A bookmark for Steph

Happy weekend!!!

Well maybe for some of you it's the weekend...

I still have work tonight and tomorrow night...

I'm super excited about the Bronco's game tomorrow!!

I'm all decked out in my Bronco's gear at work tonight!

And I know I won't get much sleep as the game is on early!

Ok, ok, ok so today I took an hour (or two) and created another bookmark

The one I brought for my work friend Sasha was such a hit that all the girls now HAVE to have one!

So I created this one for my dear friend Steph, who is almost never without her cuppa coffee!

I handed her a stack of digi's I had printed out, and she

of course picked out this super cute Saturated Canary digi!

And who am I to say no??

The sentiment stamp is from Unity stamps, and I'll be linking her up next Friday (the 18th)

for their Friends with Flair!

I love love love that stamp, especially since it has my word for the year BELIEVE in it!

First thing I did when I got up today was run to the mailbox hoping it would be there!

And it was!

Ok, so I finally took some time last night and watched a youtube tutorial on coloring hair...

I am so much happier with how the hair turned out....   Still a work in progress, but much better!

Here's her close up!

My only regret with this bookmark is that I covered up some of the cool stamping that I did...

Behind the digi there is an image of a bicycle, and the eiffle tower...

Seeing the eiffle tower is a dream of mine... Oh how I want to go to Paris one day...

And the bike, well it's sorta french, but it's a definite goal of mine to get in better shape this year!

Steph seems to love the bookmark, so I hope you all do too!!!

Entering this into:

Tuesday Alchemy: hopes, dreams, and or resolutions

Crafty Bloggers network: Flowers

Paper Crafting Journey: Anything Goes

The Studio Challenges: New Beginnings

Cut it up Challenges: In with the New (new stamp, and the paper the stamp is stamped on is new for me from Basic Grey!)

Happy birthday April!

Last night while perusing some of my favorite blogs I came across a new (to me) digi stamp

company called The Ocotpode Factory, you can find

these fabulous stamps here.

I was so inspired that I snatched up a couple and got to playing!

I am entering this fun birthday card into their challenge

which is "Words" you can find that challenge here

I am also super excited about the Hard Core Crop that's being sponsored by co'ordinations 

you can find all the Crop challenges here.

This card is being entered in the Recipe challenge being hosted by Andrea

at I'm livin on scraps

her recipe is akin to chocolate chips cookies,

(from her posting)

BROWN SUGAR - Page must contain some type of Core'dinations Kraft or Kraft Core (Tim Holtz collection) cardstock, OR you may use any color of Brown Core'dinations cardstock that you may have on hand!   (I used the kraft core)SUGAR - Page must contain some type of Glitter, Embossing powder or Bling.  (I embossed the sentiment, and I then sprayed it with sparkly mist!)

CHOCOLATE CHIPS - Page must contain Polka Dot embossing, (either Tillie or Jillian Spotted Core or Core cardstock that is embossed with a dotted folder).  (I embossed a scrap piece of core paper and then I distressed it!)

CHOPPED WALNUTS - Page must contain some "distressing technique".  (well it didn't show up very well, but I distressed the edges of the kraft paper, and I also added distressing to the raised embossing on the heart and the polk a dots!)

Here is my close up of this fabulous digi! 

I wanna send a shout out to my good friend April, it's her birthday!

And this fun creation is for her! 

Also entering this card into the challenges at:

Pause Dream Enjoy: Forgotten Stash (for my kraft paper! how could I forget that???)

Pile it on: Anything but a Christmas Card

Shopping Our Stash: Odds and Ends (literally everything on the card is odds and ends.. well except the image)

Tuesday Alchemy: Anything Goes

and of course:

The Octopode Factory: Words