Just for YOU!

This is Bugaboo's Mouse-Big Flower image!  Such a great image especially for a birthday, Mother's Day, or Just Thinking of You card!  We hope you will play along at Sweetsketchwednesday2.blogspot.com.

SSW2-144 Sketch for this Week!

Everything that you ever wanted to know about Bugaboo Stamps:  As if raising 5 children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the work of paper crafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. Bugaboo Stamps has become one of the leading companies in digital images. From seriously snarky to sugary sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects.  Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week!!  If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps at Totally Stampilicious.  And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT for the weekly Challenges at Catch the Bug.

Store:  www.bugaboostamps.com

Challenge Blog:  http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com

Prize:  4 Free Images

My Recipe:

Image:  Bugaboo, Mouse-Big Flower

Ink:  Copics

Papers:  SEI Bright Blossom, SU Blue Bayou, Rose Red, Avery Yellow

Techniques:  Stitched Square Dies

Accessories:  Stickles, Pearl Stickers

Kimono Pip and Baby Giraffe

This week I used two different images from Digi Stamp Boutique.  I love this little Kimono Pip and needed a birthday card for my sweet grand daughter.  I'm sure she will love it.

I also needed some baby cards so I made three nearly identical.  I believe this image, baby giraffe,  has been retired but I have used it before and love it for a baby card.

Here is the sketch we are using at SSW2 this week.

Be sure to follow the rules.

Digi Stamp Boutique is our sponsor.  Look around and find a fun new image.

All images/designs are created and copyright owned by Sally-Ann Hancock.  My work means the world to me - it allows my passion to draw and create, to fit with my family life too, often the inspiration for my designs.  Hope you enjoy my images as much as I enjoy creating them.

Prize:   £10 voucher from Digi Stamp Boutique

My Recipe for Kimono Pip:

Image:  Digi Stamp Boutique, Kimono Pip

Papers:  Making Memories Vintage Antiqued Stripe and Vintage Small Rose Crackle, SU Cherry Cobbler

Inks:  Copics

Techniques:  SU Texturz Plate Perfect Details, Stitched Oval Die, Paper Piecing

Assessories:  Recollections Floral Embellishments, Michaels' Paper Flowers, Jewels

My Recipe for Baby Giraffe:

Image: Digi Stamp Boutique, Baby Giraffe

Papers:  Paper Company Vintage Yellow,  Bazill Green,  Carta Bello It's a Boy Play Time Animals, My Mind's Eye Jack & Jill "How Sweet It is"

Inks:  Copics, SU Lucky Limeade

Techniques:  Spellbinders Classic Scalloped Ovals Large, Spellbinders Classic Ovals Small, 

SU Large Oval Punch, SU Modern Label, SU Scallop Oval

Assessories:  Michaels' Paper Flowers, Jewels

This Bunny Loves You!

I was so happy to be able to create a Valentine card this week!  I have been wanting you use my Valentine dies and this one was perfect for the sketch!  The image I have used is Bunny Love 1.   Bugaboo Stamps is our sponsor this week and if you do not know by now Jodie makes so many adorable images.  I love her work and creativity!  There is always something new that she is creating! Be sure to check out her store!   If you play along this week at SSW2 you will have an opportunity to win the Grand Prize of 4 Free Bugaboo Images of your choice!  Hope to see you at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 this week!

SSW2-105 Sketch for this week!

Everything that you ever wanted to know about Bugaboo Stamps:  As if raising 5 children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the work of papercrafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. Bugaboo Stamps has become one of the leading companies in digital images. From seriously snarky to sugar sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects.  Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week!!  If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps at Totally Stampilicious.  And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT for the weekly Challenges at Catch the Bug.

