stewart stickers. My frog embellishment was cut out from my Cricut Animal Kingdom cartridge with papers from my stash. Hope you enjoy and head on over to play along!

Sweet Sketch Wednesday #66 - Meljens Designs

Hello again! Well, camping was fun and tiring, but we all had a great time. I'll post some pictures sometime. Another week has flown by and here we are again. We have a new sponsor this week: Meljen's Designs.

Meljen's Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins. She illustrates whimsical digital images inspired by her kids and family. The Meljen's Designs store officially launched on April 1 and is steadily growing! Meljen's Designs has new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, freebies every Monday and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the Meljen's Designs line of stamps at the WHIMSY STAMPS STORE to browse and enjoy Melissa's wonderful images!

Melissa is offering our Sweet Sketch Wednesday winner 4 digis of your choice! So pop on over and play along. Here is the sketch that Arlana has put together for us.

And here is my card:

This image is called A Girl and Her Kitty. I just loved it right away. It brought back a lot of childhood memories when I saw it. I remember always having a cat and always carrying it around with me. Sometimes the poor thing would have to suffer through being dressed up in my doll clothes! It was always fun! I used my Copics (RV11, B14, E37, YR24, E00, E33, and BV11) to color her.

I used cardstock from the DCWV Shimmer Stack and the DPs are from the Paper Studio All Seasons pack. The plaid DP is from DCWV Sweet Matstack with glitter. The ribbon was found at Jo-Ann's. The cats were cut from my Cricut Animal Kingdom cartridge with paper from my stash.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday #65 - Bugaboo

Wow! September already! I am so glad that the first couple of weeks of school are over. Things started okay, but I do have a student that is really testing my patience. He's new to our school this year and is having a really hard time adjusting. He spend almost his whole year on a computer last year and now he has to work hard...we'll see how things go...

Things are pretty crazy this week: celebrating my 30th birthday (Yikes!) and going camping this weekend...it should be fun. Also have to say that my husband and I are expecting our 2nd child. Still in my first trimester, but feeling pretty good. Needless to say, with work and all that we have this week, I am going to be really busy!

Anyway, enough babbling...we have a great sponsor this week: Bugaboo Stamps. Jodie has a lot of fun images and she is offering a super prize to our winner. She will give 7 digi stamps to our winner, which is a value of $21! Wow!

So, here is our fabulous sketch to follow that Arlana has put together for us. You should hop on over to Sweet Sketch Wednesday and see what the other DT members have created and play along!

Well, here's my card. I hope that you like it.

This image is called Moon Babies - Night Night. I used my Copics (Y13, Y11, RV11, C3, C1, E00, B32, and B14) to color the image. I just fell to pieces when I saw it. The cardstock is from both The Paper Company - Seaside pack and DCWV The Cardstock Stack. The DP's come from DCWV Flower Shower Spring Stack. The ribbon is from Target's $1 bin and the brads I found at Michael's. I bought the button in a pack from Jo-Ann's. Hope you all have a great week!

Just Something Extra

Hello all! Hope all of you are having a great week! I just made these cards for our new teachers at our school. I got the image from Digi Stamp Boutique and the image is called Spring Coco. Isn't he cute?

I used my Copics (YG03, G24, G21, RV11, Y11, Y13, E33, E09, and E37) to color the image. The cardstock came from the DCWV Cardstock Stack. The DPs came from my stash and the embellishments are from Martha Stewart. The flowers on the first card are from a Calypso Tin that I bought at Michael's. I have to say, they loved Coco!

Sweet Sketch Wednesday Challenge 64 - Digi Stamp Characters

Wow! I can't believe we're at the end of August already! This year seem to be really flying by! I survived my first few days with students. Things seem to be going well so far. No high schoolers! Our sponsor this week is Digi Stamp Characters. Heather is offering 3 free digi's from her etsy shop!

Here's the sketch from Sweet Sketch Wednesday:

This image (Cupcake) really reminded me of my daughter. For her birthday party, I had made a bunch of cupcakes and she kept trying to sneak them from the table before the party started. She was successful a couple of times. When I caught her, she had frosting all down her face! All I could do was laugh!

