Guess What?

Did you guess yet? Come on, just make some random guess... Okay, I'll tell you. I'm now on the DT for Little Miss Muffet Stamps! I've seriously been stalking visiting Barbara's blog, and she invited me (wha??) to join the team! I'm super excited!

Today, there are two extremely cute new releases for Christmas - a kitten and a puppy. I used Button, the kitten, for my project.

This stamp is adorable! And no, everything isn't as crooked as it looks. I didn't line up the camera right and had to rotate the pic in Picnik so it would look sort of straight. Maybe I'll re-photo this from a better angle when I get up in a few hours. (My mats are all uneven though, as usual!)

Challenges:  4 Crafty Chicks - Marker It Up, Ruby's Rainbow - Cute and Cuddly, I Did It Creations - Animals, Lollipop Crafts - No Sentiment

Another Halloween Card for The Outlawz!

I feel like I'm coming down with something and am about to go take a nap. I hope I'll wake up in about an hour feeling energized and ready to color! If not, I'll have some tea to soothe my throat and something for this headache; I have a couple of projects due this week still...  Ah, it's the weather! I always forget that I have super sinus issues and that quick changes in barometric pressure as fronts move cause issues. For years, I just thought something was wrong with me because I'd get these horrible headaches for what seemed like no reason. I only recently made the connection...


Here's the sketch for this week at The Outlawz:

This is my card for the challenge using another of Sandi's digis:

When I originally colored this pic, I was trying to use some different paper. I really didn't like how it looked, but luckily, I found some other paper and colored over the robe and skin. I like it a LOT more now...

Must retreat to the bed now... :(

Have you backed up your digis lately?

To my fellow digital stampers, this is just a reminder to back up your stamps. It's a lot easier to back up your files than to try to work backwards if something unfortunate happens...

Maybe Not a Secret Anymore...

*I accidentally posted this last year! I hope it's still a surprise...

Ok, so some people in the Secret Pals group weren't receiving stuff in the beginning. SPs were supposed to send at least 5 times, but if you average that over a year, it might take a while to get something. I signed up to send extra cards to someone who needed a pick me up, and got BreAnn! Strangely enough, just a few days before I was given her address, BreAnn and I had just become friends on some of the sites we're both on. We're in a lot of the same groups so I had to really stretch to make it so she wouldn't immediately know that I was the person sending her stuff.  Here are the cards I sent BreAnn:

The inside of the chickie card above...

**Wouldn't you know it's been 3 and a half months since this post went live and I'm just now finding the pics?????

Surprise! Happy Birthday, Guylou!

Guess whose birthday it is? GUYLOU! Now, if you don't know, G is one super sweet, super talented lady! She is seriously one reason why I love to make cards. When I was very new to making cards, she put me on her design team (my first one) and has always been really supportive of me. G, I hope you have an awesome birthday!  ;D

To celebrate this momentous occasion, the Guylou's Inimitability Design Team is having a surprise birthday blog hop! Everyone has a special card for G using one of her images. And there's a prize! If you comment on all of the team members' blogs AND WISH G a HAPPY BIRTHDAY on her blog, you'll be eligible for a RAK that includes a pack of 4 Copic Multiliners, 2 Stardust pens, a black Memento ink pad, and a $5 gift certificate to Guylou's Inimitability! You have until Sunday, October 16 at 11:59 p.m. EST to join in the celebration.

Here's the hop order in case you are like me and just jump from blog to blog without regard:

Brenda

Carmen

Kim

Sara

Tracy

Trina <-- You're HERE!

Gina

**Don't forget that Guylou's Inimitability has a gorgeous angel with a ribbon you can customize for any cause available free until Oct 14! Check the blog for the details!

How about some card kits?

The Sketch DT on The Outlawz is giving away kits to make our cards this month! One winner will get kits to make all of the DT's inspiration cards this month! Since our own Sandi drew the images we're using, the winner gets those, too!

Here is this week's sketch:

And here is my card:

 

Yep, that skull paper is crooked as sin! :D  I tried to hide it a little by adding some pearls... Didn't really work, did it?

I hope to see you around the challenge this week!

To My Secret Pal - #1

I don't know if whoever's reading this has been around since Oct 2010, but I've been sending cards to a "Secret Pal" for the last year. I signed up in the Anything Goes group on PCP last year, and Abby from Scrapbookaholic by Abby and the new Dilo en Español stamps is who I've been sending things to. I didn't want to post any of the cards I made for her just in case she was a super sleuth...

Anyway, when I got Abby's info, I went to her blog and saw that she was planning a blog hop for Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Luckily, I knew a little about the holiday from high school Spanish classes. (Google also helped...) To put it very briefly, Dia de los Muertos is a time to honor and celebrate people who have passed, and there are sugar skulls, flowers, and food involved...

 I used a skull stamp from Imaginisce to make two cards.

For the first card, I used paper from DCWV's Rock Star stack. The skull was stamped with Studio G white pigment ink, but I went over the white with a colored pencil because it seemed to be smearing even though I'd stamped the skulls days before I used them. I used the colored pencils to draw on the skull; the blue was supposed to kinda be like tears. One of the peas fonts from KevinandAmanda.com was used to make the sentiment. It means remember. (I called my godbrother who spent some time in Spain for study abroad and had my cousin ask her fiancee which is more right - recuerda or acuerdate. If you think I should've used the other, Sorry!)

For the other card, I made my own background by using the Flower Sketch stamp from Autumn Leaves. I stamped the flowers with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, colored a base with my Copics, then used my colored pencils on top. I just happened to find some odorless mineral spirits in my garage (score!) and was able to finally try to blend my pencils. I used the pencils and mineral spirits for the blue background too.  The skull was stamped just like the other and covered in MS glitter glue in graphite & nephrite.

Hopefully, Abby liked them!