Serving Up a Sweet Birthday

Hope you are having a sweet Wednesday so far. Such a cold day today. I need sunshine and warmth!! Actually it's supposed to warm up by the end of the week...HOORAY! If it's cold where you live, why not stay inside and get inky with our fabulous sketch at Sweet Sketch Wednesday. And check out our wonderful sponsor this week:

Digi Doodle Shop is the results of a mother and daughter’s love for the arts and crafts.  It was started a little over 3 years ago with a little more than 100 stamps, and has since then grown to almost 500 stamps.  Joy (the mother of this team) designs realistic images, while Judy (aka/daughter) loves the “fun side of life”, and create images with a cartoon flair.  Having these two complimenting styles have enabled

Digi Doodle Shop to offer a wide variety of stamps.

 It is a real honor and pleasure to sponsor this challenge, and we look forward to seeing all the amazing creations.  We thank the design team for their incredible creations, and wish all the participants the very best of luck in this challenge.

 
Thank you so much for having us, and again the very best of luck to all of you.
 

Sincerely,

Judy and Joy

Digi Doodle Shop is offering a prize of a $10 store gift certificate good for ten days upon receipt. How fun!!!

Here is my card using a Digi Doodle Shop image called Special Delivery. Is he not adorable, delivering a yummy cupcake to one lucky guy or gal!! I am always in need of birthday cards so how perfect. Sure hope you can join us this week at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

Tonight starts hockey playoffs. I'll be rooting my team on...Let's Go PENS!!! 

Girls Night Out

It's Wednesday and time for our fun new challenge over at the Fresh Brewed Blog. Our theme this week is "Friendship." I thought about what I like to do with my friends, and going out to eat ranks #1!! Any meal works for me, breakfast, lunch or dinner. Or even just a quick trip to Starbucks, love it! So I used the Fresh Brewed Designs image Coffee Talk. Hope you can join us for this fun challenge. And don't forget about Heather's birthday blog candy...read all about it HERE.  

Made Espressly for You

I am so ready for spring break to be over and the kids back in school. Actually, Kevin is back, thank goodness for him because he thrives on routine...and I'm afraid he's lovin' his new routine of NOT going to school!! Phillip followed me around the house all afternoon announcing he was bored. Any suggestions I gave him were not met with rave reviews!!!! He doesn't go back to school until Thursday! Yikes! This evening I was able to steal away to my stamp room and make this simple card. I used one of my favorite Fresh Brewed Designs images, Latte Love. I'm trying something new with my coloring and boy do I need the practice! I'll keep working on it though. I hope you have a wonderful Tuesday, it's supposed to be cold here today, just into the 40's. I miss those warm temps we were teased with in March. 

Best Buds

Now there's some good friends for ya! Best Buds to be exact!! This is one of the new digis released this month at Fresh Brewed Designs. Being the Mom of two boys I am so drawn to those masculine images! These two are so sweet, especially the one on the left with his toothless smile! That's why they sentiment "Sending smiles across the miles" seemed oh so right. I used the sketch from Deconstructed Sketches for this one...I do love a good sketch!! The rest of the DT created some wonderful inspiration so be sure and check them out HERE on the Fresh Brewed Blog.

Let's Celebrate

Happy Easter! We had our big meal for lunch since Phillip had to go to work. So now I'm just relaxing in my stamp room and getting inky. As you can see, I am all set for some upcoming birthdays with this set of cards I created using the newly released Birthday Accessories Color digital set from Doodle Pantry. These sure were quick and fun to make. I've been wanting to make up some gift sets of a variety of cards for all the wonderful teachers, therapists and aides that work with Kevin, so these might end up there instead. Enjoy the rest of your day, hope you are spending it with those you love. 

Wanna Do Lunch?

Okay, I couldn't wait to show you this card!! It's for the Clearly Inspired Challenge, Go Green. Now you can interpret that as you wish - shades of green, something recycled just to name two. I went with the color green because of the new digital set Hoppers from Clear Dollar Stamps. By participating in our challenges this month, you could win this set for FREE! I paper pieced the frog's body, sponging around the bottom of the piece for a little dimension. I followed the great sketch over at Quirky Crafts, I love the off set layer. Initially I was going to use my sentiment as the thin strip on that layer, but it was a bit too long. So use some ribbon and cut up the sentiment into words and we have a card! Hope you can join us for our Clearly Inspired Challenge.  

Pretty Eggs

It's Thursday, spring break has started here and the boys couldn't be happier. Phillip still needs to get up and get himself to track practice though. No sleeping in! Thursdays also mean a new inspiration photo at Paper Lovin' Gals. Such beautiful eggs, aren't they. That was the inspiration I pulled from this picture. 

And here's my set of cards, using a pre-colored digital set from Clear Dollar Stamps called You're Eggs-traordinary. This set contains three different colored eggs as well as the outlines, but I decided on one design so I only had to print one of the papers. I needed to get these made and in the mail for the nieces...before Easter was over!!!! They are so used to my disorganization and would have laughed receiving an Easter card two weeks late!! I used the fun sketch from Skipping Stones Designs, it worked perfectly for this image and sentiment. Now let's see what inspires you with our photo and join us at Paper Lovin' Gals.