One more for tonight

Out of the stack of mostly finished cards that I started last weekend, I did get one other done tonight. This one used the sketch at Prairie Paper and Ink. More paper from the mat pad I bought for Megan's baby card. Its by Die Cuts with a View. The image is Suzy's Zoo and the Sentiment is Papertrey Ink. Its from a gift sent you get when you buy a certain number of sets. While I haven't been familiar with Papertrey Ink that long, my friend Laurie, is a long time fan and ended up with 3 of these sets last year. She very kindly gave one to me, as well as Leslie. Thanks again Laurie!

Unity Challenge

This is the card I did for today's Unity challenge. Unity turns 1 year old on Monday so one of the challenges at HipHOp today was to make an almost birthday card using a non traditional image. I thought this would make a cute card for a child or teen. The whale was stamped and sent to me and the sentiment is from the April kit of the month. 'Because of the challenge at Lifetime Moments, I have been trying to use journaling spots on my cards. Both of the circles are Heidi Swapp journaling spots. I also used my new Fiskars border punch.

Friday Sketchers Challenge

This is one of the baby cards I started last weekend. I colored a whole bunch of images and then started putting together several cards. I finally finished a couple of them tonight. This one used the Friday Sketchers sketch from this week.

Whiff of Joy give away

Katharina at Whiff of Joy is giving away 2 complete Elizabeth Bell summer stamp kits!!
I have already pre-ordered mine. The images I have seen from the spring kit are beautiful and I don't want to miss out again. Head over to her blog by clicking on the image on the right and check it out.

Another Tilda

While I was motivated to do some coloring, I inked up the other Tilda I own and used her for the challenge at Magnolia vs Stampavie. It was another sketch challenge. I had to move some of the elements around to get them to fit on my rectangular card. I experimented with something I had read about somewhere in the blog world. I only had the one red, so I colored onto my blender pen with it. It worked pretty well, but got very wet and bled a little. I'll need to keep practicing with that. I put paper glaze over the raindrops and her boots. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things. The brads are by Queen and Company. That's all the stamping for today. Tomorrow is the last day of spring break, so there's a lot to get done. Still, I'm hoping to sneak some more time in the scrap room.

My First Magnolia

I finally took the plunge and colored my first Tilda. I've had her for quite some time but hadn't taken the time to ink her up and work with my copics. I'm pretty happy with her. Her hair could be a little darker but the darkest gray I have is a 7. This is for a sketch challenge on a new challenge blog site called Just Magnolia.

Monthly card night

Well, it wasn't actually either. In theory we meet monthly but it is usually more like every 2-3 months. And we didn't meet at night this time since I was off work. Anyway, Leslie and I drove to Laurie's house where we made 3 cards and had a late lunch. Our challenge this time was to use embossing on our cards.

This is the card Leslie designed.

This card was designed by Leslie's daughter Marissa. Laurie used it as her contribution since she hasn't been feeling very well lately.

And this is the one I designed. It is very similar to one I posted a couple of days ago.