My take on Papertake Weekly

Woo hooo its Sunday and that means Anthony has the next two days off!!!  I hope all of you have had a fantastic weekend!  I'm on a mission to totally wear the girls out today so that they sleep well tonight because tomorrow we are off to Columbus to the Ohio State fair.  I'm super excited.  I love the fair and it makes up for missing the annual Watermelon Festival in my home town Knox City, Texas (which may be the last one ever!). Yummm I miss those Texas seedless watermelons!!

I just love this image by CC Designs!  I think I'm finally getting the hang of coloring hair.  I'm not great but its getting easier!

Challenges entered:

Crafty Creations Challenge - Summer Lovin'

Fab'n' Funky Challenge - Buttons and Bows

Simon Says Challenge - Going Dotty

Papertake Weekly - Sketch #45

Ingredients:

Stamp: CC Designs Honey Series Summer

Paper: DCWV Citrus, Me & My Big Ideas Petunia DP, PTI Raspberry Fizz

Embelishments: Buttons-making memories, stickles - Star Dust, Orange Peel

Have a fantastic day!!

Melissa

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Here's my next installment of challenge cards today!  I used another Anya on this one.  She was calling to be inked up.  I used lots of Stickles on the bubbles but you can't really tell in this picture.  I followed Papertake Weekly's Sketch # 44 for this fantastic configuration.

Ingredients:

Stamp - TGF Me Time Anya

Paper - Cosmo Cricket

Flowers - Prima

Stickles - Star Dust

Brads - unknown origin

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Brushed Corduroy

See you back here in a few!  Don't forget to check all my post for today!

TGIF!

Usually the weekdays aren't any different for me than the weekends.  No one has to go to school or work but I still have to cook dinner, wash cloths and entertain Clara.  But today is different, tomorrow I'll be able to meet Tim Holtz!!!  Seriously today will not go by fast enough!  So if anyone is planning to attend Anventures in Stamping in Akron Ohio let me know.

I took a break from printing the mounds of baby shower invitaions this morning to whip up a cute card.  I just had to use my new Poteeka Souffle paper by Paper Studio.  I'm usually not a big fan of the HL paper packs but this one is too cute.

I paired the paper with Pink Cat Studio's Lily and Billy Sweetheart stamp set. I love this image with Lily in the basket.  I used Papertake Weekly's sketch.  I'll probably be using this sketch a lot because its so simple and cute. 

I'm hoping to make the perfect anniversary card for my guy since we will be celebrating or 10th wedding anniversary this June.  This isn't the one but I think I'll have to make several before I get the one I want.

Before I go I want to share a very cute picture of Joey and Clara I took this morning it the play/craft room.  We have this huge round cushion from a papasan chair that we drag to the middle of the floor when the girls watch a movie.  Well Joey seems to think its his and wiggled Clara almost all the way off.

Everyone have a wonderful and safe weekend!

Melissa

A tongue twister and a couple of challenges!

Good Monday morning to you! I hope that you had a wonderful weekend. 

This morning while the girls were eating breakfast I was skimming my blog list and found out that I'd won a surprise digi from The Greeting Farm for my tongue twister.  My winning tongue twister:   Friendly farmers frantically forge for frequent farm fresh finds!  How cool is that!

Last month I purchased Travel Anya from The Greeting Farms farmers market. (This Thursday the 22nd is the next farmers market)  She is one of my favorites and I had to have her.  However it took me some time to actually ink her up.  I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do with her.  It wasn't until I was shopping this weekend for a graduation gift for my cousin that I got my idea.  I always give graduates "Oh The Place You'll Go" by Dr. Suess, its something that my Grandmother gave me when I graduated high school.  So this is what I ended up with!

Of course I used Travel Anya from The Greeting Farm.  I stamped her in Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto PTI white cardstock and colored her up with my Triart markers.  Yellow paper is Core'dinations Tulip, congratulation PP is DCWV, and the pink paper is a radom sheet that I found in my stash.  The sentiment is handwritten becasue I was to lazy to print it out.  I also made the pearl swirl with Queen & Co snowflake pearls, its not quite right but I think I'll eventually get it.

Challenges entered:

Papertake Weekly - Cutie Pie

Stamp Something - Layer Something

Inspirational Card Sketches - Sketch #62

Have a wonderful Monday!!

Melissa

Glee tonight and a birthday card!!!

I'm so excited that Glee returns tonight!  I've already informed my Hubby that I claim the TV at 9:28pm.  My Hubby makes fun of me for liking Glee so much.  He doesn't understand what draws me to a show about high schoolers.  I have a hard time explaining it to him.  You either get it or you don't.  If you watch Glee leave me a comment and let me know what draws you to it.  I'd love to hear from other Gleeks!!

So unless I get some crafty things done this afternoon or tomorrow morning I won't have anything to post tomorrow.  I still have to fold and put away all the laundry that I did yesterday.  I think it breeds in the dirty laundry basket.

On to the card.  I made this card for one of Rhaynn's friends who's party is this weekend.  Of course the party is on the same day as our soccer game so we aren't sure if she'll make it.  The image is a digi from Sassy Cheryl's that I got from their PCP page.  The sentiment is from a K&Co set that I got ages ago at M's on clearence and it is stamped in Memento Summer Sky.  I cute the image and the sentiment out with my Nestabilities Label 4.  I so love this one, okay I love them all.!  All the paper is from the DCWV Blossoms and Butterflies stack.  I used the Papertake Weekly sketch from last week.

I hope that everyone has a fab Tuesday.  And Happy Glee watching Gleeks!!

Melissa

Happy {heart} day!!

I'm so excited!!  I made a card that I can enter in three challanges!!  This is a first for me.  I love the way this card turned out.  I like it so much that I may not be able to give it to anyone!  Isn't the image just to cute! It is a freebie from Michelle Perkett Studio. You can get this image too over at Michelle Perkett Studio at the PCP (paper craft planet).  By the way I love the PCP.  The brown paper I used from my scraps, I'm trying to clean that out.  All three PP is from the Target $ Spot.  Gotta love Target $ Spot!!  The happy {heart} day stamp is a $ stamp from Micheals.  I clear embossed it but the pic is so bad its hard to tell.

*edited to add that I added some lines to the middle cake so I could use all three colors*

Challanges entered:

Papertake Weekly Challenge - sketch #32

 

Allsorts Challenge blog - colors brown and pink

Charizma Cardz  Challenge - anything new (its all new except the brown CS)

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Don't forget to enter my Birthday Blog Candy, you have until Feb 5 and you don't need a blog to enter.

Have a great Monday!!

**hugs**

Melissa