Winter Robins

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Haven't been able to craft much due to work training, but now that I am home (for at least 4 weeks) I'll be getting caught up on some crafty-business. 

I made the above card from a card kit I received from a member (Shelly) of the Crazy 4 Christmas Group. Every other month we send a kit to a designated partner. Our July month is our "Christmas in July Celebration" where we send our partner a full kit (usually it's just images and patterned paper) Shelly sent me SO many embellishments, there was no way I could use them all on this one card! 

The image is from PSX (Winter Robins) and is colored with SU! Watercolor Crayons and SU! Blender pen. 

I would like to enter this card in the below challenges: 

• Craftyhazelnuts Christmas Challenge #398 - anything goes 
• Kraftin Kimmie Stamps #433 - Animals
• Sweet Stampin Challenge - Christmas in August

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs ~ LJ 

MFT SKETCH 394

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Been busy lately but today I had some time to play with this week's MFT Sketch Challenge 

I used MFT's Too Cute Turtles and coordinating die-namics on my card. The images are colored in with prismacolor pencils and Gamsol. Last fall I found the 150 Ct. Prismacolor Pencils for $60 on Amazon. Best Purchase Ever! :-) I love having all of the colors for coloring. 

The sketch is below: 

Thanks for stopping by - Hugs ~ LJ

I Bee-Lieve in You!

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Time again for another duel between the divas and darlings. We have a bee-theme to play with this month - courtesy of our fab hostesses - Terry A (Dazzler) and Terry S (Diva) since I am a Diva (wink!) I received a BEE-utiful kit from Terry S. :) 

I chose to use the image she sent us from CC Designs (there is another image in the kit - may play with that later tonight). And of course, there were some wonderful bee-inspired papers, ribbons, and embee-lishments to play with! Of course I had to use my new SNC2 to die cut the image! The sentiment is from MFT. 

Thanks for stopping by ~ Hugs ~ LJ

TMS #459 - Thinking Of You

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Sharing my card for the latest Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge - apologies for the poor lighting but I finished this at 12:15 Saturday Morning! :) I used the Gina K Stamp TV Kit - Hearts and Flowers. Here is the sketch: 

Thanks for stopping by - Hugs ~LJ 

MFTWSC90 - Thanks Friend

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I'm playing along with this week's My Favorite Things (MFT) Sketch Challenge! My card is fairly simple. From start to finish I think it took me about 10 minutes (YES! only TEN minutes!)  I used the adorable set Too Cute Turtles for the bird and butterfly image & the sentiment is from a retired MFT Pure Innocence set. I also used the MFT Die-Namics Stitched Frames  Those were die-cut with white and then were sponged with Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink. Below is the sketch:

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs ~ LJ

Full of Roses

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It's the 15th of the month and time for another duel! Our theme for the month of May is ROSES! 

I so love that Carol chose so many pretty images to choose from, including this one from Gina K (which I own personally!) I colored it out with prismacolor markers added some wink of stella to the roses, die-cut it with my Scan-N-Cut2 and then the rest of the card came together pretty easily.  The patterned papers she sent are are just so pretty. Thanks Carol! 

I've posted about it before, but my grandmother and aunt had beautiful roses in the front of the house when I was living with them. They would come up nearly every year - bright pink. 

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs ~ LJ

SC700 - Merry Christmas!

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Sharing a quick card I made for two challenges. SC700 (Splitcoaster Stamps) and a Challenge Your Stash Challenge group that I am in (also on SCS). The Challenge Your Stash challenge was to use a mouse (or 2 or 3) on your card. I don't have many mouse stamps to be honest, but I have a Lawn Fawn Set (Merry Christmouse) so I got that one out to play with. The patterned paper is from G45 (St. Nicholas 6X6 Pad)

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs ! LJ