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I can not believe we are through the first week of April! WOW!!!

I had these images from a swap a long time ago and forgot about them. I love these images and had so much fun creating with them. I colored them up with my prismacolor markers. The first card was created using scrap paper and RAKed paper. The second card was created using a fiscars punch, American Craft paper and a Martha Stewart wide ribbon. I got it a while ago at a discount store. It is so yummy and velvety! I hate to use it because I know it will soon be gone :(. lol. Am I the only one who hoards things and NEVER ends up using them?
LOL

I hope you all have a lovely day!

Other Challenges:
Stamp something: Pink
Fab n Funky: neapolitan ice cream

The Pink Elephant: Nature

... for you

Hi everyone. I hope you have had a wonderful week thus far. The kids are both better, finally!!! Tommy Ray is on his 2nd go of antibiotics to get this mess knocked out of him for good. Hannah has gotten back into the swing of her dance classes and I got to make a card during the daily breaks today :o) Yay for leftover nights :o) lol!!! Hannah thinks this card is creepy, but I thought it was fun. I hope you are on my side with this one :o). I was looking through my madness of goodies in my drawers. The stuff that gets left alone, looked at, and told hello on occasion, but never used. I found a bag of googly eyes and the idea hit me.. well, I first found the sketch on 2 S 4 Y and then it hit me, lol! I had to make it.

I found an acrylic heart that I cut into lips, added eyelashes and voila! I could not find a BG paper I liked well enough, so I finally drew my own :D. The sentiment is printed from my computer. I cut the 4 U with my cricut (Plantin Schoolbook). The pink paper is DCWV white core paper that I ran through the cuttlebug (swiss dots) and sanded with a sandpaper block.
That about sums it up... I hope you have a great night. I will hopefully be back tomorrow. Don't forget about my BUG IMAGE RELEASE HOP on Friday!!! :) for a way to win an image ahead of time check here

Challenges for this card include:
2S4Y
Crazy 4 Challenges Valentine
Stamp Something Friday Love Somethings
Cute Card Thursday Spots and Dots

The next card I am sharing with you is for the
Pink Elephant Birthday Blog Hop

I feel horrible that my life got in the way of my remembering to get this up today. I apologize more than you could ever know. This is one of my top 3 Challenge blogs that I NEVER (well almost) miss out on participating with and love dearly. The ladies there are not only inspirational, they are amazingly sweet and loving and such blessings to me. They give a part of their heart along with their beautiful creations and always spread smiles along the way.

For the card I created for the hop, I used this weeks current challenge: Valentines as well as the Pink Elephant Challenge #38 ~ Black, distressing and hardware. I know I used eyelets...but I used so many I figured it could be hardware? :) To choose a favorite challenge was impossible. They all so unique and amazing!!! Heres to many many more wonderful challenges, more love and many more smiles.
Happy Birthday Pink Elephant!!!

Challenges:
Pink elephant: Valentine
OCC Masculine Valentine
Stamp Scrap Doodle Valentine no red

Goin' Buggy!!!

Goodness, I have published this post twice.. one with just a title and one with nothing :/. I kept hitting enter somehow! OOPS. Oh well. :o)

I am here tonight to quickly remind you of my sketch challenge where you can win a free bug image JUST by playing along. For all the rules read HERE
These cards are created with just a few of the new bug images I will have for sale on February 12. Also I am having a new image release and hop on Feb 24, you don't want to miss that!

On to the cards. First up is
BUGGY MOMMY

Challenges: Card Patterns Sketch


card number two is showcasing
BUGGY BABY

Challenges: Eat Sleep Stamp

moving on to number 3: threes a crowd LITERALLY
Oh Mama!

Challenges: Friday Sketchers
cute card thursday
and last but not least is
Mrs. Buggy's Coffee Break

Challenges: Stamp Something Friday~delicious

One of my DT gals made the sweetest card using Baby Buggy AND the challenge sketch!!!!. You can see Rhonda's card HERE

Curious as to what will be included in the Feb 24 hop?? For a preview with the most adorable cards check out Dee's blog!!!

ICS, TGF and FBD

Good Morning everyone. This post is going to be super short and sweet ... straight to the deets!!! I was up all night with a sick little boy .. fever, puking and all that lovely stuff. Sounds like we are headed to the Dr. soon. It looks like it may be strep :(.


These cards are both created using this weeks ICS sketch. ICS is also having a DT CALL so be sure to stop in for all the details on that!!! The first card follows the sketch more directly. I used the Greeting Farm image for the second day of the CHA Challenge. I have enjoyed using these cuties!!! The BG paper is by American Craft, the sent was printed with word and all the other goodies are RAKed or scraps. This card also meets the rules for the Pink Elephant Challenge: bow, pink, and dots.


Fresh Brewed Designs is the sponsor again this week at Inspirational Card Sketches. I decided to use my to be released in February, Hannah Belle Fishing. I promised you that it would be an image that told you something about my little Hannah. She is such an animal lover and hates all things hunting, fishing and all that. She is a 'part time' vegetarian ... :o) . When she was younger and went fishing with my Granny ~ she went to the bucket and threw them all back. Just like me when I was little. I even felt sorry for the poor worms .... see how I drew them happily draped on the hooks ... not stabbed;). lol This card is also going to be entered into the Stamp Something Friday Challenge: Giggle or funny



Both cards are colored with prismacolor markers, copics, and bic markers. The Hannah card was all decked out with shimmer. Her suit has stickles on it and the water was painted with a mix of pearl ex powder and Plaid Gems paint on glitter.

