And Again...

Clearly, my blogging is way better when I don't make my projects in advance! This is the second week in a row that I forgot to post on Wednesday. I used to write my posts in advance and schedule them...until I started making my projects at the last minute! Then I would just take my picture and write the post right after. Now that I'm trying to do things early again, I've totally forgotten to do either.  :D

This week's card for the Sketch Challenge at The Outlawz has the super cute Cheeky Nice from The Greeting Farm's Naughty or Nice set. I put a nose on her because not everyone likes noseless faces, but after I did it, she reminded me of Stewie Griffin. Not that he even has that kind of nose, but I really wish I'd left off the bridge line...

Here's the sketch if you'd like to come play along:

Challenges: Color Me Creative Challenges - Anything Goes

B&W +1!

So... I got to choose the challenge for the blogging challenge group on Scraps of Color this week. I have some cards on my list for a teacher, and this seemed like a great time to kill two birds.  discussed doing black and white plus one. Now, to me, her plus one is like neon pink or chartreuse. I have a feeling, though, that she probably sees her plus one as some muted earth tone. Not happening!!

Stampabilities sentiment, Webster's Pages ribbon, MS butterfly punch, stamped bg paper - I have to go to the basement to tell you who made it, Ice Stickles

I told the very awesome Sharri that I was going to CASE her card from last week's Twisted Thursday Challenge on The Outlawz. Close enough to get me there!

**Challenges: Rhedd and Rosie's - Anything Goes, Ruby's Rainbow - Recipe, The Sisterhood of Crafters - BW+1, Word Art Wednesday - #89 Anything Goes

This Week's Sketch

I don't know how the whole day passed without me posting the new sketch from The Outlawz. I guess because I made my card **EARLY** (wha??), I totally forgot about the post.

Sentiment printed with Smiley Monster from KevinandAmanda.com; School Daze papers from My Mind's Eye

That's my card which was made for an awesome principal who retired last month after more than 30 years in education. And here's the sketch if you'd like to play along...

This month the Sketch Challenges are sponsored by Digi Stamps 4 Joy. You could end up with some cute, new digis just for playing along!

**Challenges: DL.ART - #113 Summer, Crafting by Designs - Anything Goes, Paper Pretties - Sentiment as the Focal Point, Crafts and Me - #138 Anything Goes

Gwen is My Favorite Oddie!

I just got some Xpress it paper, and my E15 keeps pulling the color off the layers underneath. Any tips?

As one of the folks who was bothering Kristy for a curly Oddie, I feel it's only right that I repay her by actually acquiring and USING the Gwen stamps from Some Odd Girl.  This week, I used Party Dress Gwen and Paris Girl papers from Carta Bella on a card for the Sketch Challenge on The Outlawz. Since I'm up waaaaay past my bedtime, I'm going to be brief! Digistamps4joy is sponsoring the Sketch challenges for July, and there is a gang of prizes throughout the site. (There is sounds wrong, but after teaching collective nouns in tutorial last week, I feel like it must be correct. ??  Y'all know I have grammar issues...)

Here is the sketch if you'd like to play along:

**Challenges: Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes, Inky Chicks - Anything Goes, 'ABC' Challenges - Anything Goes, Created with Love - For the Girls, Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - Let's Get Girly

Geez, I Suck!

Well, I guess I only suck a little since I did have to hide pack all of my crafty stuff so that I could clean up for company. We celebrated my grandmother's 92 birthday last weekend, and with her two of her three children, four of her grandchildren, six great-grands, and six great-greats all in this house, leaving my stuff out was so not an option! :D

Now that it's quiet again, I stayed up late with my cousin making cards. Here's mine for the Sketch Challenge at The Outlawz this week:

You know I HAD to get Charlotte Chic from The Greeting Farm! Her hair looks like mine!

I feel like it's been a minute since I reminded you of the awesome prizes we have at The Outlawz. The Sketch Challenge is sponsored by SheryK Designs this month, and we have site-wide prizes from Oozak, Paper Temptress, Jellypark, Rick St. Dennis, Squigglefly, and Touched by a Butterfly! Here's the sketch if you're interested in joining us:

AND... Here's my lovely cousin's card!

She was going for a 4th of July look, and I think she nailed it!

Happy Father's Day!

Hope you're all out there having a great Father's Day whether you're a dad or not! Here's the card I made for my daddy:

Love You Daddy digi from Mo's Digital Pencil Too. Colored with Copics.

He came over for late lunch and movies, and because we're silly we decided to re-create the scene from the card! :D

I guess I should have cropped this at his waist so it would really match, but then you wouldn't get to see that big smile on his face!


**Thanks for the gift certificate, Colleen!!! I thought I'd bought this digi for Father's Day last year, but thanks to you, I have it now!  :D  HUGS to you, sister!

Graduation Time!

Some of the ladies on Scrap of Color decided we needed a challenge on Monday. We were busy chatting when we all wanted to and should have been crafting. So, Tina and Karen decided that our challenge would be to make a graduation card with embossing and an image. Well, I'd already printed out some graduation digis to prepare for the graduates I know, so this challenge got me going! I used Sassy Graduate from Sassy Studio Designs; the digi is currently free for a progressive challenge in the SSD group on PCP.

Here is my first card:

And here's the second one that I actually embossed (and didn't make until Tuesday after the "challenge" was over):

And a close up since easel cards are a beast to try to photograph...

Doodlebug Cap & Gown paper, Stampabilities sentiment, Congrats stamp from Hampton Art

Anyway, I colored these two girls (and another) with my Copics at the same time. In case you want to know, they were colored about the same way with E13/15/17 but the one on the top has a base coat of YG41 while the second was colored first with YR21.

**Challenges: Through the Craft Room Door (HEY YALL!)  Anything Goes, Tuesday Throwdown - Embossing