Is this a Church Hat?

Look at me - it's actually still Wednesday when I'm posting my Wednesday card!! :D Go me, go me! *insert cheesy happy dance*  My laptop is on the fritz again, and I'm on my desktop. This will be quick-ish because I get a headache being down here in the basement. I probably need to vacuum and maybe get another light bulb for one that's out...

Anyway, this is my card for this week's sketch challenge at The Outlawz.

The main stamp is Millie from Loralie Stamps, and the sentiment is by Inkadinkado. I made two other cards that I shared on YT with this stamp, but I don't think I put them on the blog. Must do that before the week is over...  You know I always end up making some mistake when I'm card making. This time, I stamped my sentiment so that there was really no way to make my circular card open up and look straight. So...I chopped the back off and ended up using a Cheerios box to make a little stand to go behind this part. I'm planning to send this off into the world and think a standing circle card will be (SHOULD BE) appreciated. :D

Here's the sketch if you want to play along:

Oak Pond Creations is sponsoring the Sketch Challenge this month, plus we have great site-wide prizes! With a new challenge daily, including an Anything Goes challenge every Thursday, you have no excuses for not joining up and entering a challenge or two every month...

**Challenges: Crafty Sentiments - Add a Sentiment, Just Inspirational Challenges - Friendship, Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes, Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

I'm Just Going to Hit Publish... Part 2

I really haven't felt like blogging lately. I just want to post things so you can see them without me spending the time to write all about the projects. So...

Washi tape border!

When I was working on a card a couple of weeks ago for a challenge at The Outlawz, I tried using my colored pencils on kraft and really liked it. I still haven't finished that card, but I did go back to the kraft+pencil combo again. I made this card for a friend a couple of days ago. The lady is from Rubbernecker and was one of the fabulous stamps I got from Cole. Thanks again, Cole!!

Missed One!

So, as soon as I hit publish on the last post, I remembered that there was another journal page before that one. Wanna know a secret? It has an afro too! I was feeling a serious urge to paint one night and was thinking about my mom, so I made myself a page.  You'd think I would have learned from this page about letting paint dry. Clearly I'll need to work on that as I go forward...

Hey...you wanna know another secret? The art journal page I finished today has an afro too!!

I'll have to update this later...

Here's a tip. Don't drink Crystal Light energy packets after work, especially when the clocks have just rolled back and 11:30 pm is still 12:30 am to your body... I should have been asleep already.

Anyway, I wanted to share this week's card for the Sketch Challenge at The Outlawz. Sketch us being sponsored by Paper Shelter this month, and we have a fantastic prize for one of our entrants. Here's my card using the geisha stamp (love it!) from Paper Shelter:

Thanks, Skeeta, for the flowers!

More Faeries at Little Miss Muffet!

Gelsey Faerie by Simply Sophia at Little Miss Muffet Stamps; Hero Arts sentiment

My brain just turned off! How am I supposed to write this post? Um... Yeah... There are some new Simply Sophia stamps at Little Miss Muffet Stamps today. They're pretty cute! Go check them out and see how my awesome teammates used them and the Valentine's release...

**Challenges: Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes, Inkspirational - Anything Goes (see pic)

Carpet's Done!

Thank goodness!! The upstairs carpet is finally complete! I am on a vacuuming break right now and am completely sweat-soaked. It's hot up there and vacuums let off car-exhaust type heat. I've spent the last couple of days trying to figure out how I can rearrange my room to make space for my crafting stuff. Not that we eat in the dining room often, but I feel like I should start clearing this area out a bit. When I'm busy through a week making stuff it looks kind of like those rooms I shared the other day!

Anyway, here's a card that helped me make the dining room look a little bit worse!

I used real blush to color her cheeks. They aren't quite that pink in life, but for some reason, makeup has a tendency to really show in sunlight...

I used one of MY digis from Guylou's Inimitability for this card with some stuff I got at the recent Scrapbook Expo. Luckily, I hadn't taken the stuff out of the bag so I  could put my hands on it without rooting through the mounds of everything that now need to be put up...

Welp, back to the vacuum! (I'm letting this be today's workout...) I hope you have a great weekend!

**Challenges: Joyful Stamper - Inspire Me Fridays/AG, The Poodle Parlour - Anything Goes, Simply Create Too - Anything Goes 

A Fairy & Some Pensive Girls

Today is a new release day at Little Miss Muffet Stamps! Today you can get your hands on Cadrian, a gorgeous fairy, and a group of young ladies who all seem to be figuring out all of life's mysteries - or maybe they just miss someone.  My card features one of those girlies; her name is Gloria. You know, I don't think I know a single young person with that name...

Before I send you running over to the LMMS blog, I have some exciting news! You may have heard that Pollycraft is closing down, but the good news is Pollycraft isn't disappearing!! Paula and Barbara have teamed up, and some of your favorite characters will be appearing at Little Miss Muffet Stamps!  There are even 2 NEW images in the store today - Swings 'n Slides Butterflies and Luna Bitterfrost Birthdays Rock!!  Now that rocks! Tomorrow the team will have lots of Pollycraft inspiration that you won't want to miss! Someone is going to be really happy to have the News Badge on his/her blog!

*Special Offer*

Barbara will be out of town for the weekend but she has a special release offer - place any order between now and Sunday and receive a random digi for free!  Don't worry - she'll make sure it's a Little Misses digi that you don't already have.  :D  This offer will last until Sunday, June 10, at midnight Central US Time.  All orders will be fulfilled the next day and your fun can begin! Now go on over to the blog and check out the amazing creations from the rest of the team. Then, pick up your favoriteS, including the new Park Glen Door Die!

**Challenges: Try it on Tuesday - Anything Goes, Oldie But a Goodie - Anything Goes (I've had that BasicGrey paper for a really long time...), Digital Tuesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Cloud Challenge!

There's a new challenge at Little Miss Muffet! If I show you my card, do you think you can guess what the challenge is? :D

Got it?? The new challenge is Clouds! Yes, you can make more realistic-looking clouds than mine.

Are you ready for the story of how I messed up on this one? Well, actually, this was a computer error. No, really; it was the computer... For some reason, one of my monsters printed out larger than the other two. I tried again by moving one of the monsters into the same place as the original large monster. Same problem! I had already colored my monster to layer her (sparkly nail polish = girl monster) so I had to improvise. I colored all the edges of the bottom monster black which is why you can see that thick edge in some areas. But look, I did manage something slightly cool on my monster:

I hope you come play along!

Challenges: Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes, The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes, Digistamps4Joy - Double Embellishment, PaperCrafting Journey - Use a Digi, Forever Friends - Anything Goes, Charisma Cardz -  Anything Goes