Celebrating the New Year - With A Blog Hop

Above is 8X8" scrapbook page using Melanie's Wee-Tees Set......the onesies were stamped on DP, and then I added chipboard letters to spell the word "JOY" on them, the adorable girl is my 11-month old niece, Tavi Pearl.

Melanie Muenchinger is celebrating two years of blogging and illustrating for Gina K Designs, and today she has invited 25 designers and YOU to join the party! First hop through the following designers' blogs using every set she has created since January 2008, from the first to the 25th! Then go to Melanie's'blog to leave a comment for a chance to win a number of different prizes! So let's get hopping!

Here we go!

Just So Hippy-Charmaine

Just So Hoppy-Donna

What's in Your Tin 1 & 2-Donna

Hip Hop Accessories-Bee

Jumping for Joy-Barb

Cuddles and Hugs-Jessie

Little Tees-Cat

Just So Sporty-Pam

A Year of Flowers-Theresa

Say it with Flowers-Selma

Have a Cookie-Carolina

Tee Talk-Gabby

Hand in Hand-Ally

The Best Things in Life-Shannon, Sankari

A Charmed Life-Cathy

Wee Tees-Libby, Laura Jean (you are here!)

Arranged with Love-Selma

Sporty Accessories-Tina

Inspiration Mosaic-Jennie

School Sports Spirit-Melissa

A Year of Leaves-Geri

Hip to Be Square-Karen

Festive Frame-Linda

Tech Talk- Lee



Finally, Nina and Jessica from the GinaK Senior Design Team have joined in, too!

You can also get in on the hop yourself and increase your chances of winning a prize by creating your own project with any one of Melanie's sets and linking it in the Mr. Linky in her post, see full details here.

Hope you can join the fun! Enjoy your first hop of the year!

Hugs ~ LJ

MOJO118 - Merry Christmas

Another MOJO Monday, another simple but yet cool MOJO Sketch! Love the simple design! The sentiment from this card is from the SU Season of Joy stamp set. I used some SU DSP, Baja Breeze and Riding Hood Red Cardstock, small felt flurries (also SU!) and a Making Memories Red Bling Brad. :)

Have a great night!

Hugs ~ LJ

Simple Sketch ~ Simple Card

Greetings,

Made ONE card this weekend, must be getting close to Christmas! :) I got all of my wrapping done today. I discovered this year, that it takes longer to wrap presents when you have an 11 month-old niece to shop for! :-)

This sketch was this past week's MOJO Monday Sketch ~ and actually this has been one of my "go-to Sketches" for swaps and when I need to make more than a few cards. I like the sketch because you can really use it for either a horizontal or a vertical card. I used one of the december Inktegrity images and some Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses paper. The snowflake border is a Martha Stewart Border Punch that I love. :-)

Hugs ~ Have a great evening!

LJ

Friday Sketchers....

Done with Christmas shopping, decorating, baking and wrapping and need a great sketch challenge to try? Check out Friday Sketchers which is sponsored this week by Inktegrity Designs! You could win a $15 credit to the Inktegrity Designs Store!

Back with more later this weekend!

Hugs ~~~

LJ

Inktegrity Day 3 - Classy Shopper

Hello!

I hope you are enjoying all the Integrity new releases so far, they've been pretty frosty huh? Makes you want to turn the heat up and cuddle up with a nice warm blanket! Anyhow, it's day # 3 of the Inktegrity Releases, and all of these adorable snow people images are ready in the Inktegrity Store today.

Today's card using the new Classy Shopper image is also for the Tuesday Morning Sketches blog! Intkegrity is hosting the challenge this week, which was to use an Inktegrity Image, tag, hidden message and glitter! Yep that's a challenge alright. :-) So I came up with this hidden message card. I added a message on the tag (below) which pulls out from the side of the card. As you can see, I didn't miss out on putting a little pocket on the side to stash a little shopping cash for that classy shopper. :-)

Just a quick note about the glitter part, I used Terrifically Tacky Tape (Provo Craft) which is by the sheet (2 6"X8" adhesive sheets) and punched out a snowflake with my Marvy Snowflake punch. The Tacky tape is basically super sticky double-sided tape, and it's perfect for glittering up punches :-) I used SU! Cosmo glitter on my snowflake.

Have a great Tuesday!

Hugs ~ LJ

Inktegrity Day 2 - Bear Hugs Pizza Box

Hello!

Time for another new Inktegrity image, and this time I did a little 3-d project, a mini pizza box. Super cute and easy I think. The box took about 4-5 minutes to cut, score and assemble. If you would like to try it, check out the tutorial on SCS. The box is 4" X 4" and 1" high, perfect for gift cards, jewelry, gift cards etc.

We use to have a store in McFarland called the Village Bear Shop located in the historic McFarland House while I was growing up.It's one of the oldest buildings in McFarland. The store had all the neatest Bears, and cute toys. For some reason, this cute image made me think of that store. I bought my first wood-mounted rubber stamp from there (which I still have!) , a teddy bear nonetheless! The store is long gone (a cute cafe now is in it's place), but I remember going there and being in awe of all the adorable (and some expensive) stuffed bears they had.

Be sure to check in with the other DT Blogs to see what cute stuff they have come up with using Bear Hugs ~ direct links are on the side bar.

Hugs ~ LJ

Inktegrity Day 1 - Winter Wonderland

Happy Sunday! It's release day #1 for the mid-december Inktegrity Release. If you read my post from last night (below if you still haven't seen it!), the wintery snow theme is continuing on my blog (and outside ~ where there's over 16 inches LOL). This is Inktegrity's new Winder Wonderland image, isn't it precious? I decided to use a square card format (5.5" by 5,5") for this image & keep the colors bold and bright. This image would be perfect to use on a card for a little boy or girl to give to his Grandma, Aunt, or other special lady for the holidays! It would even make for a cute teacher card!

Be sure to check out the other Inktegrity ladies to see what they are doing with this cute new image:

• Joni (owner)
• Melissa
• Jaquie
• Jeanette
• Kelly
• Traci
• Tenia
• Sheri