The new Sentimental Sunday's challenge is "Anything with Wings". We want to see your creations with anything with wings: butterflies, fairies, air plane, birds, or anything else with wings. Don't forget to include a sentiment!
I used "Miss You Birdie", a freebie, from Meljen's Designs. It is going into my stack of cards for OWH. I kept it pretty flat so that it will be easy to mail and used faux stitching to jazz it up a bit.
I hope you will join us in the "Anything with Wings" challenge at the Sentimental Sundays challenge blog. Be sure to download your free sentiments from Ann of Raindrop Echo Designs.
Enjoy the rest of your week end! Thank you for stopping by!
Supplies:
Stamps: Miss You Birdie (freebie) from Meljen's Designs (this image comes in the package of 23 free digi stamps. The download link is in the side bar.)
Papers & CS: Georgia Pacific CS, DCWV Songbird paper pack
Inks: None
Tools: Prismacolor Markers, paper piercing tool, Stampin' Up edge punch
I have been delinquent in posting a few blog awards that I have received from my blogging friends. So here we go.
The first award, Four!, is from Anne Marie. If you haven't checked out her blog, run on over there. Gorgeous stuff.
1) Four TV shows that you watch. * Glee (Love it!) *Raising Hope (Makes me laugh out loud. The perfect show for my odd sense of humor) *True Blood (Start the new season already!) *So You Think You Can Dance
2) Four things you are passionate about. *Family *Friends *Music *Crafting (you know I had to throw this in.)
3) Four words/phrases you say a lot: * 8 million (Everything is 8 million.... if I didn't throw this in I think DH would lodge a complaint.) * What ever * Clean your room * Who wants a treat? (With 3 pets, it gets said a lot)
4) Four things you learned in the past *Sometimes you just got to let it go *You need to take time for yourself to recharge your batteries *If something doesn't seem "right", it probably isn't *Treasure your family and friends. They can be gone in a blink of an eye.
5) Four place you would like to go *ITALY (can I list this for all 4?) I have always wanted to go to Italy. I want to aborb the culture, art, & food. *Ireland - I was there once but not for long enough. * Disney World - I've been there several times but would like to go once more before my daughter out grows the magic. Would really love to go at Christmas to see all the decorations. I also had the best pizza I have ever had in my life there on our last trip. *Spain
6) Four things you did yesterday (**note: I typed this on Monday) * Straightened up the house *Washed dishes (DH cooked!) *Laundry * made 4 cards
7) Four things you are looking forward to * Short term - this coming Saturday we are going to the Roller Derby to celebrate my brother's 40th birthday with a bunch of friends. I have never been to one and want to check it out. *Spending some time with my girl friends (see recharge batteries above) *Watching my daughter grow and mature *warmer weather . The cold is killing me this year.
8) Four things you love about winter This is a hard one because I really don't like winter. * Snuggling * Sitting in front of the fireplace reading a book * the really cold days where you don't feel guilty staying indoors and not doing much of anything *Seeing all the Christmas lights & decorations.
9) Tag four people to play along ** See the end of my post.
My second award comes from Tameko . I recently found her blog when she joined the Sentimental Sundays challenge team. Stop by her blog to see her wonderful projects. She has a fabulous eye for color.
For this award you are supposed to list 3 things that make me different from everyone else & pass the award to 5 fellow bloggers.
Things that make me different from every one else:
**I am hopelessly addicted to Starbucks mochas. **I hate shopping, especially shopping for clothes.I shop when I have to but on-line shopping rules. (I love amazon.com & Landsend.com!) **I love to sleep. I need a good 8 hours a night to function and not be cranky. I love it if I get 9 hours.
My last award comes from Iris. I encourage you to check out her blog. She is one talented 10-year old.
1) Thank the person giving you this award and link to their blog. **Thank you Iris!
2)Share 8 things about you! **I already shared a lot of info for the previous 2 awards and will use it for this one too. I'm running out of stuff to share.
3) Give the award to 8 fellow bloggers that you have just discovered. **see end of awards post
4) Contact them and tell them about their award!
** Okay, here are the people that I choose to pass the award too - All of you! If you would like to participate and pass any of these awards on to your blogging friends, go right on ahead. I know, I'm breaking the rules a bit. That's me, the rebel. (See I did share something else about me.)
Now, on to Music Saves My Soul Saturday. This week I am sharing my favorite song from Tegan and Sara.
