Another Get Well Card

Hi Everyone!
Thought I would share another card I made for my friends boyfriend. This card I made for her to give to him, thought I would leave it as is & she could fill in the blanks. :-)

I'm also entering it into the following challenges-
Tuesday Morning Sketch-Sketch
Make it Monday-Anything Goes 
The Cutie Pie Challenge-No flowers
Allsorts Challenge-Layers

The Digi is from Bugaboo

As always, Gilby & I love your comments...his tail just wags away when he sees me smile

Thanks for stopping by!

Back In The Card Making Saddle Again!

Hi Everyone!
Have kind of had mixed feeling about card making & paper crafting lately. I had this whole thing typed out explaining why, but I thought what was the point? It just brings up more hurt feelings & what's done is done & I need to move on. Let's just say that the 2 people in my family (hubby's side) will now be getting cards that my hubby picks out for them, just as they want. I had decided to sell a bunch of my stamps & stop making cards completely, I have so many hobbies as it is, but that didn't last long though, I'm not going to let this get me down anymore. I enjoy making cards, I just may not make as many as I've made before.
Enough of all that, today I'm sharing a card I made for a friends boyfriend who is extremely lucky to be alive, it is a true miracle that he is still with us. It's going to be a long hard road for him, but, I know he can do it, he has so many people praying for him. I actually witnessed the power of prayer & how amazing God is! 
Instead of a somber get well card, I thought I would make a fun light hearted card that would hopefully make him smile a bit, plus he's a big Dale Earnhardt Jr. fan.

I'm entering it for the following challenges-

Creative Craft Challenges 2 "All About The Boys"
Hooked On Crafts "For Men"
Make It Monday "Anything Goes"
Fetch A Sketch "Sketch"

Digi Stamp-Dude Time Doodle
Sentiment Stamps-MCT 

As always Gilby & I love your comments...his tails just wags away when he sees me smile!

Thanks for stopping by!

FATHER'S DAY

Hi Everyone!
Hope you all had a wonderful weekend & all the your loved ones had a great Father's Day!
I was going to share these with you yesterday, but I never got around to it...very busy weekend!


The first card is one I made my dad, I got it in the mail a little late, so I was worried that he wouldn't get in time, but when I spoke with yesterday I was relieved to hear that he had gotten it & loved it! :) 

I used my copics to color in the Digi (Dustin Pike) w/my Copics & used some Glossy Accents for the cape

I didn't have any Father's Day Sentiments, so I made my own

The 2nd card Gilby made for his Daddy, I think it turned out really cute, let us know what you think.

The card shape was a Freebie from Scraptastical Kreations, Gilby entered it in their FB Challenge

The Sentiment is from MCT, I didn't have any Baseball paper, so we made our own on the computer.

Created the sentiment on the computer as well, Gilby is a Digi, but unfortunately we can't remember where it came from though

Gilby & I love your comments...his tail just wags away when he sees me smile!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

CAN'T BELIEVE MY LITTLE BOY IS TURNING 17!!! "MR. MUSCLES"

Hi Everyone!


Tomorrow my baby boy (Brandon) is turning 17! I can't believe it, where has all the time gone, it's gone way too fast though, I know that for sure! 
The poor guy has an exam tomorrow & they don't celebrate Birthdays at the Military School he attends, so he will have to wait to celebrate when he comes home in March for Spring Break.


I didn't want the day to go by without anything though, so I baked him some brownies & sent them along with this card I made for him. Hopefully he will get them tomorrow, they were supposed to arrive today, but I haven't heard from him (not unusual though). I won't get into it now, but being a parent of a child who attends an away Military School is very hard!!! 


I'm hoping to get a serious laugh out of him on this card, because this is sooo not him!!!
Brandon is so physically active in sports like Football & Lacrosse & LOVES weightlifting! The girls are going to LOVE him, he's tall, handsome & has all the muscles! He doesn't know this yet, but when he is home this summer he is going to be my trainer...lol
I think it turned out really cute & am entering it in some challenges that are listed below. Love it when you have a card in mind & can find challenges that fit it so perfectly!

