Smile!

A "git 'er done" card to take everyone into the weekend!

This little lady is from Art Impressions and the sentiment from Riley and Company.  She looks just like Jim's sister - gray hair and colored coordinated right down to her undies!

That's it until next week!  Hope you enjoy the weekend.

Better late than never - but I'd love to enter this in the challenge at Pixie's Crafty Workshop (snippets).

Thanks for stopping by.........
Lynn 

The Crooked Card

This is one of those "if it's going to go wrong, it will"!

I got the image (from SU) colored and decided to add some Wink of Stella to the berries.  Going along great and then the Wink decided to see how big of a puddle it could make!  It went all over the card - and I wasn't even squeezing it.  Think it has a life of it's own.

Ok, ditch that and start over.  Colored the image, added the Wink again, and stamped the sentiment - CROOKED!

Start over!  Go through the entire process again and dang if I still didn't get the sentiment a little crooked!  It'll pass though so I'll try not to think about that.  Got the patterned paper glued down and added that beautiful burlap paper that has gold thread running through it.  After finishing the entire card noticed the burlap looks like it's going downhill!  (By now, I'm thinking the entire card has gone downhill!!!)  Anyway, I know I cut the burlap straight so what's the deal!  Well, duh......the entire paper pack of that burlap is crooked!  Hence, we have the crooked card!  If you just kinda tilt your head to the right, it looks pretty good!

My first Christmas card for this year though!  It's a start even if it's not such a great start!

I'll enter this over at The Rudolph Days Challenge.  I kept wanting to enter this challenge last year and never did.  Every year I say I'm going to start early on making cards for Christmas - and never do.  Maybe this year will be different.

Thanks for stopping by...........
Lynn

Have a Heart

Newton's Nook is having another challenge and I just had to play along with this cute little raccoon that's trying to steal someones heart.

I used the Falling Hearts stencil and some red embossing paste from Dreamweaver's for the background and then added the Lawn Fawn tag with this cute critter perched on top!  He's from the set called Sweetheart Tails from Newton's Nook.   He's colored in Copics and then a snippet of patterned paper added.

I'll also enter this in the challenge at Pixie's Crafty Workshop (snippets).

Thanks for stopping by.........
Lynn

Old is New

Vicki, over at Stamp Smiles, has a weekly challenge where she wants to see "old".  Well, good golly!  I though she was talking about ME!  No, she wants to see us revive those old stamps, etc.  Check out the Flasback Friday Challenge!!

I'm pretty sure this stamp was given to me when I first started stamping and I've never, ever inked it up.  Mainly because it's just really not "me".   But, a challenge is a challenge, so......I got it colored and then had no idea what to do with it!  When that happens I usually just slap it on a piece of patterned paper and call it a day - which I just did with this!  For some unknown reason when I got to the top portion I colored all those little squares (that are hidden by the pearls) in YELLOW!  I have no earthly idea whey I'd do that!  Anyway, it was really looking weird in yellow so I stuck some small pearls over it.  Done deal!  The sentiment is also an old stamp and I embossed that with some of the Platinum embossing powder.  At least I have another birthday card finished now.

Here's a picture of the two stamps I used.  The sentiment is an old one from SU and the flowers are from PSX.  Also on the side of the flower stamp it has "stamp class" and "flawed".  I still don't see where it was flawed but with all those flowers bunched together like that there's no telling what's hiding in there!  You can see it's been used a LOT by someone anyway!

Thanks for stopping by............
Lynn

Sending Some Love

Valentine's Day is right around the corner so I've been making a few for the grands.  They all live several hours from us so they'll need to be mailed soon. 

The image called Sending My Love is from Deedee's Digi's and yep, it really is perfect for sending some love!  Deedee's Digi's is the sponsor for the challenge over at Craft Your Passion (Anything Goes).  Be sure and check this out for your chance to win!

Pretty self explanatory here but I used some wood grain card stock and also did a little heat embossing after cutting the circle with a Lil Inker die. 

I'll enter this in the challenge at Pixie's Crafty Workshop (Snippets).

Thanks for stopping by.........
Lynn

Balls

Poor Gus.......can't find his balls - maybe they're really not lost and just DEFLATED instead!!!

Keep smiling and have a great weekend!

Lynn

Spots and Dots at Scrapyland

Our challenge at Scrapyland starts today and our theme is Spots and Dots!  Be sure and use one of the die brands found in the Scrapyland store and enter for a chance to win a wonderful prize from Scrapyland!

The "thanks" die I'm using today was a gift from a very sweet blogging friend and can be found in the Scrapland store here.  I used some card stock (which was also a gift!) and patterned papers that aren't my usual choices but thought I'd shake things up a bit and try them.  The photo isn't the best in the west because of a cloudy day and low light - but it is what it is.  Much nicer in real like.  The "thanks" was die cut on white card stock and then the sentiment heat embossed in white on vellum.  A bit of stitching, twine, and sequins were added.

Thanks for stopping by..........and head on over to Scrapyland Challenges to see all the wonderful inspiration from the DT and enter for your chance to win.

Lynn