Brrr! It's Cold!

Happy Sunday to you!  Loving that I have a three day weekend to enjoy.  I hope you are doing something you love today!

No snow here in Virginia but it's cold enough for it.   I actually hope it holds off for the next week because we have a special birthday party on Saturday and that could throw a wrench into the plan. MY card for this week's Sentimental Sundays challenge of ribbons is this little fellow who is  making a huge snowball.  The digi is from Digi My World and can be found here.  I did paper piecing for his outfit and then colored his face and hair in with Copics.  Next I added flocking to the hat brim and the pom pom at the end of his hat.  The giant snowball was colored and then covered with glistening snow.  The sentiments are  SRM Stickers Winter 51009.  I love how transparent they are and never have issues with them peeling up.  The papers for this project were entirely from my scrap bucket/bag.  I started the base by stamping with  speckled dots in black and then added layers.  The snowflake trim is my Making Memories which I picked up years ago.  I tied silver Stampin' Up cord around that several times and tied a bow. 

Hope you will join us at Sentimental Sundays for the challenge!

Challenges I would like to enter my card into:
Aud Sentiments: #45 Any sentiment plus use only scraps
Chocolate, Coffee, & Cards: #4 Glitter Latte(snowball)
Creative Belli: #134 Snowflakes (trim is snowflakes)
DRS Designs: #7 Paper Piecing
Fussy & Fancy: Let It Snow
Scrapbook Sisters: Snow
Sisterhood of Scrappers: Let It Snow
Totally Papercrafts: #99 Spots & Stripes

Simple Sunday card

Happy Sunday to you!  I am here to share my card for Sentimental Sundays.  Easy challenge this week: Birthday.  Can you ever have too many birthday cards?  I am getting quite the pile lately.  I need to hand some out.  :-)

This is a super simple card.  Seriously easy.  Just a panel of October Afternoon for the top, a beige oval, a digital sentiment from Digi My World that I colored in with Paint, with a red bow and button.  I distressed the image, oval, and panel with my Heidi Swapp distressing tool.  I keep forgetting about that.  I pierced around the sentiment to for a little extra texture and voila!  I think I could give this to man?  What do you think?

I hope you will join us in the challenge!  :-)

Designed 2 Delight: Anything Goes
One Stop Craft Challenge: #144 Bold and Bright
Paper Creator's Crafts: #5 Red & Blue

You're invited to a picnic!

Happy Wednesday!  I am back to share two cards today with you.  It's quite the pair. 
My first card is for Penny's newest challenge: watermelons in honor of national watermelon day. 

I used some MME papers(So Sophie) and g.c.d (Melody Ross) paired with this super adorable image from Digi My World. This is "Watermelon  Day Brittney" and she's ready to share some watermelon with you!  That's a SRM sticker I used with some rhinestones.  I brought this green seam binding back from Paris.  I love this color!  It makes perfect bows!  Sadly, it's already half gone.  :-( 

Challenges I would like to enter my card into:

Clear It Out: Use Old supplies and  Summer (button, sticker, and papers)

Crafts and Me: #46 Anything Goes

Creative Crafts Challenge: Summertime

Creative Inspirations: Summer

Divas by Design: #7 Summer

Going Grey with Scrap-creations: Buttons or  Bows

Tuesday Throwdown: #60 Summertime

My next card is for Crafty Creations Challenge this week which is by  invitation.  I made this card with Digi's with Attitude "Viagra Simon".  Ironically, my SO is named Simon.  Also his birthday is coming up and because he is older than me I like to tease him about being the oldest.  I know, it's not very nice of me.  I do it in a loving way.  Life's too short to be upset and uptight so I'd rather make a joke and smile about it.  Inside reads, "to old age!"

I made a pennant card for this.  Then lined with some older paper scraps from Sassafras Lass.  I cut a small piece of twill, stapled it down and then tied a button with brown baker's twine around it. That's a journaling spot from Elle's Studio.  A friend sent me the blue ticket and I just added another button.    I hope he smiles.  That's what I really want  for him to do when he sees it.  I think he will since he's clearly no where near this man's age and has all of his teeth.  Thankfully!  Also not a prune fan.   Challenges I would like to enter this card in:

Corrosive Challenge: #127 Manly

Crazy Amigos Challenge: Anything Goes

Digis with Attitude: #32 Anything Goes

Dutch Dare: #123 Birthday

For Fun Challenges: Anything Goes

Lexi's Creations: #45 Shaped card

Papertake Weekly: Anything goes with optional metal (used staples)

By the way!  This is my 500 post!  Yahoo!  I am going to take pictures of a give away I will post tomorrow!