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Sketchy Thursday #85

Hi there!  Thank  you to all of you that stopped by with congrats yesterday.  It meant the world to me to share my excitement with all of you!  I know I've said it before, but I wouldn't be were I am without all of you & your support!!  

Are you guys ready for a long holiday weekend?  It's almost upon us and I'm really looking forward to it.  No plans for us, just the usual weekend stuff with a bonus on Monday.  Hopefully the weather will cooperate.  It's actually been raining here.  I almost feel like I've moved to Seattle! 

Before we head into what will hopefully be a relaxing and sunny weekend, let's kick things off with this week's newly crowned Sketch Artist.  Ladies let's give it up for........

      MAUREEN

 

I was completely smitten with her card.  This little fairy is just too-too cute!!  Maureen's  color combo (with just enough pink!) and how she popped the fairy so it would be her focal image made me swoon for this entry.    And who can resist a mushroom village?!  Great job Maureen!!

Be sure to hop on over to Maureen's blog, My C.A.S.E. Studies to congratulate her and to check out her other wonderful creations.  You won't want to miss her one post where she has fun with felt. It's amazing!!!!

Now for number 85!!  It won't be long before the big 1-0-0!!!

 

As always I'll choose the most clever, creative, and cute creation from the submissions this week to be the next Sketch Artist. Your design will also be featured on my blog next week!

You have until next Wed. 6/2 to play along.  When uploading to SCS and PCP or or your blog please use keyword ESS85 for the challenge.

Have a GREAT day!!

 

The cat's outta the bag!!!

  I can finally share my BIG announcement with you all!  I have the honor to be joining the.....

Some of you may have guessed it since I've been posting up a storm with the adorable Puddle Jumpers by the amazing Lori Boyd!  But I never dreamed my passion for these cuties would lead me to join such a fabulous group & company!!   Needless to say when I got the email from Lori and Claudia asking me if I'd be interested in joining them I just about died.  Instead I screamed with utter excitement then practically passed out.   After I picked myself up off the floor,   I emailed them right back to say YES!!!!!  Thank you Lori and Claudia for this unbelievable opportunity!

I join some AMAZINGLY talented women. 

Claudia Harvey

Lori Boyd

Mary Giles

Sheri Gilson

Lisa Hjulberg

Krista Van Tol

 

I've been a busy bee working on the June 1st release for Die Cuts R Us (that's Claudia's on-line store) and the only place you can snatch up the must have Claudia & Company stamps! Not only does Claudia have a great selection but her prices are unbeatable.  And the best part.... she has lightening quick shipping!!

Okay, I gotta run.  I'm exhausted from all my excitement.    But before I leave I'll leave you a little sneak peek from the upcoming release.

See you all tomorrow with another new sketch!!!

 

Time to Vote!!

Okay ladies, today's the day!!!   If you love my card (and I hope that you do!), please vote for it over on Taylor's blog. CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE LINK.  My entry is #22!

As crazy as it may seem, I would die to be picked for Taylor's Top Crops!!  But I need your vote to win!!!  Tell your friends too!!!

Once again here is my submission for Taylor's Sketch Challenge #113.

Detail shot....

Thanks so much gals for your support!! 

 
 

Sketchy Thursday #84

Yippee!!!  It's my favorite time of the week and hopefully it is yours too.  All of the entries for last weeks sketch were fantastic.  It literally took me all week to go back through all of them.  I hope you all know how much I truly appreciate your continued support of Sketchy Thursday.  There are so many blogs out there that host challenges so I am honored to have you play along with mine! 

So without further adieu, ladies give it up for this week's featured Sketch Artist.....

AMY

 With this A*M*A*Z*I*N*G entry...

Could you not help but smile at this baby?  I mean just look at it!  HAPPY! HAPPY! HAPPY!  And did I mention happy?!  Not only are the colors fabulous, but the way she played with the sketch.  There's bling!!!  While I've never been in a hot air balloon, this is exactly how I'd imagine the ride to be.  The sun smiling at me and a pink banner in the sky!!

