Happy New Year Two challenges

It is almost another year gone. As I think of 2009 and my most fond memories, I think of our family trip to Dallas to see the King Tut exhibit, our road trip down route 66 and our many adventurous trips up to Branson, MO and I can't wait to see what 2010 has in store for us. I have made a few resolutions... Exercise daily, read the Bible all the way through and keep my art room clean. My sister is getting married in May of 2010 and we are planning a trip to Colorado at the end of July.

Now on to my card. This little guy was a freebie at The Greeting Farm. There has been much discussion in our home at what type of animal he is. My daughter says he is a hedgehog, my husband says it is a bear. I plain ole don't have an opinion on what he is. The sketch is by Inspirational card sketches http://icsketches.blogspot.com/ and the theme is celebrations over at Charisma cardz http://www.charismacardz.blogspot.com/ / I love this color combo. I guess I am having fun getting away from the Christmas and winter colors. Thanks for looking.

Spoonful of Sugar and a Birthday puppy

This color combo is probobly one of my favorite because it is just so cheerful. I used the spoonful of sugar sketch http://aspoonfullofsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/ and the Birthday puppy by Designed 2 delight http://designed2delightdigishop.blogspot.com/ Check out their progressive blog challenge. They have great freebie digi stamps. Colored with copics of course and I love this ribbon slide got a set at HL on sale this week. Thanks for looking. Happy New Year.

Delightful Sketches and Designed To Delight

Well I just found out a couple of hours ago that I was to get this great bear stamp for participating in last weeks Designed to delight challenge and that I needed to get a card made using this stamp by tonight so that I can play in their progressive challenge. Details here... http://designed2delightdigishop.blogspot.com/ so I felt a bit rushed but am overall happy with the results. I knew I wanted to do something black and red... couldn't decide on the ribbon so used both. The sketch is from Delightful sketches challenge http://delightfulsketches.blogspot.com/ Thanks for looking and have a great New Year:)

Anyone For Anya Mermaid

Well I did it. I made a non-Christmas card. It is time to move on. I love Christmas and can't wait to get out all of my Christmas stamps again. This is my first entry into the Anyone For Anya challenge http://anyoneforanya.blogspot.com/ I love Anya stamps. They are so cute and I love to color them with copics. They also stamp so well. I hope that everyone had a great Christmas and I look forward to another year of stamping with all of you in cyber land.

Designed 2 Delight Freebie challenge

With Christmas almost here I am not getting much time to stamp but I did find this freebie challenge at Designed2delight http://designed2delightdigishop.blogspot.com/ and it inspired me to get my rear in my stamp room and make one last Christmas card. The sketch is the challenge for a blog group that I joined called Stampers R Us. Thanks for looking and Merry Christmas.

Spoonfull of sugar

I needed to create a blue christmas theme card for a challenge at PCP. This is a freebie for anyone that joins the FairlyLand Dreams group at PCP and if you join and tell them I sent you I get another freebie. It is really a great group to join. http://www.papercraftplanet.com/group/fairylanddreamsdigistamps Just say Tami sent you. The sketch is for this week's spoonfull of sugar challenge http://aspoonfullofsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/ Thanks for looking and Merry Christmas

An Alota challenge and another easel card

Another week and it will be not the time to make Christmas cards anymore. Whatever will I stamp then. I've been doing the holiday card thing since before Halloween and now its just about over but I guess Valentines is next. Well this month's challenge on the Alota Stamps PCP group was to make a Christmas card so you know I'm loving these easel cards and I'm sure you know I love gingerbreads so here is a combo. I tried to color the cookies so their coloring looked like a cookie and the bow is some wierd creation I came up with and tied it together. Thanks for looking.

just us Girls Challenge #10

I decided to turn this sketch into an easel card. As you can tell I love these. Make sure to check out my older post from today and earlier this week. The image is my new Belles and whistles stamp which I love but had a hard time deciding how to color her sleeves so I will work on the coloring. Thanks for looking and stay warm http://justusgirlschallenge.blogspot.com/ Oh and I flipped the sketch.

Spoon Full of sugar 81 and Card Patterns 44

This weeks spoon full of sugar challenge was monochromatic http://aspoonfullofsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/ and I really love browns for Christmas right now so I decided on this Eskimo digi stamp by Mo's Digital Pencil Too. She has some great images. The sketch is this weeks Card Patterns http://cardpatterns.blogspot.com/ Colored with copics and I really liked how the three bows at the top worked out. I'll have to do that again. Thanks for looking.

