Just playing around...

Hi everyone.  I have a card to share with you that took 12 hours to make!  LOL!!  Really, I started this card at 10:00 this morning and got most of it together.  Then had to leave for the day, so back at 10:00 tonight I colored the image and finished my card.

I love how this card turned out.  This is a Z Fold card and I found several tutorials on You Tube and SCS for it.  A lot of fun!  I'm playing along with a few challenges, too.  The one that started the whole idea is over at All That Scraps Wednesday challenge for fun folds.  Then I thought I might as well add a color challenge and I found two.  Just Us Girls and CMC Challenge group are basically the same colors.  JUGS is a softer palette, while CMC is a brighter palette - so I guess I sort of went with in between hues.  Well, anyway, I hope you like what I did....

I used another one of the CC Designs stamps that I selected as a prize.  This is Hello Birgitta.  I am also using a button and hat pin that I recently purchased from a store I just found called Stamping Scrapping {dot com}.  Great store!  Be watching for more on TMS - Cindy has agreed to sponsor.  Yippeeee!!

Anyway, back to the card.  Here's the inside view.  The sentiment is from a SNSS set, One of a Kind.

And a view from the top.....

Thanks for stopping by!  Please share with me your thoughts.

Supplies:

Stamps/Ink:  Hello Birgitta (CC Designs), One of a Kind (SNSS), Tuxedo Black (Memento)

Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Barely Banana, Certainly Celery

Paper:  Country Drive paper pack (Echo Park)

Copics:  BG05, BG15, C8, C10, E000, E00, E02, E33, E34, E37, R02, RV02, RV06, RV10, W-0, W-2

Embellishments: Hat pin (K&Company), Buttons Galore and More (StampingScrapping), tafetta ribbon (Offray)

Just playing around...

Hello everyone!  I have had a great Saturday.  I actually spent most of the day right here at my craft table.  I've been working on the cards I'll feature this week blog posts and I'm really excited about what I have to share with you.

I ended my evening with making a card just for fun.  I am playing along with two of my favorite challenges and my favorite stamps.  The sketch is from Just Us Girls and it's the Anything Goes Challenge at All That Scraps.  I am featuring the sweet Birgitta Blowing Kisses stamp that I won.

Do you recognize this paper?  Yep, it's been in my collection for YEARS!!  It's called Sarah by Stampin' Up! and I love it.  That's why I've hoarded for all these years.

I have a new favorite.  I discovered a store that I have fallen in love with.  It's called The Beary Scrap.  Now I found it while shopping around for 1/8" width Scor-Tape.  Now the primary existence of this store is all about their Tear Bears and other animal friends.  Click on the link, you'll fall in love, too.  Anyway, I purchased the Scor-Tape and I also bought some flowers and seam binding.  LUUUUVVV IT!!  I know seam binding isn't new on the papercrafting scene, but I think it's so cool.

Kimm prices are reasonable, she ships quickly and really takes care in packaging your order so that it all arrives safely.  I am impressed, I am now a devoted shopper (when I get more money, I'm going shopping) and I highly recommend her products.  She has a lot to offer.

OK - it's after midnight now and I have officially run out of steam.

Supplies:
Stamps/Ink: Birgitta Blowing Hearts (CC Designs)
Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Card stock: Neenah Classic Crest
Paper: Sarah (SU!)
Copics: B95, B97, BG10, E000, E00, E02, E34, E37, E51, E53, G00, G02, R00, RV000, RV10, RV13,W2, YR20, YR23
Tools: Triangle embossed edger (MS)
Embellishments: Lemonade seam binding (The Beary Scrap)

Sunday Bliss

Good Morning!  It's a lovely Sunday morning.  The sun is shining, I have a big mug of my favorite coffee and I am playing at my craft table - this is one of the ways I define bliss.

I have a card to share with you that I made for 4 different challenges.  I won a challenge over at All That Scraps, so of course, I have to play along with this challenge with my new stamps.  So ATS' challenge is an Anything Goes challenge.  I am also entering this card in the CMC Copic Challenge (Hot Pink, Black & White).  And the iCopic Lover challenge is smooth and shiny hair.  And finally, the card design is from this week's Just Us Girls sketch challenge.  I usually don't combine more than 2 challenges, but this one worked so well.  I have technique, sketch, color combo and the chance to play with new stamps from one of my favorite stamp companies.  Another way to define bliss perhaps?

