Sunshiney Days

I made this for a friend's birthday coming up this weekend. She's had a lot of changes in her life this past year. Some good, some not so good, and difficult to process. So, I thought this sentiment would be perfect for her for her new year of new things!

I did the Just Magnolia challenge on this, but I can't tie a bow to save my life! So, I got ribbon on there in three places, but no official bows. I did the sketch challenge from Stamps and Smiles. Not used to a big area of space lately, but I think it works very well on this sketch. It was hard not to find more things to fill it in when I was working on it, but when I put this Zva Create flourish on it from Rachel's store, I thought it was the perfect touch. It still showed off my pattern paper from Cosmo Cricket, which I also got from her store. I found this Magnolia stamp a little harder to paper piece than I expected. The basket with the loose flowers threw me. I added the flower soft to kinda hide that area a little! Makes for a perfect cover up! LOL!

Supplies: Riding hood red, so saffron cardstock, stickles, primas, Amy R Beach Sentiments, Magnolia, nesties, copics, flower soft

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Danni Fluttersby

This stamp is a new Elisabeth Bell stamp from Susana's store, called Danni. Danni hosts the challenge Flutterby so I thought it was a perfect choice for that challenge. I had planned on playing yesterday, but took the kids to Water Country on the spur of the moment for the day. Had a wonderful time up there with friends, so I never got around to stamping yesterday.

For Flutterby Wed the challenge was limited or no pattern paper, and make a scene. I pulled out some neglected CB folders, since I wasn't using pattern paper. Than at Three Clovers it was to use bling, never a problem for me. I've got stickles, pearls and shimmerz on here. On Cute Card Thursday, use eyelets. I got my layout off Stamps and Smiles. At Dutch Dare the challenge was to use dies or punches. I used a nestie die, Martha Butterfly punch and a Fiskars punch on the edge of the choco chip cardstock. My color combo is from Color Throwdown, which was Cert. Celery, Choco Chip, and Perfect Plum.

My image is colored with copics.

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Snow Birds

Hope you all aren't getting tired of seeing these cuties. Yes, Debbie, I saw the Christmas ones! I grabbed a set of them too! LOL! I purchased them off this site in the UK, Rachel. She had super fast shipping. I saw a set of them off Sugar Nellie, thought they were so cute, but at the time, they were out of stock, so I googled it, and found them there, and got three sets! This is one of the images from one of the Christmas sets.

On to the card. I did a few challenges on this one. I'm becoming a serious fan of doing several challenges at one time. The layout is from Stamps and Smiles. I did a Christmas in July challenge found at Cute Card Thursday, and also at Three Clovers Designs. At Colour Create the challenge was blue and white, which went perfectly with the holiday theme of my card. And finally, at Dutch Dare they challenged us to use punches or cutting dies. I used nesties, and a MS punch for the snowflakes.

This card is full of bling. I used DCWV Christmas Glitter stack paper, glitter paper from Target for my snowflakes, and Martha glitter on my image. I also topped it off with stickles and shimmerz. They are colored with copics.

**I have blog candy up for grabs. You can get to it by clicking here. I think I might even have to stick some images of these cuties in the package with the other goodies! Seems lots of you like the images as much as I did!