A New Sketch Challenge.....

Jessica from The Whimsical Butterfly has a budding artist of a daughter who has designed her own sketch challenge, hereinafter to be called "Madelynn's Terrific Tuesdays" so I thought I would do up a card for "Madelynns Challenge, Sketch Number One"!




I used the Impression Obsession stamp, Gingerbread Man, and coloured it with copics.



I layered my image onto Papertrey Ink Spring Moss and then again onto a piece of K & Company Christmas pack which was cut out with the Curved Rectangle Nestabilities.

My card base is Papertrey Ink Pure Poppy cardstock topped with Designs by Reminisce Christmas paper and tied with some Papertrey Ink Pure Poppy swiss dot satin ribbon.

The little tag was cut with the Cuttlebug tiny tags die and stamped with Papertrey Ink's Holiday Treats acrylic stamp set.

The Itty Bitty mittens are a cute little Lockhart stamp from Ellen's store. I coloured them up with copics, cut them out and popped them up onto the image - very sweet!

I added a few Stamping Bella baublie-boos because they are so pretty and because I can!

Congratulations Madelynn on your very first sketch challenge!! It was fun!!

Gingerbread Man....

Really, what is Christmas without a Gingerbread Man??!

I love gingerbread cookies, in fact, the last craft show we were in, the lady beside us was selling those dang cookies, and be dingled if we didn't buy three dozen while we sat there and ate them up!!

So where am I going with this, you ask. Well, Marcie and I went to Chatham yesterday to our favourite place, The Paper Pickle, and I picked up this cute little Gingerbread Man stamp from Impression Obsession (plus a few other things hee hee!).

I was especially drawn to him because his tummy reminds me of somebody - whooops - ME!! lol!



I stamped him and coloured him with copics and then went to look for a sentiment.

Well, low and behold, I got thinking about the time I applied for a Design Team position on Impression Obsession. I didn't get it the position, obviously, but they did send me a wonderful little package of stamps just for trying out!!

Inside the little package was this cute little sentiment, that matches perfectly with the Gingerbread Man! How cool is that??!! Now I wish I had of bought the boy and girl gingerbread too......they are just as sweet!

I used this sketch from Jen, which I always save, because I know that I love Jen's sketches, I just never get around to doing them because I can't find the time, even though I have a week for heaven's sake, it just doesn't work!

Basic Grey Wassail 6 x 6 paper pack is my designer paper, except for the red panel which is DCWV Christmas pack. I stamped that red panel with Cornish Heritage Farms Scroll Scrapblock in Fired Brick Distress Ink.

I put a little Stickly glitter on the scarf and the button, for some pizazz!!

So now I get to go and program my new LCD tv that we got for Christmas for each other!

My hubby has an aversion to shopping for anything personal, he always decides that we should buy a gift for the house - and they are always fabulous ideas - but now I have to figure out the programming....ugh!