A Cute Whiff of two challenges!

Whooo Hoooo! I just love it when a card "FITS" two challenges. Especially when it just happens to work that way - stress filled perfect! I sat down to work on this weeks Whiff of Joy challenge - had to the theme was Lavender and Lace... I love both. I have a huge stack of new paper stacks... again - I really need some therapy - went into Micheal's just to look for a punch and came out with FIVE new stacks!!! AAAGGHHHH! They really have some yummy papers that just came in and they were on sale... I do have problems - no will power - none at all. Anyway I have rambled. Anyway I sat down with all of my new papers and one of them is DCWV Nana's Kitchen - well we all know how much I love the Nursery line... all that glitter on pretty papers - well now there is a kitchen collection, and they are just as yummy... maybe even more yummy as they have food and kitchen themes. Well that happens to fit in with Cute Card Thursday's Theme!!! Wine and Dine - well I don't like Wine... actually don't drink at all.. so I went with the Dine... I do lots of that! And the perfect meal? A whole plate of warm cookies.... that is a great meal!This is Willow with Cookies one of the older Whiff of Joy's but one of my favorites! She is colored with Copics, back ground sprayed with my compressor. Then high lighted with white gel pen.

For the card I used the yummy DCWV papers - and the base is a lavender Bazzil card stock - it really looks a bit darker here in the photos than it is in person... hmmmm.... I used the Martha Stewart Double Dot Scallop punch for the edge of the image. Then found a piece of white lace to run as a band across the bottom. The sentiment is from Whiff of Joy as well - and I think taking time to enjoy things.. like those warm cookies! I gel pen stitched the edges as well as did some inking on the edges. Now how I need to figure out how to get some warm cookies .. LOL!

Now off to get some breakfast.. cold corn flakes just don't sound good after seeing the cookies - then to visit a few blogs while I eat... Hope you all have a great Friday!

HUGS and-

A BRIGHT "Cute Card" Happy Birthday -

This card seems much brighter this morning than it did last night.. I really don't know what I was thinking other than matching the Cloud Nine Papers. And well you really might need you shades for this one.

Well Cute Card Challenge Blog this week asked for an Animal on our cards. Well that is a pretty easy request, so many wonderful new animal images out there and I decided it was time to ink up one of the Whiff of Joy images that I had not inked yet. I can't help it... when I go to use them, I end up using the donkey from the collection. But I slapped my hand and was happy I did as this this leaping sheep is really a wonderful fun Birthday image. I colored with my copics, and then used my Diamond stickles for the wool.. and then bright yellow stickles for some bling on the presents.

The pattern papers are Cloud nine, and that is where all the bright colors started. I matted the image and the patterns with scrap green card stock and the orange is the back side of one of the pattern papers. They are all sewed together with a zig zag stitch and placed on a bright yellow card stock base.

Now what do you think of that border punch??? How awesome is it for birthday cards? Well it is one of those new EK Success punches, I love all my border punches and I don't really want to admit just how many I own.. especially if you have me add in all the other punches with it. But it takes up a lot of space... lots of space! Man if only they all stored like the new EK Success punches! These are really cool they way the lock closed and flat! And they have some really cute patterns too! So anyway this is one of the new patterns and I love the row of candles! I stickled the flames with the yellow stickles, to add a bit more to it. Like this punch.... you just may want to read down in the blog :)

I gel pen stitched the edge of the card and the border, then stamped the Hero Arts "Happy Birthday". Topped off with a couple of Creative Imaginations Felt Flowers and leaves. Bright, Fun, and Happy -

A report on my Hair cut.... well I was brave - and Mom did a great job and cut almost 6 inches off! I have always had long hair, ok for a short time in high school I cut it for one of those fashionable 80's styles.. I grew it out as quick as I could LOL! Anyway it isn't short now.. just below my shoulders. But wow.. it feels really short! And wasted a bunch of shampoo when I washed it last night.. Ha... I have to say I like it and it feels so much better...

