Surprise Pop Up/Spinner Combo

My work colleague, who is also a very good friend, has young daughter who was hospitalized for a week with pneumonia. It was very scary and I only wish I could have been there but she lives on the west coast and I'm on the east.  All I could do was call and check in and listen to her when she needed an ear.  Good news is her daughter is now home and on the road to recovery. 

I wanted to create a special get well card for Abby and because she's an avid figure skater I borrowed a Tilda stamp from a friend and scanned and resized it for the card. Tilda is a beautiful little girl that is just too cute to pass up at Magnolia Stamps. The card is a combination Surprise Pop-Up and Spinner cards.  Tutorials for both are on the "must see again and again" - SplitCoast stampers website. I also used a background/frame from my favorite artist - Dustin Pike. I think it works perfectly with little Tilda skating on a pond. I do hope she likes it!

ABC Challenge

It's another late night and I just completed the ABC Challenge at http://abcchristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/ .  I decided to participate because Dustin Pike is the sponsor.  I absolutely love Dustin's digi stamps. I can't help but buy up all his images. They are so incredibly cute!  He provides weekly freebies along with monthly memberships that are a great deal. Check out his blog and images!!

Anyway, back to the challenge.  The rules of this challenge was to use any of Dustin's images in a Christmas card or project but the catch was that items used could only be black and white. The only color permitted was on the image itself.  It took a little bit of time to figure out what I would do and then decided on a tent card with mulberry paper behind the window.  I used a little bling on the snowman's sombero, glossy accent on the christmas lights, a little glitter on the snowman, and snow marker on the snow.  I hope people like it. 

ENJOY!

Monday Digi

It's been quite awhile since I've posted. Holidays came quick and we hosted family and friends. Last week we experienced a snow/ice storm that shut Atlanta down for a week. After growing up in NJ it still shocks me when six inches can disable a city for so long.  The kids were home all week and today is MLK so it's another day off.  Thank heavens it's back to school tomorrow!

I just completed my first card challenge for HIGH HOPES Anything Goes Challenge.  I used a Dustin Pike stamp along with a fish digi I created.  I've never created a digital stamp before and have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.  But thankfully my copics covered up the irregular lines created after I scanned the drawing.

ENJOY!