I have long been a fan of Amy's work and am super excited that she is our Sketch Artist this week!  I hope you will visit Amy's blog, Tsuruta Designs - pronounced tsu-ru-ta (sue-roo-ta) - (I grabbed that off her blog.  ♥ love it!) and give her some cyber love!!

 Amy!!!

We are on to number 84 ladies...  which was inspired by a card I did for one of the May releases at All That Scraps.  Here you go....

Here is my card using the sketch....

As always I'll choose the most clever, creative, and cute creation from the submissions this week to be the next Sketch Artist. Your design will also be featured on my blog next week!

You have until next Wed. 5/26 to play along.  When uploading to SCS and PCP or or your blog please use keyword ESS84 for the challenge.

Don't forget tomorrow is voting day for Taylor's Top Crops.  I've just got to win!!

Hugs!!!!!!

 

You rock my socks.....

Happy Hump-Day Peeps!  For some reason when I woke up I thought it was Tuesday so needless to say I was super excited to find out I was that much closer to the weekend!

We actually have some fun stuff planned for the weekend.  My daughter's school is holding it's 2nd family festival beginning this Friday evening.  It was a lot of fun last year and there's going to be more rides and bands this year!   What I'm looking forward to the most is enjoying the festivities and not working them like I did last year.  I already have all of my volunteer hours completed. Woot-woot!!

I have another card to share with you today.  I've had my eye on this PI image from My Favorite Things and finally decided she needed to come live with me.  This is Tweeny Tween - Rock On.

Isn't she just the cutest?!  She's a grown up version of the sweet little Pure Innocence images I've become so addicted too. I kept the layout pretty simple.  I had a lot of fun coloring her.  Here's a close up of her blinged out headphones.

 

Be sure to stop back here tomorrow with a new sketch and this weeks featured Sketch Artist!

Make it a great day!!!

 

100% Sweetness

Really is there anything better?   I definitely have a sweet tooth.  I never get those people that scrunch their nose up any confection and say Ohhh that's just too sweet.  No such thing in my book!

Just like this cutie. This is Ella, the newest member of the Puddle Jumper bunch from Claudia & Company.  I just *love* this girl.  And she even comes with her own mini-me that is just as cute.  As if you needed more reasons to want her, this set also comes with 3 sentiments.

I'm such a tease though, cause this isn't one of them.  This sentiment is from a newly released set from Claudia Harvey herself, called So-Random sentiments.  Perfect for all your cards.  The set is also available in Spanish too!

I used one of my new EK Success border punches for the top of the card.  Can you see it?   It's called the bracket punch.  Here's a thumbnail of it.

 

I also used some of my beloved paper from Girls Paperie, Paper Girl.  I LOVE that paper.  Another gift from my friend Michele H.  I won't throw a scrap of it away!

Detail shot of her bling....

After all every girl needs some bling!  I want to thank you all for your support on yesterday's card for Taylor's sketch challenge.  I really, really appreciate it!!  I will be posting another reminder on Thursday to have you guys vote on Friday!  It may sound crazy, but I really want to win!

Thanks for stopping by today friends.  Have a wonderful day!!

 

Vote for me!

I know, don't fall over.  But I'm posting!!!  It feels good too.   It seems whenever I have a little break from stamping the best way to get back into the swing of things is to turn to a challenge.  And what a better one than a sketch!  You all know how much I love my sketch challenges. 

And this week Taylor  has a fun one.  Check it out.

 

Here's my take on it.  I used a card I made awhile back for one of my own sketch challenges for my inspiration.  Here is the card I'm talking about.   

I wanted to play with my much neglected Cat's Pajama's stamps.  All images are from the By the Sea set.   I really love how this turned out.  Pretty simple in terms of my paper.  I only used one small piece of patterned paper from Imaginisce.  I tried to add some Stickles to the focal image to make it also look like a port hole.

Detail shot....

Taylor is mixing things up this week.  She is having her readers vote for their favorite card.  If you love my card as much as I do, I hope that you will vote for it.  All you have to do is visit Taylor's blog this Friday, May 21st and vote for it!  The top 3 cards will be honored Taylor's Top Crop!  

Will you help me become a Top Crop?

Thanks for stopping by today friends!!!

