What a beautiful day!

I am playing hookie from school today, only 4 more days left, I can't believe how fast the time has flown. It's seems like my first day of school was just last week. I've got a few loose ends to tie up at school and then I am free....then I need to find a job, haha!! I can't wait to start making my own paycheque again.

Here is a card I did as a sketch challenge on Carla's blog. She's always got some pretty neat challenges going on there. She is super talented, too. I always love seeing her latest work. I think you all have until the 18th to take part in her sketch challenge, go on and check it out.

Now that I look at this card, it seems very flat to me, I usually add more dimension than this to my cards, oh well, c'est la vie!! Thanks for the challenge Carla.

Flight of Fancy

Starting today, Caardvarks is having a Flight of Fancy challenge going on for the next couple of weeks. You have an opportunity to win a butterfly set of stamps from Penguin Pants, too cute. All you have to do is make a card with wings and upload to the Flight of Fancy gallery over there!! Here's mine, not quite what I was planning but the plan in my head was just not coming together so I had to come up with this one quite late!!

April showers...

...well, we've had a wet and yucky Saturday here in the east. Spring has arrived, finally, I guess. Spring has also got me thinking about Mother's Day cards and as I was blog surfing this morning I came across a gorgeous little card at Jen del Muro's blog and knew right away that I had to make one for my mother-in-law, she's an avid gardener. Thanks for the inspiration Jen, I hope you don't mind me copying you, but I just had to make this.

Happy Tuesday everyone!!

What a beautiful sunny day we had today, but terribly windy and cold. I am so looking forward to some nice warm spring days!! I got a new spring haircut today, it feels so much better!! I am getting my living room and hall painted on Thursday, so my house will even have a fresh look for spring, Yayyyyy.



Here are a couple of cards I made for Becky Fleck's Page Maps for March's new card maps. She emailed me a sketch and I made both of these for her to choose from, she chose this one.



I think I actually prefer this one, I love the colors on this one and that Scenic Route paper is so nice!! Hope you all enjoy the rest of your week. Tomorrow's my Friday, love it. I am taking Thursday off to work on our paint job with my sweet honey and Friday's Good Friday, love short weeks!!!

My friend Roree...

awarded me with the "You Make My Day" award. How cool is that!! I, in turn, am going to honor a few of my favs with this award!!

Here are my picks!!

Carla

Danielle

Ivanka

Debbie

Sarah

Paulette

These girls are just a few of my favs and I get great inspiration from them all!!

CPS #55

I just love the sunshiney look to this Fun in the Sunshine card. I made this for the CPS blog #55. I really love this sketch and I haven't played along on their blog for so long that I decided to give this one a try. I used Tres Jolie papers and the chipboard accents are all from the $$ Store, they were a perfect match for this paper!!

HB2U

I was honored when Cards Magazine asked me to do a card for their sketch for the One Sketch - Four Ways feature in their Dec./Jan. '08 magazine. They sent me the sketch and this is what I came up with. I love the colors on this. The black and white papers are Doodlebug as well as the paper frills. Flowers are Primas, Making Memories, Lil Davis and Heidi Swapp. Used some paint on teh flowers and Voila!!!

I've got a question for you. Can you give away the cards that you've had published or do you have to keep them for remembrance sake? I'd love to give them away, but just can't seem to let go of them!!!