Where did Saturday and Sunday go?

Hi everyone! Has anyone seen my weekend? I seem to have lost it somewhere. I hope yours went well, no allergies, no worries, no swine flu...Honestly though, make sure you wash your hands. My kids are so tired of me telling them that but it's the best defense to all the yuckies going around. I know everyone thought I was a prude in church because I kept using Purell whenever we shook hands to greet each other.
But no yuckies here, just a quick overview of what's going on with all these fabulous companies that I love:


~The Digi Shack's color challenge is still going on! Make sure you hop over HERE to see what the DT did with summer sun, certainly celery, and gray. You know you have those colors in your craft space just begging to be used...come on, take 'em out and play along!

~Modern Sugar Blvd. has a trillion new releases. Seriously! There is a style for everyone in their store, with the cutest line up of babies, sassy sugars, and a little village of fun stores. Click HERE to see what all the fuss is about. And more importantly, there are 3 new MSB images - click HERE to see Precious Prayer, with all proceeds going to Kayleigh Freeman's family. If you'd like to read more about their incredible journey of faith and hope, click HERE to see their story. (And be ready with some tissues...)

~In addition, Paper Makeup Stamps is joining this cause as well. Katie (the owner) asked her incredible designer Diem to create an image for Kayleigh. This beautiful digi fairy can be found HERE, with all sales being donated to the Freemans as well.

~And finally, The Greeting Farm released all of their latest stamps last week as well as some adorable DP. I don't know what's left in the store besides the digis (only because they're unlimited - haha!) but be sure to check out her new line of stamps HERE.

For today, I have a full peek of a card using another MSB image that will be released soon. This is Light Up Gal, an original image that we were given for round 2 of the Design Team call. Trust me, it doesn't look like this card was even made by me:

Haha! See what I mean? I am soooo not a frilly romantic girl!!! Never have been. Take me out for some nachos then to a football game and I'll marry you. LOL! I realllly had to think outside my sweat pants box when I saw her. She's so Harlequin Romance novel book (never read those either) and has such a delicate look.

When I was contemplating on what to do with her, I considered making her part of a Christmas card. Great idea right? Except that the only DP I had for winter was blue and covered with fat penguins. haha! So instead, I tore apart my hummingbird oops card (remember that crazy one?) and rearranged it for her. I paper pieced her dress, and although there's huge scalloped ruffles on the original image, I cut those out and used a lacey ribbon instead. The sentiment is from TGF's Light Up set and I had to channel my inner Cheryl Walker to come up with some fancy bow for an embellishment. ;) (To see Cheryl Walker's bows, click HERE to her blog - they're incredible!) I will be sure to let you know when she is up for sale. (Light Up Gal that is, not Cheryl Walker...)

So I have a bunch of things in my head that I want to get done today. I also have a bunch of sweet kiddos who need my tlc so they will be my priority. :D I wanted to thank you all for coming by to read about Dustin Pike on Friday, I had soooo many hits this weekend because of him! There was a lot I didn't know about Dustin before the interview so I was excited to share his fun bio. Congrats to his new DT, I can't wait to see what they come up with (there's even a guy on there!). Have a wonderful Monday everyone, enjoy this first week of May, and wash your hands. ;)
*Love and Aloha*

Sunday Blog Hop with a Super Saturday Challenge sketch!

Happy Paper Makeup Blog hop! I am so honored that I am part of Katie's first ever blog hop release. Be sure to check out all the blogs for all the excitement, the party over at Paper Craft Planet and her new releases today, yay Katie!!!
For my card I used the one and only Penelope. Isn't she the most serene Asian fairy? Oh my word, I love this image. Very calm and so in control. *sigh. I want to be like her!!

I used our Super Saturday Challenge sketch courtesy of sketchlovers.com. and Melissa, who is hosting our weekly challenge. Here is the sketch:

I made her a fan with a new Asian paper sample that I recieved from my buddy Heather and to hold the folds together, I used SU's twine. The ribbon has been in my stash for the longest time, and I finally had the perfect opportunity to use it! Penelope is colored in copics and prismas (yes, I don't know if that's a no-no but in my house they are all friends, teehee!) and stickles were used on her wings. There's pearls at the bottom of her red cording and her Jade pi pendant has a light crystal effects glaze on it. The red cardstock was run through my CB with the textiles folder and in a desperate search for a silver buckle to compliment her wings, I used a soda tab that I keep seeing in people's cards. (Look past that little detail please because I don't know if I did it right!)

For our Super Saturday Challenge, I can't wait to see your creations using this sketch! Please leave a post either here or on Mel's blog and upload your creation into SCS' gallery under BLOGC5 so we can all oooh and ahhh over it. And don't forget to stop by Gabby's and Mel's to see their incredible work as well!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone~ Love and Aloha*

Yippee! Friday is here!

Hi everyone!
Happy day to you. :D Although everyday feels like a Friday to me I love it when it is actually here. I hope you have wonderful plans for this weekend? I know that there are some serious new releases going on, GinaK had her release party last night and there are two blog hops that I know of happening this Sunday: Paper Makeup Stamps & The Greeting Farm - fun!
Happy news, our new computer is fresh again! DH is so patient, I swear. He transferred everything to disc, wiped out the computer, then made it all pretty again. Yippee! However, now all of my pictures are on 6 CDRs that I have to sort through. Even my digis! Ack!
Regardless, I am happy that it's back up again. It was tough having just one working computer in this household. I didn't want to bother him while he was working on it so I colored quietly. haha!
Here is a card that I made for Gael's Barn swap over at SCS. I actually had a vision of this layout one evening and couldn't wait to see if it would work. I was worried that it would be too bulky with all the layering, but then decided not to put them on dimensionals as planned. There was something kind of cute with them all being on top of each other like this, as happy as they were to share their space with one another. Hey, this is the way I feel in my house!
After designing the sentiment, I realized that it kind of looked like the county fair award ribbons. teehee! I must say that this Mcplendid Farm set is too fun to color. I even added brown mud all over the piggy faces just for fun. And I have to say that the distressed stripes CB folder is probably my new favorite!
Here is another card that I finished up this evening. Isn't this frog just the cutest stamp? (Note: I don't even care for frogs, it's an acquired fear from my mom.) He is from Whimsy stamps and I found him on All That Scraps with a gift certificate. I love his smitten look, so dreamy and happy. (This is probably what I looked like watching my computer repairman tonight. LOL!)

I lost some of the doodles when I cut him out so I tried to copy it exactly on to the water and for his eyebrows. I drew in the cattails towards him and loved how this card was sort of leaning to one side. :D
And finally, here is an altoid tin that I made for a friend's bday. She's kind of a girly girl so I thought I'd make it in reds and pinks and throw in a pair of earrings in it. I have so many altoid tins to play with - I purchased a huge plastic bag full at a thrift store for 50 cents. I know they wanted to ask what I was going to do with it. What a great find, now I can alter my heart out.
Have a wonderful Friday everyone, and an even more pleasant weekend. Tomorrow I'll be posting this week's Super Saturday challenge (it's a sketch!) hosted by Mel and I am scheduled to be part of the Paper Makeup blog hop this Sunday, stop by and say hello! :D
*Love and Aloha*