To You and Yours

No it's not snowing just yet - in fact, we're still having 100 plus temperatures!!! To cool things off a bit around here I thought I'd get a little snowy feeling in the air.

The layout for this is from Diva Coffee Break Designs - such a fun sketch! Of course, I just HAD to use some Baja Breeze on it. I've been hoarding it for so long and now I don't have to anymore, but still do!!! Go figure. I stamped this image (To You and Yours from SU) with Baja Breeze ink and SU markers. To complete this snowy/"wintery" feel, I added some glitter to the top of the house and the little snow swirls. The snowflake was made using a MS punch and then I added a little pearl in the center.

This qualifies for several challenges:

Diva Coffee Break Designs - sketch

The Paper Players - anything goes

Christmas card challenges:

Totally Gorjuss, Creative Cottage Challenge, and Christmas Card Challenges.

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Lynn

A Unicorn for Sadie

Sadie, one of my little granddaughters, is turning 4 in a couple of weeks and she explained to me that the theme of her upcoming party will be "unicorns". She said EVERYTHING had to be about unicorns this year!!!! Thank goodness I had this stamp set from SU called Pony Party that comes with the wings and unicorn horn (among other things).

The layout is from SCS Card Sketches this week. I used Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, white, and some SU DP. LOTS of shine here too since I used Creative Inspiration paints and what felt like a ton of glitter. To top it off I placed some of those tiny, tiny pearls around the oval punched sentiment.

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Lynn

Monkey See, Monkey Do

This cute little monkey fishing out of his inner tube is from Designed2Delight and isn't he just a cutie! When I was making the card I kept trying to think of what occasion it would be good for and I finally decided he'd make a cute little Valentine's Day card.....on the inside I put, "You're a Keeper"! And then, of course, Happy Valentine's Day. I probably came up with that brilliant idea after seeing all the red on this! LOL!

I love to fish, but have just never wanted to try the fishing in the inner tube thing. Alot of people do - but all I can think of is that there are just too many unknowns under there that could nibble on my feet!

This is for the progressive challenge at Designed2Delight. It's also for Aly's Sunday Challenge. The theme for this challenge to Get Dotty..........and there are alot of dots on this card!

I colored this little guy with Copic and SU markers. The sentiment is from Outdoor Thoughts by CTMH. Oh, and I used some Creative Inspirations paint on the dots on the inner tube to give it a little shine.

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Lynn

Mojo Coffee Break

How about a little Mojo Coffee Break!! If you don't know what I'm talking about, well.......this card is for two challenges......Mojo Monday and Diva Coffee Break Designs. The sketch is from Mojo Monday and those colors.......WHEW......are from Diva Coffee Break Designs. I really, really, worried about putting these colors (Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Tangerine Tango, and Rich Razzleberry) together, but somehow they actually looked good! Now, the problem was I didn't have any Rich Razzleberry - or anything that I thought was pretty close! The best I could come up with was Purely Pomegranate. If you look at it from a distance it sorta looks like the Rich Razzleberry. I guess you just have to use your imagination!!!!

The images are from Great Friend and the sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes (SU). I added two little pearls at the end of the sentiment and really liked that look. I embossed the white background with the Birds and Swirls embossing folder.

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Lynn

Owen with Roses

This card is using a digi image from Sew Many Cards. Go check their store out as they have so many cute images. Oh, they also have a challenge site here that you may want to look at too. This is for the Stamps R Us Challenges blog. All you have to do is have some type of stitching (or even fake stitching) on your card. How easy is that! AND, the winner will receive some free images from Sew Many Cards!!!!!

The name of this image is Owen with Roses and I colored him with Copics and SU markers. I actually did stitching around the patterned paper but think maybe I needed a longer stitch for it to show up better. The sentiment is Oval All from SU and was punched out with SU punches.

This will go in the box that I'll be sending to OWH. When I made it I thought it would just be the perfect card for some serviceman to send home to a loved one.

I made it back from my trip.......and immediately got sick with the "Super Crud"! Don't really know what else you can call this mess - you know, like head cold, achy feeling, just generally UCK! But anyway, I did get to see the grandchildren so that was fun.

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Lynn

No Tricks

No tricks here......just a couple of "treats"! I've never posted two cards at the same time. I mean, hey, I'm probably doing good to get one posted!!!
I made these two little Halloween cards and thought, "why not just post both since they're so similar"? I used the same image (Mo's Digital Pencil) and the same layout but changed up the paper and the sentiments a bit. I added a little glitter to the hat and also the cats cloak. I make quite a few Halloween cards each year - mainly for the grandchildren - and I have to tell you......Halloween is my LEAST favorite time of the year!!!!!! I do like to make cards for this though since I like using the orange, purple, green, black, etc. color combinations.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.........

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Lynn

Cowboy Birthday

This is a birthday card for one of the guys in the family. I'm still really not sure if I like it or not though. It just really looked alot better in my mind!

I used Cherry Cobbler, Kraft, and Very Vanilla card stock. The image is Yeehaw from CTMH. Nothing special here but I thought it was a very different and fun type layout. The sketch is from a site called Card Positioning Systems. It's not exactly like the sketch but it's my "take" on it anyway. The theme is for the Stamps R Us Challenge blog - masculine type project.

Well, I'm going to be leaving town again tomorrow and will be back on Saturday. Going to see my daughter and son-in-law (and of course, the two granddaughters). Other than the long, long, trip it should be fun.
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Lynn