The Digi is from Dude Time Doodles "Weightlifter Wayne"

 The Sentiment & #'s are from MCT "All Around Birthday Time"

 This one I came up with & the font is "Chipper"

I'm entering it into the following challenges:

CCEE STAMPERS-Favorite Sketch & Brads

Crafty Ribbon Challenge For the Men or Boys

Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes

Hot Shot Craft - For the Boys

Here Come the Boys - Favorite Song-Rocky Theme Song "Gonna Fly Now"

The Cheerful Stamp Pad - Birthday

Kaboodle Doodle Challenge Blog - "Where The Boys Are" (Boy or Masculine)

Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog - Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew - Masculine

Scrap-Creations - 3 Layers

As always Gilby & I love your comments...his tail just wags away when he sees me smile!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

BACK IN MY CRAFT ROOM "GIT-R-DONE"

Hi Everyone!


I finally got my craft mojo back & spent some time in my craft room this weekend. As most of you know, my family has been through a lot lately, so I was happy when I felt the craft bug this weekend, as I haven't crafted since before Christmas. 
Before I get on to my project, just wanted to give you a little update on everyone. Since both of my sisters are named Tammy & they both are fighting different kinds of cancer from now on I'm going to refer to them as Tammy (Breast Cancer) & Tamera (Brain Cancer). Tammy is still recuperating from the first part of her reconstructive surgery, unfortunately she's still in pain & very tired, more so than she had anticipated. Tamera started chemo & radiation this past week & is tolerating it fairly well, the good thing is that she's not in pain right now. Being the little sis, I've looked up to them all my life & seeing how strong they have been over the past month just makes me so proud! Gilby hasn't had a fever is a # of days now & appears to be getting back to his puppy self, it's so good see him running around & hearing his bark. We are still concerned about his breathing & the thickening around part of his heart, but for now, we don't want to put his little body through anymore tests at least for the time being. 


Ok, so on to my project. This is a very Belated Birthday card for my BIL (Tammy's husband).
He is really into Nascar Racing, so when I saw this image on the Dude Time Doodles, I knew I had to use it. I thought of the "Git-R-Done", but hubby came up with the inside sentiment, which I think is perfect!

I used my new Cameo & MTC to create the Circle Card, then used Nestabilities for the layers.

You can't really tell unless you click on the picture but I used "Diamond Plate" CB Folder on the Black card stock & distressed it with sand paper & then rubbed some Platinum Embossing Ink all over it. Used Copic Markers & Silver Metallic Gel Pen to color the image.

The font is "Apple Boy BTN" 

I'm entering this into the following Challenges:
Cards for Men~#2 "Boys & their Toys" 
Crafty Bloggers Network~#10 "Distressing"  (Sanding/Inking)
Celebrate the Occasion~#47 "Masculine Birthday" 
Creative Card Crew~#2 "Seeing Red" Red as the Primary Color 
Digistamps 4 Joy~#35 "One for the Boys" 
Simon Says Stamp Challenge~"Anything Goes" 
Lili's Little Fairies~#4 "Masculine Card" 
Craft Your Days Away~#37 "Distressing"  (Sanding/Inking)

As always, Gilby & I love your comments...his tail just wags away when he sees me smile!!!
Thanks for stopping by!

BIRTHDAY FISHES!!!

Hi Everyone!
Hope this short week doesn't feel long to you, I hate weeks like that, thankfully this isn't one of those weeks for me! It's not over yet though is it??? LOL 
I'm looking forward to the weekend because hubby & I are going to IKEA to look at more storage options for my craft room. I love IKEA, especially when shopping for things like this. I love my craft room, but it needs to be be less cluttered, I need pretty containers to put other containers & such in. Also need to figure out what to do about my ribbon, it used to be on a couple of those dowels that go in that storage thingy that goes up on the wall (they sell it at Michaels), hopefully you know what I mean, but the ribbon kept getting all over the place. So, now I'm leaning towards making the cards to wrap the ribbon around or getting those old fashion clothes pins & wrapping them & keeping them in jars. I don't know, will just have to see what I can come up with. I need a place for my punches as well. Have all my Stickles (just got from Blitsy) where the ribbon was, but I don't like that either. I also need some more wall art & a bulletin board, but that will have to wait. If anyone has any ideas for my ribbon, punches & stickles please let me know. I like to keep them close to me. I promise to share some photos of my craft room/office when I get it to looking the way I want it to or at least what I can do (since we are renting).


