Surprise Happy Birthday Hop for Jessica {Smile it's your Birthday!}

Today is a special day! The lovely and talented Jessica Knutsen, of There She Goes Stamps, is having a birthday!! Happy birthday Jessica!

To help her celebrate, her amazing friends have put together a SURPRISE Birthday Hop and my friend Meredith aka Crafty Math Chick, has invited me to be a part of it! Thank you so much Meredith!!

I decided to ink up a set I just picked up from There She Goes called, "Oh Snap"! It is a delightful set and FUN to colour!! I paired it with some pretty papers from Simple Stories called "Vintage Bliss".  I used the current MOJO Monday Sketch and I am also playing along with Simon Says Stamp (take a picture).

Happy Birthday Jessica!! Wishing you a special year, filled with adventure and happiness!! 

To follow the hop, here is a linky with all the participants! 

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MUSE, Artful Delight, CAS on a Sunday & City Crafter {Celebrate Your Day}

Thursday is here and I am excited to be playing along with the current MUSE Challenge. This week's inspiration card is gorgeous! I love the colouring! All week I have been looking at different stamps in my stash and this one from "There She Goes" Stamps jumped out at me! So I inked it up and got colouring! The sentiment comes from "Paper Sweeties".

Card above made by Muse for this week, Marion Vagg

{Supplies Used}

Stamps: There She Goes, Paper Sweeties

Inks: Copics

Papers: Crumb Cake, White

Extras: None

I am playing along with CAS on Sundays-Pastel Pretties and the City Crafter Colour Inspiration Challenge.

Edit to add: My lovely friend June pointed me to the Artful Delight sketch. So I am linking up. Artful Delight

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Sweet Stamp Shop & Color Throwdown {Congrats Smartie Pants}

There is a new challenge in blogland at the Sweet Stamp Shop called the "Use What You've Got Challenge" and it is a fun one! Basically, you need to go through your stash and find some old goodies to play with! My stash doth "overflowith" with unused delights and so I went to work!

First I looked at the colour challenge over at the Color Throwdown. The colours are in my Stampin' Up ink stash-Marina Mist, Wild Wasabi and Daffodil Delight-mixed with black and white! So CHECK off the "hoarded supplies" stash list! Using "INK" from my stash. 

Then I went through my 12 x 12 papers and found a piece of Wild Wasabi designer paper. I have no idea what paper pack it was from but it is not new, so I cut it up and created a mat for my stamped images. I am happy with how it turned out, and added a wee bit of Black and White Baker's Twine (need to order more soon) to the bottom of the card.

{Supplies Used}

Stamps: Spectacle by Sweet Stamp Shop

Inks: Marina Mist, Wild Wasabi, (Summer Starfruit)  subbed in for Daffodil Delight 

Papers: SU! DSP

Extras: Rhinestones, Baker's Twine

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Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger & CAS(E) this Sketch {Miss You} with TAWS

A couple of week's ago, I ordered these die cut Polaroid frames from the Paper Issues online store. I wasn't sure what I was going to do with them but when I saw the awesome sketch over at Case this Sketch and the Tuesday Trigger over at Moxie Fab, I immediately had a plan!!!  

I was inspired by the Trigger Tuesday because of...

1. The bright colours-LOVE THEM!

2. The target (which is the theme of my card) being in a Polaroid frame, I am targeting in on the person I am missing.

3. And the arrow on my card, is going in the opposite direction of the plane...hence, the "miss you" theme, which was inspired by the jumbled up look to the dart board look. 

{Supplies Used}

Stamps: TAWS-Priceless Joy, Paper Smooches-Sentiment Sampler

Inks: Black (Memento)

Papers: MME Boy Crazy, Baja Breeze (SU), Black, White (Flourishes)

Extras: Studio Calico Die Cut Frames, Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, SU! Cupcake Punch (for the clouds)

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Merry Monday #63 {Jingle All the Way}

Welcome to another week at Merry Monday! Each week I share a sketch and my wonderful design team put together Christmas cards to get you into the festive Christmas card making spirit!! All of us like to work ahead on our Christmas cards and so a team was born! We hope you will use the sketch and link up a Christmas card this week!!