Store www.bugaboostamps.com

Challenge Blog:  http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com

Prize:  4 Free Images

My Recipe:

Image:  Bugaboo Stamps Bunny Love 1 

Papers:  Bo Bunny Crush Flirt and Crush Cutie Pie, The Paper Company Black Cardstock

Ink:  Copics

Techniques: La~La Land Stitched Nested Circles, Spellbinders Heart Circles

Accessories:  EK Sticko Hearts, Stickles Star Dust, Ribbon

Cute As A Cupcake!

You can find this adorable image at Bugaboo Stamp.  It is called Birthday Hedgie 02.  I love this sweet image and had fun using my new cross-stitched diecut from Arlana and SU cupcake party punch.

Hope you will play along at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 and have a chance to be the Grand Prize Winner and receive 7 free images from Bugaboo Stamps.  Check out all the fun new images at Bugaboo.

Everything that you ever wanted to know about Bugaboo Stamps:  As if raising 5 children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the work of papercrafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. Bugaboo Stamps has become one of the leading companies in digital images. From seiously snarky to sugar sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects.  Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week!!  If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps at Totally Stampilicious.  And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT for the weekly Challenges at Catch the Bug.

Store www.bugaboostamps.com

Challenge Blog:  http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com

A New Brood

I found this adorable mother hen and chicken image at A Day for Daisies and am delighted to share my creation with you.  I was raised on a farm so these hens and chicks bring back a lot of childhood memories!  At Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 we are using this sketch below.  Fun and easy to use and always make a card some together so quickly.

 I hope you will play along as A Day for Daisies is our sponsor and is offering a $12 gift certificate to our lucky grand prize winner to use in their store!

A Day For Daisies began as a small token to a constant need to create. Pairing a love of whimsical illustration, with a tidy graphic design background, Tammy S Thompson, produced her first stamp designs, introducing irresistibly sweet stamps to crafters around the globe. Drawing inspiration from the beautiful world around us, she strives to express the happiness and gratitude she feels in each stamp design she creates.

Presently, A Day For Daisies has grown to over 3,000 Digital Stamps with a quickly expanding line of Best Loved Clear Polymer. A Day For Daisies has been published and awarded over the years for innovative and unique designs created to inspire the crafting community. With a whole team behind her now, she remains passionate about illustration, obsessed with quality, and dedicated to her customers. A Day For Daisies thanks you for your ideas, comments, and creativity!

 My Recipe:

Image:  A Day for Daisies, New Brood
Ink:  Copics and Tim Holtz Distressed Vintage Photo Ink
Papers:  White Cardstock, The Paper Company Vintage Cardstock, and Stampin Up Real Red Cardstock
Tools:  Spellbinders Classic Ovals Large, Classic Scalloped Ovals Large, Cuttlebug Chicken Wire embossing folder, Tim Holtz Rays embossing folder
Accessories:  Teresa Collins Enamel Dot, Twine

Bugaboo Earth Day Challenge

Happy Earth Day!  

Earth Day History

Ever wondered how Earth Day started? This observance arose from an interest in gathering national support for environmental issues. In 1970, San Francisco activist John McConnell and Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson separately asked Americans to join in a grassroots demonstration. McConnell chose the spring equinox (March 21, 1970) and Nelson chose April 22. Millions of people participated, and today Earth Day continues to be widely celebrated with events on both dates. The most common practice of celebration is to plant new trees for Earth Day.

Any way you choose to celebrate Earth Day,

I hope we will always remember to keep our earth clean.  

Remember to recycle as much as you can and 

keep our parks, mountains, lakes and oceans free from debris.  

Leave them cleaner than when your arrived so that others will enjoy their beauty too!

I used this Bugaboo Stamp Crab Boat to remind you of our oceans and the lovely creatures that are housed there.  Please allow them to stay!  Do not pour chemicals down your street drains as they drain directly to rivers, lakes and the ocean!

When I was visiting Hong Kong and Okinawa 

nothing was more beautiful than viewing 

a pink dolphin, sea turtles and many other creatures.  

 Happy Earth Day!

Remember to check out Bugaboo's Earth Day Challenge at 

Catch the Bug.

