Sugar Water

Lucky me, I was the random winner of Pattie's Creations Challenge #35! Whoop whoop! I won 2 digi stamps of my choice (always so hard to choose!), so I used one of them (Sweet Nectar) to make this cheery card:

Challenges:

Card Patterns #150: Sketch

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #145: Photo Inspiration (right)

Pattie's Creations Challenge #36: Embossing

Have a sweet day everyone!

Happy Groundhog Day!

The adorable and apparently immortal groundhog Punxsutawney Phil did his little thing this morning, but I stayed inside and made this card for my husband, using freebies from MelJen's Designs:

That groundhog is too cute. I used Deconstructed Sketch #37 and the Loving You Challenge at MelJen's Designs DT Blog for inspiration. Thank you everyone! Happy Winter!

Dude Time Doodles Jug Band Serenade

Happy February! Bonibleaux Designs/Dude Time Doodles is celebrating Valentine's Day this month, so I brought out Cletus, Jethro Jug & Skeeter for little romantic serenade:

This week at Dude Time Doodles we want to see "a touch of RED." You can view that as a color challenge, or be inspired by the photo on the right.

To spread the love, I'm also entering this in the following awesome challenges:
Party Time Tuesdays #53: Anything Goes
Shopping Our Stash Challenge 37: People Who Need People (I've been hoarding this music-patterned paper forever!)
Quirky Crafts Challenge #3: Make a Scene

Here's a close-up of the band:

These images were so fun to color, and work so well with my current favorite embellishment: Sparkly Fluff. I also used black Sparkly Fluff for the banjoman's beard. For the hats, I used FlowerSoft. The "CoonSkin" Hat is made with a mix of yellow flocking and light brown & "Heather" FlowerSoft.

I made the banners from a brown paper bag! I stamped the flattened bag with one of the Pretty Pendants from the set by SP & Company, heat-embossed it in red, squished up the bag, then cut out the pendants. They are glued/strung onto a red-and-white bakers twine. This is literally Baker's twine, in that it came with the sweet bread we bought for Christmas morning at a local bakery!

Can't wait to see what you come up with the Dude Time Doodles Touch of Red Challenge!

Love Note

Jehanne of Just Some Lines gave her CDAC Group followers this sweet digi stamp this week, and suggested we use it for this week's Just Some Lines Blog Challenge: It's a Dog's Life. I used the sketch from the Critter Sketch Challenge 100 Blog Post Challenge & Hop (congratulations!), and a freebie sentiment from Digi Doodle Shop (I'm always entering this into the DDS Anything Goes Challenge). I was also inspired by the color/photo challenge at CR84FN, but I could only choose 3 challenges to enter :(

The dog is, of course, based on my favorite Card Model, Walt:

...who just wants to take a nap on mommy's sweater, thank you very much!

I lived to 100 and all I got was this card

My mom started a cardmaking group at her church some time ago, and it's quite the active group now! One of the members likes my cards (Mom of course brings my cards by to show off! Love ya Mom!) so she's commissioned a couple. This time she wants a birthday card for a friend who's turning 100! That's all the information I had, so I tried to make something classic that would appeal to just about anybody:

Stampin' Royalty

I had too many ideas floating around in my head, so I was glad to have some focused inspiration via challenges (hello Feline Playful!) As soon as I saw the Stampin' Royalty Challenge Picture (right), I felt the whole project come together. I think my folks own those blue water glasses! I also used this week's sketch at The Paper Players (see below).

The focus of this card is a rubber stamp by Magenta Style, which I found in a box of stamps Mom acquired. The stamp came back to Maryland with me from Arizona, and now the card I made with it is on its way from Maryland to Arizona! I stamped it six times; all the colors are embossing powders, except for the 2 blues which are stamped in blue inks and then heat-embossed with clear embossing powder (well, the dark one is in clear & the lighter one is in Kaleidoscope). I pieced it in 3 layers, using 2 thicknesses of pop foam. I edged the foam in yellow, but wrapped the final square with white ribbon.

Challenges:

Paper Players #80: Anne Marie's Sketch Challenge (right)

Stampin' Royalty Challenge #108: Picture Inspiration (above right)

Mark's Finest Paper Challenge #92: At Least 4 Layers

Thanks everyone! May you live 100 good years!