I like to move it, move it! That song has been stuck in my head for the last few days. I'm totally blaming it on the new Meljen's Designs challenge, "Make it MOVE!".
For this challenge I decided to make a roller card using the new Meljen's Designs image "Loving Ewe". Good thing I didn't make a shaker card because I probably would have had KC and the Sunshine Band stuck in my head.
Here is a look at all the new digis which are available in the Whimsy Stamps store.
I hope you will join in the "Make it MOVE!" challenge on the Meljen's Designs blog. You can join making roller, shaker, slider, pop up, spinner, waterfall, or wiper cards just to name a few. See the Meljen's Designs blog for all the details.
Don't forget about the Whimsy Stamps blog hop. Several of the designers used images from this Meljen's Designs release. You can find the details about the hop on my post HERE.
Welcome to the Whimsy Stamps January digi release blog hop!!!! This is my first post as a Whimsy Stamps digi design team member. I am so excited!
On the hop today, we have lots of new images created by Crissy, Ann, and Melissa to share with you. We also have some beautifully pre-colored images, designed by Melissa Jenkins of Meljen's Designs, which are great for making quick cards. Each file is JPG at 300dpi for high print quality. You can resize, flip, or rotate to fit your own project.
If you have arrived here from Anneke's beautiful blog then you are in the right place. If you were not following along with the hop, why not join in the fun by starting at the beginning of the hop, which is Debbie’s blog?
Today I used Crissy Armstrong's newly released image, Dance of Love. Isn't she gorgeous?
To find this image along with all of the new release, please visit the Whimsy Stamps store.
Be sure to leave comments as you hop. SIX mystery DT Members will be choosing a winner from the comments left on their hop posts! These winners will each win a Whimsy Stamps digi image of their choice.
The Grand Prize winner of the hop will be chosen from the very last stop, Denise’s blog, and will receive 5 new digital stamps of their choice from Whimsy Stamps. They will also get a chance to use those new digital images as a guest designer for Whimsy for the entire month of January.
The hop will run until 12 noon EST, Thursday, January 13th, when the winner will be announced on the Whimsy Inspirations blog.
Your next stop on the hop is Stephanne's blog. I know she has some lovely eye-candy for you.
Below is a list of the hop rotation just in case you get lost along the way.
This week I wanted to make a masculine card. Since I haven't used it too much, I thought I would play around with Lindsay's Steam Punk style digital stamps set.
I have to say I enjoyed making this card. The vintage typewriter image was colored using distress inks. It was so easy because the shading is already provided in the image. I slit the image using my craft knife so I could insert the typed message. You could put any message you wanted here. I printed mine using Word and cut to size.
Here is a look at the entire set.
I also have an enabler alert for you! Mygrafico is having their New Year retirement sale through January 9th. All retiring sets are only $1.00. Yep, just $1.00, I didn't make a typo.
Here is a list of Lindsay's Stamp Stuff sets that you will be able to get for just $1.00.
This week we have such a fun challenge on the Sentimental Sundays blog. Our theme is "Celebrate Friendship". Where would we be with out our friends? Thank you to all my friends and blogging buddies for your support and friendship during 2010. I made this card with all of you in mind.
This is the first Sentimental Sundays challenge with a Sponsor. Deedee's Digis is sponsoring this challenge with a $10 gift certifcate to the DeeDee's Digis store. Along with the GC, you can win 2 digital sentiment sets from Raindrop Echo Designs (available on Whimsy Stamps). See the Sentimental Sundays blog for the complete details.
Over the holidays we made some progress getting my crafting room set up. Right now I am kind of influx. Some of my crafting goodies are upstairs in my crafting room, some are still downstairs in my office. We are still trying to figure out the best options for storage and some additional work space. We'll get it done. Until then, maybe I'll lose some of the "holiday pounds" from running up and down the stairs so much.
Happy New Year! Thank you for stopping by!
Supplies:
Stamps: Friends sentiment by Inkadinkadoo, Coffee from Hero Arts
Inks: Close To My Heart Chocolate
Papers & CS: Georgia Pacific CS, Close To My Heart Cherry-O paper pack
Tools: Big Shot, Spellbinders Nestabilities, Fiskars edge punch, Copic markers
Embellishments: misc. baker's twine, button, & trim
Here is a look at all the new digis which are available in the 