Anywhoodle who, I promised earlier in the week that I would share the card I made for my niece's Birthday, it's actually a gift card holder that I put cash in. Decided cash for her Birthday & something fun for Christmas, so I got her a bunch of Smash products which she loved. It's her freshman year in college, she's an artist & is studying interior design. She loves pinterest, so I knew she would love the Smash stuff. 
I needed something quick & easy since I waited until the last minute & this is what I came up with. I think it turned out real cute & she liked it, so that was all that mattered.

Ingredients~

 MCT Embossed Gift Card Holder

MCT Gift Card Sentiments (Happy Birthday)

Bugaboo Digi Stamp (Fish & birthday fishes)
AC White Textured Card Stock

Imaginisce Lady Bug Ball Pattern Paper

Copic Markers

Tim Holtz Fired Brick Distress Ink

Momento Tuxedo Black Dye Ink

Glossy Accents (over the bubbles)

Twine

Pop Dots

As always, Gilby & I love your comments...his tail just wags away when he sees me smile!!!

Happy Crafting & Thanks for stopping by!

A SNOW COUPLE ANNIVERSARY!

Hi Everyone!

I wanted to share the cute little Anniversary Card for my Hubby, kind of like the couple on the cocoa packet I showed you yesterday 

The cute little snow couple is a Digi Stamp that I got from Cindy's Scraptastic Designs  I think it's a perfect match for the couple on the cocoa, so I was super excited when I found it!!! I used copics to color it (still need lots of practice) then, as you can see I went a little over board on the bling, I kept thinking it needed more & then I ran out of time & didn't really make the base of the card as well as I had like to. That's ok though, because I still think it's cute & I know hubby will like it (we are celebrating this weekend)!!! So, all the bling consisted of lots of Stickles, Black Enamel Accents & Aleene's Glitter Snow. The sentiment is from Whimsical Designs.

As always Gilby & I love your comments...his tail just wags away when he sees me smile!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

IT'S HIPPIE DIGI TIME...LOL!!!

Hi Everyone & Happy Labor Day!

Sorry about the title, I know it's a little corny, but that's me!

A friend of mine wanted me to make her a card for her Anniversary that she could give to her husband. The first thing that came to mind was making a card with them as hippies!!! They would have totally been hippies if they were older back then for sure!!!

I got to searching for hippie digi stamps & I really couldn't find any that really suited them, until I ran across Jen's Digi Stamps . She had a girl hippie that was perfect, but she didn't have a guy. I e-mailed her to see if she could make one AND I was shocked & thrilled when she said "yeah, no problem"!!! I mean that is some customer service!!! I was sooo pleased with the guy that she drew, he was perfecto, as you can see below, they look soo cute together!!!

If you are into Digi Stamps, I would highly recommend going to her site Jen's Digi Stamps , she has some of the cutest images I have seen & her DT is just FABULOUS!!!
In fact, I will have some more wonderful news to share later on, so stay tuned, same dog blog, same...(told you I was corny)!!!

My friend totally loved the card & didn't even notice some of the mistakes I had made. I know crafting doesn't have to be perfect, but I always put pressure on myself to make whatever I am making as perfect as it can be. Maybe now, knowing that she didn't see the mistakes, maybe I will put less pressure on myself & just enjoy crafting!!!

Recipe:
Jen's Digi Stamps-"Jenny" & "Larry"
Our Craft Lounge (OCL) - "Flower Power" They have AWESOME clear & rubber stamps along with lots of other great products!!!
I colored them with both Copics & Prisma Coloring Pencils
I used the Large Circle Nestability to cut them out
I embossed both the sentiment & flower
Cardstock is DCWV Textured & AC Brights
The Peace sign strip is from Reminisce "Unwritten"
I also used Crushed Velvet Flock (Black) around the circle

I hope you like the card & get a chance to go by Jen's Digi Stamps & OCL, I promise you will love them both!!!

