Sweet Pixie

I used this sweet image from Pixie Dust Studios called "Autumn Grace".  I decided to color her in shades of pink.  The challenge at Pixie was to do a sweet baby card.  I chose a sentiment from a friendship set I got a long time ago that reads "The first man a little girl falls in love iwth is her dad."  I just love that saying.  I love my dad more than anything and it's so true!  I followed the sketch at Midnight Madness.  Loved it.  I added the little butterfly and a swirl stamp and then glittered it just to add some sparkles.  The papers are basic grey from one of my favorite collections, Eva.  I'm really trying to use my scraps to a little something the insides of all my cards as well. So here's what I did with this one.  I just used two pieces of scrap papers layered them and punched some tiny hearts then used the punched hearts to add a little design.  And nothin went in the trash!  Yay.

Don't forget that there is still time to enter the Hodge Podge Challenge.  You can find it here!  I have another post in the works but I'm having problems getting my pic's to upload.  Hopefully it will be up soon!

Thanks for stoppin by I read every one of your comments and they mean so much to me.  Especially since I can't get out and about!!

Hugs -

Jen

Challenges entered:

Pixie Dust Studio - Sweet Baby

Midnight Madness - Sketch

Southern Girls - 4 layers of paper

The great pumpkin

Good afternoon!  I've been so busy with the kids and my big card order this week I haven't had alot of time to add to my blog.  Today I have two great images from Sugar Creek Hollow.  The pumpkin is "Swirly Punkin Head" and the spider is "Swirly Spider".  They have some fantastic images over there.  I printed out my spider on cardstock then cut it out and ran it through my Xyron twice.  After I ran it through I added black glitter.  Because it had that extra bit of glue on the edges it gave it a bit of a hairy look to the spider which I love.  I colored my punkin with Prismas and added Green Glitter Gel pen to the swirls.  My stamps smudged so I just went with it.  The main cardstock is  cuttlebugged and I added a piece of ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon.  I've been trying out a few new challenges to meet new people and get a feel for some different artists.  As a general rule I don't usually enter more than 3 challenges at a time because I like to dedicate my cards to those challenges and I don't feel I can do that with tons of entries.  Let me know if you have a favorite too!

Hope you like it!
Jen

Challenges entered:
Sugar Creek Hollow: Sketch
Paper Playtime: Mostly Orange
The Shabby Tea Room: Pumpkins
Simon Says - Halloween or fall
Paper Romance - Halloween or fall

Gotta have Faith

I sure hope everyone had a fabulous Sunday.  We had church, then  a birthday party for the little boy next door.  We got him a toolbelt and a little bird house to make himself and he just loved it.  Then we had senior pictures for my son.  The lady that did our pictures was fantastic.  She gave us a great deal since we knew her daughter and she was great to work with!  I'll post later this week with some of the shots and her website in case you are in need of her services and your in the Nashville area.  Now I'm settling in for a quiet evening.

I was very discouraged with this card.  I did the fabulous image from Karen's Doodles called "Scarecrow Girl".  Colored her with my Prisma's and was happy up till that point.  Then I got out my  new nestabilities and messed it all up.  I really should have practiced first.  Blah.......So then I put together a couple different scenarios and ended up with this.  The sketch is from MOJO Monday.  That fab ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbon.  Aren't those pumpkins cute?!?  Well, enough said for this one.  Hope to see ya'll tomorrow! 

~Hugs
Jen

Challenges Entered:
MOJO Monday - sketch
Karen's Doodles - Halloween  or fall

Squiggle Me Happy!!

I was SO excited when I logged on today.  I found out I was a grand prize winner over at the CDAC blog hop from last week!!  I won the ribbon organizer.  Considering all my ribbons are in a basket at the moment I can REALLY use it!  Woohoo, doin the happy dance!

Ok, so now for my post.  Squigglefly challenged us to do a clean and simple Christmas Card.  I find myself always trying to push the envelope on embellishments and bling.  But some cards are just great without it.  I chose "Cappuchino Snowman" because he reminded me of home.  The last two weeks especially I've REALLY been missin my family and friends.  So the coffee sentiment was at the top of my list.  Plus he's so darn cute.  I colored him with my Prisma's.  I embossed the background paper with snowflakes and mounted my cutie pie on that.  Then it was just too plain so I added the snowflakes which were cut from my cricut and the sentiment.  It still didn't look quite finished so I added some snowflake brads I found in my stash.  And then.......I know, clean and SIMPLE, BUT......I added just a little bit of stickles to the snowflakes and just the tiniest amount of flock to the cappucino, can't have it without the whip cream!

So there ya go.  Clean and simple, or as simple as I could muster today!

I'm entering it into the following challenge:
Squigglefly - clean and simple

Thanks for stoppin!
Jen

Clean and Simple

If you're looking for the Hodge Podge challenge please scroll down.

I love the idea of quick clean and simple cards. Sometimes we get so carried away that we forget simplicity works. So I did this card by following the sketch at Clean and Simple. The paper is from TLC, the thanksgiving pack. I added a Prima flower in brown tones and used a generic "give thanks". Pretty easy peasy!

Have a fab day!
Jen

Pink Gem has C-A-N-D-Y!

Just a quick post for ya. Janet over at Pink Gem has some yummy's to win. Pop over and check it out!

One lucky winner will be drawn on the 21st October at 6pm

Brand New Challenge Site!

It's finally here!

This is our very first challenge here at the Hodge Podge Shop. We are so excited! This week we want to see your Distressed creations. You can tear it, ink it, stain it...distress it any way you want.

The lucky, randomly chosen winner will win 2 images from the Hodge Podge Shop store. We have some awesome imagesfrom two terrific artists! And more being added all the time.

We just ask that your creation include a Hodge Podge Shop image. There are some freebies in our group at Paper Craft Planet and Crafters Digital Artist Center.

For my card I chose an image by Michael. His images are realistic and more country or architectual inspired. They're fabulous! A very dear friend of my husbands lost his mother this week. When I sat down to put together a card Michael's image came to mind and it all just fell together. This image was perfect for the sentiment I wanted to express.

The sentiment is from Paper Makeup Stamps and it's the "When There's Nothing Left to Say" set. Mine says "Remember" on the front and then inside it says "May the Sweet Memories you Hold in Your Heart Carry you Through This Difficult Time". Kinda sad for my first DT card, I know, but it was just so perfect.

Thanks for stoppin!!
~Hugs - Jen

Challenges Entered:
Sentimental Sundays - Autumn
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle - Anything Goes
Sketch Saturday - Sketch