All right one more thing today - my Blog Anniversary is this week. Yep I have been here for one year! And it really was a fast year, can't believe it. I have made so many very special friends, that I hope to have a part of my life forever - And I really feel as if I have improved my craft to a new level due to all of the inspiration from all of your blogs. So I am going to throw a party starting tomorrow - and I have put together some blog candy - I think you might like. And yes.. I purchased one of those EK Success punches as a part of it. The birthday candles just seemed to perfect. So Tomorrow during the day after my Donkey Day Post I will add the candy - I hope you will come a check it out! Today I have to figure out how to photo it all.

HUGS and-

Spring - Whiff of Joy -

I am so loving this Spring Whiff of Joy set! Now I know this should have been colored in some bright spring colors... pink, yellow, greens - but I had this paper from 7 gypsies - so I went with it. Dark Reds and tans all with Copics, and high lighted with white gel pen. I also added some grass stamps and flower stamps from Rubber Stamp Tapestry.

She is so pretty - Wish my hair looked like that.

For the card - I started with a Bazzil Swiss Dots card stock. Then two scraps of the 7 gypsies paper. Inked the edges and then I used my craft knife to cut out the edge of the flower and placed the matted image under the flower. I doodled the edge of the image as well.

Oh and found some photo turns on the edge. Ran a strip of dark red ribbon with a metal slide across the bottom. A simple card yes - but sometimes I think I need that.

Monday again - And it is the last week of February - time is speeding by - sigh - All the goal I had set for after Christmas - still haven't all gotten done. No biggie I will get to them in February - nope. May March will be my month - LOL!

HUGS and-

Don't you love it when it all comes together...

This one just put itself together.. it was so fun and easy.. maybe that is because I was working with so many wonderful new things!



NEW Whiff of Joy Spring Club image
NEW Basic Grey Bittersweet papers
NEW Bazzil Swiss Dot Card Stock
NEW Sketch by Katharina!




Oh I am in love! Yummy! All right I started out with the new Whiff of Joy image, colored with Copics, Spica pens and white gel pen. All to match the new Basic Grey Bittersweet papers, I chose three patterns to follow the sketch.. the yummy fabulous sketch. The dark brown more solid paper is used to mat the image, and the two other patterns. A piece of the collections white paper is then punched with the Martha Stewart Lace Doily border punch. And the card base... oh my have you used any of this swiss dot card stock? LOVE IT! I inked the edges of everything, then sewed down with a small zig zag stitch and light pink thread. I found a wonderful ribbon that all of the colors matched perfectly for the vertical band.




My sentiment is from Rubber Stamp Tapestry, I punched it out with a Fiskar's Circle Squeeze Punch, to use as the center of a EK Success Large Retro punched flower, with Martha Stewart Frond leaf punch. The swiss dot card stock is what I used to punch the flower, you can really see the dots here... the edges are also inked.

And yes - I actually got the inside decorated too! Was having so much fun with the papers and the punch, that I used pieces that I had cut off of and sewed and put together a panel for the inside.

All of this and can you image it is only the first image from the stamp club! I have a whole bunch more to play with! Run over to the Challenge site and see the sketch and join in.. the prize this week is a Guest Designers place for two months at WOJ! Drool... would love that!

Plans for today... well first off I have to call the vet. Gato (my kitty) has pulled one of her stitches loose, we had her fixed last week. Her and Libbie play so hard and run and jump - and now we need to take a trip to repair their damage. They are really pretty funny to watch, but this week I have been on guard and tried to keep their "horse play" to a minimum. Yea right! You would never imagine that a small cat and a 4 pound dog could do so much damage to a house. Moving rugs, turning over chairs... again they are pretty funny to watch. Then once back I hope to sit still for just a while and enjoy some quiet computer time before getting some work done. Hope you have a fun day planned -

HUGS and-

A Whiff of Joy with my new favorite WOJ image!

I just can't tell you how happy it made me making this card! Katharina you are so sweet to have named this little one "Michelle Celebrating Donkey". I just love it! I always do love all her images, but this one is dear to my heart!

Ok, so she is colored with my Copics and then although you can't see it, the balloons and the bow have Glazed Dimensions and shine and sparkle. I then cut it with my Nestibilities with my new Label die, and then cut a mat out of the purple Coordination's card stock, the same that is used as the base. I love this paper, I sanded it to give a distressed look.

