Blog Candy!!

I was just blog hopping today and found this wonderful blog here and she just happens to be giving away some awesome blog candy!! This is one of the cute images - there are 3 Valentine girls and they are all 3 the cutest!!! Be sure to check it out and put your chance in to win one of these super cute images!

The Greeting Farm Relay Race Day #2 & Pink Elephant Challenge!

This is Charlotte - isn't she a cutie!! This is the 2nd digi image in the relay race over at The Greeting Farm (see more info in the post below). I hope to play all week! I wanted to play in the Pink Elephant Challenge also this week which is to use dots, a bow, and pink - well, I just couldn't help but combine these as they seemed perfect for each other! This card also fits the Crazy 4 Challenges Pretty in Pink Challenge this week and A Spoon Full of Sugar's open challenge! Hope you like it!!

The Greeting Farm Relay Race

The ladies over at The Greeting Farm blog have a wonderful relay race going on to keep us busy while we anxiously await news from CHA!! All you need to do is head on over to the blog here and pick up this cute digital image and make a project with him and post it in their gallery and then go and leave a comment on Monday's post with your email in the comment before Monday night at 6:00 pm. If you do this you will receive another digital image via email and you will need to make something with it and post it and leave a comment before Tuesday at 6:00 pm. This will continue all week and those who participate all 5 days will receive an extra digital image. If you fail to play each day then you will lose out and you cannot jump back in. They always have the cutest images and this little Mer Ian is so easy to work with. I just did a CAS card and it really didn't take me long at all to put it together.

Help for Haiti

Crissy Armstrong has designed this beautiful digital image strictly to help raise money for the Haitians! If you click on the link on my sidebar it will take you to her post telling how to donate and where to purchase this beautiful image. Plus....she has several wonderful prizes also so be sure to read the whole post and leave a comment! If you are a horse lover like me be sure to check out her recently released images as you will LOVE them! Hurry on over there as this image is only available for a limited time. ** I wish I could say I colored this but no, I didn't. I assuming Crissy did as I copied this right off of her blog. If you scroll through her blog you will see some awesome video tutorials on coloring with copics! She is awesome!

Sew Many Cards Friday Freebie using Mojo Monday Sketch!

This SWEET image is today's Friday FREEBIE!! Yes, you read that correctly SWEET FREEBIE!! Hurry on over here to pick yours up! I used this weeks Mojo Monday sketch found here for my card. My greeting is from the Sending My Love stamp set from There She Goes. You can buy it here. I embossed my sentiment in black, used my new fiskars edger punch, added some ribbon and a button and there it is! Easy Peasy! Hope you like it! Be sure to check the prior post for this weeks challenge at Sew Many Challenges!

Sew Many Challenges - Color Challenge!

This week's challenge over at Sew Many Challenges is a color one (purple, white with a splash of black). You can use any colors on your image, though. I don't use purple very often so I had to dig through my stash and I did fine these classic dots and checks in purple - sorry, don't know the manufacturer but I bought them way back when I very first started "collecting" supplies. Unfortunately, I was a scrapbooking supplies collector well before I became an active scrapbooker so...now that I'm making cards, too I'm trying to use up my stash. I used this really super cute image from Angela's last release as I'm still feeling in a Valentine mood. I colored with my copics and sponged some background sky and grass. We are so excited to have Cosmo Cricket as our sponsor this week. They have donated a super dooper cute Jolly by Golly Crafting Kit for the winner of this challenge so.....not only will the winner get that but also some digital images from Sew Many Cards!!! So come on and join us.....dig through your papers I know you have some purple in there somewhere!

SCS Sketch Challenge

This is my entry for this week's SCS sketch challenge. You can read more about it and get the sketch here. Angela from Sew Many Cards is the guest hostess over there this week so I decided to use one of her images and play along. This cute little toad is the Friday Freebie from many Fridays back but I just think he is so cute! I used some K&Company patterned paper and then some dry embossing on my "strips" and added some funky ribbon that I had in my stash that I just thought "fit". If you follow my blog at all you know I'm pretty conservative with my patterns (I wouldn't make a good quilter at all) so this is a little out on a limb for me throwing these together but I think it turned out cute. I'll be posting some blog candy soon to celebrate my last post being my 100th!!! Thanks for stopping by!

Pink Elephant, Cardvarks & Practical Scrappers Challenges!!

