Gettin' Sketchy With it...

Hello All!

I'd like to thank everyone who's been weighing in on the Santa wrapping, vs. not wrapping gifts.  I'll leave the blog candy open until the end of the weekend on that post -- so go and weigh in if you want a chance at your choice of a digi image from Pink Cat Studio!

Now -- as for today's sketch.  Pam is our hostess this week, and she gave us a GREAT sketch to use:

I knew I wanted to do something 'Christmassy'.  I got out my Brushed Gold CS, and some glittered paper from DCWV.

I thought the circles on the layout would make some great ornaments, so that's just what I did...I punched out two circles (the avocado one is 1 3/8", and the smaller one is 1")  and stamped some images from Rustic Snowflakes in fresh snow ink, and then adhered them to the front of the card with dimensionals.  The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink's Signature Christmas, it's embossed in white on a piece of Brushed Gold CS that was cut out with a Labels 4 die.  Then, I just finished it off with a touch of ribbon...

Be sure to stop by the rest of the team's blogs, they all did an amazing job with the sketch this week!
 

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  Dana Gustafson
  
  
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  Kristin Bueter
  
  
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  Lisa Kind
  
  
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  Maria Levine
  
  
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  Mona Pendleton
  
  
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  Pam Imholz
  
  and YAY!  Alicia is playing along this week too!  Hi Alicia!  Glad to see you here :). 
  

Hope you'll make some time to play along this weekend too!

Thanks for stopping by! 

Hi....my name is Tracey...

I thought I'd re-introduce myself, since I've been away so long!  LOL.  Sorry for my extended absence, life has been a bit crazy here, sick kids, sick me, Thanksgiving...it's all a big blur, but thankfully everyone is healthy, Thanksgiving was great, and we're off to a good start toward Christmas!

It's Thursday -- and that means it's Pink Cat digi release day!

I used the Lily Winter Princess image...

I decided to mix things up a bit, and use chocolate and raspberry for my color combo.  I used liquid applique on the 'fur' trim of Lily's cape, and put some white and chocolate pearls in her hair, and on her crown.

The ribbon was pleated on my card front using some scor tape, and then I just zipped it through my sewing machine to secure it.  Added an adorable little ribbon flower with a button to finish off the center.

Be sure to stop by and SHOP - there's lots of great images out there that Melissa has done -- including some cute Christmas ones if you still haven't designed your cards yet... :).

I have my design in my head, but haven't put it to paper yet.  I really need to do that - and get them done! lol.  I have to say though, I'm in a pretty good place, the house is decorated, tree is up, shopping is near 90% complete...I just have gifts to make, and my cards...

A-HA -- I need  you all to help me... I've heard that at some houses, Santa doesn't wrap gifts...Santa has always left wrapped gifts at my house, unless it is too big to wrap...I'm thinking with everyone 'going green'...maybe Santa could add our house to the list of 'non-wrapped'...tell me your thoughts on this -- does Santa bring wrapped gifts to your house, or not???  Curious to know what's going on out there...to sweeten the deal (and hope that you all will answer) I'll offer up a digi image from PCS as a little "thank you" to a randomly selected commenter on this post!

So ---

1. Tell me if Santa brings you wrapped or not wrapped gifts, and why
2. Go to Pink Cat Studio's digi store and SHOP...
3. Go check out what the rest of the team has done this week

• Alicia Weiman
• Emily Leiphart
• Inge Groot
• Kerry Donovan-Casey
• Kristen Catalano
• Mackenzie Bruckler
• Maria Bell
• Suzanne Dean
• Tori Hemmingway
• Vicki Garrett
  

4. Have a SUPER day!!!

JUGS 8 - Lisa's Color Challenge

Happy Saturday to you all!

I'm so glad that I got my card done early this week, as my Shannon has suddenly come down with an illness...not sure if it's THE flu (I NEVER should have said anything the other day in my post - lol) or just some other random virus, but I hate when they don't feel well.

Lisa gave us this FABULOUS color challenge at Just Us Girls this week:

So, I looked through my paper stash, and just LOVE Papertrey's Autum Harvest papers, but one problem...no blue.  Hmmmmm....so I broke out my markers and ADDED the blue!  I think it really tied it all together, don't you??

I dusted off my Spiral Boquet set from PTI, I don't use it nearly as often as I should - I just LOVE those beautiful sentiments.

We're expecting to have a low-key weekend, thankfully.  Hoping you get to play along with the challenge - not too late to make a nice Thanksgiving card for your Thanksgiving hosts (if you are going elsewhere for dinner) :).

Here's links to the rest of the girls -- some gorgeous stuff there, don't miss it!

• Kristin Bueter
• Lisa Kind
• Maria Levine
• Mona Pendleton
• Pam Imholz

     

   

  Don't forget - link your project to the Mr. Linky by 9pm EST Thursday, November 26 to be eligible to be our next Chic of the Week!  Uploading to online galleries?  Use keyword JUGS8 please :).

