In Honor of All Frogs

Some of you may not be aware of this, but today is FROG JUMPING JUBILEE DAY!!! Yes! So, in honor of all frogs, here is your card.

My image is from Toadily by Penny Black....isn't he a cutie! The paper I used was from a Martha Stewart paper pack. I colored Mr. Toad with Prismacolor Pencils. I painted the daisy with Creative Inspirations paint, and then added some glitter for a little extra bling. The layout is from SCS card sketches (I believe it's 279). This is also for Tuesday Morning Sketches - to use your favorite colors and some glitter. Green and Pink are one of my favorite color combos. It just makes everything look "happy" to me. If you click on this little guy you will be able to see all the shine to that flower - and also see the embossing folder I used and the stripped paper that that ribbon goes around.

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Lynn

Cowboy Up

In my mind, this was going to be the absolute best and "coolest" card you had probably ever seen! BUT, when it started going on paper, I just don't know what happened to it! LOL! The object here was to have the fence kinda "stand out" to make it look dimensional. Well, after cutting out the fence (which by the way, is NOT easy) it just did not want to bend like I wanted it to. Of well, hope you enjoy looking anyway. This is for all the real cowboys and of course, all the wanna-be cowboys out there!

The image is from Yehaw by CTMH. I used Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla and some CTMH DP.

This is for Sweet Stop Sketches (SSS56).

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Lynn

Happy Monday

A little bit of humor to start off the week! Karen sent me this image the other day after I commented on her wonderful card. Is this not the cutest outhouse or what!! On her card, she had a different sentiment but I thought the "hand crafted" that I used was kinda fitting too, you know! LOL. (You may have to click on the picture to enlarge it in order to see the sentiment a little better).

The "hand crafted" is from Tiny Tags (SU) and I also used the Chicken Wire backgroud stamp from SU. I colored the image with my Copics....I'm still working on the shading part of those things!

So, again......Happy Monday everyone!

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Lynn

Circle of Love

The challenge at Cas-Tastic Wednesday is to use circles on your project. When I saw this challenge I immediately thought of this sentiment image I have from CTMH. It was just a perfect fit! I like the card with the exception of the "heart" ribbon. I wanted to use this ribbon instead of a solid red, but don't like how the hearts of the "tails" are upside down. I think I tried to do this every which way I could think of and it just wasn't going to cooperate like I wanted it to.

Other than the sentiment (which is from the Endless Love set by CTMH), the images are from Little Pieces (SU). I used Real Red, Brilliant Blue, Wild Wasabi, and Yo Yo Yellow ink. The image with the heart was popped up with dimensionals.

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Lynn

Stamps R Us Challenge

I am a member of the Stamps R Us blog group and this was my month to host the challenge. The challenge this month is to create anything but a card! It can be a scrapbook page, altered item, bag or basket, sewing project...........just whatever............as long as it's not a card. Anyone can play and anyone can WIN, WIN, WIN!!!!! So come on over to the Stamps R Us Challenge Blog and play along.

I used a tutorial on You Tube to find out how to make the little bag I have here. I think it was listed as a 12 X 12 box from Chickn' Scratch. These are super simple to make and will actually hold quite alot of items or a cute gift. I have also covered an "adult" composition book and a "baby" composition book. This was a "FIRST" for me as I've never attempted anything like this. I think it came out ok though. I like the "adult" one better I think. The "baby" one is pretty plain. The papers I used were from a Martha Stewart paper pad. The "Journal" letters are chipboard that I covered with some of the patterned paper. I also added one of the little puffy flowers at the top.

Go check out the Stamps R Us Challenge blog and enter your project today. You have until the end of the month to enter but you may want to do it now so you don't forget!! Be sure and sign up as a follower too. We'd love to have you.

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Lynn

Splendor

A very quick "thank you" card using the Splendor image from Penny Black. The layout was actually one that was for the challenge LAST WEEK at Stamping 411. I really did have this made but just never posted it. Oh well........

I used Always Artichoke, Very Vanilla, and some patterned paper from My Minds Eye. As I said the image is from Penny Black. The sentiment is one of the images from Gracious Greetings (CTMH). I also used the SU Texturz plate on the Very Vanilla card stock but it's very hard to see the pattern in the photo.

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Lynn

CAS Birthday

The challenge at CAS-tastic Wednesday is to create a clean and simple birthday card. I don't know if you can get any cleaner or more simple than this one. But I thought it came out very cute and will make a wonderful birthday card - especially when you need one in a hurry AND you can change it to whatever colors you want!

I used the Daisies #2 die from SU to create the flower out of Real Red card stock and red gingham patterned paper. Of course I had to add a little red button with some white floss in the center. The sentiment is from the Happy Birthday set (CTMH).

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Lynn