It's Summer!

Summer!! YES!! I have been itching to get back to crafting after not making anything since the very beginning of March. I did stamp some treat bags for my kids for their end of the year party, but as there was no coloring, cutting, pasting, that didn't really count!

My teammates on The Outlawz have been great in my absence; no one has grumbled-at least not to me-about my lack of projects or comments. They don't even know how thankful I am for that. I kept up my other duties there (monthly prizes, setting up Inlinkz, etc.), but I let crafting go. You folks who work, have kids, and craft are some really awesome folks! I don't have the time management skills for that! Maybe had they diagnosed my ADD when I was young someone could have helped me with some strategies...

Anyway, my project is for this week's Sketch Challenge at The Outlawz. As usual, I'm pushing the sketch!

Sketch:

My project:

Why does this look fuzzy?? GRR! Anyway, that's super adorable Content Ollie from Some Odd Girl!

I have three TGF stamps colored and papers picked so I should be back with some more cards soon. Thanks again for praying for my mom! Her name is Barbara, and we appreciate your prayers more than you know!  :D

**Challenges: 613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes, Paper Makeup Stamps - Anything Goes (with a digi), Forever Friends - For a Child

More Rubber at LMMS!

We have some more rubber stamps at Little Miss Muffet Stamps! There are 6 new designs available for you in rubber, BUT that also means that the digital versions of those images are being retired. Taylor, Bailey, Summer Breeze, Butterfly Kisses, Camila, and Spring Whisper are the stamps you need to rush over and get in whichever form works for you.

These lovely ladies will only be available as digital stamps until midnight CST on Wednesday, June 27, so if you are a digi lover, you better rush!  And because Barbara is out of town again this weekend and unable to process orders until Tuesday, she is offering a free randomly selected Sugar 'n Spice digital stamp with every order!

This is my quick card using Butterfly Kisses.

Check out my teammates' amazing creations on the challenge blog.

New Releases

This week's new releases from Little Miss Muffet Stamps include a cute (?) snake, a fish and his bowl, and two lovely ladies. Here is Hope; she looks like she could be one of my friends with her awesome idea for taking off some pounds!

The sentiment is a freebie from Paper Makeup Stamps. A big thank you  to the ladies at Feline Playful and at Pals Paper Arts for helping with a sketch to get this card finished! I was cutting shapes and moving them around for a while before I decided to see if I could find a sketch. (smart, right??) :D

Check out the blog to see what the rest of the team came up with this week! These ladies come up with awesome stuff every week!!

Wednesday's Sketch!

Here's the new sketch at The Outlawz:

And here's my card:

That's Dottie Wonder Woman from Bugaboo Stamps. She's been colored with Copics then hit with Sakura Glaze pens (rope, boots, lips, eyelashes), and Spica glitter pens on her earrings. I also used a Glaze pen to color in the dots on the star stamp (The Paper Studio) and a regular Gelly Roll for the stitching. The stars have been embossed with some two-tone embossing powder that was on clearance recently at Addicted to Rubber Stamps.com. The paper is from DCWV's Rock Star stack, and the letters are by Making Memories. The ribbon was in some fabulous blog candy I got last year...

Don't forget that all March challenge entries at The Outlawz are worth one shot at a $50 gift certificate to Oozak.com! Come play along!!

Challenges: Simon Says Stamp - Stars, Going Grey with Scrap-Creations: Anything Goes, Papertake Weekly - Trios

Anything Goes at Guylou's Inimitability!

The new challenge at Guylou's Inimitability is Anything Goes! Remember, you can enter a card with any image, but there are more chances for you to win the challenge and be a Guest Design Team member if you use a Guylou's Inimitability image. You can get an extra chance to win if you use the featured stamps for this challenge - Molly or Phillip. Here's my card with Molly:

Molly reminds me of the sweet ladies at Waffle House - not that they wear outfits like this... But they do usually call you "Sweetie" or "Hon." So that's the sentiment that you may not be able to read. It says, "Happy Birthday, Hon!" Being that I'm a dummyhead, I didn't think about printing the sentiment until after I'd already stuck the ribbon down on the paper. I wasn't about to test my printer like that...

The sketch is from Cards & Things. Copics colored the image, and the paper is from The Paper Studio!

So, you have until 10 p.m. on March 3 to link your card over at Guylou's. Hope to see your card soon!!

What day is today? (My grandma likes to ask that...)

You know how you go to the grocery store and get amazed at how quickly they switch to a new holiday? Like how two days after Christmas, everyone already had up stuff for Valentine's Day? Well, I think I caught some of that! Everyone's working on Valentine's cards, and I just jumped over that (and St. Patrick's) to Easter!

I only own a few rubber stamps and had some them out the other day. I was looking for a stamp for this week's Sketch Challenge at The Outlawz. The Greeting Farm's Easter Anya is so cute, but I think I did a bad job when I cut the foam because one of her ponytails will not stamp if I don't give the stamp a little rock action. Needless to say, I stamped a bunch of these with one raggedy ponytail. My solution? Cut them off! Anya's cute enough for a short do! (Some of them will be rockin' the side pony too...)