I also had to use my new Martha Stewart Valentine Border Punch... Oh how I love hearts... and now a really adorable border punch with them.. will be used on lots of cards! I cut a piece of green coordination's cardstock and sanded it too. The pattern paper is a Heidi Grace paper, love the colors. I found this really large purple flower... to perfect! I wish my leaves had shown a bit more, I cut these with the new Making Memories Slice, and they have some really cute details, but oops the flower was so big it hid most all of it. The center of the flower is a large green button, that I filled the center with purple stickles. and to finish it all off I found a piece of tiny polk a dot ribbon.

Now all of this is for this weeks Whiff of Joy Challenge... which the theme this week is a color theme. PURPLE and GREEN! Great challenge huh! Hope you join in too cuz these ladies rock!

Hubby is off again today - we are finally working on my utility room again! Hopefully I will have a nice pretty new laundry area by the end of the week! The dryer door will actually open all the way!! So better get busy! Hope you have a great day... oh and I will be back later tonight to announce the winner of the BLOG CANDY!

HUGS and-

Lets Review the Babies of 2008!

I didn't get out to take Donkey photos this morning. I am just a bit under the weather. So I got to thinking... it is the first Saturday Donkey Day of the New Year, lets look back at all the Baby Blessings of 2008! This was our first real big baby year here, we were very blessed!

Our first Baby of the Year the first part of April, is Rosie. She is my Girl. Poor thing has been sickly her entire life. She started out that way, she wasn't getting enough milk from her Mom the first few days. But then Lacey got the hang of things and did a much better job. Then she got some type of worm, that has effected her. It comes and goes, and today is one of those sick days for her. I feel so bad for her, once we get a dose of meds in her she bounces back. I just wish we could kick it all together. She is such a pretty girl.

Two days later we lost Vicky's baby. We don't know what the problem was, but we were lucky that it didn't damage Vicky and she is now again VERY pregnant. You can guarantee that with this birth I will probably sleep in the barn with her when things get close for her.

Then just a week later Macey went into labor and Angelina was born. "Lina" is a carbon copy of her Momma. From her beautiful eyes to her size and tummy. Macey is like me short and wide... A big boned girl we will say. Lina is just like her. You can tell out in the pasture which one is her... short and wide. She is a pretty little girl. Daddy tells her to not tell anyone but she is his favorite.

Lola came three weeks later, in May. Cheyenne's daughter. And again she is a exact copy of her Mom. Tall, skinnier, dark nose, long ears. She is pushy friendly and one of the first to greet you in the pen. Once there no one else is going to come between you and her. Daddy thought it was cute as a baby to let her raise up on him and they danced.... not so funny now as she has knocked him over more than once. We have now taught her this is a no no. Lola and Lina are NEVER apart, they are great 1/2 sisters.

The end of July we had our very first Spot Baby. Patti gave birth to Irene. She is one funny girl. She is a lot like her Mom in size and shape, but not in personality. Patti is calm and sweet and very gentle. Irene is super friendly, pushy, and got the nick name "Shark" real fast. It has been almost impossible to teach her to not bite. She doesn't usually hurt, most of the time it is clothing she bites and pulls, but once in a while she gets "meat". She is buddies with Rosie. And Rosie is a calm, laid back Donkey... some of it is rubbing off on Irene, I have seen a big difference in her the last month.

Little bitty Gloria, Jazz's second baby for us, was born July 31st.. just 4 days after Irene. She stole the heart of many of you. She is our first "black" donkey, and is really small. She is a sweet natured donkey and loved attention. She is ready to be weaned and will be put in the youth pen this week. She has gotten the nick name Orangutan... as she has lots of long furry hair except on her face. And yes she looks like and Orangutan. She is just adorable.

We had a wait for our next baby. Fernando came the first part of November. We had more stress and trauma with him than with any baby in a long time. Mom really had a tough birth, was in full labor, then stopped it due to a wild cow running through our property, then went into birth the next night, was a long panic birth, once he was born she would have nothing to do with him and kicked and ran from him. Finally after some time and tying Mom up they bonded and she has become a wonderful Momma. Fernando is my Zonkey... I just love all of his stripes. But the name Fernando is just way to formal for this hysterical little guy. "Freddie" is perfect. He is really a super friendly guy and loved to go under you, yes between your legs and as he is growing and I am so short this is not so funny, I have nearly fallen on my rear end more than once.

