Fintastic!

I knew as soon as I saw this Saturated Canaries image I HAD to have it! Made me laugh as soon as I saw it! Now the "Da Nuh" that was my addition... it fits the inside of my card :0)

You did see that there was  shark right? Oh wait we are mostly girls,.. so yes we saw it. LOL this image really just cracks me up. I will be really honest here. I started this card last week for the last challenge, but with all the animal emergencies I just didn't get it finished. But then I saw the new challenge and well... this one still fits! I have LOTS of Bling on this one! LOL

I used DCWV Denim Jeans collection for my papers. Love the real look of the papers. I sewed a couple of them together with a different stitch... I think it goes well with the image as well. I used a Whimsy Double scallop die and then added LOTS of red and clear adhesive bling around the circle. A red satin ribbon around the middle.

Now I know you have been waiting to see the inside right? I used just one piece of the pattern paper from the same collection and then a computer generated sentiment...

Ok, I thought it was funny? Would be perfect for that 30th, or 50th birthday don't you think? LOL

I am a little warped from time to time sorry :0)

So I am going to add this to the Saturated Canaries Challenge this week - Their challenge is to Bling it Out!

IT also works for this weeks Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes with and option of Glossy Accents.. (my water whoo hoo!)

And PaperPlay Challenge - this week is Happy Birthday... I think this is a birthday card right?

Hope you got a chuckle out of it :0)

have a great Monday! HUGS and

A Saturated Canary - Wendy

Had some fun with another Saturated Canary - it was so hard to decide which to get that first order, and then the second order I still had so many on my list. But I narrowed down and Wendy was a must. I had seen Bev's card done with her and just fell in love with it. Wendy is gorgeous, but the puppy is what sent me to make sure she was in my cart.

Here is my first card with Wendy and her adorable puppy -

Now it is rare that I color and have no idea at all what paper I want to use. But this time, I had colored up Wendy a few nights before, as therapy....  Then sat her to the side until I had time to make a card. So I had this gorgeous girl all done in bright blue and then had no clue what I was going to do with her and papers to use. I went through lots of papers and nothing felt right at all. 10 million papers and nothing. So I sat her aside again. Then I came back to her late last week - I had come across this piece of pattern paper from DCWV "The Four Seasons" Glitter stack.  This is one of those collections of paper that has been on my shelf forever. I have never used a piece out of it. I fell in love with it while at Michaels one day, probably had a 40% off coupon that I needed to use and went with it.

Honestly it is gorgeous, but the patterns are so large it is hard to use with cards. But this piece... well I decided that Wendy should be sitting in these large flowers and the huge butterflies could be flying around her. So a cream colored base card stock. Then a dark brown and burlap pattern paper from Glitz. Then the blue is the DCWV. I took a second piece of the dark brown pattern paper and created an iron fence with the Martha Stewart corner/border punch. I love this punch set and just don't use it enough. Then the glittery section of the pattern paper - I cut out the butterflies from other sections of the paper -

Everything is sewed together with a simple straight stitch. A piece of gingham brown and white ribbon tied around the middle. Then Wendy -

She was colored with my copics and then s bit more shading with pencils. I cut her out loosely - and then glued her into the center of the card - sitting among those gorgeous glitter flowers.

This is one of those cards that I have left "blank" for the sentiment. It could go for so many things and I think I will wait until the need to decide what it should be.

The inside is done as well - copied close to the front and left blank.

So this card was for fun - just to play... but lets see what challenges it qualifies for this week :0)

Saturated Canaries Challenge - Anything Goes
Papertake weekly - Anything Goes
Southern Girls Challenge - Things with Wings
Sweet Stampin' Challenge - All Stitched Up
Pile it On Challenge - Let's Go Outdoors
Stampin' for the Weekend - Bugs and Butterflies
Ribbon Girl Blog Challenge - Ribbon or Lace

There are more I am sure... I get lost seeing all the fabulous challenges out there! And all the talent from the Dt's.. a click to the challenge, then clicks to the DT blogs and then links on their pages and then I can't find my way back to where I started :0) But I see lots of pretty things on my way!