Supplies:
Stamps:  Coffee Birgitta (CC Designs), Mixed Messages (AmyR Stamps), Polka Dot Blooms (TSG)
 Ink: Tuxedo Black, Lilac Posies, Angel Pink (Memento)
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Black (Recollections), Pink Passion (SU!)
Paper:  Unknown - found in my stash
Copics:  C5, C7, C8, C10, E00, E000, E02, E30, E34, RV02, RV02, RV13, W-0, W-2
Tools:  Square punches (CM), Spring Bouquet punch (SU!), sm Oval punch (SU!)

I really don't like taking pictures during the day.  If this makes any sense, my room has lots of sunshine but its so full of shadows, it's impossible get good pictures.  This one I ended of having to take it with the card laying down on my bed and I shot above it.  Crazy!  Now you can see a bit of my cozy blanket (nope, the bed isn't made yet).  And I'm still losing a little of the element in my card.  Sorry.

Easy Sunday

Good Morning!  I hope you're having a great weekend.  Mine is going pretty well.  I do need to get my rear in gear and go make coffee and start laundry.  But before I get to all that, I thought I would make a card to share with everyone.  My monthly card traders group challenge this month is to create faux metal frames.  I haven't done this technique in YEARS.  I'd forgotten how much fun it could be.  So today's card is dedicated to all things stashed.  What do I mean by that?  We all have our papers, supplies, tools and techniques that have been kept over the years but somehow get bypassed.  Well, I pulled some of those things out today.

First, the faux metal frame.  I cut a circle out and embossed it with silver embossing powder.

Second, the stamp.  This sweet little Swiss Pixie stamp has been sitting in a box for a long time.  And thirdly, the brads.  I hardly use brads on my cards anymore.  I think I've forgotten how to layer things up a bit.  I still feel this card is a bit flat - but cute anyway.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, Night of Navy (SU!)
Paper:  Candy Blossoms
Copics:  B00, B000, B95, B97, E00, E02, E34, E37, R02, RV02, RV10, V91, V93, V95, Y11, Y15, YG09, YG17, YR61
Stamps:  Swiss Pixies Heidi Among the Flowers (CC Designs)
Ink:  Tuxedo Black, Bahama Blue (Memento)
Tools:  Silver embossing powder, heat gun, embossing ink, Cuttlebug, Scallop Nesties, Apron Lace border punch
Embellishments:  white grosgrain ribbon (Offray), diamond silver brads (SU!)

I am also playing along with Sweet Sunday Sketch (the great sketch) and All That Scraps Wednesday Challenge (Anything Goes).  Thank you for visiting me.  I wish you well.

Hugs,
Mel

Saturday Card Share

Good Afternoon everyone!  I hope your Saturday is going well for you.  The weather is gorgeous here in sunny Florida.  It's not too hot today, its just pleasant.

The card I have to share with you today is for a couple of challenges.  The first one is for Just Us Girls.  It's their one year anniversary!  A big congratulations to you all!!  I love this challenge blog and have had the priviledge recently to be Chic of the Week.  I am also participating with Raise the Bar challenge.  I rarely get to play along so I wanted to be sure to get in on their F.A.L.L. challenge (Flower, At least 2 ribbons, Lots of Leaves).

I had a lot of fun with this one.  It's pretty much done digitally.  I have this great digi-paper pack that I got from A Cherry on Top.  I imported the red polka dot paper into my Word program and then imported the journal box and placed it over the paper.  Its .png format, so it's transparent.  I then imported in the image which is from CC Designs and sized it to fit inside the journal box,  Then I drew a text box for my sentiment and I drew another box that I left blank.  I then printed it, colored it and masked off the blank box so that I could stamp the leaves using a stamp also from CC Designs.  I layered it to another mat, added the ribbons and then adhered to my base.  Easy card!

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Chocolate Chip, Kraft
Paper:  Apple Festival Kit (ACOT)
Copics:  E00, E02, E29, E57, Y06, Y15, Y17, YG63, YG67, YR16, YR23, YR68
Embellishments:  Taupe grosgrain ribbon, light green satin ribbon (Offray)

I hope you enjoy my card.  Thank you so much for visiting blog today.  I hope the rest of your day is a great one.  OK, now I am off to watch Dennis the Menace with Levi.  Have fun!

Pumpkin Monday!

