SNOWMAN / Mo's Dream Team Blog Hop & MTSC #104... #

WooHoo! Happy Hop Day, Mo's Dream Team style! The super talented Peri is our hostess today & she decided on the theme "Let it Snow!"... we hardly ever get snow here in the south, but were pleasantly surprised last week with almost an hour of little flurries! I hope we see some more!

Don't worry if you've dropped in mid hop - just keep following along and you'll eventually make it through! But if you must, you can start at the beginning at the Dream Team blog. I used the darling image "Snowman" for my card - you can find it here. Half the battle for me is always finding the paper first, and once I decided, I realized I didn't have Copics that matched - so please forgive my rather 'rusty' watercoloring! Mercy's sketch this week was perfect, too! Thanks Mercy!!!

Your next stop is my sweet friend Lori, not only does she have beauty & brains - she pretty stinkin' talented to boot! I'm sure she'll inspire you!

Have a terrific day!!!

MAE'S PRESENT / MTSC #103 & PTW 12.7.10...

Here's a quick card I made with this gorgeous little image, Mae's Present, from A Day For Daisies!

I used Mercy's sketch, a little modified, obviously, and paired it with the challenge over at Papertake Weekly to not use red & green! Burgundy isn't red... right?

Well, this is probably my last post for today... I'll be back tomorrow with more to share!

Have a great night!

SPOONFULS MILLIE / MTSC # 102...

Here's a new little sweetie from Lori Boyd's mom, Spoonfuls Millie!!! She is SUPER CUTE, isn't she? Goes to show that talent does run in the family!

I used Mercy's sketch for this week, come on - squint your eyes & you'll see it there! This was such a fun image to work with, I found this equally fun patterned paper to pair it with!

Hope you had an awesome day... only 24 moew days until Christmas - WOOHOO!!!

Bye for now~

CHRISTMAS~Y KAYLEE LOLLIPOP / MTSC #98 & SCCC #49...

Whew, it's Monday! With family in from town and my baby brother's wedding, this weekend flew by! My sweet friend Lori released some new digis last week, and I decided to "Christmas" one up for today's card!

Two more of my sweet friends, Alanna & Steph, both design for Sparkle Creations Christmas Card Challenge so I decided to get in on the fun with them this week! Today is Steph' birthday, so please pay her a visit and leave some birthday wishes! I also used Mercy's sketch, a little tweaked, though. Somehow I forgot between my computer and work area EXACTLY what the sketch looked like, but I got close!

So this is Kaylee Lollipop, designed by Lori Boyd! I just LOVE these little Lollipops, they're adorable AND versatile! I just colored her little arms to look loke dress sleeves and her legs to look like tights. Now my ONLY wish was that I'd used one of the Sweet Treat Accessories, the candy cane, to put in her hand.... I will next time!

Bye for now!

FALL TIME KATIE & GRACE / MTSC #97...

YAY - meet Katie & Grace, part a brand new release from byLORIdesigns!!! Wait til you see these little darlings, you 'll be in love!!! They aren't really Puddle Junpers, they're PJs... starting to grow up!

When you buy these either of these stamps, you'll also get a version where the pumpkins have cute little faces - what a deal!!! Maybe I'll show you one of those tomorrow!

I used Mercy's sketch for this card, along with some awesome Nutmeg paper from Cosmo Cricket!

Gotta go for now...

SWEET KIKI / MTSC #87 & WMC #18...

I've had an interesting week at work so far, lightening hit our cable internet box on Monday & again today. And who says lightening doesn't strike in the same spot twice!

I played along with Mercy's cool sketch this week - YAY! Double YAYAY because my card last week was one of the top 5 of Mercy's faves!!! I also played along with Jenny for the first time over at Wee Memories - her theme this week was buttons, brads & bling - hard decision for me, but I settled for bling! Predictable, I know!

That's it for now - thanks for dropping by!