Sketch Saturday and Pile it on Glitter

Can you tell I am in love with these easel cards. This is my third one to post today so check the older post. These stamps are by Delightful sketches. Love them. It was a set of four toppers and everything is 50% off. You got to go see. Anyway the sketch is for sketch saturday challenge http://sketchsaturday.blogspot.com/ and I added glitter to my little reindeer's scarf so that I could join the pile it on challenge http://pileitonchallenge.blogspot.com/ and yes I am interested in being on the DT. Colored with copics and I just love adding all that bling. Thans for looking.

Delightful Sketches #12

This is my first entry in this blog challenge and I have made another easel card using this great image by FairyLand Dreams. Colored with copics. I love this paper. I got it from a secret sis swap and I have really used it alot. I like the colors. The sentiment was just typed by me. I thought it was cute. The challenge is here http://delightfulsketches.blogspot.com/ I made this card for a lady at my work and I'll give it to her tomorrow.

Sunday Sketch and Stamp #17

I thought this was a new challenge to me but I see I have played awhile back. This sketch challenge is here http://sundaysketchandstamp.blogspot.com/ I decided to make another easel card. Now that I can make them without directions they are kind of my favorite thing to make right now. The image is a digi freebie from Digital Delights and the sentiment is also from Digital delights and they are having a big sale right now (50% off) They have some really cute digi stamps. The snowflake is my new snowflake spellbinders set. Colored with copics. Thanks for looking.

Friday Sketchers 81

I saw this sketch today at Friday Sketchers and really liked it. The image is by Soft pencil a fairly new digi stamp company. Colored with copics. Oh Friday's sketcher is here http://fridaysketchersblog.blogspot.com/

Fairyland Dreams Challenge 2 My first Easel Card

I found this new digi company http://fairylanddreamsdesigns.blogspot.com/ and joined their Papercraft Planet group. There challenge this week was to make a card showing Love. Gingerbreads are right up my alley and they had some nice freebie gingerbreads so this card just came together. I was wanting to make an easel card and this was my first attempt and it was really easy once I got the idea of what was going on. Thanks for looking.

Inktegrity Mantle Challenge

While browsing some blogs today I came across this challenge and the deadline was today so Aly and I got busy and worked on this fun challenge.  It was to decorate this mantle anyway you desire.  It was a free digi and I knew this was right up Aly's alley LOL  If you want to visit her blog and see her mantle visit  www.ginjoegirl.blogspot.com  The challenge is here http://inktegrity.blogspot.com/2009/11/mantel-challenge.html Ends tonight at midnight. Stamps are by hero

arts. Thanks for looking. These might just be our Christmas cards. Individualized mantles. How cool.

Get Sketchy #16 Free Digi from Aly

My beautiful and talented eleven year old daughter has her own challenge blog www.alyssundaychallenge.blogspot.com and she wanted to thank those that have supported it over the last few month's by offering a free digi.  She loves to draw so it was just natural to turn one of her drawings into a digi stamp.  The sketch I used is this weeks Get Sketchy Sketch  http://getsketchy.blogspot.com/ Colored with copics. I added this poinsetta that I found in the Christmas section of Hobby Lobby

this week. Thanks so much for looking.

Sweet sunday sketch 46 and A free Digi Stamp

This is my first entry into the Sweet Sunday sketch challenge. I was looking for a sketch to use today using a circle and I found this one. The snowman stamp I got this weekend from a secret sis swap and is by Hampton arts. I used my glittery sprigs again that I got at Old time pottery (warning I have a whole bundle that will last for years so you will probobly see these alot:)) Now what about the free digi. Well I designed this nestie frame stamp to use with a scalloped circle nestabilitie. I used it as a snowflake frame but it could also be used as stars on the 4th of July. It will be available in red and black and they both will be free to anyone that participates in Aly's sketch this coming Sunday Dec 6th. There are more suprises so make sure to stay tuned and watch Aly's blog http://www.alyssundaychallenge.blogspot.com/ Oh and the sweet sunday sketch is here http://kgiron.blogspot.com/

Creative Inspirations Sketch 36

This is my first entry into the particular challenge blog. I love finding new blogs to join. I got this paper from Hobby Lobby on black friday and I just LOVE it. It is by K and Co. I also picked up these glittery babies breath sprigs from Old time pottery and thought I would give them a whirl in using in my card creations. I love them also. So here is my card. I used Hero arts owls colored with copics and the sentiment is by Catslife press. Thanks for looking and the challenge is here. http://www.cinspirations.blogspot.com/

Tuesday Morning Sketch with a Spoon Full of Sugar

I love Gingerbreads and I won this digi stamp awhile back from Whimsie Doodles. It is really one of my favorites. This weeks Spoon full of sugar challenge was to use brown with pink or blue and I chose pink. http://aspoonfullofsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/ The sketch is by Tuesday Morning Sketch and was a really fun sketch to play with. http://tuesdaymorningsketches.blogspot.com/ Thanks for looking.