Then on Thanksgiving Darlene gave us one Turkey Dinner... "Pavo" yes that in Spanish translate to Turkey Dinner. LOL he is a timid quiet shy guy. That is just beautiful with his dark nose. He is just now getting to where he will leave Mom's side and come for hugs and petting. It is funny to watch him in the pen. The only other "young" donkey in that pen is Gloria right now. She has been very use to being the baby, the fastest. Since Pavo has gotten a bit braver, he has been running more freely and trying to get Gloria to play with him. She does but gets frustrated that she can't turn on a dime like he does, and just can't whip in and out of the bales like him. It is really funny to watch. Then he will get a snort from Mom and she freezes, and stops everything and goes right back to Mom's side. He is a very well behaved boy and does exactly what Mom tells him.

We honestly thought that Pavo was it for the year. But Jolene decided she wanted to surprise us. On December 6th with out any signs or warning she gave birth to Josephine "Josie". We did not think that she was due to give birth until the end of January or well into February. But guess we were wrong huh? Josie is sooooo tiny, even now she is still smaller than most new born babies we have had. I question whether she was a bit pre-mature and really should have not been born till later. I was so excited this last week as Josie as I was coming out the back door to feed welcomed me with her first real Hee Haw... very high pitched and was 5 or 6 hee's and haws. Simply adorable. We should have released her and Jolene into the main pasture by now, but I have been putting it off, she is just so small. We decided to wait at least through this next cold front to make sure they had their own barn... then I will see if I am brave enough to let her loose.

Blessed or what? I have felt so lucky to have all of these babies, and before them I loved going out and loving on all of my Donkeys, but now it is even more of a pleasure. Fun, with more laughing. Next year should be in the business since "profitable" as well. But we will have to sell some to make it so. We will keep many of these, as we are trying to increase our heard size, and well we are just really attached at this point. Sadly all the boys will have to go - no questions asked. Just can't keep them at all.

If you would like more donkey photos to "review" or would like to see any of these babies through the year and how they have grown up, just click the Donkey label on my side bar.

Ok I know this was really long today - I actually had a card to show too, but I will hold it for another day. But I do have one more Donkey to show you. I, despite being sick today, have been so excited about this new Donkey!!!!!!! Have you seen the new releases from Whiff of Joy????

I knew this was coming but seeing it on the web site and seeing what Katharina named her.... I have been over joyed and like a little kid giggling about it!!!!

This is "Michelle Celebrating Donkey" ... yes you read that right! Katharina thank you so much!!! It means so much to me that you not only included a Donkey in your new Animal collection but when I saw you named it after me... well... I just really wish I could HUG YOU!!!! Thanks so much!

If you haven't seen the new collection ... you must run and take a look they are all Adorable and so fun. But I will say the Donkey is the best and my favorite! HA LOL!

Well I will stop now. This has been long enough! Thanks so much for following the Donkey Day Saturday post, they have meant so much to me that you all enjoy them so much - my Donkeys are such a huge part of me. And I love sharing them will all of you!

HUGS and-

Winter Wishes with Whiff of Joy

How pretty is this image. I love her. Well we love all Whiff of Joy images don't we? I have been seeing her with the dark hair on a few blogs, and I knew when I saw the SEI Alpine Frost pad at Micheal's this week (hehe on sale) that I had to use the reds with this very WOJ image and dark hair.

