Sketch Challenge-ish

Very quick post for now. I made this card this morning waiting for the Dr. office to open. I started with the Santa face image from Rubbernecker that Im so in love with!LOL! I colored the image w/prismacolor pencils and used my Tulip puffy paint for his hat and heated it to make it have more texture. My intention was to use yesterdays sketch challenge b/c I really liked it! Well I didnt figure in how big my image was and that it wouldnt fit so this is yesterdays sketch challenge minus the sentiment layer and the image layer!LOL! I used the holly from background basics and colored them w/prismacolor pencils and sponged and distressed with creamy caramel. Im very pleased with how this card turned out. I think its my fave Christmas card I've made this year and may not be given to anyone!LOL!

Alana is home sick today. We had a very long night. I had to call the Dr last night b/c she came to me complaining that her throat and tongue hurt. Well of course her tonsils were red and she had a rash on her tongue. I called the Dr and they told me to watch her closely through the night and if she began to run any fever rush her to ER so I got no sleep last night! She is fine though she has a very bad case of strep (sp) throat so she had to get a shot. Dontcha just LOVE this time of year!LOL!

Tropical Christmas

From the looks of it we are going to have a tropical Christmas here in GA this year!LOL! I still need some Christmas cards since my MIL and stepmom took some of my cards! I made this card today for the sketch challenge. I will give this card to my FIL who lives in Panama City Beach, FL. I used an unusual color combo but I think I like it! I used summer sun, real red, wild wasabi, and tempting turquiose. I colored the tree and sun w/prismacolor pencils and blended w/gamsol and stumps. I think I will go back and add crystal effects to the turquoise ornaments and the white parts of the hat on the sun for a little shine and dimension. I had to lay off the glitter since this is for FIL!LOL! I tried my hand at doodling again for framing still didnt pull it off too good, I may just need to invest in PTI borders and corners set! I used the shell image for the turquiose layer and added some dots I did like the way that turned out! I think its pretty cute! I loved todays sketch challenge!LOTS of layers on this one!

Brayden has been home for the past two days my kids are just taking turns right now being sick. The weather here doesnt help last week it was in the mid 30's @ night. This week we are running the AC @ night. It's 81 today! No snow this Christmas!LOL! N-E-ways Brayden was diagnosed with ashtma Monday after he had a bad ashtma attack Sunday night. He is on round the clock breathing treatments right now so of course he is bouncing off the walls!! He can go back to school tommorrow and hopefully the hair I have pulled out will slowly grow back!LOL!

Dashing Favorites

Im so addicted to challenges that I cant sit down and stamps without a challenge!LOL! How sad am I?!?!!LOL!

I was in the mood to stamp and went to all my fave blogs that have challenges today and saw Laurens (mytime) sketch for today and really liked it. I changed it a little for my image. On her sketch she uses a circle but I decided to use my tag image from Festive favorites. I need a few more Christmas cards before Monday to mail out. I still had dashing dp and colors on my desk from the other day so I used it. I colored the reindeer with prismacolor pencils and put stickles on his nose. The sentiment from festive favorites is stamped with real red on the river rock layer.

It sure doesnt feel like 2 weeks before Christmas here. My kids are running around with shorts and tank tops on today. We are headed to the park to play and get ice cream. Have a great weekend.

Dashing Holiday Gift

I made this card for this week's bonus sketch challenge. I started with a real red card base and used my new dashing dp. I love the polka dots!! The challenge was to make your card look like a gift. I used river rock double stitched ribbon and made a tag using Riveting on polyshrink. Okay on the next part I bent the rules a little b/c it looked too plain to leave the card with just he dp, ribbon, and tag so I decided to add an image. I used the Big on Christmas set (my new fave!) I stamped the image twice on vanilla and colored just the tree on the first image and cut it out to pop the tree up. On the second image I colored the H,P,P,Y with red and traced over holidays with river rock. I used my prismacolor pencils to color and blended with gamsol and stumps. I applied stickles to star and ornaments on the tree.

Snowman Hugs

I thought I would give you a break from stars today!LOL! This snowman was one of the images I posted about coloring while Madison was home. I knew I wanted to use wintergreen dp so I just pulled colors from the dp to color my snowman. Well Roxie decided to throw me a loop today by giving us a diamond shape for the main image. I decided to go ahead with it and try to make it work.

Its so funny how you can start on a card and the card seems to take on a life of its own!LOL!! I had no particular person in mind while making this card but as I turned the image to make it work for the sketch it looked like the snowman was running off the card for a hug!LOL! I instantly thought of my stepdad and my kids and their "GROUP HUGS!!!" The kids love it! So this card now will be to Papa from the kids with a big snowman hug sentiment inside.

Okay onto the deets...I colored the snowman using my SU markers and sky ink w/aquapainter. I used sky for the snow and to outline the snowman. The snow falling and the outline of the snowman are covered in diamond stickles. I (hmph) doodled around the frame!LOL! The main image is layered w/celery and arthichoke. The dp is layered w/soft sky and celery. I applied silver brads to each corner. The card base is textured soft sky.

Another star creation

Todays color challenge was summer sun, certainly celery, and old olive. I thought it would be perfect for the star studded season image. My card base is certainly celery stamped with flannel plaid with old olive. I used my new old olive dp matted with olive. The main images is stamped in summer sun with the sentiment stamped in celery. I love the sentiments in this set. My main image is matted w/celery and summer sun. I used my WW punch in olive for a tab. The twill ribbon is stamped with the stars from background basics in celery.

Madison was home sick yesterday so I actually got to stamp a little. She ran a high fever all day Sunday so all she wanted to do was lay around so I stamped some images to color while I was on the couch with her so I should have some more cards to share this week. I was positive she had strep(sp) throat b/c she had white pockets on both sides of her throat but they did a swab at the Dr. yesterday and it came back negative and she didnt run any fever yesterday so the Dr. said she could go to school today.

Star gift set

Hey everyone!! I thought I would share a gift set I made for my stepmom for her church Christmas party. I just got the wintergreen dp and I LOVE it and wish I had bought 2 packs!LOL!!!! I used a layout from Jens blog- I heart to stamp. I used the color combo from the paper. Sky blue, certainly celery, always artichoke, and basic grey. I love using bold images to make quick cards and I have very little bold images!LOL! I find myself buying the images that are fun to color instead of images that will make quick cards maybe its time to change that!LOL!

I took my stepmom to the Dr. this past week and she thought they were going to let her drive after that b/c its been 7 weeks since her surgery. NOPE! One more month! At least she will be released before Christmas. So it will be another month before I can get back into my blogging/stamping groove. Maintaining two households is getting tiring(sp)!!!! I miss doing challenges and my morning stamping routine but I feel like if I dont help her she will hurt herself doing things the Dr ask her not to do. She cant bend, lift, etc, ANYTHING! My Dad is on call 24/7 so she never knows when he will be there. I feel like I have to do what Im doing to sleep at night so please just bear with me for another month.