Father's Anniversary Card

I made this card for my father's 13th Wedding Anniversary. I like following sketches because I'm new to all of this and it helps. So I followed the sketch from Sketchy Thursday. I then used the idea from Allsorts Challenge Blog They asked for Pearls and Swirls which was perfect because the sketch had swirls in it which I drew and embossed with gold. I then put some pearls next to the flower pot. I also embossed the vase with the same gold. The gold idea came from Sassy Designs by Susie they asked for a touch of gold. I used flowers (of course) and got the "Love Is..." from the internet and then printed the entire passage for the inside of the card. I also used the crop a dile to add the gold to bottom of the card. I'm looking forward to all of your wonderful comments. Hope your having a wonderful weekend, V

Odd Shaped Creation

I created this tag to attatch to a thank you gift bag for my son's teacher and it just so happens to fit it with the challenge at Stamp, Scrap & Doodle, Saturdays Challenge which was to create a shaped card not using a square or rectangle: http://ssdschallenge.blogspot.com/2009/12/ssds-week-19-shaped-challenge.html I used Princess Ava from the Greeting Farm. Isn't she adorable??? I put glitter on her collar and her crown and colored her with colored pencils. I'm hoping to buy copics after the new year :). I used a SU sentiment. My crop a dile and of course flowers and buttons. It's really hard for me to not use a flower in my creations. I'm going to get some big beautiful ones and see what I come up with using those. Hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season and please leave comments. I love hearing from you.

Marilyn Monroe Tag

Honestly, I only blog hopped for a minute today but in the process I found this FABULOUS site called "Something Completely Different" and their challenge was to make a tag using Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn is my absolute favorite celebrity so of course I had to complete it. Funny thing is I also need to make tags for some thank you bags I'm putting together for my daughter and son's teachers. Now that I've finished her I don't want to give her away :)

I used colored pencils to add a bit of color to her, some glitter for her necklace and earings, ribbon, buttons and of course my favorite... flowers. I really enjoyed completing this project. Thank you for the fabulous idea and I'm anxiously awaiting your next challenges.

Thank you card

I have a couple cards that I needed to make to tell some special people thank you. Here's the first one. I used a Greeting Farm Digi, a few flowers, and my crop a dile.