Karen's Doodles Book Mark

The challenge over at Karen's Doodles is to make a book mark in celebration of back to school time. Since I am an avid reader, I can never have too many book marks. I chose the image Movie Boy for my book mark since I think reading a book is so much better than going to the movies. The film strip is from the Mickey and Friends Cricut cartridge. I cut it at 3 inches.

Copics:R46, C1, C3, C5, G21, G85, G99, B93, B95, B97, YR02, YR20, E00, E21, E33, E35, E37, E53, W3

Birthday Card

Color me Copic is having a challenge featuring curly hair. Amy Young has an amazing video showing great step by step direction on how to color curly hair. I just had to try out her technique using Penelope's Party Wagon from Mo's Digital Pencil.
Copics used: BG10, BG01, BG05, YR31, G02, G14, E53, E33, E57, E00, E37, E21, E35, C1, C3, C5, C7

We R Memory Keepers Sew Easy Tool

I am thrilled to see this tool. Can't wait to buy one and get more stitching done on my cards and scrapbook pages. Pretty cool! Since I prefer hand stitching, this will really save a few steps of making sure my holes are lined up. You can change the heads to make different patterns for stitching! If you want to see a video of how to use this tool click HERE. You can see all the threads and different stitches available at We R Memorie Keepers. The Profound Brunette is having a RAK on her blog of two items she received at CHA. Go check her out. Both items she is giving away are wonderful. I think I would love the have that book of scrapbook sketches.

Thank You Card

The challenge this week at Sentimental Sundays is Words That Inspire. I think this quote by Mother Teresa is perfect for a thank you card. The flowers on the card are from Fred She Said. They make a great additon to projects because they can be used so many different ways.

YeeHaw!

I saw this set of digi stamps and knew they would be just perfect to make birthday cards for my husband's brothers. These are just two of the band members from the stamp set Bodytot hillbilly band from Digi Doodle Best Shop. They currently have a challenge for distressing so I am going to enter this card in that challenge.
Card Details:
Digi Images: BodyTot Hillbilly Band from Digi Doodle Best Shop
Yee Haw: Old West Cricut cart cut at 1 inch
Jug: Old West Cricut cart cut at 1.75 inches
Fence frame: Old West Cricut cart cut at 5 inches

First Day of School

Today my boys head back to school for another year of fun! My youngest is starting high school this year. It seem like just yesterday I was sending him off to his first day of kindergarten. Because I am feeling a little nostalgic today, here is a scrapbook page of the boys attending back to school night for Ben's Kindergarten year and Brad's 2nd grade year. This picture always makes me laugh because Brad was so unwilling to get his picture taken.

Flash forward 9 years and now the tables are turned. Brad eagerly smiles and Ben is not excited to get his picture taken. Also notice the clothes...not sure what they are trying to say about themselves for the first day of school

Yeah, no more school bus! Since they are back to attending the same school this year we are letting Brad drive to school most mornings.

Tilda in Yellow

Yellow is my favorite color and the first challenge at Let's Ink It Up is to use yellow. I don't like bright sun shiney yellow but I prefer light yellow. I find it is a very relaxing, yet cheerful color. And doesn't Tilda look pretty in her yellow dress? I made two cards with the same papers, stamp and embellishments but I think I like the shaped card the best. All the pattern papers are from Basic Grey and are simpy gorgeous!

Card Details:

Stamp: from the Magnolia Stamps Fairytale collection

Copics: E00, E21, E50, E53, E34, E57, YR 31, Y21,

Mats: Cricut Songbird cartridge cut at 3, 4 and 4.25 inches

Corner leaves: Storybook Cricut cart cut at 2.25 inches

Martha Stewart branch punch

Halloween Kitty Kat

Fall is my favorite time of year. I love everything about it; the colors, the activities, the cool weather, and of course, Halloween. The adorable digi image is Kitty Kat from Karen's Doodles. We once had a cat that looked just like the one sitting in the pumpkin. In fact, he loved to eat pumpkins! If we put our pumpkins outside for halloween after we had carved them, he would be trying to get inside them to eat them. He was the perfect Halloween cat since the boys name him Salem. For this card I used my brand new Happy Hauntings Cricut cartridge. There are so many great cuts on this cart and I think the frame I used could be used all year long if you just leave off the spiders. The ghosts are cut from vellum. I drew the faces on with my zig pen and then wiped off the ink with my finger. It doesn't smear on the vellum but leaves a fainter pen mark that is a better look for the ghosts faces.
Card Details:
Digi Image: Kitty Kat from Karen's Doodles
Frame: Happy Hauntings Cricut cart cut at 5 inches
Ghosts: Happy Haunting Cricut cart cut at 2.5 inches
Copics: E21, E00, Yr00, Y21, E53, YR02, Roo, R11, V12, V17, G02, C1, C3, C5, C7