Two more cards

The first card is for the Wee Memories and the Simon Says Stamp challenge.  The theme was "New".  On this card, I used my new distressing inks and a new-to-me stamp.  Sorry about the picture, but I couldn't get a clearer photo for some odd reason. 

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My next card is a celebration card for the Viva Las Vegas Stamp challenge.  What do you celebrate every year?  Your birthday!  So I made a birthday card. 

Thanks for looking!

I had one more in me.

One more card.  This one is for the Inspired by #4 challenge.  I took my inspiration from the colors of the card.  I love the clean contrast of the yellow, black and white. 

Since it was based on a New Year's invitation, I also added a little bling with the rhinestones. 

Now I am off to bed.  I need to get up early to enjoy my last day of my holiday vacation before going back to school. 

Keep on Rolling!

It's only January 3, and I've made 5 cards already!  Whoo-hoo for me.  lol  Hopefully I can keep this going even after I have to go back to work.  I would like to throw in a layout or two as well.  We'll see.  Anyway, here's my recent cards. 

For the Skipping Stones Design Sketch Challenge :

For the Mojo Monday #222 challenge:

For the Cupcake's Creation Color Challenge:

The Inspiration

My card

I really don't like to work with orange, but somehow I ended up with two orange cards.  Oh well, what are you going to do, right?  lol

Thanks for looking!

Trying to start the year off right.

This year I'm trying to start the year off on the right creative foot.  I made these two cards for the Gina K new release party. 

For the flower challenge I used distress inks for the background and coloring the stem of the flower, Tombow watercolor markers for the flower itself, The Angel Company stamps (flower), fiskars border punch, floss, button, Creating Keepsakes sticker, and bazzill paper.

For the make-your-own-background challenge I used distressing ink for distressing and stamping, The Angel Company stamp (leaves), Stamps by Judith stamp (tri-dot), twine, and stickles glitter glue.

To check out Gina K stamps, you can find them here http://www.shop.ginakdesigns.com/.  They have wonderful stamps designs.  I recently discovered them and working on getting my first stamp order ready to place on their website. 

The Angel Company (TAC) Card

Since we've had a week off from school, I've been making cards to keep myself occupied while the kids play their Wii.  I found a piece of scrapbook paper I'm sick of seeing so I decided to make it into cards.  This card was made with an image and sentiment from The Angel Company also know as TAC (http://www.theangelcompany.net/).  I chalked with SU! chalk the image and inked around the circle with Close To My Heart ink.  Patterned paper from a Mat Stack, cardstock from DieCuts With a View, punch from Paper Shapers, ribbon and rhinestones from unknown source.

We have winter!

We've had a week of snow days this week!  It started Tuesday with ice and sleet making the roads dangerous.  Not only that, but high was 21 and the low was 9!  What?!  Here in Texas we never knew the thermometer had single digits--we thought it was an urban legend.  LOL  It finally snowed last night.  It's been snowing throughout the day, too, which is another new experience for us.  I thought I would share a  couple of pics of the kids and dogs enjoying the snow.  Lily (the big dog) wasn't sure about the snow because this is her first winter, but she now loves it! 



Lily



Rosie



my kids




Our street



Have a great day and stay warm!

Science Fair Winner!

I'm so proud of my little one.  She won first place in her grade level at her elementary school's science fair.  The judging was done by independent people outside of the school so the judging would be fair and unbaised.  It's funny because she wasn't expecting to win.  She did her project simply for fun.  She wanted to know how many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop.  :)  Yep, you remember that commercial, right?  After doing the experiment, we discovered it took on average 426 licks.  If I had to eat another tootsie roll pop, I would have gotten sick! 

A picture of her, her project, and her medal that she is extremely proud to show off.