Mojo 249 -- Happy Anniversary

I am on a roll today, 2 cards in one day!  Mom & Dad's Anniversary is the day after Dad's birthday, so another card was needed. 

I used this sketch from http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/  ...

All materials are from crate paper, portrait collection.  There was a 12x12 sheet of calendar in there.  I cut out the July one and looked up the calendar for that month in 1976 when Mom and Dad got married.  Filled it in, and stamped a small heart on the wedding day.  I did line the outside edge of the calendar with silver marker to make a border.  I also stamped the sentiment, and added the "memorable" tag ( also included in the collection ) tada! 

Happy birthday -- Elk

Wow, I normally don't have time to make cards anymore.  You can tell by how much I post on here! 

Well, dad's birthday is coming up fast and I thought I would go ahead and make his card when I seen the challenge last sunday over at http://365cards.blogspot.com/ day 130.  The challenge was this sketch...

Zoo

Over at www.dustinpike.blogspot.com for March 12 there is a challenge "My life is a zoo." A friend of mine is always posting things that her youngest 2 sons are doing, climbing on dressers, pulled all the piano music books out and scatter throughout the room, etc. I thought this would be perfect for her. Also over at www.365cards.blogspot.com day 11 (sunday sketch). This card was inspired by this sketch as well. Notice the 2 keys on the fiber as well? I thought they were cute. The sentiment says "Feel like you're holding the keys to the zoo?"

March 17

Over at http://dustinpike.blogspot.com the challenge is to use one of Dustin's images and add "bling" to your card. Well I have absolutely no time for any card challenges, however, I did make time for this one. I used one of his images (already colored) and added layers. For the bling I used a sakura star dust pen and added this sparkle to his buckles and buttons. The gold colored paper is also a pearlized sheet, so it has a bit of sparkle to it as well.

Birthday Cheers

This is for a brother-in-law. His birthday is today, nothing like doing stuff last minute :D. The birthday beer mug is from Di's Digi Downloads. The Birthday Cheers sentiment also came in the package, however, I used the sentiment "words" in my own way. The mug is colored with my copics, I used a white glitter, course (looks like snow) for the foam and the bubbles. I am submitting this for day 309 "pretty pairs" green and stripes, however, it also fits the sunday sketch. I also used a kraft card base and the designer paper is Basic Grey. I cut out circles from the olive colored paper and placed half under the rectangle striped paper. I also sewn around the edges of the striped paper. "Birthday" is a stamp that is embossed in white. "Cheers" is the alpha stickers in the same Basic Grey pack.

Birthday

This I am submitting to http://www.365cards.blogspot.com/ for day 258 Super Sketchy Sunday. It is not a exact replica of the sketch but definately was inspired by it.

Happy Fall

Another great "therapy" card. I had so much fun coloring it all in. There is only 3 different colors but I used 2 different shades for each color for the high lights and low lights. Then added white gel pen for shiny lightest area on the pumpkins (totally lost the words while typing this, I'm sure you all get the point). I used 3 different pattern papers, layered them up. Grabbed some grungeboard and smeared ink on it. Added a rub on "happy" and used alpha letters for "fall" added some brads to hold it on the paper. Then I added a rub on leaf stem for a final touch sticking out from under the grungeboard. Because of this fact I am able to add it to a challenge on 365cards Day 246 peekaboo. Thanks for looking.