Thank you, Bugaboo DT, for choosing me as your 

Biggest Fan for the month of April!

I enjoyed creating this card!

I used my sister's SSW sketch!

Feel free to use any of her sketches.  

They are available on her blog at

sweetsketchwednesday.blogspot.com

Also visit

sweetsketchwednesday2.blogspot.com

 My Recipe:

SU Taken with Teal, Real Red and Pumpkin Pie Cardstock

SU Really Rust and Baja Breeze Ink

Stella Rose Little Fishes DP

Stella Rose Gertie Delightful Sweet Stripe Paper

Spellbinders Standard Circle Small and

Petite Scalloped Circles Large

MS Crab Punch

Glossy Accents

Twine

Copics

Hugs,

Judi

Hello Baby Giraffe

I have loved this image from the moment I saw it on ADFD.  It is called Hello Baby Giraffe! I am so happy to create with it this week!  I tried something different this time...I have never used the dots around an image but I must say I had so much fun dotting this little giraffe!  I also popped the ear on the first card since it didn't fit inside the deckled frame.  Love the dimension it gave to the card!   I wasn't able to locate any purple pearls so I inked them up to match! I also love using the stitching lines.  I see that it is a little crooked although it isn't as noticeable in real life!  On occasion I like making two cards...partly because I love the paper choices and partly because I like having extra cards available.

Thanks you, Tammy, for creating such a fun image!

Recipe:

Yellow, Pink and Orange Card

 SU Tangerine Tango, Melon Mambo, Crushed Curry Cardstock

 Sassafras Sunshine Lollipops DP
Spellbinders Large and Small Deckled Rectangles

Michael's Celebrate It Ribbon

Elements Brad

Flower from Michael's Dollar Bin

Copics

Blue, Green, Yellow and Lavender Card

SU Baja Breeze Cardstock

Coredination.com Green Cardstock

Nana's Nursery Baby Boy DP
Spellbinders Small Labels

Michael's Celebrate It Ribbon

Flower from Michael's Dollar Bin

White Pearls inked with Copic Pen
Copics

A Day for Daisies is our sponsor this week at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.
Tammy has a wonderful prize for our Grand Prize Winner.
See below!

This is a bio about A Day for Daisies.  I hope you will stop by and check out Tammy's store!  I know you will find something you can't live without!

A Day For Daisies began as a small token to a constant need to create. Pairing a love of whimsical illustration, with a tidy graphic design background, Tammy S Thompson, produced her first stamp designs, introducing irresistibly sweet stamps to crafters around the globe. Drawing inspiration from the beautiful world around us, she strives to express the happiness and gratitude she feels in each stamp design she creates.

Presently, A Day For Daisies has grown to over 3,000 Digital Stamps with a quickly expanding line of Best Loved Clear Polymer. A Day For Daisies has been published and awarded over the years for innovative and unique designs created to inspire the crafting community. With a whole team behind her now, she remains passionate about illustration, obsessed with quality, and dedicated to her customers. A Day For Daisies thanks you for your ideas, comments, and creativity!

Prize:  $12 Gift Certificate

We would love to have you play along at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.  This is the sketch we are using this week.  Be sure to follow the rules located at SSW2 in the upper tab. Maybe you will be the lucky winner of the $12 Gift Certificate to purchase some lovely ADFD images!  Good Luck!

Have a wonderful week!

Judi

Bears Birthday

I have created this card for the Anything Goes Challenge at 

Catch the Bug Challenge Blog.

Isn't this the most adorable birthday image from 

Bugaboo Stamps. 

It is called 

Frame It - Bears Birthday and can be found here.  

I am using a past sketch from SSW2;

 however, I have flipped the sketch,

I colored the image up with copics and 

used satin ribbon from Michael's.  

The yellow and orange ribbon is from my stash.  

The DP is BoBunny Sun Kissed Stripe and Sun Kissed Adventure.

