Tropical, Baby!!

 

Sadly this is about as "tropical" as I've gotten lately. Sigh. Covid is seriously cramping my style. Art Impressions wanted to see a new creation to satisfy their new challenge "Tropical Treat" but if we didn't have the tropical part, they would be satisfied with something that had: "sun, sand, sea or summer" on it. Soooo since I can't do the real thing anytime soon, I created this card

I used Blanche and then cut off her legs so she could be in the water. Of course I gave her a buddy, drinking a margarita on the shore (because really ... is there a point to going to the ocean without a sister or bestie?!!)

Bugaboo B-Day Challenge 3 & 4

This is my second post of the day.  If you are looking for my Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 post, scroll down!

And apparently, I REALLY like Bugaboo images since I have THREE cards on my blog today that use Jodie's amazing images.  Here are my cards for the Bugaboo Birthday Bash Challenges 3 and 4.  I promise that eventually I'll catch up!

Challenge three is a color challenge.  I used the brown, khaki and greens.

My first card also uses the sketch over on the Tuesday Morning Sketches blog.  This is such a versatile sketch; it really worked with my image.

Challenge four is a bingo card.  I used the first vertical column: birthday theme, ribbon and sparkle.  It was a really fun card to make.

Bugaboo B-Day 1&2

It's time for the Bugaboo Birthday Bash Challenge.  I'm getting a late start on this so I'll be doubling up on challenges for the next few days until I catch up.

Day One's challenge was to use a photo for inspiration.  I thought about things you might find in the ocean and a scuba diver came to mind (probably NOT a cat scuba diver ... tho maybe!).  I also used the colors you might find at the beach.

Day Two's challenge was a sketch.

I made two birthday cards.  My birthday card stash is pretty low this time of year due to the rush to finish all my Christmas cards.

I'm also participating in the Dragonfly Journey challenge. Congrats to you, Jeannie, on another year of Dragonfly Journey challenges!!

Eat Cake:

Who hasn't felt this way about a birthday?  I made this card with my BIL in mind.  I was going to have Mr. Peedles um, relieving himself, on an enormous "50."  Steve made it to the half-century mark this year, but I was worried that he wouldn't find my card as hilarious as I did.

This fabulous image can be found over at the Eat Cake Graphics store.  Holly has some great new images ready.  My absolute favorite image is the Coffee Label that states: Lord, give me Coffee to change the things I can change and Wine to accept the things I can't!  That bad boy WILL be mine!

Head on over to the store and grab some goodies while the getting's good!

Eat Cake Graphics: Surrounded by cake!

Today I'm sharing a card using one of my favorite stamp companies: Eat Cake Graphics.  My card uses Main Squeeze featuring Mildred and Herbert.   This is one of my favorite stamps since, (and I'm gonna be completely honest here) it looks like me and Mr. Blog.  Ken is totally "Jack Sprat" and I'm a bit ... er, fluffier than he is!

I decided to pair this image with Holly's Surrounded by Cake phrase.  I love the truth on this card!!

I also loved Karen Giron's sketch this week so I wanted to be sure and play!  My paper is yummy paper from Stampin' Up.

Eat Cake: Birthday Bear!

I just spent 20 very harrowing minutes climbing on top of the china hutch retrieving Nerf bullets.  It's something of a "no-no" for the kiddos to shoot their nerf guns anywhere in the house besides the basement!  But in their defense, Dad has the tent set up "airing out" in the basement.  I'm blaming their dad for my fearful moments.  I just kept imagining that I would fall and take out the china hutch and every bit of china inside.  Aaaaah!

Buuuuut in other news, how freakin' cute is this bear?!!  His name is "Bosley Says Lets Go"  He's another cute image available from the Eat Cake Graphic shop.  I highly encourage a visit to see what's new!

Eat Cake: Chocolate ... mmmmm

We just got back from Target to spend some birthday money that was suddenly burning a hole in my oldest kiddo's pocket.  His birthday was in March and out of the blue, he asked if he could drop some cash.  I have to say that I inwardly giggle at the cashiers when my guys bring their "stash" in to spend.  Today youngest bought a spiro-graph and the oldest bought a ginormous Nerf gun (for $49.99 -- yes, you read correctly $50 for a Nerf gun!)  Both of them then proceeded to pay for their purchases with a lot of change ... many MANY pennies!  We weren't exactly banned from darkening their door again, but I think that they were pretty excited to see us leave!

 I want to share another card I made for the Eat Cake Graphics design team.  I'm using Eloise.  I used my favorite paper-piecing technique for her dress.  I plan to give this to a friend who doesn't carry chocolate but has a handbag big enough to carry some (as well as the ginormous Nerf gun) if she chose.

