A card and the problem with making cards...

First I will talk about the latest card I have. It is for the challenge at Crafter's Digital Art Center (CDAC).  We are now in challenge 11. The theme is 'Love will find a way'.  There were so many adorable images to choose from. I had a really hard time deciding.  I decided to combine two images from Sew Many Cards and Lauretta's Digital Stamps.  I thought it looked pretty cute when you put it all together. And it was fun to color (well, mostly, but more about that below).  It's hard to tell from the pic, but the chocolate ice cream has teeny tiny heart confetti in gold and silver in place of the sprinkles (it was a cover up because I goofed up the sprinkles! Oops!).  Here's the card:

Now on to the problem I have making cards. I was wondering if any of you also experience this dilemma??  I seem to have some issues with coloring every now and again.  It's like a warm fuzzy thing is holding down my hand and I can't color.  Here, I will show you the problem:

Oddly enough - this little fuzzy part is attached to a larger fuzzy part that likes to sleep RIGHT where I am trying to work.  The closer the better.  But just wait until you hear the noise it makes... purrr, purrrrr, purrrrrr.  How can a person get anything done?  And when its not sleeping.. It likes to paw through my box of paper scraps just to see what I have.  Can anyone help me with this?  Here's a pic of the other end.

And just so you can see why I can't just tell her no.. well, check out these pics:

So, has anyone else had this problem??  That's life with Gidget.  Keeps things interesting!! Have a good one!

Hokey Pokey!

I just love this image from Just Inklined provide free for those of us playing along with the Progressive Challenge #10 at Crafter's Digital Art Center.  This is a fun challenge that gives you free images as long as you play along and enter at least one card into the challenge. I love it. It really challenges you.  This image was a challenge for me to find the right saying to go along with it. Love the Hokey Pokey saying.  Seems to fit just right.  As some one said - It looks like they are really thinking about it.  Hehehehe.. What fun!  I went pretty simple on the card. Wanted to feature the image with not too much background noise. Thought the circle paper added a bit of psychadelic-ness to the card!  Enjoy and come play along!!

Friends are the flowers of life - Tiddly Inks Blog Hop

 

This is a wedding card I made for my dear friend, Emily.  It is my first Tiddly Inks image also! I am entering it into their blog hop challenge for today!  Their images are just adorable.  I hope you enjoy the card and come join us for the challenge at their blog!!  It's today only .. some come hop with us!

My First Mo Manning Challenge! Or should I say Bronte and Bella Challenge?

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE Mo Manning's images.  And finally got around to using a few on my cards. I love this image of Bella and Bronte.  Loved making the card.  Wanted to enter it into Challenge 116 on the Bronte and Bella Challenge Blog.  The theme for this challenge is Anything Goes... so here I go to enter it!!  Enjoy!!

CDAC Progressive Challenge 9 and Pringles!

Here is my card for Crafter's Digital Art Center's Progressive Challenge Number 9.  The image I chose to use is the snow globe from Crafty Ann's.  Isn't it cool?  I have always wanted to try a snow globe and now I had a good reason to do it! (why I LOVE LOVE LOVE Challenges!!).  I used some wrapping paper with snowflakes on it for the base of the snowglobe and for the background of the calendar.  I also used it to cut out my 'snowflakes' - which is really a flower punch (shhhhhh.. don't tell anyone!).  I was stumped as to how to make the globe look globe-like so I could fill it with glitter and tiny itty bitty beads and more glitter!  My smart, dear, wonderful always inventive husband came up with the idea of using a Pringles can lid!!!  WHO WOULDA THOUGHT?? Not me for sure. SO I resized my globe to fit the lid (good ole Printmaster can't be beat for that stuff!).  And once I had my image done, I carefully poured the snow globe contents in and then glued the lid to the globe VERY CAREFULLY!  (I love Glossy Accents for stuff like that!).  And here we are... a SNOW GLOBE TO BE PROUD OF!!  The images are just things I had in my stash - if you need more detail I can try to find out for you! 
 Oh and the calendar idea I got from My Favorite Things.  She sent a newsletter with a freebie calendar template. Last year, my sister and I did card swaps. We would take turns picking a theme and then make a card and mail it to each other. This year we are making calendar pages for each other.  Mine is ready to be sent!!  Hope you enjoyed this.  Come back again!!