Post 1 of 4 today!

I know...4 post today! 

I have four cards that are due for challenges today and I really like to keep each one in a different post for labeling purposed.

Heres the first of the four cards that I made last night.  I just love TGF Stella.  Isn't she the cutest.  This was my first attempt at making "shiny" black hair.  With the help of a couple of utube videos and looking at all the wonderfulness on my BFF Rachel's blog I think I did fairly well. 

Challenges for cutie Stella:

little red wagon - #36 Nestabilities

Card Patterns - Sketch #72

Stella's ingredients:

Stamp - TGF Stella

Paper - My Mind's Eye, Love Nest

Flower - Prima (colored with Triart markers)

Button - making memories

Nestabilities - Label One

Ribbon - Cosmo Cricket

Don't forget to stop by later and check out my other three post.  I'll be spacing them out over the day!

Melissa

Happy Monday!

I had a wonderful weekend.  Saturday my LSS had a "Garage sale".  While I was not prepared at all for the amount of people or that some women are rather mean when it comes to snagging a bargin, I did get some things that I couldn't pass up.  I got all of this for $10!  Sorry for the bad photos its been dreary here all day.  Next time I'll be prepared and go early so I can get in the front of the line.

I've been busy making easter cards so that I can get them mailed to my nephew and neices in Texas. 

The image is a free digi from Sliekje digi Stamps.  He's so cute I couldn't resist him.  She has tons of free digis on her site.  I printed him on PTI cardstock and colored him with my Triart markers. I cut him out with Label One Nestie.   All the paper is from the DCWV Blossoms and Butterflies Stack. I added some pearls and called it finished.  I did follow a sketch I think it was last weeks Mojo Monday sketch.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great night!

Melissa

Wow its late!!

Wow this is a really late post for me.  I really have to learn not to get distracted when I sit down at my computer.  I had a wonderful Mom's night out with my friend Rachel.  We had dinner and then saw Avatar.  We talk so much we rarly finish our conversations.  They tend to just continue the next time we are hangingout.  Love ya Rach!

Okay so on to my card.  All the PP is from the DCWV Nana's Kids stack (one of my favs).  The sentiment is Hampton Arts.  The main image is a free digi from Pollycraft.  I printed it on PTI cardstock and colored the cutie with my triart markers.  Added a some stickles to the cupcake and viola a cute birthday card.

I'm entering this card into these challenges:

Pollycraft Monday Challenge - #36 Sparkly things
Crafty Creations Challenge- #59 Spots and dots
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Birthday
Delightful Sketches -

OCC Sketch Challenge

Well I"m back!  My back is feeling much better and I'm hopping to be able to get an appointment for some tests soon.  I need to find out what's trigering the spasms the only downside is that they will be trying to make my muscles spasm and its not very fun.  Thanks to everyone who sent their well wishes!

 I was able to get into the scraproom last night after the girls went to bed.  It did not go well at first.  I ended up stamping and coloring my image five times before I liked how it turned out.  So I got the February issue of the UK magazine Cardmaking and Papercraft as a gift and it came with this almost 6x6 stack of My Mind's Eye Pretty Please paper.  I love love love this paper!  I'm going to have to find more or it.  I will be making all my Easter cards with it.

Okay so on to my card.  The sentiment And image are from the Spring Elves set from Sweet November by Amy Young. I stamped this cutie on PTI cardstock and then colored him with my Triart markers.  All the paper is from the above My Mind's Eye stack.  The bling is from my stash and I used glossy accents on the egg to make it stand out a bit.

I'm also entering this card in the challenge at the OCC Sketch Blog

Thanks for stopping by everyone!  I hope that you Monday is sunny and fabulous!

Melissa

Doodle Dragon Challenge!!

So if you didn't know Dustin Pike has a new challenge blog Doodle Dragon Studio Challenge.  I love Dustin's images which you can find HERE.  If you like his images you should be following his blog because he has freebies on Wed. so go check it out now.  I entered this card into the Doodle Dragon first challenge.  The theme is Love/Valentines day.  The due date is Saturday the 23rd so you still have time to join.

I think I used the last of my brown scraps on the base of this card.  The PP and the heart brad are all from Target's $ spot.  I'm going to have to get more of this paper to actually use if for what I bought it.  The image is from Dustin Pike.  I followed along on the Doodle Dragon Challenge's first ever blog hop and got this image called Cupcake Farmer.  Isn't he just the cutest!!  You can check out Doodle Dragon Studios to purchase him.  I cut him out using my Spellbinders Nestibilities Label One and colore him with my trusty BIC markers and my Triart Markers.

Thanks for stopping by!!  Don't forget to enter my Birthday blog candy!! 

PDS Challenge

Happy Saturday to everyone!!

I love how this card turned out!! I've been trying to enter some challenges here and there. I'm not very good at the specific ones. Over at the Pixie Dust Studio Pixie Challange blog they challenged us to use elements with letter that spell FAB. I have to tell you the F and B came pretty easy for me. I had no clue what to use for the A. I already had my papers layed out and my DIGI image of Swiss Pixie Heidi colored with my BIC markers. I just couldn't for the life of me figure out what to add that began with the letter A. So I was checking out the design team's creations and discoved that yes indeed I already had an element that began with A. My argyle paper!! I felt like such a knucklehead.

F- flowers (Prima)
A - Argyle paper
B- Brad



Today is my birthday!! So next week I will be posting a blog candy you won't want to miss!! Thanks for stopping by!!

**hugs**

Melissa

Thank you berry much.

Good morning bloggerland! We got enough snow last night for school to be on a two hour delay. The girls are positively thrilled. Rhalynn has snowmen dancing in her head.


I'm slowly but surly getting the girls thank you cards for Christmas done. I love this beary image by Whimsie Doodles. Its a free image for their newsletter subscribers. I colored it with my BIC markers. I printed the sentiment directly onto the silver cardstock that I think came from Walmart. I used my new Spellbinders Nestabilities Label One for the mat. The red was just random cardstock from my scraps and the pokadot was from Amy Butlers Lotus stack.

Sorry for the bad pic, the light isn't very good this morning.

I just wanted to share with you this picture. This morning when I went out to warm up the car this is what I found.

Isn't my hubby the greatest? He scraped off my windows and left me this little message. I had to take a picture because I knew that it wouldn't last once the car was warm.

Everyone have a wonderful Tuesday!!

**hugs**

Melissa