Thanks for stopping by.

Eat Cake Graphics - Diets

 I am sooo with Granny Gertz, dieting is not fun (especially when there are cupcakes AND sprinkles involved)  As soon as I saw the "diet" phrase from over at Eat Cake Graphics, I knew that I had to have it.  I love me my sprinkles.  The kids are always amazed when I chose to ONLY put sprinkles on my frozen yogurt (unlike my youngest who tries to put nearly every topping they have on his!)

I'm using the April sketch over at Kraftyhands Challenge Blog.  Lots of different shapes to use; it proved to be challenging indeed!

Eat Cake Graphics

I'm back with another cutie from Eat Cake Graphics.  This is Feathers.  Is he not the cutest panicked bird that you have EVER seen? 

This week Delicious Doodles is challenging us to use pink for breast cancer awareness.  Since it's a cause that has touched my life I wanted to participate.

I'm using the sketch over at Just Add Ink.  If you squint and tilt your head to the left, I'm sure that you'll agree with me that I NAILED this sketch! 

Digi Sketch Challenge/From the Heart

I spent about 20 minutes this morning trying to find a pack of pearls to put on the card and could NOT find it.  Eventually found it ... in the dog's mouth.  Dorky dog!  I swear she is worse than ANY three year old.  So all the pretty sparkles that I planned to add are a bit too soggy to use.  Oh well.

I have fallen in love with these Birdbrains.  In the last two days, I think I've bought four of them.  Step away from the digi-images Joanna!  This is the image that Faith has chosen for her February Stamp of the Month Club over at From the Heart.  Had I participated last month, this little cutie woulda been mine ... for FREE.  Alas, I did not.  Oh well, next month's image is mine!

I used the "green" theme and sketch from Digi Sketch Challenge.  But I rotated it a bit so that the sentiment circle wouldn't cover up that cute bird's tear puddle.

I have four kids over.... well, my two and then two additional boys and it just started snowing.

I finally had to break down and turn on the TV. Three out of the five of us were crying, there is still 45 minutes left of this play-date and I can't find my "good" camera. It's been a rather long day.

But on to the cards. I have two to show you. First, I decided to answer Lori Boyd and the rest of the gang at The Pink Elephant's challenge to use Aqua. I made this card. It's lovely but ... not very aqua-ish. It's more yellow, green and a smidgon of light blue (again, my apologies for the icky picture) . This is another card kit so I can't really say whose image it is (though if I had to guess, I'd say Stampavie, maybe Sarah Kay?)

Back to the drawing board ...

Now THIS is aqua. This is Maude from Art Impressions. Isn't she a riot?!!

Have a great day!

Supplies:
Card One~ unknown card kit contents
Card Two~Maude, Art Impressions; Fashion tip: Eat Cake Graphics, ribbon, brads, crystal effects, copics

Happy Birthday Jodi

Happy, happy day to my Design Team Sister, Jodi! We at KL SNS are gathering to throw a blog hop and party to celebrate her birthday. If you've come here from Jacilynn's blog ... you are right on track. Otherwise, back up and head over there first.

First, my card. You can tell that I admire Jodi's work since I broke out the Bo-Bunny paper. I love this stuff but tend to hoard it!! The pig stamp is from Hambo. I love this stamp company because all their stamps are REALLY funny. The sentiment matches perfectly but it's actually from Eat Cake Graphics.

And what's a party without cake (as my piggy friends can certainly attest) so I whipped up a cake to celebrate Jodi's day. OK, those of you who know me can stop laughing. This is my friend Mary William's cake. She has turned her immense talents to cake making and trust me, they are pretty AND tasty!

So Jodi, I hope your day is wonderful. Head on over to Kathy's blog to continue your celebration!

Tuesday Morning Sketches

Have you been to Melissa's Sketch Challenge blog?

This week her challenge was this:

I loved the DT cards so I decided to give it a try. First I rotated the sketch and made a fairly simple card. It was REALLY hard to step away from the layers that I seem to use in most of my cards so to compensate for the lack of paper, I think I used every bling technique in my arsenal! I've got glitter paper, sparkles and of course ... just plain glitter on this card.

This is "Hit With a Snowball" from Eat Cake Graphics, one of my favorite stamp companies. I got this stamp before Christmas but never did ink him so I wanted to use him.

While making this card, I broke my SU scallop punch and ended up making the card with my nesties. Now my dilemma is whether or not to get a new SU punch. I will admit that the convenience factor of a punch is appealing but I hate that they break. Hmmm, what to do?

What YOU should do is hop over to Melissa's spot and participate in the challenge. I did!