Clearly Delightful

This card is for the Clearly Delightful challenge found HERE. I used one of Laurie's free digital images. My dd & I got to meet Laurie & her kids last fall. Though Laurie's dd & mine are about 7 years apart in age, they have that "kid connection" where you refer to the parents as so & so's mom or dad. My Natalie has said now more than once, "Abigail's moms draws the BEST animals." I agree! You can find her digis HERE. She has a few freebies & if you play in her monthly challenges she offers a free digi stamp. This month is a set!

This was the sketch:

I used watercolor paper & dye ink markers (mainly Stampin' Up) with an aqua brush.

Other stuff: dp is a set from Paper Studio at Hobby Lobby, CM circle & oval cutters, Martha stewart daisy edge punch, ribbon is from Michaels. The top words are part of the free digi stamp. I tried to match the fonts & did a computer generated saying on the bottom oval. Cardstock is variety from my stash. Sorry I don't know more details about the paper.

Thanks for flying by!

Mo's, JUGS & SSIC

This card is for Mo's digital pencil challenge, Just Us Girls and Stampin' Sisters in Christ.

Details in the morning!

MORNING IS HERE! LOL!
The challenge this week at Mo's Digital Challenge Blog was to use blue, brown and one neutral color. Just Us Girls had a sketch challenge, and Stampin' Sisters in Christ was hosted by my dear friend Peggysue who challenged us to use the theme JOY in the midst of some pretty trying times on this earth.

Here is the verse Peggysue chose for this week:
SCRIPTURE

Isaiah 12:6 "Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you."

The image I used is a freebie from Mo's digital pencil. You can find her free images HERE. Of course, once you try these you'll be heading to her store for more! LOL!

I printed the image on watercolor paper, then used my Stampin' Up markers and an aqua brush to color this in. Since we were limited to blues & browns, I used creamy caramel to color the beaks.

The paper is from a K & Co. stack called Winter Wonderland. I love all the papers in that stack and they obviously go beyond just winter cards.

The little JOY embellishment was sent to me by a friend, but having a dork brain, I can't recall who sent it. I'm pretty sure it was a dork sister, so if she wants to identify herself she can! : )

I used the Martha Stewart Daisy edge punch to create the strip and a scalloped circle nestabilities die for the, um, scalloped circle. LOL!

Thanks for coming by today.

Midnight Madness & Teapot Tuesday

This is my card for last week's Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge found HERE & Mothermark's Teapot Tuesday Challenge found HERE.

Cindy's (Mothermark) challenge had to do with the Mad Hatter. Or Alice. Or the White Rabbit. Well, you get the idea. So, here's my story.

We all know that behind every good man, or crazy male rabbit, is a good woman, um, or pretty bunny. In some cases the woman might actually be in front of the man, as you can see on my card.

Here's the deal. Being married to that white rabbit is a hare raising experience (tee-hee). He is ALWAYS worried about time and being so over the top ADHD, he ALWAYS gets distracted, then runs late. When his great great great grandfather, the original white rabbit, first had the family watch, it was a wind up watch. That attention deficit issue stretches back to his day when Ol' Pappaw Rabbit would just forget to wind his watch, which led to the upheaval of the entire family. Now days, though, there are batteries, and that watch does NOT need to be wound. The only thing wound too tightly is that Rabbit!

Sweet little Carol, named for some famous author who wrote biographies of the Rabbit family, and also some TV show across the pond in the USA in the 60's---something to do with an Alice & a Carol and a bunch of kids---met White the 5th and fell in love with his crazy nature. Like most women, she thought once they were married he'd be more responsible. But Noooooooooooooooooooooo.....that didn't happen. Now Carol has learned to love WR just as he is. She knows that henceforth and forevermore, or at least as long as rabbits live, she will be late to every important event, and some not so important events. She's okay with that. She knows it could be worse. She pities her cousin-in-law Louise who married WR's cousin, the March Hare.

Thanks for hopping by my blog today!

OOPS, forgot the details!

Stamp: Happy Hopper (House Mouse)
Ink: Stazon Black
Paper: Watercolor, white cardstock, Prima Nurserytales paper pad---with Alice in Wonderland themed pages---what are the odds???
Other: Dye based markers, watercolor brush, Prima Nuserytales flowers, CM cutting system

Scrapbox Giveaway at Priscilla Styles Midnight Madness!

Priscilla at the Midnight Madness Challenge has a huge giveaway going on! The Original Scrapbox is giving away a brand new product called the Office Box. It comes in four beautiful shades! You can find all the details HERE.

Here is what this beauty looks like:
Also, a signed copy of a new book titled Wrong Number by Rachelle J. Christensen will be given away.