This week's challenge at The Pink Elephant is a sketch challenge, Cardvarks is a red and hearts challenge and the Practical Scrappers challenge is embossing so...I decided to combine all into one card using Angela's super cute bubblegum machine full of hearts!! By the way, this cute image is from the FREE package of images with a $10 purchase over at Sew Many Cards. Just use JANFREE as the coupon and you will get not only this sweet image but several others, too. Just click here to go shopping! This card was super fun to make. I just colored the image with my copics and used some of this super cute DCWV paper from the Doodlin' Around stack. I dry embossed the card base with a sizzix texture plate (2nd picture shows it a little better - really cute IRL) and wet embossed my sentiment (Sweet Friend set from Clear Dollar Stamps) using some Zing embossing powder. I pop dotted the image and the sentiment along with the cute little hearts. I added some glitter on the hearts and was done! Hope you like it! PS - This is my 100th post so stay tuned for some blog candy!

Anything Goes at Sew Many Cards

This week's challenge over at Sew Many Cards is Anything Goes....so you can use any image, any color combo....whatever strikes your fancy! I knew right away that I wanted to play with the new Duncan! Is he not the cutest little duckie you ever saw??? I use Word to size my images and I sized Duncan to a height of 2.6 inches. This is a 5" square card and I used my largest oval nestie to cut my cardstock. I just got the Basic Grey Nook and Pantry paper and I found this cute design that made me think of raindrops splattered on the window so.....I added some SU kiwi kiss and crushed curry....not a combo I probably would have ever put together but it worked with this patterned paper. I cut the green layer behind Duncan with one of my nesties and I believe that is from the set called Label 4 but don't quote me on that. I used Papertrey Ink ribbon in pure poppy and, I have to say, this ribbon is awesome. I had read many reviews stating how nice it is to work with and there is something about it that makes it tie really nice. It seems to hold its shape much easier. I colored my image with copics and used my new Sakura glaze pen on the water....love that, too! Our sponsor this week is Terri from Stamps Alive and she has generously donated a Cuttlebug Damask Combo Embossing Folder Set. Here is a little about Terri:

"I started my business in 1993 to give me something to do. I had worked all my life and recently quit to be a stay at home mom to my new baby. I've always been interested in paper products and I didn't like paying full price for some of the things I wanted. So I started my own business. I like to pass my savings on to others. I've made some really good friends over the years. I've always been a small business and I only advertise by word of mouth. Over the years I've kept as busy as I wanted to be. It has been very interesting to see the hobby industry change over the years. I had a "scrapbook" store in my basement before Las Vegas knew what a scrapbook store was. I've deal with Provo Craft the entire 17 years I've been in business and that has been fun, to watch them change!! The Cricut Messageboard has allowed me to expand my business but still do it "word of mouth". That baby is almost 17 (March) and will be graduating HS in 2011, I will be ready to be busier at that time! She uses my supplies more than I do, I have decided I'm a collector of everything. I have more fun selling and helping others than I do creating. Maybe someday, when times are slower or I'm not being a "Taxi Mom" I can create. Until then, I collect! Right now I have some of the new release Cricut Cartridges for $38 and getting ready to go to Winter CHA to check out some awesome items, including the new releases of Nestabilities! Check out my blog for all my items that I sell and for more information!! http://stampsalive.blogspot.com"

If you have not been over to Terri's blog...hold on to your keyboard and get ready to be enabled!! She always has specials on JustRite stamps and Spellbinder Nestabilities, plus - she has things available as soon as they are released so if you see something you just have to have....be sure to check with Terri as she probably already has it or will order it for you at a really good price. I've purchased from Terri several times and I'm sure much to my hubby's chagrin will many more.....So.....not only can you win some of the wonderful images from Sew Many Cards by playing along with our challenge but you can also win this cuttlebug set!!! I almost forgot to tell you - Sew Many Cards has a brand new challenge blog - here! You are not required to use a Sew Many Cards image but we would love to see what you do with them. You can find them here. There is a freebie posted every Friday!! Come on over and join in the fun!!

BLOG HOP WINNER!!

Congrats to Gloria - you are the blog hop winner of the digital image I revealed!! I'll get it out to you today! Thanks to everyone for playing!!! Be sure to check back on Friday for next week's challenge!

Mojo Monday Sketch

Here is my card for this weeks Mojo Monday sketch this week. I used Angela's Sewn Together image with some Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses Berry Frost and Heidi Grace Love Blossoms (2006) patterned paper with a little bit of the black from my slice paper pack. The love I stamped in the heart is from a stamp set I just got from Clear Dollar stamps. Hope you enjoy!