So this week there was another brilliant sketch by Heather, I followed the sketch with three pattern papers, and a cream colored card stock base. All the papers are from the SEI Alpine Frost paper pad. I colored with my Copic Markers, and white gel pen. Then cut my circle with Nestibilities, and then a larger circle with the solid red from the SEI collection. Doodled the edges, of course - it just seems blank with out it. I then went back to the pattern papers and sewed them down with silver thread, it really catches the light in person, as it is a real metallic thread. You have to sew much slower when using this type of thread, it will stretch and break. I found some glittered snowflakes for my three dots at the bottom. To follow the sketch I pulled out 5 white flowers.. yes white. I then sprayed them with my compressor and Copic Dark Red (same as I used on the dress). Oh I am really going to have to stock up on white flowers!!! I centered them with jewelery spacers and white mini brads. For the sentiment... it too is from Whiff of Joy, the "Sending Winter Wishes" Sentiment, it was just too long for the spot I had, so I stamped it out and carefully cut off the Sending. Then out lined it with the dark red Copic. At the very end.. I saved the all the fur areas of the image, cuffs, boot tops, etc. I used a puffy paint and very lightly added it to the image. I didn't want too much to loose the black lines in the areas. I love the colors of this one, and it is a great sketch - you should give it a go!

Well Hubby is off today so we are going to run "his" errands this morning... who knows where all we end up... I am sure one of the "man's mall"... (Lowes, the hardware store, and Sporting goods store for sure) wonder if I can sneak in a craft store?

Hope you have a great day and have some time to ink up some stamps!

HUGS and-

The day after Thanksgiving...

It is the day after Thanksgiving and that means Christmas is really coming - -------- that was me screaming! I am no where near ready for it this year. I don't know where or why I got so far behind. I haven't even started my Christmas shopping... and I usually make quite a few of my gifts and ahhh nope haven't done that either.





Well the Whiff of Joy Challenge this week helped me out some. A great little gift box, I thought it might be nice to fill with candies. Their challenge this week was going to be to make a bookmark, but then they opened it up to anything but a card. That was great cuz this helps me with one more gift....


I decided to use Lizzie one because she was just calling out to be inked, two she was the perfect size for the window of the tin, and three she is just adorable!

Ok, so first I started with my tin... recycling here, this is one of my many Prima Flower tins, love flowers, so I have lots of different containers that they came in, I use to keep them in their containers, but that gets a bit overwhelming and takes a lot of space, so I moved all the flowers into my embellishment tackle box. But I couldn't throw away all the containers so they are all in a box in the closet. I will be pulling out some of these tins and making more of these.




I first started to try and wrap the tin with pretty Christmas paper, but these lids fit so well that wouldn't work. I then dug through my ribbon and found this perfect wide ribbon, perfect width and color! Then found a gorgeous dark red satin ribbon to use around the lid, and made a fake bow for the front.


Lizzie is stamped out and colored with my Copics, and then cut with a Nestibilities petite oval. I have been really messing with this coloring the backgrounds, takes time and ink but I love how it makes the image pop. I gel pen doodled around the edge once the background ink dried. Then I simply added two Prima leaves and two Prima Poinsettia flower stacked and held together with a jewelry spacer and red mini brad.



hmmmm... wonder what candy would look best in this tin?




OH and you have to visit Ila at Artfully Ila she is celebrating 100,000 hits!!!! NO surprize as she is the master at coloring, her stuff is always just jaw dropping gorgeous! Go check her out and see!







Better get the day going - Pavo and Darlene are doing great, and as expected she shared him with us this morning and let us love all over him. He is such a cutie. Pop back in tomorrow as it is Donkey Saturday and I will have photos of him, Freddie and others to share!

HUGS and-

Two cards for Wednesday, then lots of cooking!

Hello! I have two cards for today! I probably should have saved one of them, just in case for tomorrow, just in case I don't get one done today... but I couldn't decide which one to not show.... so here they both are!



For the House Mouse Challenge blog I wanted the little guy to be squeaky clean! Ha squeaky! The challenge for the week is Polka Dota, love them, so that was easy. I pulled out my DCWV Nursery Baby Girl, and picked three patterns to go with my image, that I colored with my Copics. For the base I used a baby pink card stock, then layered the first pattern paper, the pink dots as the main pattern. I then used a scrap pink card stock and punched it with my Martha Stewart Lace Doily Border punch, inked the edge with green ink, then layered the stripes with it. The glitter dot paper I cut just a bit larger than my image. The edge of all the pattern papers were also inked with the green ink.




My image is matted with the pink card stock, then doodled with a grey Copic Multi-liner. I ran a piece of narrow satin ribbon that is a light green color across the middle of the card and tied in a knot. I used Dew Drops in a dark pink color for the corners of the image. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things - funny huh, I just didn't know what I wanted to use with this image and then ran across this one and it seemed to work well.