Me... I just noticed the time, and gotta stop surfing and get a bottle made up and out to Sandy my baby goat....  Then I think I am going to call it an early evening. Yesterday I cooked my brain. Seriously, I was out in the sun too long with a lady wanting to buy a goat... it was really hot. I thought I had stayed in the shade most of the time, but it was 100 degrees... and this gal, well she ain't use to the heat at all. After a couple of hours I started to feel odd... nauseous, weak legs, dizzy, and my head felt like it was bubbling inside. Ding... I was done. I came in an drank a gallon of water and then couldn't do a thing the rest of the day. I was so sick feeling and dizzy I couldn't even color!!!!  Today... I have still been feeling a bit weak, but have drinking lots of water and stayed 99% of the day in the air conditioning, no doing much at all, I am good just being cautious for a couple of days. Hubby will have to do most all the outside work... LOL like I do much anyway... well other than hello's loving and holding the water hose from time to time. Oh... and feeding my baby... which I need to do and stop rambling....   Oh BTW... we sold two more goats yesterday so it was all worth it. Mel and Bobby will be going in a few days to a lady that is going to spoil them rotten. She has always wanted a couple of goats.. just for lots of lovin' :0) -

HUGS and -

More kids and a card!

Wow what a week.. my emotions are on a roller coaster ride this week! Up and Down with the Stress. But all is good. Yesterday we had Libbie fixed - the best for her I know that, but still was hard, she is such a good Momma and has beautiful babies. But best for her. So it is all good now. We have had more goats babies too! Surprise huh? LOL Paintbrush gave us quite a scare and she and her babies have been on my watch list the last  couple of days to make sure they are all healthy. So far everyone is doing ok.

They are a good looking family here aren't they?

Again... HUGE size difference in two of the babies. REALLY strange. Bluto is HUGE and Olive Oyl is tiny.

But how about a card? Yes I have actually crafted a bit - a tiny little bit.

I made another 5x7 card - still odd feeling, but getting a little more use to it. LOL
Sarah Kay for this card "Sofia Wishes" - isn't she pretty?

 I went with a little different color combo this time. Drew from the pattern paper from Websters Pages. The purple and black with cream really does work well together huh? And I love double sided pattern papers, so easy to just flip and use both sides! No thinking. I sewed strips on the top and bottom, then backed the oval image - Some pretty cream and purple mulberry flowers, with Martha Stewart punched leaves and branches. Three small pearls for the corner. The band is two punches of a Papertrey Ink die.  My sentiment "Hello Friend" is also from Papertrey Ink.

Close Up of Sofia -

Colored with my Promarkers - and cut with an oval Nestie. 

Did a quick surf for some challenges this week - First I have to shout out WOO HOO! I won last weeks 7Kids College Fund Challenge! Really great pick me up! Thank You Girls! 

This week I found two challenges that my card fit well.. and I took notes of other challenge I hope I get time to play this week :0) 

This card I would like to join in at 

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Anything Goes

LOL great challenges this week... easy to fit in huh? 

Ok, out to check on babies goats. :0) 

HUGS and - 

New Alota PCP Challenge with new image and a STAMPAVIE Preview of Tina Wenke!!!

Lots to show again today!!! Oh I am so excited! Everyone is coming out with new stamps! OH if only I can figure out how to give up sleep and color all night!!

First I need to let you know that there is a new Alota Rubber Stamps PCP Challenge starting up today - I really do hope that you will take a moment to join in cuz this is "my" challenge, I am the host - so please make me look good and add to the challenge and you might even win a prize!