Good Morning!  I know I didn't post my Stamps Only Sunday post - let me tell you what happened.  Friday I started working on my Sunday post's card and while I was coloring I had a bright idea to use a particular ribbon, so I dove into my ribbon bin and couldn't find it, so then I started throwing bags of ribbon out of the bin, which made me frustrated so I embarked on to a project of organizing my ribbon.  I got it all sorted out into individual baggies and then into a larger bag grouped by colors.  I did this all day Friday, well into the evening and finally finished my project at about 1:00 pm on Saturday.  My this time my back hurt so bad, sitting down working on a card wasn't on my priority list.  But I am so thrilled to have my ribbon organized and you'll never guess... I never found the ribbon that I was thinking that I had!

Yesterday I spent the day with my kids, so I didn't get my card posted.  But I did play for a little bit yesterday and now I have two cards to share with you.

I used the sketch from Crafts 4 Eternity.  The other part of the challenge is to use autumnal colors.  I also decided to play along with Delightful Challenges - they want to see pumpkins.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Milled Ivory (Neenah), Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip (SU)
Paper:  scraps from Michaels open stock paper and American Crafts
Stamps/Ink:  Pumpkin Emma (CC Designs), Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Copics:  C8, E00, E02, E34, E37, E53, E57, G99, R27, R29, Y11, YG95, YR16, YR68
Tools:  1 1/4", 1", 7/8" circle punches

This next card I made for my monthly card traders group.  The challenge was to create a Suspension Card.  This was a lot of fun to do and really pretty easy.  I am also entering this card into Delightful Challenges.

I followed a tutorial by Dawn Griffith to create the suspension of the pumpkin.  I found this wonderful pumpkin poem on the internet and then using the drawing tools in my word program I drew the frames around the poem.

I hope you can see how the image is suspended inside that circle scallop frame.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Very Vanilla, More Mustard (SU), Deep Red (Bazzil Basics)
Paper:  Acorn (Recollections)
Stamps/Ink:  Pumpkin from Fall collection (CC Designs), Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Copics:  YR16, YR68
Tools:  1 3/8", 1 1/4" circle punches, Scallop punch (SU), Apron Lace border punch (Fiskars), linen thread (SU)

Both of these cards were really fun to make and both fit in with my One Postage Stamp, Please collection.  I hope you enjoy my cards and thank you so much for stopping by.

Stamps Only Sunday

Good Morning!  I hope you're having a fabulous weekend.  Mine has been rather quiet and you'd think I'd use that time wisely and get lots of crafting done... I have had card-making block all weekend!!  Thank goodness for thing such as my monthly card traders group that provides some inspiration.

This challenge was to use a herringbone technique.  It was pretty easy to do.  If you'd like to give it a try, here's a really good tutorial to follow.

Now I created a larger background than what was done in the tutorial.  I also didn't use carpet tape, I wouldn't even know where to find such adhesive.  I used a larger piece of card stock and my tape runner.  I would've used my Xyron, but I don't have an adhesive cartridge, so my tape runner did just fine.  I also made my own matching envelope.  My other inspiration for card came from Sketch and Stash which has a really great sketch.  The paper that you see that I used for the card and the envelope... talk about stash, it's been in my stuff for about 5 years!  The challenge for this week at {All That Scraps} Wednesday Challenge is to use lace, so I used the pretty lace flowers.

I really like this herringbone technique.  It reminds me of a quilt.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Black (Recollections)
Paper:  Girlfriends, Black and White polka dots (Michaels), rose paper (who knows!  LOL)
Stamps/Ink:  Spring Pixies and Spring Sugarplums sets (CC Designs), Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Copics:  B000, C8, E00, E02, E34, E37, E57, RV000, RV02, RV10, V91, V93, V95, YR16, YR20, YR61
Tools:  1 3/8" and 1 1/4" circle punches

I hope you enjoy my card, I had a lot of fun making it.  Thank you so much for stopping by!

Stamps Only Sunday

Good Morning!  I hope your weekend is going really well.  I have a really fun card to share with you today that I made to participate with The Crafty Pad challenge which was to use pearls and Sunday Sketch and Stamp which was to use their great sketch.

This was a really fun card to make.  I pulled out some hoarded decorative paper from SU!.  Yay me!  I'm digging in the stash.