 
 

Sketchy Thursday #83

Helloooooooooooooo!!  Did ya think I fell off the face of the earth?  Well I didn't.  DD had a relapse of whatever bug/virus she had.  I have never seen her this sick.  It just broke my heart to see her like that.  She is on the mend and has returned to her very active self!  Thank you God!!

Did everyone have a good Mother's Day?  I hope you all did.  Because you deserve the best ladies!!  

I'm going to be a little stinker and tell you that I have also been up to something else on the crafty front.  I can't share with you guys just yet what that is.   I promise it will be good!!!  Told ya.... I'm a stinker!! 

So let's get this show on the road....  There were some really AMAZING entries this week.  I know I say that almost every week, but it's true!  Fabulous work from you guys.  I did manage to narrow my top 3 down to this week's featured Sketch Artist.........

CAROLYN

Here is her beautiful card....

Stunning, right?  I completely fell in love with this card.  The color combo is fantastic.  If you've been following my blog for any amount of time then you know I'm all about the girlie colors.  But this one drew me in immediately.  I think it's because I *wish* I could do a card like this and with these colors!!  Love the blue pearl accents on the flowers as well as her perfect bow! And heck her coloring is even an exact match to her paper. 

You won't want to miss any more of Carolyn's work.  Be sure to head on over to her blog, P.M.S.etc. to give her some ♥love♥.

Congratulations Carolyn on being this weeks Sketch Artist!!

 Bring on number 83!!!
 

As always I'll choose the most clever, creative, and cute creation from the submissions this week to be the next Sketch Artist. Your design will also be featured on my blog next week!

You have until next Wed. 5/21 to play along.  When uploading to SCS and PCP or or your blog please use keyword ESS83 for the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today!!

 

 

Sketchy Thursday #82

This is the 2nd post for today!  In case you missed the first post scroll down.  It's a cute one!

If you are looking for this week's featured Sketch Artist than you've come to the right post!

This week's winner is......

KRYSTAL

 

I absolutely fell in love with her card.  These colors are beautiful.  And look how creative she got with those flowers?!  Noticed how she used a few different stamping techniques (like my favorite dots embossing folder!) and paper piercing.  They are so perfectly executed to bring us this gem.  I swear this is a card you'd see grace the pages of Paper Crafts Magazine!  Awesome job Krystal.  Please be sure to hope on over to her blog, Krystal's Cards and More to leave her some love!

 Krystal on being this week's featured Sketch Artist!!
 

Now for our next sketch.............

I didn't get to play along yet as I've been busy with sneak peeks.  I'll try to fit it in this weekend.
 

Will you play along with me?

As always I'll choose the most clever, creative, and cute creation from the submissions this week to be the next Sketch Artist. Your design will also be featured on my blog next week!

You have until next Wed. 5/12 to play along.  When uploading to SCS and PCP or or your blog please use keyword ESS82 for the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today!!

 

Sneak Peek Day #3 - Meet the Honey's

I'm *SUPER* excited to share with you some new images that are headed to All That Scraps.  Christine is one talented lady and I just love these new stamps she's whipped up.  They are lovingly called Honey's.  Cuteness to the max!

This darling is called Honey Sailin' Away.  And she will be available for purchase this Saturday night May 8th with another Honey called Beach Babe. And trust me you will want them both!

For some reason when I saw her I was inspired to do something patriotic.  So a 4th of July type card it was.  I LOVE the way this turned out too.  I don't know why my pic is a little fuzzy/out of focus.  Sorry about that.  It looked fine when I was uploading it.

I used one piece of double-sided paper for my card.  It's from a company called Best Creations.  I added some red stickles to her hat trim, scarf and shirt trim.  I thought her boots needed a little something too, so I added some diamond glass to make them shiny. 

The sentiment is from C.C. Designs Rockin' Out set. For my star I punched out a piece of white cardstock then another from a sheet of double-sided adhesive then drenched it with dazzling diamonds. 

If you haven't already dropped by the All That Scraps blog, head on over there now to see some CUTE samples from the Design Team.  And don't forget to leave a comment while you're there.  One lucky person will win these Honey's!

I will be posting Sketchy Thursday a little later today.  So be sure to check back in!!