Now for my favorite part - I used Diamond Glaze for all of the water..... I love that stuff! In person it really looks cool. When I showed it to Hubby he said "wow, cool shame no one will see how cool online" So he is checking here...... good thing to know for future comments - LOL!






My second card... I love this image! Isn't she just wonderful? This is one of the new Whiff of Joy images and her name is Teenage Lizzie with box of chocolates
She is going to be perfect for Valentine cards, but she also has a yearlong sentiment of love. I don't know if my favorite part is her coat or her boots!






The Layout of this card is from the Whiff of Joy Paper Craft Planet Guest DT call It is a wonderful sketch, I just love Katharina's sketches, funny thing to me was how similar it was to my card above..honestly I made that card the night before I looked at this sketch! Little different but really funny!


I colored her with my Copics and Spica Glitter Pens, the matted her three times with the two card stock colors I used for the base and mat of the card. The pattern papers are all from K&Company, I have hoarded the sunflower paper I wanted to make sure it was for a really special card when I used it... this was it, the flowers seemed perfect for Lizzie. I punched the pattern paper with the Martha Punch for the band across the bottom. Everything was inked with a light brown ink. Then sewed down, machine wasn't thrilled while sewing the image... that was a lot of layers, but it did it! For my sentiment - I got a new package of Tim Holtz Philosophy Tags at the LSS this past weekend, love them and Cherish seemed to be perfect for this card. Then at the last minute I decided to gel pen stitch the edge of the card for a pop around the edge.


Ok, the competition for the Guest DT makes my chances of getting it slim, but I love trying... the sketches always rock and it forces me to really pull out favorite items, and try a bit harder! You should give it a go to! It is another chance to use your favorite Whiff of Joy images what could be better?





Some heads up here -



Ok... now how absolutely wonderful are these new stamps? Better get on over to Alota Rubber Stamps and place your order, these are brand new and will be going out the door first of the week, and I am sure they will be going out fast too! This is only four of the new images there are more click HERE to see all the new images available! Love the new background image, and the chair and sleigh are going to be fun! Don't forget all of your cute people images that we all love will work with those backgrounds!!! Think how cute they will look together! Tilda in the Christmas house scene.. or Edwin fishing on the pond? OH the possibilities are endless! Order quick to make sure you get yours in the first batch!


Alright now to the cooking - yep that is what I will be doing all day, that and cleaning. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the US... and I have 4 or 5 pies to make - old family recipe stuffing to start, and then get the Turkey ready for the oven... actually this year I didn't get the whole Turkey. We went for two big Boneless all white meat breast. It is so sad here when the dark meat just sits there, no one likes it as much as the white here, they all want the breast meat - so that is all there is this year. Doesn't have the traditional look on the table, but hey nothing goes to waste and everyone is happy!


Hope you all have a great Wednesday and have some time to get inky - me I will probably be elbow deep in pumpkin and pecans for pies!

HUGS and-

Whiff of Joy Sketch

Snowmen aren't my thing usually. I think I have said this before, I mean hey I'm in Texas I've only seen Snow on the ground here like 3 or 4 times my entire life... But this new stamp from Whiff of Joy just struck me - I had to have it, just too cute! Maybe it is my odd humor I have and I loved that Herb was putting her head back on. "Herb in Love" is here now and when it arrived two days ago I pulled it out and was ready to do this weeks Whiff of Joy Challenge this week. I got more of the new images from the new collection, but Herb was going to be used first!