I also created the flowers by using Penny Duncan's roses SVG except that I only used the base of the petals in two different sizes to create these flowers.  They were really easy to make.  Penny, I hope I did you proud.  I added the pearls for the center - they are white, but using a Copic marker I "stained" them a bit.

Supplies:
Stamps/Ink:  Swiss Pixies Nora on a Swing, Amy R Spring Stamps Sentiments, Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Card Stock: Neenah Classic Crest, White & Cream (Recollections)
Paper:  Soft Sky decorative paper (SU!)
Copics:  B000, B60, B63, B97, B99, BV00, BV02, E00, E02, E33, E37, E53, E57, Y15, Y17,
  YR20, YR23, YG95
Tools:  Cricut/SCAL, SVG by Penny Duncan, Oval cutters (CM)
Embellishments:  Pearls (Recollections)

I hope you enjoy my card and that your Sunday is a blessed one.  Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps Only Sunday

Good Afternoon everyone!  I hope you've had an enjoyable weekend so far.  I have a quick post for you for today.  My friend Katie Skiff is having a Back to School blog party and her first challenge (and 2nd) has been issued.  The first one is a great sketch created by Katie.  So here's my card....

I had a lot of fun with this one.  It's very clean and simple... lots of white space.  I used one of the Spring Pixies by CC Designs.  I also have discovered that I really love this faux suede technique where the card stock is distressed and pulled apart.  I did that to create the grass.  I also found a cool tutorial to create the flower using a button, red-line sticky tape and glitter.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Pretty in Pink
Paper:  Just Chillin' collection (Making Memories)
Stamps/Ink:  Sweet Pixie (CC Designs), Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Copics:  B00, B000, E00, E02, E33, E37, RV000, RV02, RV10, RV13, YR20
Embellishments:  button (my stash), green glitter, red-sticky tape

I hope you join the party over at Katie's blog.  She's got some really great prizes.  I will be back later with the 2nd challenge she issued.  Have a great rest of your weekend and thank you for stopping by.

Double Feature

Good Morning!  Happy Saturday!  I'm excited to be off this weekend.  It'll be a busy weekend, but I am happy to just be home and with my kids.

I just finished up a couple of cards that I want to share with you.  The first card is for Inktegrity's Sketch Challenge blog.  This was a fun sketch and I was able to incorporate another great SVG cut from Penny Duncan Creations.

When I was on Inktegrity's design team, it was a great privilege to have access to Joni's awesome images.  Well, as the winter team was leaving we got to request an image.  I chose a unicorn, but fellow DT member Jeanette picked a flamingo.  This is actually my first opportunity to play with Rico.

Supplies:
Card Stock:  Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, Pink Passion, Green Galore, Gable Green
Copics:  C8, E53, E57, RV000, RV02, RV10, RV13, YG00, YG03
Tools:  SCAL/Cricut, Spellbinders ribbon labels, Cuttlebug Folder Candy Stripes
Embellishments:  buttons

This next card is for several challenges.  I played along with Friday Sketchers (the sketch), Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge (Quote me), Raise the Bar (Color Me Happy).

I followed the sketch from Friday Sketchers, using a wonderful quote by John Leonard "It takes a long time to grow an old friend," and my favorite color is purple.... and polka dots. This card features Nora on a Swing from CC Designs.

Supplies:
Card Stock:  Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, Lavender Lace
Paper:  Colorbok
Copics:  BV00, BV02, BV04, B000, E00, E02, E37, E53, E57, Y11,
  Y15, YG03, YG95, YR20, YR61
Prismacolor Markers:  Goldenrod, Colorless Blender
Tools:  Nestabilities, Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder
Embellishments:  Pearls by Recollections

I hope you enjoyed by double feature today.  Thank you so much for stopping by!

Fabulous Friday

Happy Friday to you!  We're in for another beautiful day here, I am so happy!!  After the cold and rain on Tuesday, I've enjoyed the weather warming up.

The card I have to share with you today is last week's challenge from All That Scraps Wednesday challenge.  I posted in on SCS to be able to play along, but this is my first chance to share it here on my blog.  I'm going to try to play along with their newest challenge this afternoon when I get off work.

The challenge was to create a shaped card.  So I went with a circle card.  This is actually inspired by Kristina Werner Designs.  I used her SVG cut for the card and she actually made this card during her Christmas card series.  Her card was an ornament,

As you can see, the back panel is vellum.  I found a very, very old piece of vellum in my stash.  This I got from SU! when I went to convention...12 years ago!  Talk about hoarding!  You can kind see the sentiment showing through.