As always, Gilby & I love your comments...his tail just wags away when he sees me smile!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

JUST DUCKY~HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!

Hi Everyone!

It feels like I haven't posted anything for a long time now! My days are filled with work & I've been cherishing the time I have with my youngest in the evenings! Being divorced, means having to share my time with him this summer, it doesn't mean I have to like it though!!!

Anyway, on to my project. Today I wanted to share (see I like to share some things..lol) the card I made for my dad's Birthday! He's turns 84 today & I thought he would get a kick out this! I miss him sooo much, he's in WA & I'm in VA which is too far away!!! I think it turned out really cute, please let me know what you think. I, of course (since I'm still in the challenge mode) will be entering it in some challenges, which I will list below. I don't know about you all, but I really like challenges! Sometimes I'm not really sure where to go with a card & they help to inspire me!

Ingredients:
Digi Stamp "Dick Van Duck Party" Inklined
Sketch Copics-0,B21,N1,N2,R08,R20,Y11,Y13,Y18,YG06,YR68
Stamp - "Take the Cake" PBD
Font-Arnold 2.1
Plain Cardstock-PTI (white) DCWV-DCWV Textured (orange & green)
Pattern Cardstock-DCWV-Animal Crackers
Cuttlebug-Swiss Dots
Glossy Accents (for his glasses)
Ice Stickles (for the hat)
Ribbon-Michaels
Brads-Stash

Challenges:
Birthday Sundaes #17 - Use orange, green & white
Card Patterns #123 - Sketch
Colour Me Creative Copic - Favorite copic technique I just colored & tried to blend (newbie)
I Copic Lover #38 - Birthday
One Stitch at a Time - Anything goes They are also looking for DT members!
Penny's Paper Crafty - Birthday They are looking for DT members as well!
Ruby's Rainbow - Birthday
The Crafty Pad - Lots of texture Embossing, Stickles, Glossy Accents, Glittery Embossed Cardstock, Ribbon

I also shared this with the following Linking Parties:
Craft Junkie Too TGIF
Inspire me Fridays
Made it Myself Mondays
Passionately Artistic

Gilby & I LOVE your comments...his tail just wags away when he sees me smile!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WONDER WOMAN!!!

Hi Everyone!

One more day until the long weekend, can we say woo hoo?!!! Plus, I get my youngest this Holiday!!! Could only get better if we were with my oldest as well!!! We don't really have any plans yet, guess it depends on what the weather is like. My hubby already told me he did NOT want to go to DC, lol. I knew that already, he never wants to face that nightmare! :)

Today I wanted to share the card I made for my boss's Birthday! She is the "Wonder Woman" in every way!!! The inside of the card says it all!!! I'm also entering it in some challenges which I will list below. I think it turned out really cute & it goes with the whole 4th of July theme. Please let me know what you think!

If you click on the picture you can see that her cuffs & headband are gold.

I downloaded the font from dafont "Badaboom"

Here is the list of Challenges I will be entering this card for (in order by date):

OTWC Challenge #56 (Red, White & any shade of Blue)

Card Creations & More - So Saturday Challenges #11 (Patriotic)

Catch The Bug Recipe Challenge Blog - (Red, White & Blue w/Ribbon)

Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog (Simply Red)

Sentimental Sundays Challenge #61 (Patriotic, use the colors of your flag)

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #117 (Inspiration Photo)

Craft Your Passion Challenges #64 (Seeing Red)

Die Cut Dreams Challenge #92 (Red, White & Blue)

Paper Playtime Challenge #49 (Digi Monday, using Red, White & Blue)

Scrapbookaholic by Abby #8 (Red, White & Blue)

Celebrate The Occasion #20 (4th of July, Red, White & Blue)

Tuesday Throwdown #55 (Red, White & Blue)

Crafting for all Seasons Challenge Blog #4 (Red, White & Blue)

Crafts and Me Challenge #41 (Birthdays)

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge #56 (Red, White & Blue)
Craft Us Crazy Challenge #11 (Red, White & Blue and or Summer Theme)
Rainbow Lady's Challenge 159 (4th of July/Red, White & Blue)

I am really loving these challenges lately, if you want to have some fun yourself, try anyone of these or try http://felineplayful.blogspot.com/ , there are sooo many there!!! This is the most organized list of challenges I have ever seen, they make it sooo easy!!!