My Challenge is a Red - White and Blue challenge. All you need to do is make a red, white and blue card with an Alota Rubber Stamps image. Simple! Well this was perfect timing for the new Alota Bug Stamp!!!
This is "OUR HEROS" and yes... the bugs have joined the forces! OH the fun I had coloring this one. And to be honest - Hubby really got involved as well - I had to make sure the colors were correct on the uniforms, shades had to be right! Example... I thought the sailors "knot" would be "pretty" if it was red... oh my that was NOT right - so I had to change it to the black to be correct. LOL I guess he is right - this is our armed forces here so I shouldn't take creative license here. All colored with my Copics, I doodled the edge and then stacked it on a stars pattern paper. NO name on the back of this, don't even know where it came from. But that is ok, cuz it is perfect for my card! A red mat, on a white card stock base. I used Stampin Up punch to run a red ribbon through the sides of the image. I kept looking at this thinking it needed more. But the more I looked at it the more I decided that the image was so large and so wonderful on its own... I liked it just like this!

I do hope that you will join in on the Alota PCP Challenge - :0)


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Now a Pre-view of a brand new line of stamps from Stampavie!!! I would like you to meet Wedding Squirrels by Tina Wenke!! Is this just the cutest little wedding couple you have ever seen? This entire collection is so adorable - you really are gonna have to have all of them - really take a look at them HERE See told you.. you want them all don't you!! Well they will be in stores late July.. so make sure to ask your LSS to order them, I don't think the first shipment is going to last very long at all!

I colored the happy couple in their little shell car with my copics and with chalks - high lighted with a white gel pen.


For my Card I used DCWV Garden party collection - such beautiful papers! I used that same Stampin up ribbon punch to run a matching satin ribbon through the image, I inked the edges of all the papers. And then went through my box of flowers... and picked four that matched the papers - jewelry spacers and mini brads with Martha Stewart Frond punch leaves all stacked in the corner. Three buttons in the top corner in the same shades. And the sentiment is one of my Cloud 9 epoxy stickers on white card stock inked as well.

So lots of new coming ... better get your check books ready :0) ...

Have a wonderful Wednesday - me... I have new stamps to play with... where do you think I want to be?

HUGS and-

2 Challenges - 2 Cards - and a special request

Yes I have 2 different cards for 2 different challenges today.

First is for the House Mouse Challenge blog. I love when I have time to get in on this challenge blog. I have a wall full of House Mouse stamps, my early days of stamping. And I love using them, they just crack me up. Well this week's challenge is to use Junk... yep to find a something around your house and use it in your card. Well I had lots of "junk" to work with. So then I went back to my images and decided what I wanted to work with... then went back and looked for something to work with my House Mouse and cherries. I just couldn't find the right thing.... then I opened my kitchen cabinet, and found a box of Jello... ok, so the box is junk once you make it right?

I then found some scraps of pattern paper that were perfect... red and white with cherries on one side and the other side red with white dots. Green card stock seemed to work well, I sewed down the pattern paper, then matted and sewed down my House Mouse. Oh yea... I colored them with my Copics and white gel pen. I matted the front of the Jello box... many times. and then sewed it down. There was no room for a sentiment. And I love the sentiment that is made to match these cherry eating critters. So I decorated the inside of the card with scraps, and a circle punched cherry from the pattern paper.

Once done with the card I then used my glazed dimensions on the cherries and the mouse's mouth.... they are really juicy cherries. :0)

Second card today is for Papertake Weekly Challenge a wonderful sketch. I felt it was time for a Hanglar image again. So I went through and found this one that had been sent by a wonderful friend. And it is perfect for my "request" that I will ask later. I pulled out my distressing inks and colored in to match the K&Company paper. Again this is one piece that I have used both sides. Following the sketch, inking the edges and sewing down. The image is sewed down with a blanket stitch. The sentiment is from Hero Arts and backed with a scallop circle scrap of the paper. Love these colors together.... which is funny they aren't normally me, and I have ended up using them a lot recently.

All of that was quick so I could have time to report on my nephew. He went through his surgery very well. It will still be a long recovery, and tough for the entire family. But if things go as well as they hope by the middle of next year he won't even have to wear braces! We pray for that out come.

