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For all the hunters out there!
Hunting season seems to be in full swing around here.
All the guys in their camo have been sighted (yeah, their camo isn't all that great, I saw them!!)
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Apple Step Card

This is a tough one to get a good picture!
I cannot take credit for the design. I found the original step card design at CAFE's Blog. Cheryl Ann has created several this style. I used her file, but made a few changes (added apples to the steps).

The apples image is from Designed to Delight!
Again, use the FREEBIE image for this challenge, and get the next one via email!
There's only a little while left, and I'm pushing the wire with this one!

Here's another picture, from another angle.
It looks like you can see a lot of white behind the apples on the steps, but in real life, it doesn't really look like that (?)...

I've got about 5 more projects I'm working on (at least), so I'll see you soon!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month!

Did anyone watch Monday Night Football on ESPN last night?

They did an AWESOME half-time show promoting the SURVIVORS!!

They had pink ribbons all thru the stadium and they sang the song "I'm a Survivor!"
It was really well-done!

We all know someone who has been touched by Cancer in some form or another
and during the month of October, we are urged to "Think Pink"!

The image for this card is from The Stamping Boutique.
It's a GREAT Day to head over there to take advantage of the 25% off sale!!

The sentiment is from Digistamps 4 Joy.
She is giving away an ENTIRE sheet of digis related to Breast Cancer Awareness!
The set includes 2 beautiful images and 4 sentiments!!

The layout is this week's Sketch Challenge at Splitcoast Stampers.

I love it when one card can work for more than one challenge! (-:
The challenge at Pollycraft Mondays is Anything Goes... this works for that (-:

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

Finding my Style

Y'know, some days, I frustrate myself trying to get everything "just right" and trying to "measure up" to what will get approval from my online "buddies"...

This post from "Making Our Mark" really put all that fussing into perspective for me, so I wanted to take a moment to share it!

Here's an especially relevant part of the post that really hit home for me and prompted this post today:

This is directly copied and pasted from Colleen's blog, I cannot take credit for the phrasing, but it's worded perfectly!!  "Being creative is good for the soul. The world is changing, faster than we can keep up with. I’m going to tell you one of the new secrets: You don’t need permission, and you don’t need approval. Once upon a time if you wanted to be an artist you had to drag your portfolio to gallery after gallery, agent after agent, hoping someone will like you and give you an audience. That’s not true anymore. The internet has equalized things, you don’t have to be the most popular crafter at your local scrapbooking store. You don’t have to have a large following to start a blog. You don’t have to stay awake until the wee hours of the morning practicing with your markers before your stuff is good enough to show the world. You don’t need someone to give you permission to be an artist because you already are one.  Be you, because you rock. Blog now, share your stuff now, just because you can."

I don't have anything "creative" to share today, but several works-in-progress... but I hope this post helps just ONE person to understand that creativity comes from within, not from the approval of others!

A huge THANK YOU to "Making Our Mark"!