SHARED WITH ALL THE LINKY LOVE SITES ON MY SIDE BAR!!! SHARE YOU PROJECTS TOO!!!

Recipe:

Digi Stamp-Bugaboo "Dottie-Wonder Woman"  (My Favorite Digi Store)

Copic Sketch Markers

Gold Gel Pen

White Cardstock-PTI

Red-Stash

Blue-DCWV Summer Texture

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder-Stars

Ribbon-Stash

Star Buttons-Stash

Wish me luck on the challenges!

As always, Gilby & love your comments...his tail just wags away when he sees me smile!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

GRADUATION!

Hi Everyone!

Today I wanted to share the Graduation Card I made for my niece who just Graduated from High School. She wants to be an interior designer & is very excited to attend VA TECH in August!!! She is an amazing artist in mixed media, you name it, she can do it!!!

My nephew (her brother) just graduated from TECH (but his card wasn't as cute...lol) with a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science AND I'm very happy to say, that he just got a VERY GOOD job with a software company!!! We are all soo proud of him!!! I may have said this before, but we are big VA TECH fans!!! My hubby went there & my youngest son is hoping to go as well, but he has 2 more years to go at FUMA.

Now, on to my card, it also serves as a gift card/$ holder. I'm entering it for some Challenges as well (they are listed below). I think it turned out really cute, please let me know what you think!

Stamped & Heat Embossed all the Sentiments to make my custom background paper.

The black embossed part is a pocket that we put her Graduation $ in

Challenges:
Shopping out of our Stash - "Tools of the Trade" (Heat Gun)
Scrapbook Sisters - #41 "Anything Goes"
Rainbow Ladys Challenge - "Digi Stamp"
Southern Girls Challenge - "Anything Goes"
ECP Challenges - #41 "Gold
Secret Crafter #140 "Embossing"
Fabulous Friday - "Black, White & One Other"
 
Ingredients:
Digi Stamp-Bugaboo-Ava Graduates
Collection of Stamps-My Pink Stamper (Everyday Occasions & Simply Sweet Occasions)-Our Craft Lounge (Life's a Picnic &Bride &Groom)-Pink By Design (Scripted Year)-Wordsworth (Rubber)
Cardstock-PTI & DCWV (Shimmer)
Prima Flowers (used black ink pad to color them)
Nestabilities-Standard Circles Large & Classic Scalloped Circles Small
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder-Divine Swirl (inside of card)
Copic Markers
Gold Gel Pen
Ink-Dew Drop-Galaxy Gold
Clear Embossing Powder
Graduation Cap-Jollee's Stickers (inside of card)
Distress Stickles-Antique Linen (used it as paint on the flower)
Heat Gun

As always, Gilby & I love comments...his tail just wags away when he sees me smile!!!

Thanks for stopping by!
Linked up at the following Linking Parties

     

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!

******I ORIGINALLY POSTED THIS BEFORE 12AM ON 5/27, I'M NOT SURE WHY IT DIDN'T POST :( ****************

Hi Everyone!

I have another challenge(s) card today, but it is doubling for an Anniversary card. My sister and her husband are celebrating their 23rd Wedding Anniversary tomorrow!!! Now, they don't really look like Stella & Gus, but I bet they feel like it...LOL!!!

You'll find the list of challenges further down.

Challenges:
Catch the Bug~Grads, Dads & Celebrations
Crafting for all Seasons ~Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments ~Special Occasions
Crazy 4 Challenges ~Humor
I Did it Creations ~Anything Goes
I Heart Sketches ~Sketch
Inspire Me Fridays ~Anything Goes
Simply Create ~Special Day/Event
Tip Top Tuesday ~2 Stamps-Tip...When using your ATG gun, try standing up, it seems to glide better for me AND this one is crucial, so you don't go wasting so much paper. Only use your ATG for the outer edges of your paper, if you use it in the center, when you go to stick it down and you don't have it adjusted so well,...it's ruined. Can't tell you how many times I've wasted paper by doing this!!! ugghhh
The Secret Crafter ~Wedding Anniversary
2 Sisters Challenge Blog ~Use a Digi~:( TOO LATE-LINKY CLOSED