The eggs were cut using a template from Tethered2Home. (Check out the amazing Easter egg garland she made last year...) The paper is from The Paper Studio's So-So Sweet stack.

So, that's my card. Here's the sketch if you want to join in at The Outlawz!

p.s. We're having a celebration starting next week! There are tons of prizes including a $50 gift certificate to Oozak.com and a free Copic class with Suzanne Dean!

Hamster Lovin' at The Outlawz!

Here's a quick Outlawz update... We're planning a celebration! We have some great sponsors and prizes lined up, so you should mosey on over there to be sure that you're in on all the action! And just in case you haven't seen the newest challenges, Sunday's CAS Challenge is Anything Goes, Monday's Birthday Challenge is Ribbons & Hearts, and Tuesday's Color challenge is Celadon, Lavender, White & Polka Dots.

Here is today's sketch:

And this is my card:

Those cute little hamsters came from Gurukitty.  I think these hamsters were for Christmas, but the little heart and gift are good for bdays and Valentine's too!  My buddy Jayleen needs to get back to drawing! Excuse me, I hope to see some new digis over there soon, Jayleen! :D The heart at the bottom are from a KI Memories set. I colored in the unstamped parts and added dots and stitching with a Sakura Gelly Roll pen.

Challenges: Little Red Wagon - #66 Kraft, Simon Says Stamp and Show - Love, Stamps R Us - #13 Animals , Paper Playtime - Anything Goes + Digi, Die Cut Dreams - #82 Lots of Hearts but No Sentiment, Tuesday Throwdown - #34 Stitching

Sketch Challenge at The Outlawz!

So yesterday was the start of the color challenge at The Outlawz. The colors for the week are pink, red, and white. If you're busy working on your Valentine cards, this might be the challenge for you!!

Since today is Wednesday, the challenge that starts today is a sketch challenge. I'm on the sketch DT, and would be SO happy if some of you joined in this week! Here's the card I made for the week:

 

I'm going to send this card to my grandmother for her birthday. Before you ask, that is not a young lady with gray hair; this girl represents my grandmother. Kind of... Her hair isn't long and hasn't been naturally gray in years, but she is about this color and wears gray wigs...  (Don't y'all tell her I put her business out in the street like that!!) The image is Flying Birthday Girl from Michelle Perkett Studio and has been colored with Copics. All the paper is from The Paper Studio; the cupcake paper is from the Sugar and Spice stack. The heart brads are from Making Memories. They were also colored with Copics. The sentiment is from Hero Arts. You guys know I don't have a a Cuttlebug or a neat Cricut or Silhouette, right? That border at the bottom is really the top of a piece of paper that was hit with the Heartbeat MS punch! I was trying to use it on the front but couldn't figure out how to make that work, so...

Don't forget to stop by The Outlawz! And if you enter challenges, don't forget that Guylou's Inimitability's challenge is Anything Goes!

Challenges: The Crafty Pad - Anything Goes, Blackleaf Studios - Fun Food, Top Tip Tuesday - #17 Anything Goes, Kaboodle Doodles - #49 Do it with Digis, The Sisterhood of Crafters - Birthdays

Sharing...

Hey out there! I have a few things to share with you today...

First, I got another card from my Secret Pal! She is a much better SP than I am because I forgot that post takes time and didn't make a card for my SP for Thanksgiving! My SP sent me a very cute Thanksgiving card. Thank you!!

Next, is a card I made today for my BF's mom. A few weeks ago we all went on a trip together. She saw me coloring and asked if I like those "big-eyed things." (I was coloring a page of Some Odd Girl digis.) I took that as a hint to not use any cartoon-y images on her card.  :)  The stamp on the card is from The Paper Studio's Botanicals & Birds set. I was amazed to see that it's the same butterfly on one of the pages in DCWV's Garden Party stack. For some reason I keep forgetting that I got a gang of Colorbox inks from eBay; I used it for the butterfly, CTMH mini hearts, and ticket edges. A ticket from Tim Holtz, ribbon from Michael's, and a Rose Quartz Love Letter flower from Prima round out the supplies used for this one... I think this is the first card I've made without coloring. And I found challenges! Top Tip Tuesday - Layer Upon Layer and A Spoon Full of Sugar - Anything Goes

The last card I made last week but wasn't sure if I was going to send it to my Secret Pal. I think I can manage to make a few of these since it's only a 3x3 card. The stamp is from the dollar section at Michael's. (I'll put the company's name later; I forgot to bring my notepad downstairs with me...) The angel is colored with Copics and a Sakura Star Dust pen. I used the pen to go over the stripes on the argyle paper too. (Paper from DCWV.) And challenges for this one too - Incy Wincy Designs - #69 Blue & White and Pollycraft Monday Challenge - #71 Blue.

Thanks for reading through all that! Don't forget the Elegant Challenge at Guylou's and the blog hop this weekend!