A new chilly Bitten By The Bug challenge - a cute penguin

There's change in the air, and not just the seasons! We're changing things up a little bit over at Bitten By The Bug, so be sure and visit to see what is going on! This week, we received an awesome challenge from Carla! She asked us to use this adorable little penguin from the Joys of the Season cartridge. I saw this paper from Basic Grey's Eskimo Kisses line, and knew I would have to make a pink penguin! What do you think? The card base is cut from Bazzil cardstock and the PP is Basic Grey. The ribbons are Offray and the snowflakes and "let it snow" cut are both from the Winter Woodland cartridge. I used a couple dew drops for her eyes and shaded her tummy with copic markers. Added some machine stitching and one more Christmas card is done! YAY!

So be sure and visit Bitten By The Bug to check everything out and see all the wonderful projects the designers have come up with this week. I've been able to take a peek, and you will NOT be disappointed! Thanks so much for stopping by to see me today, and hope to see your tomorrow for the Papertake Weekly challenge! HUGS!

Hoppy Birthday!

Happy Saturday everyone! I do indeed love the weekend! I made this card for my wonderful Stepson for his birthday. It was really quite easy to put together using this image from Dustin Pike. I just don't do well with guy cards, but I think this one turned out ok.

On the inside, I used a brand new stamp I just got from Magnolia-licious called Cat's Tails. I LOVE this stamp! It's sooooo versatile and will go with so many different types of cards. Diana just restocked her store with a lot of stamps, so hurry over and take a peek at all the wonderful Magnolia stamps she has in stock now.

Details on card: ink - Memento and Copics

Stamps - Magnolia and Dustin Pike

paper - Basic Grey mixed with Kaiser, Gina K cardstock and Bazzill cardstock

other - machine stitching, tag is from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cut with my Expression, sentiment is computer generated using outline only feature for my font, then colored with Copics, Basic Grey button

Thanks for stopping by to see me today, and I sure hope to see you back again soon! HUGS!

Three Clovers Thursday challenge - Exciting news!!

I am SOOOO proud and honored to announce that I am on a new inspiration team for Three Clovers Thursday challenges by Kerry Donovan - Casey! Kerry is not only the sweetest person, she is also UBER talented! Her work just amazes me, and I'm still pinching myself to make sure I'm not dreaming that I am on this amazing Inspiration Team! This is the first week for Three Clovers Thursday challenge, and it was a sketch challenge, and I really enjoyed working with it! Here's what I came up with. This is the kick off week for Three Clovers Thursday challenge, so how could I resist using shamrocks?? Yes, I know they're four leaf clovers, but let's not get TOO technical! *smile*

The DP is Basic Grey and cardstock is Bazzill. I used some really cool downloadable stamps from The Cutting Cafe. Both the St Patty's words and the pot of shamrocks are from the same set. Aren't they awesome?! I colored them in with my Copic markers, and of course I had to use one of my favorite MS border punches!

Again, we would truly love it if you would play along with this challenge. Just pop over to Three Clover Designs and look at what the rest of the fabulously talented Inspiration Team came up with!! I'm telling you, you're going to love what you see!! Then get out your paper and glue and play along!

Thanks for stopping by to see me today and I hope to see you back again soon!

HUGS!!

Nothing holds a candle....

YAY!!!!!! We made it through the week to another glorious weekend!!! I LOVE my weekends!! Ok, I'm sorry...I can't help it. I can't stay away from these precious stamps! I can't get enough. SOMEBODY STOP ME!!!! LOL! Please???....... :0) I had this card in mind as soon as I saw this stamp. I finally got to make it.

I stamped her out onto white cardstock and colored her with my Copic markers. I love these markers, but it sure takes a while to learn how to use them. I wish there were classes somewhere around here! I cut her out with my Nesties. I just typed up the sentiment out on my computer and printed it.

I used my yummy Martha Stewart border punch across the bottom and the ribbon is from Micahels. The button is Basic Grey. I used some Cat's Eye chalk ink around the edges of some of the cuts.

That's pretty much it! I sure appreciate you coming by to see me today! It means an awful lot to me!! Have a wonderful day and hope to see you again soon!!!