CARDSTOCK: Stampin' Up! - Baja Breeze, Regal Rose, Wild Wasabi, Bayou Blue

PAPERS - My Mind's Eye - Quite Contrary (Jack & Jill), There She Goes - Art is the Window

STAMPS: All Thst Scraps - Sweet Kiki digi

ACCESSORIES: Basic Grey - rhinestone, ribbon from stash

TOOLS: Nellie's Circle dies, Score Pal

HEIDI AMONG THE FLOWERS / MTSC #86 & ATSWC

WOHOOOOO! My new Copics came in yesterday, now my 72 pen rack overfloweth! The most important ones I got were some lighter skin tones... should have bought them ages ago! It's just as magical as Christmas morning when I get a package in the mail... [sigh]

Mercy is on All That Scraps DT now, so when I played along with her sketch this week I just had to use a digi from them. So I guess their evil plan worked - lol! When I logged on to grab her sketch pic I saw that the Wednesday Challenge at the ATS blog was to use die cuts, I realized I could enter my card there also! Pure SERENDIPITY!

This little cutie is Heidi Among the Flowers... I love that name & the image! Above you'll see all the Copics I used for this card... Obviously I have no restraint when it comes to color blending. I swear it took me an hour to color her!

Have a happy Wednesday!

CARDSTOCK: Stampin' Up! - Real Red, Buckaroo Blue, Baja Breeze, Very Vanilla

PAPERS - Cosmo Cricket - Early Bird

STAMPS: C.C. Designs DIGI Swiss Pixies- Heidi Among The Flowers @ All That Scraps, Papertrey Ink - Green Thumb sentiment

INK - Stampin' Up! - Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake

ACCESSORIES: Stampin' Up! Twill Tape, hemp twine & eyelet, Making Memories - button brads

TOOLS: Crop-a-dile, deckle edge rectangle nestabilities

WONDERLAND / MTSC #83, PDCC #38 & TGF FFF...

Here's a quick card for several challenges... don't you just love these mushrooms? SO COOL!!! And the bunny is cute as pie, too!

I wanted to make sure to play along with Mercy's cool sketch this week, I'm always sad when I realize I missed one of her sketches! It's been a while since I did a Greeting Farm challenge, too... so this past Friday's Farm Fresh was on my list, too! When I saw the awesome colors at the Play Date Café, I knew I was ready to get cookin'!

For TGF, we were to use a digi & a new~ish technique. Here I've done digital paper piecing, using TGF's set, Wonderland. You know I'm a sucker for paper piecing! If anyone is interested in a little tutorial on digi paper piecing, let me know & I can throw one together for those using Photoshop.

Have a great day!

DADISMS / MTSC #78, PTW & SR #24...

Here's the card I made for my Dad, since I couldn't post it before I gave it to him for Father's Day, I missed out on Mercy's deadline...

I combined Mercy's sketch with the theme of Ice Cream Flavors from PaperTake Weekly & Stampin' Royalty's masculine theme. My ice cream flavors are both Chunky Monky & Mint Chocolate Chip... something I enjoyed while pregnant, but not so much now - lol!

I used the stamp set Dadisms from There She Goes... SO FUN! I've said it before, but Jessica's sentiments crack me up & got a chuckle from Dad, too! The patterned paper is retired from Stampin' Up! - the top panel piece I ran through the BigShot with Cuttlebug's Argyle embossing folder. I'll be sad when I use my last piece of this paper, it's so great for guys!

Hope the men in your life had a great Father's Day!

Bye for now!

BABY BUTTON BITS / CTD #96 & MTSC #77...

This is my 2nd baby as many days... all the cool colors I've seen lately make me think "baby card"...

I combined the sweet colors of the Color Throwdown with Mercy's awesome sketch, I just love it! I did set my circle off center though, so that the tope pan el would show up - it kinda got huge on me after adding the ribbon - lol!

I used Papertrey Ink's set, Baby Button Bits - I {heart} this little snail!!!

Maisie was better last night, maybe her squalling was just some weird growing pains - who knows/cares as long as she's okay and happy, right?

Thanks so much for dropping by!