Happy World Card Making Day 2010

Wow! The blogs everywhere are buzzing!
There are blog hops and prizes and all sorts of things going on today!

I made this card for a special young lady named "Peanut"! She is only 2 1/2 and she makes cards with her mom (Jennifer from JLJ Designs). Every card that Peanut makes, she adds glitter and bling and is quite the up-and-coming artist!! I made this as sparkly as I could for her!

The image and all the papers are from Jennifer's store at Stitchy Bear Stamps!

I won the image in a recent blog candy that Jennifer was offering and I had the choice of any of her new release stamps. I asked her to have Peanut pick which image to send and this is the one she chose! I'm glad too, because it was definitely one of my favorites!

So! Let's see... how did I make it?
The Spring Up Card is from a tutorial at Splitcoast Stampers, the candies and pumpkin at the bottom are foam stickers from Dollar General, the broom is a toothpick with raffia bristles, the moon and bats are from MyScrapChick, the cuddly ghosts are from SVG cuts.com, the sentiment was written with my Cri-Kit pens, the image was colored with Prismacolor pencils, the papers are from JLJ Designs, the sparkle is glitter glue, and, well, I think that's it!

Here are the challenges I will enter with this card:
Crafty Ho's, Inspiration Photo, the photo looked so spooky, all I thought was Halloween
Order of the Opus Gluei, Feeling Kind of Sketchy
One Stitch At a Time, As You Like It, Anything Goes
Stamp Scrap and Doodle, Show us What You've Got Open Challenge

Turning 16 can be Scary!

This may look like a Halloween card, but it's actually a 16th Birthday card for my step son!
It's a little scary turning 16 and being old enough to get a learner's permit to drive and a work permit to get a "real" job... almost time for the "real world" to come crashing in!

Not for the timid or tame, for sure!

The background image is called "Autumn Leaves", by Stampin Dragon Designs.
You can get it from Stitchy Stamps!
 
I used Paint.net to color the image in a variety of Fall colors and saved each different colored image to my Desktop. Then used Microsoft Word to insert the different colored images into one document. I rotated and moved them around til I liked how it looked, printed it on regular cardstock, embossed it with a tree bark Fiskars plate and that's it! Super-simple background!

The image is called "Scaredy Cat" and you can get him over at Delighful Inspirations.
BONUS: when you play in a Delighful Inspirations Challenge, you automatically receive a new image via email to play with next week!

This card is also eligible for a few other challenges:
One Stitch at a Time, Happy Birthday 
Sarah Hurley, Challenge 10, Autumn
Gingerloft Challenge, Challenge 2, Happy Haunting
Paper Playtime, Challenge 17, Autumn
Everybody Art Challenge, Challenge 109, Autumn
Anything Goes Challenge Blog, Week 17, Cute
Crafty Creations, Challenge 86, Falling Leaves

It's been a rough week and I appreciate all the kind messages and prayers from those who have sent them!

We are so grateful that no one was hurt in the robbery 
and we appreciate all your thoughts and prayers as we work thru it... the boys are having a tough time dealing with it- especially at bedtime... but having the new ADT alarm system seems to have put their minds somewhat at ease!

So, THANK YOU to all!

Audrey Sitting on a Swing: Autism Awareness

Link Alert!! 

This post is chock full of links to all over the web... got your travellin' shoes on?

I read a great post about a little man named Cameron.

He is Autistic. You can read his story here:

One Stitch at a Time

and 

I Did It Creations

and
JLJ Designs

Have all chipped in to make this a great fund-raiser for little Cameron.

The challenge is to Create anything with a Rainbow.

It can include actual rainbows or use every color of the rainbow.

I chose a Stamping Boutique image called "Audrey Sitting".

I put her on a swing that was a free SVG posted by

Creating in Carolina.

I also used Cely's "Trees with Hammock" set!

I cut the tree top in blue for the cloud!

Woo-hoo, a two-fer for Cely's Challenge!

And the apple tree on the right?

Well, it was a freebie, too!

From My Scrap Chick.

And the roses!

They are another beautiful creation 

of Penny Duncan.

I can't remember where I found the yellow background gingham.

I was a piece I found in my scrap drawer.

And the fine folks over at Operation Write Home
are having a "Monday Wondering" Challenge.
For OWH, I would probably take off the flowers
and add a flatter embellishment for mailing!

The Crafty Ho's are using the colors

Green, Blue and Yellow

for their challenge this week!
I like participating in their challenges because
I LOVE the name of their blog... makes me giggle every time!

The Stamping Boutique is sponsoring a Challenge at
City Crafter Challenge Blog
Create a card/project that include the image of a tree/trees  or a book/books. You could also make a bookmark, a book cover, a notebook, coffee table brag book etc.
This is my Stamping Boutique Design Team Submission
for that challenge.

I think that's it!
Whew... if I've forgotten to mention anyone,
"I'll be back"!