Here's the inside view of the card.  All these stamps are from the new CC Designs Spring Swiss Pixie kit.  Love it!!

I took this picture because I thought it would be easier to see what colors I used, instead of listing them.  I had to laugh at myself - I actually forgot a marker in the photo!

Other Supplies:
Card Stock:  Neenah Classic Crest Solar White
Paper:  Piggy Tales, SU! printed vellum
Tools:  SCAL/Cricut, SVG Cut available on Two Peas in a Bucket, pop dots
Embellishments:  ribbon (that was actually around my birthday present last year from my sister)

I hope you like my card!  Thank you for stopping by!

Tuesday Morning Sketches

Good Morning...

I've posted a new sketch challenge over at my Tuesday Mornings Sketches blog and we have a new sponsor joining us this week. Kelly from KL Stampin N Scrappin is sponsoring this week and she's offering two adorable stamps for the prize. I'd love to have them myself! So head on over there to take a look at the sketch, the prize and the amazing work my team has done.

Here's my card:



I did flip my own sketch, it was the only way to accommodate this little cutie. This is a Kiki La Rue image by CC Designs and Kelly carries these adorable stamps in her store. I created this card from a kit that I'd recently received in a swap and I just adore the colors and all the polka dots!! She is colored with Copics and I really love the different look that is achieved when the base is Vanilla card stock. The image reminds me of my Mom. When I was little she used to drive me to school, or go to the grocery store with curlers in her hair. I cringed every time. LOL

I hope to see over at TMS! Thanks for stopping by.

Sew Happy

Good Morning Everyone! Happy Friday! I am sooo, ahem, I mean sew happy that the weekend is here.

The card I have to share with you today features my two favorites... a brand new image from Inktegrity and Rosalie, one of the newest images at CC Designs. I'm playing along with All That Scraps Wednesday Challenge, which is a color challenge: Pink, Red and Chocolate Brown.



The base of my card is Neenah Classic Crest Solar White cards stock. I used SU! Chocolate Chip and Pink Pirouette card stock, MS heart punch and a chocolate brown button. I colored Rosalie with Copic markers and I paper pieced the heart. The image actually has a sewing needle but Rosalie ended up hiding it.

This adorable set can be found in her shop for $2.99. And also don't forget that there is still time to get Wally for free with a $5 purchase. Click here to shop.

Have a wonderful Friday! Thanks for stopping by.

Relax & Unwind...

Good Morning! Words to live by - Relax & Unwind. We all need to do that everyday! I normally don't post on Sundays but I didn't get back in the craft room yesterday, well, not until last night anyway.

This is just a quick post for a card I made for All That Scraps challenge for this week, which is to pull out an old set. Well, I do have one old set but mostly my stamps are newer. I was organizing some stuff last night and was looking at the card kits I'd received in swaps and there to my pleasant surprise was kit containing images from My Rubber Duckie. Cute set! So I decided to actually USE a kit (instead of collecting them) and I used the awesome sketch from The Sweet Stop.

I hope you like it - I had a lot of fun with it!



Have a pleasant day! I'm off to start laundry. Yippee.

Halloween Party

Good Morning,

I hope you're all doing well. It's cloudy and rainy today - typical Fall weather I guess. I'd like to invite you over to my challenge blog - Tuesday Morning Sketches. I have Halloween Party going on over there and I'm sure you'll have some fun.

What I have to share with doesn't quite fit the theme of altering something for the party, but it's a really cute card that I followed the tutorial on Dawn's You Tube channel for a gift card holder. You can find it here. I made this to send in a Halloween Goodies swap but it turned out so cute that I wanted to share it with you before I mailed it off.


This is a really simple little card. It measures 3 x 4 1/4 finished and has a belly band to keep it closed. The image is from CC Designs from the Fall Kit that my sister had sent me. I love these stamps and soon it'll be time to put them away and break out the new Winter stamps that I just got yesterday. Anyway, she's colored with Prismacolor Pencils and OMS. I did use Copic markers for her face.


Here's the inside view and I'm not quite sure why the picture looks like this, I did fix it and it looked fine a minute ago. Oh well, you can see where I tucked the card into the middle portion that is created and a simple stamped sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you over at the TMS Halloween Costume party.