I used my Copics (E37, E00, R29, Y13, BV11, E33, B32, RV11, G21, RV29, and B05) to color the image. The DP is from DCWV Summer Dream Stack and Flower Shower Spring Stack. The light green cardstock is from DCWV The Cardstock Stack and the dark green is from THe Paper Company Botanicals pack. I used my Martha Stewart border press to do the edge of the light green paper. You might not be able to tell, but it presses a flower into the paper. The fowers come from Calypso Tin that I bought at Michael's and the brads came from Hobby Lobby. The ribbon also came from Michael's.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday Challenge 63 - Digi Stamp Boutique

Welcome back for another great challenge! Today is my last work day before students come tomorrow. We'll see how this goes. I actually get my students from last year and loop up with them to the next grade. I've never done this before, so I'm a little nervous. At least I know exactly where we left off and what they should already know! I did have a nightmare though and dreamed that when they showed up, they were high schoolers! Yikes! I am not that brave to teach the older kids...really hope that that doesn't happen!

Our sponsor this week is Digi Stamp Boutique. Sally Ann is offering 10 free digi images! WOW!

We have a great sketch to follow from Sweet Sketch Wednesday so jump on over and play along!

This image really caught my attention! It's called Cheeky Cat and Spider. I loved it right away. I used my Copics (RV11, W7, W5, W9, Y13, YR04, R08, and R29) to color it. The DP came from a pack of paper that I bought at Wal-Mart a long time ago. The cardstock is from DCWV The Shimmer Stack. The green and orange ribbon and buttons also came in the same pack. The spotted ribbon was bought at Michael's. The brads are from Hobby Lobby. I used my Plantin SchoolBook cartridge from my Cricut to cut the ovals. I also used Glossy Accents on the eyes of the cat, spider, and pumpkin.

Well, tomorrow is our first day of school and I am going to be busy. I am teaching 2nd grade this year...never taught 2nd, so I'm a little nervous. I have taught 1st grade for the last 5 years and I get to take my class from last year, so at least there won't be too much time taken to have to get to know my students, I will be able to hit the ground running. Wish me luck!

Sweet Sketch Wednesday Challenge 62 - Pixie Dust Studio

I can't believe it's already the 2nd week in August! It's only one more week of summer for me. I've been really busy getting ready for the new school year to start and teach a new grade (Yikes!)...but I was still able to get a card made. Our sponsor this week is Pixie Dust Studio. Kathy is offering two digi's of your choice to the winner of this week's challenge.

We have another great sketch this week from Sweet Sketch Wednesday. It was so fun!

Now, I know you might think I've gone a little crazy making a 4th of July card a month late, but I really loved this image. This is Uncle Sam. I thought he was super cute! I used my Copics (R29, C3, C1, 100, 0, W5, E29, B29, Y15, and E00) to color him. The DPs come from The Paper Studio - All Seasons pack and the cardstock is from DCWV The Cardstock Stack. The ribbon was found at Michael's and the red embellishments are Martha Stewart stickers. The star also came from The Paper Studio - All Seasons pack.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday Challenge 61 - Di's Digi Downloads

Welcome to another week for SSW! Our sponsor this week is Di's Digi Downloads. She has some really great images. This week she is offering 5 digis to our Sweet Sketch Wednesday winner!

We have another great sketch from Arlana. Here it is:

I had a lot of fun creating this card. The image I used is called Singing Snowmen. I used my Copics (B32, 0, C1, RV11, YG03, BV11, C3, W1, W3, W5, W7, B14, RV29, E33, YR04, and Y13) to color it. I also used Studio g Glitter Glue on the hats and snow to give it something extra. The cardstock comes from The Paper Company Seaside pack. The DP are from The Paper Studio - All Seasons pack. The embellishments come from the same DP pack.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday Challenge 60 Shirley's 2 Girls

Wow! July has sure passed in a hurry! Hope everyone is having fun creating cards. Arlana has designed another great sketch over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday and this week's sponsor is Shirley's 2 Girls. This image is called "Stork Delivery". I used my Zig H2O water brush with my Sweetberry Ink Dye Pads (amber, yam, Juneberry, admiral, ivy, pansy) and Create-A-Finish Shading Cake Kit (peach) to color the image. The cream cardstock is from The Paper Company "Seaside" pack and the green is from DCWV The Cardstock Stack. The printed papers are DCWV from Nana's Kids Stack. The embellishment is also from the same stack. The ribbon is from Jo-Ann's and I used my Cricut Plantin SchoolBook cartridge to cut the circles and square pieces. Happy crafting and hope you have a good week! See you in August!