I hope you have a wonderful day. Be sure to stop by tomorrow for the Tellen's Place Blog Hop!!

Hannah Belle Hop Day 2

Welcome to day 2 of the hop.
So far we have had a few ladies participate in the sketch and become instant winners!!! :)
You still have time. You can find the sketch and all the info HERE.
If you have just arrived at my blog .. we are in the middle of a 3 day blog hop to introduce my newest Fresh Brewed Designs images, Hannah Belle.
There are 4 ways to win and one of them is to HOP through the lovely ladies blogs and leave a comment.
I have linked the names directly to the hop in this post. If for some reason you do not see their Fresh Brewed Designs Hannah Belle post, just scroll down. It is there, I promise!
Hop List:
here is the full hop list:
Rhonda Michelle Carolyn Kelly Jenn Terry Sheri Catherine Stacy Norma Kadie Heather

Some of the ladies have also participated in day 2, so be sure to check out their yummy and fun creations
Rhonda day 2 Hannah Belle Ice Cream
Norma day 2 Hannah Belle Valentine
Terry day 2 Hannah Belle Sitting Pretty


Here are the cards I want to share with you today:

Hannah Belle and Mommy

Challenges : Creative inspiration: Sketch
Stamp Something Friday: Blue and White

up next is
Hannah Belle Butterfly

Challenges: Sweet Sketch Wednesday
Creative Card Crew: Punch

I am so glad that you were able to spend part of your day with me.
Have a beautiful and blessed day!

My Monster

My Monster

I hope you are all having a wonderful week so far. We do not really celebrate Halloween here. We took the kids to some church functions or out getting treats at local shops in the past, but with their allergies (milk, eggs and nuts) we really can not risk it. Hannah is part of a little dance called Hallowscream with her school. They have been practicing purple people eater and she has had a blast! We made these fun treats for her jazz class today since it will be the last time they will be practicing it all together before the show. Han had a blast coloring them and making the little sour cream containers. They turned out pretty cute I think :). She did MOST of the work herself. You know I had to draw a little monster to go with her treats she wanted to hand out. I call him My Monster. I love him :) lol. He just makes me smile. And he totally does not have to be Halloween I think. I can see him altered holding a balloon for a birthday ... I will be thinking of more things I can do with him for sure. This card is for Hannah's teacher Kate. I am so cheesy and a total goob when I give out my cards. Oh well. I am embarrassed easily. Her little classmates seemed to like their treats. Hannah was very proud of them.

I am submitting this card to the OCC challenge which is your favorite Holiday book or movie. This one is already obviously for the Purple People Eater :) lol! I hope it counts. There was a movie, lol... not really a favorite ;) but there was one, lol!!! hahaha!!!

Also, this card is for the Stamp Something Friday and Creative Inspirations Halloween challenges.

Have a wonderful night. My husband is working late so I am off for a shower and some coffee and maybe turn in early. I think I could use a little extra sleep. No card making tonight :)

Hugs!!!
He is newly released and up for sale over at Fresh Brewed Designs if you want to check it out. :)

I vant to suck your vlood!

LOL. My mom gave me this empty Altoids gum tin and I thought it would make a cute coffin for my candy corn vampire. i used only part of my Corny Family image at Fresh Brewed Designs for this card. I also used Eeek!! my candy corn bat. I covered the tin with black plasticy (I know that is not a word :D) raffia, tulip paint and glitter. The inside is also covered with the raffia. i cut out these little bats that are smaller than a dime and attached them to some wire i pulled out of some ribbon in my stash. I really do not like wired ribbon and often do this ... now I have a use for the wire ;). I could not get a good pic of this project so you are going to see it a few different ways. I hope it makes you smile. i am submitting it to the OCC challenge (my second submission). The movie / book this time is Dracula. I am also entering this into the Cute Card Thursday candy corn challenge and the Stamp Something Friday Halloween challenge.

Thanks for visiting me again. I appreciate you all very much!

I want my Mummy!!!

I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend. I am so happy still after our hop. It was so nice to see everyone and read all of the wonderful comments. If you are here to check out the hop or winners, scroll down to the next few posts please:)

I have something new for you today. The challenge at Cute CArd Thursday was Candy Corn! Perfect!!! I am also entering it to these fun challenges for the first time~ Crafty Creations: All Hallow's Eve, Stamp Something Friday and Creative Inspirations: Halloween. This image just popped into my head and had to be created. I have never drawn and created and shared an image with you quite this fast. I had to since Halloween is right around the corner:).You can find this image, the sweetest mummy, in my shop: Fresh Brewed Designs. I think these candy corn are so funny! My mom made pin and earring sets when I was in high school that look very similar to these little guys. I showed my mom my images and she reminded me. Oops!!! So I put a new spin on them by dressing them up. My mom approved and loves them:). I had some old tissue paper from last year that had candy corn on it. I decided to decoupage a piece of card stock, cover it in glitter and create this fun background. I also used some ribbon I found last year at walmart for a buck that was covered in sweet candy corn. I colored this sweetie with prismacolor markers. I hope this made you smile. HAve a wonderful weekend, or what is left of it. I am off to get some coffee ((Barnies Santa's White Christmas in fact. For those of you who knew ... I did not make it last night like I had planned. Last night went a little loopy on me, lol! So I am enjoying it tonight and hopefully finding a few minutes to relax.) See ya later alligator (maybe tomorrow with my little alligator story:) )) HUGS!!!!