This is a card that I made for my near and dear friend Liz! We have been friend's since grade school! Her Grandfather passed away last week, and his funeral service was Friday night. It was somewhat of a blessing, as he had Alzheimer's bad, but it is still so hard to lose a family member. I was glad that I could be there to comfort my friend. I wanted to share the card that I made for her.
I used Basic Grey papers from the Wassail collection, and just red and black from my paper stash. Corner punches and Fiskars boarder punch were purchased from Wish On A Scrap. The "with sympathy" was stamped and embossed with Ranger embossing tinsel in silver. Ribbon is from my stash!

And of course we have the finished inside!

Don't forget to head over to the Wish Blog to enter for your chance to win a Whiff of Joy Lizzie with Chocolate Box stamp in our VERY 1st Challenge! You have until Sunday, January 11th to enter!

I have some SUPER exciting news to share with you tomorrow, I can hardly keep myself from shouting it all to you! So make sure you come back to check it out!!!

Magnolialicious January Sketch

This month over at Magnolialicious the Miss. Suzy Haglighi made a very fun sketch to play a long with! I loved all of the circles on it! That way I could incorporate lots of different patterned papers into my card! My papers are DCWV, Creative Memories, and SU cardstock.

I decided to use Standing Fall Tilda that I purchase from Loreen at Wish On A Scrap. I also created this card for the Wish Challenge that is going on RIGHT NOW, you can find the details HERE! The Challenge is running until January 11th, so go and check it out!

Tilda was colored using my Copic markers, and I used stickles on her wings! Ribbons were in my stash along with the charm, spacer, and heart brad. Flowers are Petaloo which I also got from Wish On A Scrap's November kit....yes, I am still using elements from the November kit! That is seriously how much stuff you get in the kits! It's amazing the stuff you get for your $25!
And of course we have the inside of the card! I used my martha floral lace punch, and my Fiskars treading water punch!

I really like this card....must be because I used mainly pink and brown....of course we all know that is my favorite color combo!

Hope everyone has a WONDERFUL week!

Wish Challenge #1

You need to head on over to the Wish On A Scrap blog! We have a VERY fun challenge for you to play along with! And the best part of it is......

YOU CAN WIN A WHIFF OF JOY STAMP!

But, not only 1 stamp....you have the chance to win 2 Whiff of Joy Stamps!

How cool is that? Loreen is being very generous, so click HERE to go see what the hype is all about! I can tell you that you won't be disappointed!

***One of the deadlines is Sunday, January 4th at midnight, so to make sure you get your chance at the TWO stamps make sure you go and check out the Wish blog NOW!!!!!****

Good luck, and I hope you have lots of fun playing along with us!

I can't wait to see what you all make!

Pixie Dust & Fairies!

I hope everyone had a great New Year's Day! We were lounging at our house today, after having a late night out with friends! I am looking very forward to 2009, and can't wait to see where my creations take me! :)

This week over at Sketch Saturday there wasn't a specific sketch to follow, any past sketch could be used. I thought I would use #27, shown below: My Basic Grey Eva papers were perfect to use with this fun fairy....her name is Bryony. I purchased her from Susana. Isn't she beautiful! I colored my cute fairy with my Copics, and I loved coloring her! I actually stamped her twice. On the 2nd image, I cut out her body, leaving her legs and wings off. Then I pop dotted that up to make it look like Bryony was leaning forward off of her mushroom. I added diamond stickles to her wings for some sparkle!

Ribbon, flowers, and charm were from my stash. I used my corner punch and swirl punch (which acted as leaves for my flowers) that I purchased from Wish On A Scrap.

Of course we all know that I love decorating the insides of my cards now too! Here I used more Basic Grey Eva papers, with the same corner punch as on the front of the card, and also my martha boarder punch. I decided to leave the note part of the card blank for now, as I don't know what occasion I want to use this card for...this way it can be altered as needed.

I love how this card turned out! Thank you for taking time to stop by!

Happy New Year!