It's Dreary, but the colors are AWESOME!

Good Morning Everyone! It's really overcast and rainy looking today, but the trees are changing into their vibrant hues. I love that.

I have a card to share with you that I made for my November kit for my monthly card swap group. I am not worried about posting it here since none of them read my blog anyway - well, sometimes my sister does. Anyway, it is also perfect for the The Pink Elephant Challenge which is to create a Fall card.

I used Pumpkin Emma from CC Designs. The pumpkins and sentiment are also from CC Designs, September release.

This is a double flap card that is inspired by the video tutorial from Dawn that you can find here.

Then you open up the front flap and you see the sentiment.

Then open up that flap and reveal this little cutie! I absolutely loved this design so I had to give it a try! I am very pleased with the results.

Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy your day.

Special Teachers

Good Morning,

Just a quick post today. This is the card I made for my challenge blog Tuesday Morning Sketches, using a sketch I posted yesterday.


I love this card. I love Apple Emma from All That Scraps. Be sure to check out my challenge blog, I'd love for you to join us.

Now I'm off... I have a very busy day today. Lots to create and 4 challenges I want to join in today. Come back later, I might have more to share. And oh my goodness... tomorrow is Thursday! I must get my Thursday's with Lindsay post ready. Oh much to do, much to do...

Thanks for stopping by!

Hello Pumpkin!

Good Morning,

I have a card to share with you that I am so pleased with how well and how fast it came together this morning. All That Scraps is sponsoring my challenge blog this week so I'm continuing my theme using the stamps that my sister sent me for my birthday. But I participated in a different challenge, I once again, used one of Mercy's sketches from Lord Have Mercy blog. This is such a great sketch, so user friendly.

I apologize for the photo quality, it's really overcast today. But isn't she sweet! This is Pumpkin Emma and the sentiment is from the Autumn Sentiments set. The paper is from Recollections: Autumn. I colored her with my brand new Copics!

I hope you enjoy my card and that you join me and my fabbo design team over at Tuesday Morning Sketches.

How Sweet...

Hi there! Happy Friday. I know I am SOOO late, but it was a busy morning. I had my friend's two little ones here and let me tell you, I had forgotten how toddlers keep you on your toes. What fun!

The card I have to share with you today is one I made to participate in a couple of challenges.


The first challenge is DU2D Friday. It's a recipe challenge - 1 ribbon, 2 decorative papers and 3 flowers. The digi-image is Ice Cream Kiki from the new Miss Kiki La Rue collection from CC Designs. I colored her with Copics and Prismascolor pencils. I ribbon is dark blue with white polka dots, the decorative paper is from a mat stack from K&Company and the 3 little flowers are Primas.

The other challenge I'm participating in is Friday Sketchers. This is such a fabulous sketch and so versatile. There was an optional challenge to use orange and blue. The card stock in the background is Apricot Appeal, and apricot is orange lightened with cream. The ribbon is dark blue and Kiki's dress is a very pretty shade of blue.

As for Hollyanne's Friday Feature - with school starting back up this week, she's been a bit preoccupied. I'll get her in the stamp room this weekend. I know you miss seeing my daughter's creations.

Have a wonderful weekend! Thanks for visiting with me today.

Meet Kiki La Rue

Hi Everyone! Happy Saturday! Hope your weekend is off to a great start. I'm looking forward to today - I'm on my own for awhile. Hubby and oldest son are off to a TaeKwon Do seminar all day and the younger kids are with my Mom and off to see G-Force. I'm doing the happy dance, I've got some me time.

OK - so I mentioned yesterday that Christine at All The Scraps has released 3 new stamps called Kiki La Rue. They are so adorable! So I decided to play with their sketch challenge again with Coffee Kiki La Rue. I love all of Christine's designs, my favorite stamps are her Pixies - but Kiki has stolen my heart. It's one of my dreams to be on ATS' design team, but at least on my blog, I can pretend I am! LOL

The paper is one that I bought from All That Scraps quite some time ago. The blue is from a Recollections card stock pack called Cape Cod. The coffee cups were from a free digi-download from A Cherry on Top and the sentiment is from Scrappy Cat Sunny Days set. I colored with Copics and Prismacolor markers.

I hope you enjoy my card! OK - I'm off for a little shopping (Michael's gift card) and Starbucks ('nother gift card) and then I'll go get my kiddos. Have a great day!