This week I pulled out one of my favourite Stampendous Christmas stamps! I love cats and thought it would be fun to play along with the ABC Christmas Challenge to use "Jingle Bells" on your card!! I thought this image would be purrfect!

I kept my card pretty clean and simple but added a burlap circle to the bottom, it is a pre-made embellishment from Little Yellow Bicycle. My designer paper is from Simple Stories.

{Supplies Used}

Stamps: Stampendous

Inks: Copics

Papers: Crumb Cake, White, Simple Stories

Extras: Little Yellow Bicycle, Pearls

Welcome to our Guest Designer this week Tenia Nelson!! She won our challenge a couple of weeks ago! Would you like to be a Guest Designer? Be sure to play along, as our weekly winner is our next Guest Designer!

Allisa Chilton	Bonnie Klass	LeAnne Pugliese
Margaret Moody	Narelle Farrugia	Nina Forsyth
Sherry Eckblad	Sue Joyce	Vicki Burdick
Wendy Aungst	Tenia Nelson Guest Designer	Marisa Ritzen Featured Designer

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Merry Monday Winners

Thank you to everyone who joined in the Christmas card making fun last week!!! I know it can be challenging to make Christmas cards all year round but I was so happy last year to have my cards signed, sealed and delivered on time!!! Your cards this past week were outstanding but I kept coming back to one card in particular! 

Our TOP PICK for the week is HAZEL! 

I just loved the navy and silver colours she used and the deer images were wonderful!! Congratulations Hazel on being our Top Pick this week!

We hope you will join us as our Guest Designer for Monday, May 27th. Please email Sherry at seckblad@aol.com. Be sure to put "Merry Monday Guest Designer" in the subject line.  

And our Honourable Mentions were voted on as well, if you received a vote from a design team member, your card and link is below. Congratulations! We hope you will display your badge with pride! If you are viewing this in Google Reader, you may have to visit the blog to see the actual cards that are linked below.

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Paper Smooches, Paper Players & Ribbon Carousel {CAS Man Celebration}

I loved the sketch at Paper Smooches and wanted to create a clean and simple "Celebration" card. I am also linking up to the fun The Ribbon Carousel (Celebration) challenge. I also wanted to link up to the Paper Players "CAS Masculine Card".

 

I love the pennants in the My Guy set and paper pieced them for the card, I thought they could represent the little flags on the sketch. My baker's twine is for the polka dots below the main panel on the sketch.

Supplies Used

Stamps: Paper Smooches -Sentiment Sampler & My Guy

Inks: Black

Papers: Boy Crazy (My Mind's Eye), White

Extras: Baker's Twine

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Paper Issues {Die Cutting Challenge}, Moxie Fab & CAS-ual Fridays

Today over at Paper Issues, we have our new CURRENT ISSUE to get you inspired!!! 

Come and play along with our DIE CUTTING Challenge!!! 

Get out your dies and your die cutting machine and link up!! FUN!

I was also inspired by Moxie Fab World to play along with "The Card Set Challenge" and I created a set of Thank You cards for my sister's bridesmaids. My sister's wedding colours are neutrals mixed with a wine colour. She is getting married at a gorgeous winery this summer, we went there last weekend, it had beautiful scenery and flowers. (The wine was yummy too). So I created three special cards for her for each girl. The sentiment comes from Penny Black, I have had it forever and I love it.

I also liked the stamp on designer paper challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays which really got me thinking about making these cards, as I had this designer paper in my stash and I thought it would be a nice wedding background to these cards. I also used some vellum for under the flower...it is difficult to see in the photo but it does add to the elegance of the cards. I really hope she likes them!

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Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge Reminder!

There is still time to join us this week at Merry Monday! Come and play along with the lastest sketch and link up before Sunday at Noon (PST). 

To play along, CLICK HERE.

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