This week at Magnolia vs. Stampavie there was a sketch challenge! I just love sketch challenges...if you haven't noticed! :) However, I was trying to figure out how I was going to interpret this one....I didn't have 3 Magnolias that I liked all together to use in each window (and I don't have any Stampavie stamps....YET...hope to in the near future...hee hee)....but I have Tilda with Vine and Basket that I thought would make a SUPER cute New Years card! Over at A Spoon Full of Sugar and Everybody Art Challenge their challenges were to make a New Years card so this was going to be perfect to use for all the challenges!

Here's the Magnolia vs. Stampavie sketch created by Donna.
And now for my interpretation of the sketch! I decided to rotate the sketch. Tilda is colored with my Copics which both are purchased from Wish On A Scrap. The red paper is Bo Bunny, and the black is some more of my wedding invitation paper left over. Ribbons, primas, brad, and spacer is from my stash. Tilda is double pop dotted to stand up off of the card. And the middle panel "New Year" is pop dotted up. I love all the dimension of this card! Wish I could share the 3D-ness with you!

And of course couldn't get away without decorating the inside of the card! Again paper is left over from my wedding invitations! I just love that paper....it's a very thick black card stock with lots of shimmer to it! I'm going to be sad when it's all gone! Good thing I still have a few pieces left to play with!

I want to thank everyone who comes and visits my blog and leaves such wonderful comments! I have met so many wonderful people from all over the world in the past 8 months, and I am so happy to call you all friends!

Sending my wishes to everyone for a happy, healthy, successful, creative and inky 2009!

Another WOJ Christmas!

Now I love Katharina's sketches, so when I needed to make a Christmas card for my other Grandma, I headed right to Katharina's blog to see which sketch I wanted to play with! I decided on #27! I love the idea of working with sketches because then you kind of have a blue print of what you will be spinning off of with your ideas!
I used the WOJ stamp, designed by Elisabeth Bell, the Christmas Tree which I got from Loreen at Wish On A Scrap. I didn't think this image would be too terrible to color....but boy was I wrong! There is TONS of detail to this stamp, which I did love once I got going! I am not thrilled with my coloring on this one...but everyone has off days, right?! And we are our worst critics!!! I used DCWV Christmas stack paper, primas, and ribbon from my stash. The sentiment stamp is one that I got from my crafty Grandma!

Even though I wasn't thrilled with the outside of the card, I absolutely LOVED how the inside turned out! I have been seeing people make wreaths from their MS punches all over in blogland lately and thought I needed to try this! It turned out superb! Boarder punch is also MS! I love the gingerbread men on that punch!

I also came upon some more blog candy give away to share with you:

Hurry on over to Melissa's blog because she is giving away some candy!

And Sheetload is giving away some frosty candy because it's brrrr cold outside!

I have one more Christmas to attend tonight. This is Christmas with my in-laws!

Enjoy your weekend, and have fun stamping!

WOJ Challenge #12

I hope everyone had a Very Merry Christmas, and you got everything that you wanted! I was very blessed this year and got a Blackberry from my hubby, and my parents got me a Janome mini sewing machine! I can't wait to start sewing on my cards now, like all of you awesome girls out there!

Below is my entry for the WOJ weekly challenge! This challenge was to create a Christmas card without using red and green! I loved the challenge....as I had this lovely pink and purple Christmas paper from my DCWV stack! (Since I didn't get to play along with Challenge #11, I used the sketch Heather created for that challenge on this card too.) I made this card for my Grandma, and she loved it! Willow was colored with my Copics.Seeing how I used Willow with cookies, I wanted to make this into a baking theme card. So I used the cute Christmas cutter embellies on the front of the card, and for the inside (on the left side of the card) I created a recipe using our family! Grandma LOVED that part!!! I got the idea from another blog, but I forgot to save the link, so if you are the creator of this idea, please let me know and I will gladly put your name here! :) On the right side I used my corner punch that I got from Wish On A Scrap, and the sentiment is a stamp that my Grandma gave me, so it was neat to be able to make something with the supplies she gave me, and of course the boarder is made with a martha punch!

This was my favorite christmas card created! Must be because of all the girlie colors! hee hee!

Ying has some magnificent blog candy she's giving away! Stop by and check it out!

Stamps: WOJ, Stempelglede

Papers: DCWV, Bazzill, stash

Tools: MS boarder punch, Corner punch

Embellies: Prima flowers, Bride flowers, ribbon from my stash