Sunday Challenges & A HOP PREVIEW!

I hope you've all got your blue inks and cardstocks out to work on the Stamptacular Sunday challenge this week!  :)

Since I've already done mine (hehehe), I decided to do a few other challenges!

Here's my card for the Doodle Dragon Studios sketch challenge:

 

What'd I Use?

Image: Dustin Pike

Markers: Copics

Sentiment: Printed by me

Nesties:  Labels Three

Cardstock: Bazzill

Papers: from my scrap pile

Rhinestones: from my stash

Now, for the big PREVIEW!!!  There's a HOP coming!!!

My dear, sweet, wonderfully talented friend, Heather - the mastermind behind Fresh Brewed Designs - is having a new release hop in just a few short weeks!  I know, I'm really early, but I just couldn't wait to use these awesome images!!  I sure hope you join us for the best hop ever on Feb 24th!  There's some serious talent lined up to entertain you and then, well, there's me!  :)  hahaha!  Here's a couple cards that I made today using these new release images and for a few challenges!

This is the soon-to-be-available new Hannah Belle Cooks, isn't she just adorable?  Check out the tongue!  I'm sure she looks just like me when I'm baking!

Challenges: 

Friday Sketchers (Sketch)

Stamp Something (Delightfully Delicious)

 What'd I Use?

Image: Fresh Brewed Designs

Markers: Copics & White Glaze pen

Sentiment: Printed by me!

Nesties: Labels Nine & Petite Oval

Paper: DCWV Sweet Stack

Bow & Border Punch: Martha Stewart

shiny, round things: from my stash

Here's Tommy in Space!  He's just too cool for words!  I just love his little alien friend waving Hi as Tommy flies past!

Challenge: Inspirational Card Sketches (Sketch)

  

What'd I Use:

Image: Fresh Brewed Designs

Markers: Copics & Glitter pens

Sentiment: Printed by me!

Cardstock: Bazzil

Embossing: Spots & Dots by Cuttlebug

Gigantic brads: American Crafts

Paper: from my stash

One More Last Minute!

I made lots of cards today! This is my 3rd post for the day - please, please! Scroll down to see ALL the others!  Thanks!

Here's a card I VERY quickly made for the Dustin Pike/Doodle Dragon Studio challenge!

The theme is Lovey Dovey - using any Dustin Pike image, old or new.  I didn't have any Lovey Dovey images printed up and ready to go, so I "adapted" an image that I had ready!  This is actually the elephant that is wearing a party hat and holding a cupcake!  I cut off the hat and the cupcake and gave him a heart to hold instead!  Smart, huh?  Hehehe!

What'd I Use?

Image: Dustin Pike

Markers: Copics & White gel pen

Nesties: Labels

Patterned Paper: Daisy Bucket
Embossing Folder: Conversations by Cuttlebug

Eyelets, ribbon: from my stash

I think I have just under an hour before the deadline on this challenge! Hope I made it in time!!  :)

SSC #13 - Party Animal

Happy Sunday, my blogging friends! Are you all enjoying the Stamptacular Sunday Challenges as much as I am? I hope so! I see more and more familiar names and faces submitting cards each week, and I am thrilled! Keep those cards coming, girls!!

This weeks challenge is WILD and CRAZY and FUN! It's called Party Animal and we want to see projects that feature at least one animal, partying it up! The design team have come up with some wonderful samples to share with you again this week! As always, I hope you visit their blogs and leave them some love as well! Line, Carly, Joanne, Kristin, Janneke, Liza, Joey, Jilly, Nikki, Paula and Priscilla!

Here is my card for this week! I really had a lot of fun with this one, so I hope you like it! I used a Dustin Pike digital image, and Stampin' Up! sentiments. I colored this fun-loving, party-ready giraffe with my Bic markers and added some Stickles to his hat, bowtie and noise maker.I've been wanting to try out this folding technique for a while now and I'm so glad I did! It's so easy to do, and I really think it makes a fabulous card! You can find a tutorial for it here.

Thanks for stopping by! Now, go... create a Party Animal card and join in on the fun! There is a prize up for grabs, so don't miss out!

Thank You Gifts

In case you haven't already heard the story, our basement flooded a few months ago. The outdoor sprinklers were installed poorly years ago and created 2 sinkholes next to the window wells to our basement bedroom and office. The window well to the office filled with about 10 inches of water which eventually seeped through the window and flooded the whole room. Simultaneously, the second sink hole next to the window well to our guest bedroom, caused a leak through the corner of the house, causing much less, but still quite a bit of damage to that room. We called and got a water damage restoration guy out right away and he started work on both rooms. He pulled out the baseboards, lifted the carpets and set his machines up to dry the floors and carpets. Fortunately, we were able to save all the carpeting in both rooms! Unfortunately, we can't say the same for the wall in the office. There was so much water that the wall just would not dry out, so he had to cut a 14'x6' hole in our wall! That dried the wall out, but of course left us with a big hole in the wall! The good news is that this guy has a nephew who does drywall work! So, he started coming out and working on replacing the drywall. It took a few weeks, but they got it done and as of tonight - the repairs are finished! We even had the sprinkler guy out today, filling the sink holes and releveling the new sprinklers and repaired pipes in the yard.
Sooo... long story short, I needed to thank these guys! Now, I'm a cardmaker... that's what I do, I make cards. But guys aren't really big on cards, you know? So my Mom suggested I make a bag topper, so I took that idea and ran. I knew that both the "drywall guy" and the "restoration guy" were coming back tonight to finish up shampooing the carpets and putting furniture back, so I baked up a batch of Chocolate Chip Cookies. I colored some Dustin Pike images at work last weekend (with Bic markers), so all I had to do was mat them with cardstock (Stampin' Up!), put the cookies in bags and tape them up! Viola! Instant thank you gift for some great guys! They seemed to really appreciate it!
If anyone needs water damage restoration or drywall work done, call me, I've got the best names in the book!
Sorry for the long boring story! Here's the pics!