  
  Have a super weekend -- thanks for stopping by!
  

Some Dustin Pike Goodness...

Since most of my stamping time these days is taken up with design stuff for Pink Cat Studio, and the JUGS challenge team, I thought it would be nice to switch gears a bit, and get some Dustin Pike images out to color.

I loved this little bear a top a Christmas Tree, and felt I really needed to use him :).

A sweet and simple card with a cute image, perfect for the upcoming holidays.

A quick note -- Stop by Lauren Meader's blog today - she's got some BIG NEWS to share - yipee!!

Got Flu??

THANK GOODNESS we don't! LOL.  We've so far, remained unscathed in this ugly flu business.  However, I know plenty of people who weren't as lucky, and the flu STINKS.  So, wouldn't it be nice to show someone you care by giving them a little care package???

I decided to use this INCREDIBLY cute 'sick Lily' image *NEW* from Pink Cat Studio Digital store today, and make a little gift package.

But WHAT could I put my items in?  This adorable little purse template by Lauren Meader of course!  I put together my little purse, and added Lily to the front flap.

Here's a close up of Lily -- look at her fuzzy bunny slippers, cute, eh?  Doesn't she look so cozy curled up in that chair?  The poor thing.

So what's IN the purse???  Inside is a small purse pack of tissues, some tea bags and some honey lemon cough drops to help soothe the ickies away.

Melissa also came out with a 'sick Billy' image too, so no worries, you can make these little care packages for the guys in your life too :).

Be sure to check out what the rest of the team has done with the images, and also, stop by my team mate ALICIA'S blog, and check out pics of her new baby boy Kale, who was born last Friday!  Congratulations Alicia!!!

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  Emily Leiphart
  
  
  
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  Inge Groot
  
  
  
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  Kerry Donovan-Casey
  
  
  
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  Kristen Catalano
  
  
  
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  Mackenzie Bruckler
  
  
  
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  Maria Bell
  
  
  
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  Suzanne Dean
  
  
  
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  Tori Hemmingway
  
  
  
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  Vicki Garrett
  
  
  

Wishing you all a GREAT day!

Outer Space Billy & NEW Stamps!

Hello, and Happy Tuesday!

I've been meaning to post this card for some time now, and just haven't had a whole lot of computer time as of late.

I told you all how my older DD wouldn't let me give this owl card to her friend for his birthday - and that I had to make one up that had green in it.  Well, here's the card:

DD's friend like Outer Space and rockets and those kind of things, so I decided that would be the theme of my card.  I broke out my Dress up Billy Stamps, and Lily and Billy Accessories, and got to work.  The 'moon' that Billy is standing on is actually from a Lizzie Anne Designs set that I have.  I tried to replicate the 'moon' using a circle die cut and my spots and dots cuttlebug folder.  The stars on the navy blue BG were all hand drawn with my Sakura Stardust pen.

The sentiment?  I just cut it out by hand, and mounted it onto a glittery star punch out.

I got 2 thumbs up from DD for this one -- much better than the clown card apparently...well, for Ty anyway.

Be sure to stop by at Pink Cat Studio, as Melissa just released three “Lily in Winter” themed rubber stamp sets. Each set has 3 stamps which include a large Lily stamp, a small coordinating stamp and a sentiment.  They're based on some of her digi images, for those of you that LOVE Rubbah! :).  Here's a peek:

Thanks for stopping by today -- hope it's a great one!

Supplies:
Stamps: Lily & Billy Accessories, Dress Up Billy (PCS), Out of This World (LAD)
Ink: Memento Black
Paper: Night of Navy, Green Galore, Real Red,  PTI White, DCWV glitter mat stack

Accessories: Star punch, circle nesties, Spots and dots CB folder, Sakura stardust pen

JUGS 7 - Technique Challenge

Hi friends!

I'm the host this week over at the "Just Us Girls" challenge blog.  Hope you'll stop by and play along!

This week's challenge is dry embossing, with a twist to make a birthday card, as today is my team member Dana's birthday!  Dana was under the (false) impression that today's challenge was with a twist of thanks, so that we could keep our birthday wishes a secret!

Happy Birthday Dana!!!

I made my card fairly simple, using the number block embossing folder, and a fun looking sentiment from Papertrey Ink's Mod Squad set.

Pink and Orange are such a happy color combo to me, and thought it would be good for a card for Dana.  I even colored in the polka dots on my ribbon (a la Lauren Meader) to make it all matchy matchy :).

Looking forward to seeing what you do with the challenge...I want to give that double embossing technique a try (Pam's example with it is great!)

Be sure to stop by the rest of the Girls' blogs to see what they've been up to - and MAKE SURE you go to Dana's blog and give her some birthday love!

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  Dana Gustafson
  
  
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  Kristin Bueter
  
  
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  Lisa Kind
  
  
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  Maria Levine
  
  
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  Mona Pendleton
  
  
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  Pam Imholz
  

Thanks for stopping by -- hope your Saturday is GREAT!