I also used some Glossy Accents on the balloons and heart 

and stickles on the confetti sparkles.

I have some other fun news to share!  

I have been chosen to be 

Bugaboo's Biggest Fan for the month of April.

I am so excited to create with the Bugaboo Design Team this month.

Thanks so much, Bugaboo!

I hope you will stop by each Saturday to check what I create and also stop by 

Catch the Bug

to see what the DT creates.

Thanks for sharing in my fun!

This is the sketch I used from SSW2!

Be sure to stop by on Wednesday to see my 

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 card!

Happy Crafting!

Judi

Peaches Present!

I love this sweet image, Peaches-Present from Bugaboo Stamps!

Just had to add these two little Martha Stewart Elephant Punches!

Looks like they are headed to the party too!

Recipe:

Bugaboo Image Peaches-Present

Spellbinders Lacey Circles

Lifesyle Nesting Circles

My Mind's Eye Hootenanny

Offray Grosgrain Red

Copics

Martha Stewart Elephant Punch

Crystal Effects on Balloons

Stickles

Bugaboo Stamps is our sponsor this week at SSW2.  

Hope you will play along.  

Visit Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 for details. 

Everything that you ever wanted to know about Bugaboo Stamps:  As if raising 5 children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the work of papercrafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. Bugaboo Stamps has become one of the leading companies in digital images. From seriously snarky to sugar sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects.  Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week!!  If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps at Totally Stampilicious.  And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT for the weekly Challenges at Catch the Bug.

Store www.bugaboostamps.com

Challenge Blog:  http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com

Grand Prize Winner can choose 7 Free Images

Enjoy your week!

Judi

Birthday Happiness!

Seems like our family has so many summer birthdays so I thought a birthday card was in the makings for this week!  This sweet image is from Bugaboo Stamps called Edward Elephant-Present.  You can find him here.  I love the fun sketch this week at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.  I used the Martha Stewart Balloon punch and added some birthday embellishments on top of them and added the colored floss for the balloon string.  I also added the pen stitching around the image!

We would love to have you play along at
Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.

This is the sketch we are using this week!

Be sure to follow the rules at SSW2.

As you might guess, Bugaboo Stamps is our sponsor this week.  They are offering 

7 free digis 

to the 

Grand Prize Winner 

at SSW2! 

How sweet it is!

Here is a little about Bugaboo!

Everything that you ever wanted to know about Bugaboo Stamps:  As if raising 5 children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the work of papercrafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. Bugaboo Stamps has become one of the leading companies in digital images. From seriously snarky to sugar sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects.  Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week!!  If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps at Totally Stampilicious.  And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT for the weekly Challenges at Catch the Bug.

Store www.bugaboostamps.com

Challenge Blog:  http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com

Thanks for stopping by my blog!  I love when you come to visit! 

Hugs, Judi

A Sweet Thank You Teddy!

This sweet "Thank You Teddy" is from 

Meljen's Designs...such a precious image! 

 Melissa Jenkins creates so many lovely images. 

 I hope you will stop by and enjoy her artwork!

Sally Dube, the new owner of Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 

has created this remarkably lovely and simple sketch.  

It came together so quickly for me. 

 I know you will enjoy using it too this week.

I hope you will play along at SSW2 and have a 

chance to be our Grand Prize Winner for the week!  

Our winner will receive:

4 non-colored images.

  

This week's sketch!

Here is a little about Meljen's Designs:

 My name is Melissa Jenkins, and I am a homeschooling mommy and wife to my best friend. We have two children, two cats and three hermit crabs. When I'm not drawing, I love spending lots of time with my family cuddling on the couch, playing games, going for walks, fishing, visiting the park & the zoo, collecting postage stamps, or just plain watching movies.

I've been an artist as long as I can remember - and I am inspired by everything around me. All of my digital stamp designs are inspired by my children (and husband!) and things they do, our cats, things we see on nature walks and daily 'adventures', or memories I have of my childhood. Animals too - I love animals! Art is an uplifting thing for me, and I love designing cute tidbits of art that makes people smile.