It is a great challenge this week it is another gorgeous sketch by Heather, and I love her sketches! So as soon as it was up yesterday I printed it out and went to work on my card. I stamped out Herb and his love and colored it with my Copics, Sakura Glaze Pens and Spica Glitter pens, love all the details on this image. I then used the pattern papers from K&Company Company Cheer collection, really beautiful papers. I cut my papers to fit the challenge and inked the edges with brown ink on everything. I then sewed down all the pieces to a sage green card stock. Matted the image on the same card stock and sewed it down. I ran a small satin ribbon across the middle with three Prima Poinsettias with copper jewelry spacers and brads. Then the image is pop dotted onto the card. Now the sentiment... I know odd huh? The sentiment is printed from my computer and well this is the card I would send to my Hubby for Christmas... and with my odd humor and the image it is the perfect card with love to him! Hope they like it at Whiff of Joy -

Today was suppose to be shopping day with MIL, but I have been grounded. Yes Darlene is really looking close to delivering, and we have a front coming in today. The temp is suppose to drop like 20-30 degrees in a couple of hours this afternoon. That would be when Darlene would love to deliver, girl like to have her babies during fronts! So it could be today, tonight or anytime this weekend. But it is coming soon! WE THINK - sigh -

Well off to get the day going and check on Darlene for the 10th time already today!

HUGS and-

A Vintage Whiff of Joy

This card ended up looking very old fashioned. I don't think I was going that way when I started. LOL but I do like it. The challenge this week at Whiff of Joy Challenge Blog is to make a Christmas card for Boys with do blue. I colored Oakley with Scooter with my Distressing Inks and white gel pen. Inked the edge with dark brown matted with the pattern paper and sewed down with a dark green.







The pattern papers are a new collection I just got from K&Company called Christmas Cheer. Love the colors. I decided to use the paper with the large holly, the edges were sewed with a blanket stitch to the same pattern paper as the image mat, but it seemed sad to cover too much of the holly, so I cut out a few of the leaves and slid the matted image underneath. The Sentiment is also from Whiff of Joy and was the perfect size to stamp directly onto the corner of the card.



The only thing that bothered me is that I felt the Holly needed some glitz... it was so flat. So I simply took my Spica clear glitter pen and colored in all of the berries and high-lighted the leaves. That helped, and made me feel better especially since this card didn't seem to have a place for lots of embellishments.



Vintage huh? I like it... and for a boy or really anyone. Run over and see their DT cards they really do knock these images out of the part! Real home runs with every one!



A huge Thank you to all of those that have emailed me for my nephews address to send him a card!!! Really it is going to make him feel so special and give him something wonderful to look forward to. I actually think the entire family will be getting into it. I am sure his sisters will be involved and help him find all the places on the map.... (If you don't know what I am talking about please see yesterday's post for my special request)


Today is errand day, dinner last night was what I call bottom of the freezer. I have needed to do some grocery shopping for a while! So better get a move on. Hope you all have a great Thursday and find some time to get inky!
HUGS and-

Charlie and his Snowman

I don't own many Snowman stamps, I really never needed any. You know here in Texas it just isn't a normal thing... snow that it is. But I love this Whiff of Joy image - Charlie building Snowman - and I do love adding the stickles for the icy effect!

Today's Card is for this weeks Whiff of Joy Challenge and

this week is a sketch brought to you by their DT member Heather, she really rocks... love her stuff. And loved this sketch. What was perfect timing is that my order from Ellen Hutson came yesterday afternoon, and in it was a paper collection by Memory Box called Winterberry. Oh love this collection for these winter cards! Look how cute the snowman paper is! All of these pattern papers are from that collection and work great together.

I stamped Charlie and the Snowman and colored them with my Copics and white gel pen, then cut them out with my Fiskars fingertip Kraft Knife. I chose 5 pattern papers from the set to fill all the areas of the sketch this week. I LOVE how the one pattern paper looks like a scene behind Charlie! How cool is that? All the pieces were cut to size and then sewed down. I stamped out the Whiff of Joy sentiment "Sending Winter Wishes" and matted it on a scrap from the darkest pattern paper. Then I pop dotted the image and the sentiment to the front of the card, and then pop dotted Charlie and the snowman to that so he would look like he is standing out in front of the hills in the background. And as I said in the beginning... the snow man is then stickled for that brrrrrrr cold look. I love this one, the papers and the image just all came together perfectly and that does not happen often for me!

Sorry that was so rushed and brief, but I am running sooooooo late today! It is my scrapbook buddy Amy's Birthday... (HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMY!!!) I am meeting her one other great friend, and my sister for lunch and shopping at the new Super JoAnn's... and where ever else we end up! I'll be back later today for some surfing and blog viewing! Have a great Thursday, and get inky!

HUGS and-