It's Your Special Day!

Happy Friday!!!!  I love Friday.  I really do.  I'm even more fond of Saturday and Sunday, actually.  Just putting that out there.  I do, however, have a super-dee-duper fun card to share with you!  Woot! (Oh, my goodness! I just saw the date and it's totally like JUNE 7th!  When the heck did THAT happen.  Yikes!)  Well, anyway.. moving on to funness .....  (Yes, I know that's not actually a word.  I like to generally disregard limitations and/or restrictions on super funtastic linguistics.  Just sayin'.)

This week we have a fun challenge for you over at CAS-ual Fridays!  It's all about Banners & Flags!  I pulled out some fun Papertrey Ink dies for this one and a SUPER cute stamps from There She Goes Clear Stamps.

Shh!  Don't tell anyone!  I totally colored on this card, dude!  Like.. for reals!  I used Spectrum Noir markers to create that cute bit of adorableness.  I love that this particular creature really has no 'real' color so he can totally be teal and nobody can even argue with me about it.  Not even a little.  YAY!  the papers are from the American Crafts Hip! Hip! Hooray 6x6 pad and they are TOTALLY fun and full of awesomesauce colors.  I stamped in Momento Tuxedo Black ink on Crafter's Companion paper because those are the BEST combo for coloring with alcohol markers!  LOVE!

ACK!  Hello, Mr. Happy Pants Cuteness!!!!  (Okay...so according to the package he's actually a she named Phyllis, but I kinda like Mr. Happy Pants Cuteness, so I'm going with it.  You with me on this one?  Woot!  Woot!)
And our prize sponsor this week for the CAS-ual Fridays challenge is Ellen Hutson, so... you probably want to get on that making of an awesome CAS card using flags or banners, dude.  Just sayin'.

Mr. Happy Pants Cuteness and I both wish you the very BEST of weekends!  Make it rock, folks!  Make it rock!
Have a Happy!
Jingle Out!

It's Time for a Gourmet Sketch!

Yup!  We have a brand new sketch challenge for you over at Gourmet Rubber Stamps today!  This is a fun one because you can really do any direction you want with it!  I love those type of sketches... ones that really just get you started and let you take it ANYWHERE!  YAY!

I decided to flip the sketch on it's side for my card today and I played with some SUPER fun colors! It was fun. Just sayin'.


The Happy Birthday Truffles set is featured on my card (it's brand new and SUPER CUTENESS!) along with some fun May Arts ribbon and fabulous My Mind's Eye enamel dots! Love those things!


The image itself is stamped in Momento ink and colored with Spectrum Noir markers. I'm still working on my coloring, but I had fun playing with pinks for this one!

To check out what the rest of the team has created with this fun sketch, be sure to visit the rest of the DT blogs! These girls are pretty amazing, so you won't want to miss their fabulous designs!

Deb Felts
Jeni Allen
Jennifer Ingle
Kelli Palmer
Kendra Wietstock
Stephanie Lee
Taylor UsryGourmet Rubber Stamps Blog
As for me, well...tonight.... I DANCE! (Yup. Dance class tonight. Hopefully I will look mildly less foolish than last week. HA! Wish me luck!)