Recipe:
Digi Stamp~Bugaboo "Stella Love-Person to Annoy"  HURRY EVERY DIGI 50% OFF~5/31
Sentiment (front)~Pink By Design "Scripted Year" HUGE SALE~5/31
Card Stock~Coredinations "Whammy" (purple)
                      Making Memories "Meg Argyle" (pattern)
                      Stash
Copics
Prisma Color Pencils
Gel Pens~Silver & White
Bling~Bling~IRock
Stickles~Frosted Lace (Dots on Stella's nightgown)
Paper Glaze (Gus's glasses)
Black Crushed Velvet Flock~DBD (Gus's slippers)
Rockin' Pink Sparkly Fluff~OCL (Stella's slippers)

Hope you enjoyed my card & if you're ever up for a challenge, you can find all of these and a ton more at Feline Playful !!!

As always, Gilby & I Love your comments...his tail just wags away when he sees me smile!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!!

BUGABOO WACKY WEDNESDAY

Hi Everyone!

Hope you all had a nice weekend!  I'm starting to really get into Digital Stamps lately, I like how they are just literally at your fingertips and you don't have to go to the store and spend a fortune on one stamp.  I also like that you can change the size to whatever you want. 

I'm still exploring all the different Digi Stamps sites, but there is one I found, that I really like,
Bugaboo  they have a wide variety of stamps and great blog as well. They are having an awesome sale through the end of the month of, where every Digi Stamp is 50% off!!!

Here is the card I made  for their Wacky Wednesday challenge over at Crafters Digital Art Center   This was a color challenge, using Red, Yellow and Turquoise with one of their stamps. I used one of their characters, "Stella" along with the sentiment that came with it.

Recipe~
Bugaboo Stamp "Stella Birthday Aged to Perfection"
Copic Markers
Card Stock~AC Textured (Black card base), DCWV~Citrus (Yellow)~PTI (Red)
Flowers~Prima
Stickles Glitter Glue for the Balloon
Paper Glaze for glasses, dots & shoes
Stash-Brad & Red paper

As always, Gilby and I LOVE your comments...his tail just wags away when he sees me smile!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!!

TAXMAN

Hi Everyone!

Welcome to the Tax Day Blues Blog Hop!!! First I want to thank Angie for letting me to be on this hop. Below is a list of the bloggers participating in the hop, in case you get lost along the way. I am #9 on the hop, if you came from Mary http://marebearscraps.blogspot.com/  you are on the right track!

Along the Hop, you will see many different crafts, everyone is incredibly talented. I know you will have a  lots of fun!!!

1. Angie, TuttleTime, http://atuttletime.blogspot.com/

2. Ellen, Craft Monkey, http://cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com/

3. Tristan, Tristan’s Time4Craftin, http://tristans-time-4-craftin.blogspot.com/

4. Tammy, Nesting Pretty, http://nestingpretty.blogspot.com/

5. Elaine, Expressions by Elaine, http://expressionsbyelaine.blogspot.com/

6. Angelia, http://angeliaspapercrafts.blogspot.com/

7. Belinda, Bee’s Hive of Drama, http://www.beeshiveofdrama.blogspot.com/

8. Mary, http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmarebearscraps.blogspot.com

9. Wendy, http://gilbyscraftster.blogspot.com/ (me)

10. Jackie, http://mybasketofscraps.blogspot.com/

11. Jill, http://thescrapoholic.blogspot.com/

12. Leah, http://www.leahscarddesigns.com/

14. Mary J., http://maryjaminski.blogspot.com/

15. Tiffany, http://mysweetlemonadedreams.blogspot.com/

16. Monica, http://scraps2treasure.blogspot.com/

For my project I made my first tri-fold card! Super easy, I don't know why it's taken so long for me to try it. Martha Stewart's Scoreboard really made it easy for me, she has all the dimensions listed on where to score for several different card shapes, envelopes and even, boxes!!! I would highly recommend it!!! Well enough about Martha, and on to my card!!! Sorry about the fuzzy pictures, you can click on each one to get a better look.

