...SepTemBeR SkEtcH for YoU to TrY...

so after all the self induced stress of the TaYlOReD ExpReSsiOnS LCS contest...I picked up two stamps that I had paired together when I was looking through my TE stash before we had the contest assignment...

I absolutely LoVeD how the snowflake frame from Take Note ~ Holidays and the Snowman from Hangin' Out at the North Pole fit together.

I have also rediscovered crafty BloG - HoPPinG...how could I have forgotten what an amazing way to waste time that is?!?!?!


I visited Jen del Muro's blog to look at this month's Sketch For You To Try ...as well as at the eye candy all over her blog ;)

Here's the sketch...

As soon as I saw it, I just knew it would work perfectly with the TE stamps I'd matched up earlier.

The basket of 6X6 holiday papers was still sitting on my desk and this card came together in next to no time...

It worked up fast enough that I still had time to link it over on the SFYTT blog!  woo-Hoo!  Haven't done that in forever!!

Here's a close up of the frame and snowman...see how perfect they are together??

I love this card...it's a snowy, PrePpY Christmas!

I'm spending tomorrow working on book club invitations...hopefully I'll get them finished, blogged, and mailed tomorrow...shouldn't be hard since Connor is in a Boy Scout Merit Badge workshop all day and I'm sure the hubster will need at least TWO naps since it will be quiet :)

Thanks for looking and

Have A GrEaT WeEkeNd!!

jen

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...HeLLo DeeR...

GoOd MorNiNg...

I made a cute little ChrIsTmaS card combining a few ChaLLengeS for today...
I used the September Sketch for You To Try
...since the month is almost over, I figured I'd better get on this before the October sketch is out! :)

Here's the sketch...which I LOVED!!! All I could see was toooooooooons of different, fun,  patterned papers when I looked at it! :)

...and here's my PeNnY bLaCk ChriStMas take on it...this stamp is sooooooooo cute!!! Look at that face! ack!

but all that patterned paper is where the second chaLLenge comes in...

Wee Memories chaLLenge 

this week was to use patterned paper...ummmm....pretty sure I've got that covered here!!! 

The third ChaLLenge was from 

icopic

...and here's a better shot of this week's little ReD! :)  You can kinda see the tinsel glitter I added on the bottom of her dress here too...It's fun and sparkly IRL.

This stamp has been sitting for WeEks...waiting patiently to get all inky...this was the first time she got dirty...but I'll DeFinIteLy be using her again!!

***RaNdoM TiP***

I wanted to add a red jingle bell in the center of my button...but the only one I had was GiNorMouS!...so I dug around and found some cute little bitty guys...but they were gold...ummm...yuck with this card...sooooo....

here's my tip for the day...but only try it if you're wearing gloves or don't mind technicolor fingertips...

Just color your metal bells with a copic in the color that you want :)  Mine were pretty small, so I threaded the top through a large headed quilting pin to make it easier to hold while I colored...then I pulled it off and colored the top...my fingers looked all gruesome and bloody afterwards...but my JinGLe BeLLs were LipSticK ReD!  PerFecT!!

See???  It was totally worth looking like I'd had an unfortunate run in with the garbage disposal for a few hours! :)  Those red guys are just right!

...and here's the envelope.

Have a WonDeRfuL HumP DaY!!

jen

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...August SfYtT...

Here's the sketch for this month...

ok...nothing like waiting until the last minute...  :)  ...I'm thinking I didn't do this before now because I have a definite aversion (that is soooooo putting it mildly) to anything tilted or slanted on my cards...so that wacky main panel kinda scared me off.

I just decided to do it anyway and if it made me crazy(er) then I could always just turn the dang thing straight up and down...it's not like the sketch police were going to come and take away all my toys if I rotated something!!   :)

Turns out...I kinda like it...not enough to do it again without serious prompting...but it turns out sweet with just that little tilt...I guess someone who's come up with over 100 sketches knows what they are doing!! :)

Here's a closer shot of the center panel...I used rhinestones in the centers of some of the snowflakes and glued a border of chunky glitter around the green panel behind the tree layer...

...and here's the envelope.

Thanks for looking!
jen

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