What?!!

Sending this to a friend who appreciates sarcasm.  I got the digi clip from Iclips.  But, my printer broke, so I ended up drawing him freehand by looking at the computer screen.  I got pretty close I think.  I made the scrub-brush freehand too.  I just cut out what I thought the shape would be and colored it with copics.

Bathtub and Duckies from New Arrival

Font is Pooh Font

Copic Colors

Digi image from Iclips (freehanded)

Towel is a cut piece of fleece material for my flocking

Sparkle from stickles

Sarcasm is free.

Challenges:

Crafty Cardmakers - Cards for Men

Practical Scrappers - Glitter and flocking

Pile It On - #23 Summer Showers
A Crafty Little Place - Cards for Him 
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #54 - For Him/Men

Celebrate

Thank you all for your prayers, encouragement and warnings.  I really didn't know all the stuff about Ambien until this happened to me, since then I've learned lots about people eating, driving, and doing all kinds of weird things with no memory of the events.  I am weaning off of it now.   I can usually pray myself back to sleep in comfort and relaxation, but sometimes my mind is just too active and I can't.

Onward... Today's card is a celebrate card.  I made two of them for my Mother-In-Law's birthday coming up.  I have a GREAT Mother In Law with a wonderful sense of humor so both of these cards celebrate that.  I will let my husband pick which one to send her:

 

  Or this one:

 

Both images are from Bugaboo stamps and digital images here. The open aperture is a new thing for me.  So, I get to count this as part of my new year's resolution to try 12 new card styles this year.... I'm up to 9 and I have 7 more months to go! 

Yay! 

Challenges

Pile It On Challenge - Quirky

52 Card Pickup - Whatever You Say

Simply Spring

 

This card made with Paper Pups (the circle), Storybook (scallop circle & Butterfly), 

and Walk in my Garden (Flowers)

CMTH Stamp, Button and Floss, Embossing Folder and Stickles

Challenges

Cricutters Anonymous - Challenge #33 - Make a Spring Themed Project

Practical Scrappers - Bling (Blog Hop)

The Cuttlebug Spot - Bling

The Belli Challenge - Die Cuts

The Crafty Creations - Limited Edition Challenge

New Wings

This card inspired by a picture in my Son's house drawn by Bobby Chiu of a baby fairy looking at ants marching along a limb.   I thought of a baby fairy learning how to fly and hanging on.  I figured it would make a sweet get-well or thinking of you card.

 

 

Fairy - Baby from New Arrival, Butterfly from New Arrival for wings cut on vellum and embossed with Devine Swirls folder.

Limb from Home Decor, Cut 5 times and layered.

Fairy skirt, flower from Home Decor cut 3 times and layered, Pop Dotted

Hair - cylinder from George cut twice, cut in half and fringed for bangs

Cricut and Cosmo Cricket Papers

Butterfly stickers, Ribbon, Beads, Stickles,Tulle and Hang In There Tag.

CHALLENGES

Crafty Creations Challenge #60 Babies

Cuttlebug Spot - If I Had Wings

Flower Me

I've done this flower before, but it is so easy and effective so I did another one this weekend. Flower from Walk In My Garden, Brads from the Brad and Eyelet Outlet.  Stamped sentiment.

Tuesday's Tulips

It's Tuesday and I have power and internet.  After nearly 24 hours without internet, I am back up and running.  I realize how terrible it is not to have internet, to be able to contact people, read the news, interact with IM and email.  I felt lost, grumpy and whiny.  But, that's all better now.  These are the two cards I got done today.  I decided I needed to do only one thing difficult and one thing simple.  This first card is a mosaic card which I have never done before, but I went to "Carol's Cards"  a blog that I follow and I totally scraplifted this from her.  HERS was gorgeous and I tried to follow her format.

After I published this card, I decided I really hated it.  So, I changed it to this:

 

This second card was simple and I followed a simple format for it.

And the inside