A Sweet Hello Hello

Every Wednesday I get to share with you our latest sketch at Sweet Sketch Wednesday. This week is another fun one. Sure hope you get to join us.

Our sponsor this week is Milk Coffee. You really need to check out their shop, talk about lots of adorable images!!! And if you're our winner, you will receive 3 free digi images from Milk Coffee.

MilkCoffee Stamps is a digital image shop specialized in cute and girly images.There are 2 people behind this shop, Esmeralda and Nathaza. We are best buddies from our childhood with a common thing that we love so much: drawing. What we try to do is drawing various styles that suits different kind of tastes, so a lot of people with different style can still play along with our image for their cards.

Right now we have 8 talented DT ladies who always help us to have fun together with our weekly challenge at our challenge blog here. Also we have monthly colour challenge at our main blog. You can check it here. It's very nice to see a lot of people join and have fun at our challenge.

In the future we still want to make more cute images that is loved and used happily by many people.

And here is my card, using the darling Lisbeth and Mushroom House. Can you say adorable?!!! I don't know why I went with more fall colors, but the evenings have been cooler so I feel like summer is coming to an end! I used my rick rack die and some fun orange designer paper. Talk about quick and easy. Now I can't wait to see what you come up with for our latest challenge at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.   

You Make me Smile

It's Tuesday, so that means I get to share with you a card I made using a Fresh Brewed Designs image. It didn't take me long to decide on this one, Grace in the Garden. Dad always grew the best tomatoes. Every summer Mom tried talking him into planting fewer tomatoes, but it never worked. Thank goodness because I would end up with bushels of 'em to eat and make juice. Oh the wonderful memories I will carry with me forever.

A simple card, that's for sure. I'm struggling to get my mojo back. But I couldn't believe my luck when I found this chunk of tomato paper in my scrap pile. Talk about perfect.

Fresh Brewed Designs is having an awesome sale - 60% off your entire digital stamp order. Hurry though, you only have until midnight tomorrow.

Share the Dirt

I'm home now from my emotional past few days. My Dad passed away after a month long stay in the hospital, suffering two strokes and a mild heart attack, all this on top of his already diagnosed alzhiemers. He is now up in heaven, tending to the garden, his all-time favorite place to spend his time.

I needed to get back into the swing of things, so I made a card for the CAS challenge over at The Outlawz. Chocolate is the theme this week, so I went with chocolate brown cardstock. The stamp set is by Paper Smooches, Green Thumb, as are the dies. It was so fun coloring up these little images and planting them - the peas are covering up an ink smudge. So fun and also so simple.

Some challenges I'd like to submit my card to are:
Dream Valley Challenges - Summer Days
Hobby Cutz - Summer
Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge - Anything Goes

Enjoy your today. It's hubby's birthday - wonder where he'll want to go out to eat?!!
 

Sweet Bee

It's time to share with you our latest challenge over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday. It's a blast from the past, giving us all a chance to revisit a previous sketch and have fun all over again.

Our sponsor this week is Paper Addictions. I highly recommend taking a look, I know you'll find some fun "must have" images. The winner this week will receive 5 items from the Paper Addictions etsy shop.

 My name is Jacqueline Mathews and I am a crafter and designer.  I love paper, pens, doodling, stamping and above all designing.  I have a degree in fine arts with an emphasis in graphic design.  I worked in the graphic design industry for many years and quit 15 years ago to become a stay at home mom for my 3 kids.  Now that the kids are older and don’t need me as much, I am reinventing myself and have decided that I wanted to create my own line of digital stamps.  I have dabbled in rubber stamping and became a “Stampin’ up!” demonstrator and had a blast, but thought it would be more fun to create my own stamps.  I decided digital was the way to go.  It is affordable for the customer and for the designer.  I now have a digital stamp shop on Etsy called “PaperAddictions”.  I would love to create my own line of rubber stamps someday, but for now I am testing my designs out in my shop to see if anyone likes them.  I am pleasantly surprised that I have gotten a good response to the images I have designed so far.  This positive response has motivated me to create more images in the future.

Here is my card, using the adorable Bee Holding Cupcake. I loved this cutie, especially his high top tennis shoes! Too fun. I sure hope you can join us this week at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.
  

Ahoy There Matey!

Ahoy there! What, no Christmas card?!!! Believe me, I debated making one last night for today's post!! I have a bad habit of printing off pages of digi images then not putting them to use right away. So I raided my stash and pulled out this cutie from Fresh Brewed Designs called Tommy Pirate. I really liked the Sweet Sunday Sketch this week, and was able to use up some paper scraps. Other challenges I would like to submit this card to include:

Melonheadz Friends - Lots of circles
Paper Playtime - Use pattern paper
Here Come the Boys - Anything goes for men/boys

Gotta Love Christmas in July

Yes, I've got more Christmas cards to share with you today. Our internet has been spotty for some reason so no time for extra chit chat! This card uses two Doodle Pantry images, Vintage Ornament and Holiday Greetings. The Holiday Greetings set you can receive absolutely free just by playing along in our Doodle Pantry Digital Challenge, but hurry, you have until the 24th to play. Speaking of challenges, here are some I'd like to submit my card to:

Sweet Stampin' - Christmas in July 
Sketch Saturday - Sketch
Fairy Tale Challenge - Christmas in July
Paper Crafting Journey - Christmas in July
Shelly's Images - Christmas in July
The Outlawz Twisted Thursday - Christmas in July

Clean & Simple Blog Hop

Today is a clean & simple day! This is my second post for our Clearly Digi Stamps blog hop, and our theme is CAS. Be sure and comment on all the blogs for a chance at winning the digi set used by that DT member.

If you got here from Dana's blog (waving "hi" Dana!!), then you're on the right track. If not, be sure and start at the beginning at the CDS blog, Clearly iStamp. I've been wanting to create with this cutie, Harrietta Hippo, so figured now was my chance!  Clean & simple goes hand in hand with quick & easy in my book, so I used the color version, rotating the image so Harrietta was looking the other way. A chunk of scrap paper was just sitting on my desk also screaming to be used...so I did! I then cut apart the sentiment and popped it up kinda wonky, just the way I see the world!!! Hahaha!!

I am the last stop on our hop. Like I said, be sure and comment on ALL the stops along the way to increase your chance of winning a fun set.