Barnyard Birthday

Long time, no post... sorry. I totally lost my mojo for quite awhile- it seems like pretty much my whole family has been sick the entire month of January! And then I just couldn't make a card that I was happy with. Luckily I was able to make this card for my brother's birthday on Monday, and I really really enjoyed my time in my craft room, it was definately therapy : )

I knew I wanted to play with the SFYTT for January and I was running out of time! If you play with all the monthly sketches for the year there is a chance to win a great prize package, so that is definately one of my goals for 2011!

Image & Sentiment: Pink Cat Studio
Paper: CTMH Good Times
Copic markers (the shading really doesn't show and there's Liquid Glass on their hats)
misc ribbon and rhinestones. The little circles actually came from a T-shirt my brother had- he was pulling them off one night and I took them : )

A True Friend

Hello! I was so excited to have this card be chosen as one of the featured cards last week on the Sweet Stop challenge blog- it was like an early Christmas present! I loved this week's sketch 88 and played along again. Thanks for looking!

DP: CTMH Caprice

Sentiment: Verve Stamps

Prima flowers, CTMH button, ribbon, brad, and misc embroidery thread

Cocoa Penguin

Hello! I hope you're all having a great Christmas Eve! I just got off work and wanted to post this quick before getting ready to head to my aunt and uncle's house to get the festivities started : ) I had this image colored already, and with Card Patterns sketch #95 this card came together really quickly. I'm sure my aunt and uncle will like it, although all I see when I look at it is the crooked brads that are driving me crazy! Is anyone else like that? Anyways, thanks for taking a look, crooked brads and all : )

Image: Bugaboo digi stamp (btw, she posts freebies here every Friday, I love her images, just wanted to pass that along!)

DP: CTMH Aspen

Copics, misc brads & ribbon

Snowman Joy

I got another card photographed and edited tonight. I'm almost done with my Christmas cards... OK not really now that I think about it... nothing like procrastinating. Next year I'm starting in July! I used the Sweet Stop sketch 87 for this card.

Image is a digital stamp from Meljen's Designs. "Joy" sentiment is from Taylored Expressions.

DP: CTMH Aspen

Copics, CTMH ribbon, brads

Thanks for looking, have a great Christmas Eve tomorrow! I'll be at work and then going to celebrate with my mom's side of the family, I think I'm going to give this card to my grandma.

Christmas Joy

Hello! I haven't posted in so long, but that isn't because I haven't been busy! I have made SO many Christmas cards lately, and still have a few more to finish after I post this really quick! We got a new camera on black Friday and I finally used it to take a couple pics of some cards yesterday. DH had been the only one to play with it before! I used the Sweet Sunday Sketch 97, although I did change it up a bit... The Taylored Expressions stamp "joy" is embossed with SU powder, I've had that stuff forever and have used it on practically every Christmas card I've made, and it still doesn't look like I made a dent in it. The paper is CTMH Aspen- I am so happy to be almost out of that paper. I love it but I swear I've used it the past 3 years and am finally ready to be done with it. I'm trying REALLY hard to use up what I have before buying more pretty papers! Thank you for taking a look : )