I had an amazing email yesterday from RetiredHeather who offered to send Tagen a get well card. It got me thinking.... this could be something positive and fun for him. Something fun to look forward to. And then I really got to thinking about how great this could be for him.

Now my request. If you find that you have any time and a spare card for an adorable 6 year old, email me at michelleo@hughes.net and I will get you his mailing address, please email me do not leave the request in the comments, as I will not be able to respond and send the email to you from there. He then will start getting cards literally from all over the world! I am going to get him a world map and a box of flag pins. We will mark the map and save all of the cards. Then when he is ready to go back to school, mind you in a wheel chair, but ready to go back we will take the map and all of the cards to his school and he can share the story as a "Show and Tell" of all of the people around the world that were thinking of him during this time. A fun positive thing to make him want to go back to school and share this with his classmates.

Only if you have time... please do not stress.

Hope you have a great Wednesday, I have a list to catch up on, but I am going to visit some blogs and enjoy some quiet me time with my Internet friends... ;0)

HUGS and-

Fishing for Papertake Weekly

Oh my I am loving this Hanglar Image, I apologize for using Hanglars a lot this week, but with new images and with the stamped images that friends have sent me, they are just too irresistible! This is one I have always admired, Nikki was nice enough to stamp me a few. You see Hubby lives to fish, so this one was a must.

I followed the fabulous sketch of Katharina's from this weeks Papertake Weekly Challenge. I love her sketches don't you? Now if only you could see the mess I made looking for this pattern paper, I knew I had some left and I wanted to use it with the image. I tore up all of my pattern paper, went through all of my scraps. Nothing couldn't find it anywhere. So while at the LSS this week I purchased a new sheet. Luckly she had a couple left. Brought it home and set it on my desk and then went to put something else away and out fell the scrap of this paper! Figures huh? Oh well now I have an extra sheet for next time.

He is colored with my Copics and high lighted with white gel pen. And cut with my Nestibilities. I used a green card stock for the base and for the center square, inked the edges of everything with a dark brown.

The band in the middle is a dark blue satin ribbon and do you love those buttons or what? I purchased a large card board box a couple of years ago from a fabric store of old cards of buttons. Yes a LARGE card board box of them. For $20.00. Hundreds and Hundreds of cards of buttons that they wanted to get rid of. I gave buttons away to everyone for awhile. My nieces and nephews even went through it to get buttons to play with. I still have two hat boxes full of them and pulled them out the other day and decided that they were too neat to just let sit there so old buttons will be on many of my future cards.

The sentiment is from Rubberstamp Tapestry and is cut with my Fiskars Squeeze Punch, matted with the larger punch of pattern paper. I doodled the edges. And thought I was done. Nope... hubby really thought it some kind of bling.... but man type of bling. He said "Can't you make the fish look shiney? Wet?" Wow what a great idea... so I put some Diamond Glaze over the fish and let the "water" run out over the bucket. I knew there was a reason I keep him... :0)

Today is suppose to be a rainy day, I so hope so as we need it, but it is dark and gloomy here. Not a great day for house cleaning. Why is it I hate to clean when it is like this. I like it to be sunny and open the house up. Oh well with how my house looks I don't have a choice today... so off to the vacuum and dishes - then some blog surfing of course ;0)

Have a great Wednesday - get inky!

HUGS and -

Camilla's Spoon full Sketch

Hello - today is Tuesday and time for a new Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge. And this week the very talented Camilla has a beautiful sketch.