Meet Ralph "The Taxman"

Sure, he looks friendly, but don't be deceived...Ive heard that his coworkers call him

 "The Auditator" !!!

Wait a minute, who's that???

 

 It's his Arche Enemy of course!!!

 Coming to save the day!!!

It's "REFUNDMAN"!!!

He's flying through the air, 

bringing Refunds to Everyone!!!

Thank you REFUNDMAN!!!

Another Tax Day Saved!!!

Ingredients~

I found Ralph and Refundman at "Dude Time Doodles" http://www.dudetimedoodles.com/They have some really great "Guy" Digis there!!!

Their real names are "Revenge of the Nerd" and "Henry Hero" and I colored them with Copics

The card measures 9 x 6 3/4 and is scored at 2 1/4 and 6 3/4.

Red and Blue card stock-AC Summer

White-PTI

Patterned paper-AC-Tea Party, cut 6 x 2

Fonts-"Chipper" (front) and "Hey Arnold" (inside). I found "Hey Arnold" (yes the cartoon) at TypeNow.net

Cuttlebug-Stars (pockets for $)

Pop Dots (for Ralph)

Wobble (to make Refundman fly)  :D

$

Now, did someone say BLOG CANDY??? Of course there's BLOG CANDY!!!

I couldn't decide on what CANDY to give out, so I decided on a GOODY BAG/BOX, of course filled with GOODIES!!!

To be eligible, you have to play my little game. You need to leave a comment on this post & your answer, along with a way to get in touch with you. Gilby and I would also like you to follow along the hop & leave some luvin' at each stop. As always, you DON'T have to be follower to win, but if you LIKE what you see, Gilby and I would love it!!!

Boy, this is a LONG post! Sorry about that. So on to the ?

Can you guess how much my REFUND was??? I'll give you a few of hints:

#1~ There is only one "bill" in each pocket of the card.

#2~ I'm using some of  it in the morning to stop by Starbucks for a Double Tall 4 Pump SF Vanilla, Soy Latte', Extra Hot or maybe a Double Tall Cinnamon Dole with 2 Splendas, extra hot. Hmm??? I am way over due for Starbucks!!!

#3~ I won't have much left after my Starbucks. :(

The cut off time for comments is 11:59pm Monday EST.  Random.org will pick a winner on Tuesday & I will post it later that evening.

Your next stop is: Jackie, http://mybasketofscraps.blogspot.com/ 

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Fabulous at Fifty!

Hi Everyone!

I wanted to share a card I made for my sister's 50th Birthday! She was actually in Hawaii on her Birthday (soooo jealous), so we celebrated last weekend. She has accomplished quite a bit over the years, she has an excellent carrier, is a great parent, loving wife, fabulous cook/party  hostess AND a she's a WONDERFUL older sister!!! She even finds time in her incredibly busy schedule for yoga, which she loves. So I thought she would appreciate this card AND I was right, she loved it!! :D

This is my first attempt with a Digi Stamp and using Copic (Sketch) Markers...yes I said Copic!!! I'm so excited that I finally own some (Birthday present to myself), I've been wanting them forever forever!!!

I have to say, I'm thrilled with how my card turned out, but that's probably still the high from actually coloring with my new Copics!!! Please let me know what you think, and please be kind, since I am a newbie. :D



Did you notice hear Diamond Earring's? :D

Ingredients:
Digi Stamp~Bugaboo Stamps "Dottie Yoga" http://bugaboostamps.com/pg_dottie.html
Stamps By Judith~Happy Birthday
Sentiment~50 and Fabulous~Architect Bold (Font)
Card Stock~Paper Tray Ink (Green & White), DCWV~Textured (Purple)
Pattern Paper~AC Paper "Tea Party"
Copic Sketch Markers (Can't remember which colors)
Spellbinders Nestabilities~Deckled Rectangles Large (
Irock Gems (Purple & Crystal)

Thank you Kendra and Bev for all your expert advice!

As always, Gilby and I just love your comments...his tail just wags away when he sees me smile!!!

Thanks for stopping by,