You can check out the book HERE and watch a trailer of the book on you tube HERE. I'm blog deficient & don't know how to get a video to imbed. I think I accidentally did it once but since then it doesn't work, so the links are the best I can do.

Edited to add video! Thanks Rachelle! I feel so empowered! LOL!


Priscilla has several other items up for grabs, so go check it out!

If you haven't seen Priscilla's sites, go to her challenge site and check out her new store site and her art site from there! I just "met" Priscilla when I started doing these challenges & she is a "kindred spirit" as Anne of Green Gables would say (that's Anne, with an -e, like my middle name--LOL!). She has a special place in my heart, too, as she was the last customer I was able to serve as a Pampered Chef consultant. At least this go round. Maybe I'll get to do that again in a few years & she can be my first customer! tee-hee!

Get on over to the MM site now, ya' hear!

Cupcakes & Birthdays

I am SO behind on Birthday cards, but hope I can get some of these I've made with a note in them & mailed off soon. This one was for a challenge that's over now. The digi-image is from Nikki HERE. I watercolored it. Computer generated words. cupcake brad from Clear Dollar Stamps (see my sidebar). Basic Grey paper.

Gotta get a kid to bed. Thanks for stopping by!

Multi-Challenge card for a dear friend

SFYTT SKETCH CHALLENGE
CRAFT Challenge Ribbons and Sparkle
Cute Card Thursday Ribbon Tastic
Rosie D's Challenge Friendship
Secret Crafter Stitching

This card started off as a funny card to cheer up my dear friend Kathy. Last Tuesday, February 23, she got the call we all fear. "The lab results are in and the tumor is malignant." This digi image was a freebie from My Favorite Things. I downloaded it because it's free. I thought I'd never use it. I HOPED I never had to use it, and if I did, it would be for someone whose distant relative twice removed had survived breast cancer. NEVER did I think I'd be using it for one of my dearest friends. But I did.

As I said, I thought a silly card would cheer her up. Neither of us like headless stamps, so I HAD to put heads on this. I realized the only pics I have of Kathy are when we've had no sleep after a Girl Scout camping trip of some sort. Her hair was in a ponytail, so I added hair. I told her I think I will officially be in charge of hair replacement for her this year. I started making this just to be a plain card to give her. Then I saw a sketch that if I just tweaked it some, this would fit. Then I found the challenges for ribbons, glitter and friendship, and kept embellishing. Just when I thought I was done I decided to add stitching which I saw on another challenge. This is when it got really fun. I took off the brad with the ribbon so I could stitch. The fancy stitch I wanted to do just wasn't working on paper. So I had a ripped up area of cardstock, which is hidden by the ribbon. That ribbon, well, I had the brad holding it on until I decided to sew. I'd cleverly punched the hole through just one layer to hide the brad ends. Then when I finished sewing I realized I couldn't get the brad back in. LOL! So, I punched another hole all the way through. By this time the back was a MESS and it was the inside of a card. This is when things got really fun. I labeled it as what she might look like post surgery. There was an incision, a scar, some staples, and of course stitching. I suggested she ask the breast cancer surgeon to use a fancy stitch during surgery.

You might wonder why I would use a card like this to enter so many challenges. Kathy is a stamper/scrapbooker. I figure if we were chosen for any of these she would really enjoy having new toys to use.

Now, about Kathy. She is holding up really well during the day. She isn't sleeping well and fear creeps in at night. She is trusting the Lord and her faith is being affirmed day by day. Two verses she said keep coming up in the most unusual places:
Psalm 118:24: This is the day the LORD has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Romans 8:28: And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

Please pray for Kathy and her family. She has been uninsured but God is providing some ways, we think, to cover the treatment she will need (MRI's, surgery, chemo, radiation). Pray that all the right doors will be open for this. Pray for her husband, who tonight said, when he heard what insurance would cost, IF they will cover her, "I guess I'll work 8 days a week now." We both homeschool so we aren't two income families with any money to spare. Kathy helps run their business from home in addition to that. There's another prayer request: I guess they will need someone to manage the computer/billing end of things at some point. They have 2 children, ages 12 & 13 (no, that's not a typo!). Pray for healing, whether it is miraculous healing or through the wisdom He gives doctors. Please pray for the doctors to all make wise decisions in treating her.

Thank you!

A splash of color

Last week's Mothermark's Tuesday Teapot challenge was to make a white card with a splash of color. What better color to splash than a bunch of M's??? This cute little stamp is from Deadbeat Designs. If you head north on I-35 from San Antonio and exit in Salado, you'll find the cutest little stamp store. Oh, wait, most of you don't live here. Well, NOW you MUST come visit me!

And in tribute to THIS week's teapot Tuesday challenge, in the words of the white rabbit, I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date.

Bye!