I started with one of the adorable Rachelle Anne Miller stamps, this is "Lily & Milo - For You" that is colored with my Copics and Spica Glitter Pens. A light pink card stock is used for the base, with a scrap of pink and white pattern paper. (sorry the name is cut off so I don't know what it is) Now for the scallops I remembered the Basic Grey "Just the Edge" pieces I have had forever. I used one of the larger scallops and placed them on top and bottom following the sketch. For the circle I used a large Basic Grey Flower stacked with four more misc. flowers. The center is a Martha Steward adhesive pearl. Looked so pretty I put them on the tips of each scallop as well. Now when I went to put my image on the card I was running out of space, so I got rid of the mat I had planned and just edged the image with a pink Copic marker to give the appearance of a mat. But I still had no room for the two smaller circles on the bottom corner. So instead I added two Quickutz flourishes instead. This is a wonderful sketch and remember you can use any image you would like, so why not pop on over to the A Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge and give it a try. This week I donated a brand new Rachelle Anne Miller stamp and some flowers. While there take a look at all of the other DT cards, wow they are wonderful!






My second card today is for this weeks Papertake Weekly Challenge and it was a must last night. As I got a envelope yesterday from my dear sweet friend, and fellow Spoon DT, Nikki . She saw my post last week about how much I treasure my Hanglar images sent to me by friends and sent me some new images to play with! Well I had to wait almost 3 hours before I could color one up! Isn't she adorable, as soon as I saw her I thought of one of my vintage stamp sets from Oxford Impressions. I have a few of these wonderful vintage photograph sets and sadly they are dusty from not being used much, well I pulled them out and decided that this little one needed some lounge chairs to enjoy the beach. The sentiment is also from that set. I stamped them with my Brilliance Graphite Black ink. Now I am wishing I had done it in a blue color... sigh.

I cut the Hanglar Girl with my Nestibilities and matted with a large cut red card stock. The Paper is another scrap, matted with a piece of yellow card stock. I doodled around everything and then just for some fun added the four buttons. Fun... I think I might dust off the other sets and mix them with my new favorites more often, kind of a neat look!


Today is a busy day, lots of little things on my list to check off. Hope to catch up on some blogs at some point today too, missed a lot through the weekend so looking forward to seeing everyone. Hope you have a great Tuesday planned and have time to get inky!
HUGS and-

A Tuesday Recipe------

A Recipe for my Tuesday Blog Post...

A Spoon Full of Sugar with a Whiff of Joy

and Alota Gingerbread!

First for A Spoon Full of Sugar the theme this week is Christmas! Now for this weeks Challenge
we would love to see you make a Christmas card this week. It will be here before you know it and it was perfect timing as My Whiff of Joy images were just calling out to be inked!

I went through lots of Christmas pattern papers trying to decide what colors to go with, I love all the new colors that are being used for Christmas. But then I came across this piece of I think Daisy D's (it is a scrap) and it reminded my of Christmas when I was a kid. Bright Red and crisp Green. Well I pulled out one of those American Craft 5x7 card bases and went to work.

I first matted the piece of pattern paper on white card stock and sewed with a metallic thread. I love this stuff, you just cant see in the photograph how cool it looks in person. I colored Charlotte decorating Christmas tree with my Copics and Spica Glitter pens... I am showing a close up to you can see the ornaments and her dress. Love how they came out. I then used gold stickles for the star and the garland, this card sparkles baby! I sewed around the edge of the image and inked with red ink. I used a Bobbin Ribbon with Happy Holidays for my sentiment on the corner and a Prima Christmas Flower and leaf for the top. Simple but I like it!

Make sure you check out the other Spoon Full of Sugar DT cards this week, there are some really creative Christmas cards, some wonderful ideas to get you in the mood for the holiday!

My second card today is from Papertake Weekly and this weeks challenge is another of Katharina's sketches! YEA! Love her sketches!