Dietrich Challenge #12

I found this challenge that the kids draw a sketch challenge and since my daughter has her own challenge I really wanted to support this blog. http://www.thediedrichdare.blogspot.com/ This is my take on seven year old Jack's sketch. The stamp is by Penny Black colored with copics. I had a red layer underneath the image but then there was no room for the three embellishments on the side. Thanks for looking.

Christmas Ornament

Well turn your head to the side because blogger wants to rotate my images ut hopefully you get the idea

Well I made this for Tuesday Morning sketches but then realized that I had printed a sketch from two weeks ago. So I can't enter it in the sketch challenge but it did inspire me for this ornament. The base is a paper mache ornament from Hobby Lobby. I am really happy how this turned out and I think I'll make a few more for gifts.

Unscripted Sketches and Pixie Dust Studio 1st Challenge

This is another one of the freebie digis out there available from the Pixie Dust studio challenge site. http://pixieduststudiopixiechallenge.blogspot.com/ Their challenge was to use this stamp and use some texture. I paper pieced the Santa suit. I ran one through the cuttlebug swiss dot folder and the pieced it on the colored image. The peace saying stamp is by Catslife got it today at a craft show. The sketch is by unscripted sketches http://unscriptedsketches.com/ Thanks for looking.

Inspirational Card Sketch #43 and Soft Pencil Christmas Challenge

This was a freebie digi stamp at the soft pencil papercraft planet group. I got a big pad of pastel Christmas paper while in Branson and am putting it to good use. The sketch is from ICS #43 http://icsketches.blogspot.com/ Colored with copics and pencils. Thanks for looking.

Aly's Sunday Challenge ASC6 Pastel Christmas

This is my entry for this week's Aly's challenge http://www.alyssundaychallenge.blogspot.com/ I just love this new set by Pink Cat studio. Usually I wait to buy something for a very long time but the second I saw this set I had to get it and am now putting it to good use along with my new icicle MS punch. Please check out Aly's blog (my daughter) and help support her little challenge. She has so much fun doing these sketches and challenges.

Aly's Sunday Challenge ASC5

It has been awhile since I have posted. It isn't because I haven't been stamping I have it is just I have been working on Christmas gifts that can't be put on my blog for obvious reasons. This is my entry for Aly's challenge #5 http://www.alyssundaychallenge.blogspot.com I used an old SU set that I got off Craigslist during the summer. I'm not sure that I really like the bow but this ribbon stuff was what was easily found that matched the theme so I went with it. Check out Aly's and hope you decide to play. Oh and I LOVE my new icecicle Martha Stewart punch!!

Aly's Sunday Challenge ASC4

This is made for the challenge at http://www.alyssundaychallenge.blogspot.com/ I really had fun using this sketch and my new Christmas stamps from pink cat studio. I would have never thought to have put a ribbon diagonal but it turned out cute. Colored with copics of course. Thanks for looking and hop over to Aly's (my daughter) and see what all is going on.

ICS Sketches Glittery 'lil Witch

I found this free digi stamp at Pixie Dust Studios and wanted to use it before the Halloween season is over. The trick or treat came in a $5 set I got at Michaels last year. After I got the card made I felt it was a little plain at the top of the card so I added swirls of purple stickles. This is my entry for this weeks ICS Sketch challenge. http://icsketches.blogspot.com/ Thanks for looking. Oh colored with copics of course:)

Spoonful of Sugar Its Gingie Time

I love Gingerbreads well actually my daughter loves gingerbreads and so I am always on the look for gingie things. I won this cool stamp over at whimsie doodles. It is a new digital stamp company. They have alot of great new gingerbread digi stamps and I was so happy to win this one. The sketch is by A spoonful of sugar this week http://aspoonfullofsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/ Colored with copics and then I used icicle stickles all over the image. The paper is one of my favorites Eskimo Kisses by Basic grey. Thanks for looking.