Sew Many Cards Friday Freebie

Are you having fun with our blog hop? If you haven't started checking out all the sites, you are missing out!!! There are some wonderful projects to see!!! You can see the blog roll on my post just below this one. If you have signed up for Angela's newsletter then you probably have seen this cute image as it is this week's Freebie!!! If you haven't, please go over and sign up now as every Friday you will get a free newsletter via email with a free image! What's not to love about that?! The valentine patterned paper is from the DCWV Spring Glitter Stack and I think it is adorable - love pink and green together anyway. The green patterned paper is just from my stash and didn't have a company name on it - sorry. I used my martha stewart punch for the border and you really can't see but there are little tiny hearts in it. I colored my image with copics G24, YG06, YG17, R32, R43 and RV29. I gave a little shadow with C1 also. I used some little white pearls to finish it off. Hope you enjoy! Don't forget to leave a comment on each blog below as you hop as each DT member will be drawing a winner for the image they are showcasing and.....it will enter you in the grand prize drawing sponsored by Doodle Beans.

Sew Many Cards Jan 2010 New Release Blog Hop!!!!

Welcome to the first blog hop of 2010 for Sew Many Cards!!! If you arrived here from Jessica's site then you are on the right track. If not, you can start the blog hop at the beginning by clicking here. I love this image of Halen peeking over the fence as it is so versatile. I stamped friends forever from a Fiskars greeting set I had on hand but you could personalize this however you want. The great thing about digital images is that you can size them to fit the project you are working on. In this case, I sized him to a height of 2 inches using Word as this is an A2 card. Wouldn't this be cute if you knew someone who just got a new bunny ???? You could use this as a gift bag topper on a bag of bunny treats! So many possibilities with this image.... I started my card with a base of Gina K's pure luxury cardstock in cranberry tart....loving this cardstock. I then used a layer of wood patterned paper from Frances Meyer which I distressed with my handy dandy Heidi Swapp edge distresser. I added a layer of burgundy patterned paper from Autumn Leaves which I cut with my scalloped rectangle nestie. My image is colored with copic markers and then I added a mixturer of prima and Imaginisce flowers I had on hand. I added some skittles to the centers of the white flowers and a button with twine to the other and my card was complete.

Now for what you really want to know......yes....there is some awesome blog candy!!! Doodle Bean Stamps is sponsoring our blog hop and they have generously donated a $10 gift certificate to Doodle Bean Stamps (click on the link on my sidebar to check out their awesome images) AND the winner also gets a $15 gift certificate to Amazon (they have cardmaking and scrapbooking supplies, too you know....) also donated by Doodle Bean Stamps. What do you have to do to be in the drawing? Well, it is very easy....all you have to do is visit every blog in the hop and leave a comment on every blog! But wait....I'm not finished....every design team member will also be picking a comment from their blog to win the image that they are showcasing. So...be sure to leave me a comment so that you can have a chance to win this cute little Halen image and....be in the drawing for the grand prize sponsored by Doodle Bean Stamps. As you hop, you will see that Sew Many Cards has lots of new DT members so be sure to say "Hello" and make them feel welcome!

Just in case you get lost along the way here is the blog roll:

Sew Many Cards http://digital.sewmanycards.com/

Amber H http://ambersantics.blogspot.com/

Audrey E http://hippieaud.blogspot.com/

Ceal P http://simplybeautifulcreations.blogspot.com/

Cheri G http://creationsdecheri.blogspot.com/

Dawnn S http://scrapingd.blogspot.com/

Deanette W http://deanettesdelight.blogspot.com/

Gloria M http://craftergm.blogspot.com/search/label/Digital

Jeannette C http://creativeplayischeaperthantherapy.blogspot.com/

Jeri Moody http://craftyjsplace.blogspot.com/

Jessica K http://mysanitydependsonstamping.blogspot.com/

Kim G http://kimsscrappyspace.blogspot.com/ - you are here!

Kym B http://kymkreations.blogspot.com/

Kym W http://nanaskeepsakes.blogspot.com/

Maria L http://www.riacreations.blogspot.com/

Mary D http://marydemmons.blogspot.com/

Mary S http://purrfectsentiments.blogspot.com/

Melissa W http://melissasuewright.blogspot.com/

Michele L http://enchantedstamper.blogspot.com/

Patricia G. http://patriciagrc98.blogspot.com

Patricia St. M http://rubberstampingismygame.blogspot.com/

Sarabeth Burke http://scraphappie.blogspot.com/

Sarah T http://auntbeespickles.blogspot.com/

Sherry L http://thepaperpalace21.blogspot.com/

Suzanne K http://justlovestamping.blogspot.com/

Tammy M http://createwhenican.blogspot.com/

Sew Many Cards Ning Community http://sewmanycards.ning.com/group/sewmanyreleasespartyspot/forum/topics/january-new-release-blog-hop

Mom's Blog

I can't believe my Mom is officially blogging now, too! Please stop by here and give her some love. She just recently started making cards but she has crafted for years and years (not that she is that old....that would mean that I'm getting old, too....hehehe). She is an amazing artist and she has made some beautiful cards already. I'm hoping she will post some of her other things, too!