While going through my Christmas papers I found this FABULOUS piece of shimmering Gingerbread men from Heidi Grace. I drool on her stuff, love the shimmer, the glazes and the flocked papers she puts out! Anyway this is from last year, and is a pretty pink shimmer paper and little gingerbread men. Well I immediately thought of one of the new release Gingerbread Family from Alota Rubber stamps! There are a few different Christmas stamps that are all adorable, but this one was perfect for this paper! So I stamped it out and colored with my Copics. Very simple coloring here. I cut the image out with my Fiskars Fingertip Craft Knife, I then matted the pattern paper on a dark brown card stock, and placed it on the American Crafts Card base (I am really getting my use of these aren't I?) Following Katharina's sketch I found a second Heidi Grace paper that coordinates with my shimmer paper and double matted it with red and brown. I used Doodlebug Sugar Brads for the corners and pop dotted my "family" on the top center. I decided a plain red ribbon was best for the band across the middle. The sentiment is also from Alota Rubber Stamps. Now I thought the family needed just a bit more, this I don't know if I am happy with or not. But I painted a very thin coat of stickles on them to give a look of sugar on them. I just don't know about that.. but what is done is done right? Other than that I love how it came out and think I might make a few more of these!

Well I had a lunch to go to today with some old friends, but it was just canceled... hmm guess I will just head out and run a few quick errands and get home early.... what will I do with the extra time today ;0) I see some extra inking time! Hope you find some too!

HUGS and -

Alota Molly Moo Cows...

Today's card shows off one of the cows from the Alota Rubber Stamps from the Molly Moo Cows set. And I am using this card for this weeks Papertake Weekly Challenge, which is Autumn Haze. To make a card with an Autumn theme.

Well a Farmer Cow in a corn field is autumn don't you think? I started off with a Kraft Paper card base.

I then picked two pieces of Coordination's paper that matched the K&Company K-Ology papers that I thought had a fall/autumn feel to them. Love the Coordination's paper and the look it gets when sanded. I cut to size and the rounded the corners to match the card base and sanded away!

I colored Molly Moo with my Copics, rounded the corners and matted to match the card. I also made a orange mat for the striped paper to make it pop a bit more off the other pattern paper. The sentiment is also from the set, love it! I then found three flowers in my stash that matched, used a glittered brad and done. Was actually pretty fast and I love how it came out.

Well Hurricane Ike is still scary. The reports are now saying that it is turning more to the left once it hits landfall. If that happens we will not get the "eye". We are not putting our guard down just yet... we still we get tropical strength winds and lots of rain. I think most of these weather people are just guessing. This thing can do whatever it wants and can change anytime. Weather can really be scary. We are still preparing today, I would rather make sure everything is safe and done everything we can and nothing happen to sit and my house and watch everything fall apart. Guess that is where the saying "Better Safe than Sorry" comes from huh? Off to get the day going hope you have a great day planned and have some fun planned -

HUGS and-

A pure Whiff of Joy!

Oh my I am so in love with Whiff of Joy stamps! Can't wait to get the new ones that were just released Wednesday! Take a look really the Guardian Angels are just too precious!

So it was perfect to use one of Katharina's new stamps on one of her sketches... Papertake Weekly has a great one this week!

I colored up Winter Charlotte with Cat with my Copic Markers and white gel pen. I chose my colors to match the fabulous ribbon I had planned to use as one of my bands on the sketch.

Now this also gave me the opportunity to use some new paper I just picked up at Michael's. OH MY this stuff is just well... Yummy! It is called Expressions Papercraft by Canson. And it is a pad of solid colored papers with 8 textures made into the paper! It adds so much richness to the card! I soooooo hope you can see this from the photographs. This texture is called Moire, and it looks like a rich satin ribbon. Oh I am going to have to hunt down and see if I can find more colors of this stuff!

I used a pre-cut card base and then a scrap to mat the image. I love the ribbons as the bands. I think the two bottom ones are American Crafts, the larger one is a scrap I purchased at the fabric store, then the top one is from Michael's collection. I gel pen stitched the edges of the card and the image with my white gel pen. The sentiment is from Stampin Up, and is cut out with a Stampin Up Word Window punch. I love the colors of this card. You know I think this is the hot colors this year, as I was at the mall the other day and in the housewares section of Macy's everything was these colors, from dishes to bedding!