I draw all of my little creations by hand. A lot of love goes into my art! Each of my designs is sketched in pencil, inked with a black Micron pen, then scanned in and lightly cleaned up so it will look crisp when you print it.

I LOVE inspiring crafters. I am not very talented at making cards myself, so I LOVE seeing all of the beautiful things that you make with my digital stamps. I couldn't ask for a better blessing!

Thanks for stopping by to see me!

Hugs,

Judi

Cute Polar Bear and 

Digi Stamp Boutique

Welcome back to my blog this week!  I seem to be getting my life back after a very busy fall and winter.  I am hoping to create a card for Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 at least once a month.  So I hope you will check back often and see what I create.

This image is call "Cute Polar Bear" and you can find him at Digi Stamp Boutique.  Sally Ann is our sponsor this week at SSW2 and I know you can find an image that will talk to you and make you want to use the SSW2 Sketch of the week. 

"All images/designs are created and copyright owned by Sally-Ann Hancock.  My work means the world to me - it allows my passion to draw and create, to fit with my family life too, often the inspiration for my designs.  Hope you enjoy my images as much as I enjoy creating them."

The Grand Prize winner for this week's challenge will win a £10 voucher at Digi Stamp Boutique. Sure hope you will play along.

Some of you may be getting tired of Christmas and winter cards but I haven't been able to create much in the last two years so I was motivated to find a winter image to go with my new snowflake corner by  Memory Box.  I also have the matching border and was going to try to use it with this sketch but it was too much and took away from the image.  I will use it another time.  A friend of mine, Lin, sent me a Christmas card using these two die cuts and I just had to have them.  

This is the front of Lin's card using the snowflake border die and the inside of her card is using the snowflake corner die.  It's an adorable pop-up card with the trees and the snowmen!  Lin, you are amazing!  I always look forward to receiving your Christmas card every year!

Now my craft room has been in a dormant stage for the last two years and I was amazed when I made my card and realized how many new items I haven't used that were still in their original packaging. Guess I had better get creating so I can use them.  Is anyone else in this predicament?

Hope you are enjoying your JanYOUary and doing things you want to do!

Hugs, Judi

Love My Baby

Sponsor:  A Day For Daisies

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 

Sweet Sketch 138

I made two cards for you today using this precious image, "Love My Baby" from A Day for Dasisies! Can't you just feel the tenderness from Momma Giraffe to her new little one?  I was getting low on baby cards so I thought I would double up using this image! 

The little silver giraffe came in a package of three from my local Scrap That store.  Sad but the owner of this shop is moving out of state and trying to sell her store here in Fircrest, WA, for $40,000 or best offer.  I throw that out to those of you who have always dreamed of having your own scap store!  I do hope she can sell it as I will miss the fun extra papers that she sells.  The coordinating paper on this card came from her shop...it is Bo Bunny.  Who doesn't love Bo Bunny paper?  I loved accenting with the turquoise on this card.

Arlana, I loved working with this sketch too!

We have some new rules at SSW so be sure to check them before you play along!

If you have never played along at SSW.  This is your week!  We have a fabulous sponsor, A Day for Daisies.  Tammy creates the most beautiful  images that will dazzle your imagination!  Go take a peek and look around her shop.  This week as our sponsor, ADFD will offer a
$12 Gift Certificate to her store
for the weekly grand prize winner at SSW. 
So grab the sketch and go grab an image from ADFD and play along with us. 

A DAY FOR DAISIES provides themed categories of over 1000 fun and  whimsical digital images, including fairy tales and magical mermaids,cutie kids, vintage illustrations, sentiments and lovely designs for all occasions!

This is second card I made with "Love My Baby."  I found these papers at Michael's and knew it would go well with this card!  I love the softness of this card and how it came together.

Which is your favorite?

Thanks for stopping by!