Rosie Update: She is doing soooo much better, the meds have kicked in and she is almost 100% herself. She came to us this morning, she hugged me (she rest her head on my shoulder and pushes her body against me with her tail wagging) and as we were leaving the pen after lots of lovin, she trotted after me and Hee Hawed!!! Oh it made me so happy! She still has a week or more of meds to take, and we still have to figure out what she is allergic too but she is feeling better and that is number one!

Well I hope you have a great Thursday, and have some time to do some crafting.. me Hubby is home today and we have some pen fencing work planned. But I do see some papercrafting time later in the day!

HUGS and-

Happy Birthday Ma Cherie!

I think this stamp is hysterical. I am having so much fun with these Alota Rubber Stamps they are just too cute and some are so funny, perfect for my friends and family. This is Ma Cherie... and this is my idea of how to spend the perfect birthday... PJ's, relaxing, watching your favorite chick flick (that you have to imagine) and eating your favorite candies brought to you by your honey. Ha! This of course would make a great Valentine card to.

I had fun coloring with my Copics and white gel pen. I was sitting here all alone, other than the dog and cat Hubby is still gone fishing, anyway I was laughing as I was coloring... especially when I got to her belly and then painted her fingernails, toenails and her blue eyeshadow!

I made sure to sew down the edges of the image to the mat, that way it qualifies for this weeks Papertake Weekly Challenge, but that was no biggie for me, as I love using my machine. I found a piece of pattern paper in my stash that has the same colors and I loved the dots. I sewed it down to the same color green mat and stamped with an Alota Rubberstamp Happy Birthday stamp... love the handwriting look and the hearts! I didn't think I could add much more to the card as it is such a busy image, but did find two Creative Impressions felt flowers with glitter brads to just make it a bit more girlie and match the pink base and of course match that pink sofa!

Well I just got a call from Hubby and he is coming home tonight! YEA! But sad for him to miss a day, but that happens sometimes. Better get my day going and get my list of things done today, I have a few projects I want to work on and can't get to them until my list is all checked off... Have a great day and I hope you have some time to craft today too -

HUGS and-

Purple and Green... love these together!

While out the other day I found a Making Memories Pad with the prettiest shades of purple and greens. I had to have it! I then went thru and found a great image to color. (Thanks to my wonderful friend that spoiled me!)

This is my first time using Papilio Images... oh they are so cute and fun to color! Of course I colored them in shades of purple and green with my Copics, Sakura Glaze pens and white gel pens. All of the greens and purples are from the pad of papers, I cut and inked them following this Katharina's sketch for Papertake Weekly. I just love her sketches, and this one I will be adding to my collection to do again! The sentiment is from Rubberstamp Tapestry. I used a Doodlebug Purple ribbon for the vertical band, and the felt flower, leaves and glittered brad are all from Creative Impressions. I love these colors!

My second card is for one of my best friends Daughters wedding. Hope she isn't peeking here! Jen is getting married on Saturday. I can't believe it! I was so excited when I saw Alota Rubberstamp came out with this adorable wedding couple called "Mr. and Mrs. Wedding Couple".

The bridal couples colors are bright and fun so I knew I was safe by making the card bright as well. I colored this couple with my Copics and white gel pen. Cut with my Nestibilities Oval, and doodled the edges.

I wanted something different so I used my Scor-Pal and made the card as a gate fold opening. I double matted the Sassafrass Lass heart paper with hot pink card stock and white card stock and placed on each side. For behind the couple I cut a piece of hot pink and white card stock and wrapped two pieces of this lattice ribbon around the pink attaching only to the left side of the card.

I then cut two pieces for the inside of the card and stamped with a Studio G "Congratulations!" stamp. I love how it came out, and hope the happy couple like it too! I still can't believe she is getting married... I guess between the birthday last week and this I need to realize that I am getting older huh? =)

It is Wednesday already, and it looks like the sun is going to come out today. We have gotten just over 5 inches of rain the past three days - so needed! But I did enjoy seeing it bright this morning and the donkeys enjoying the cooler morning. Hope you have a great day -

HUGS and-