Sports Rock!

I'm still trying to get back into my daily routine since my Great-Aunts passing. Thank you all for all of your caring comments and prayers you left me earlier this week. I greatly appreciate all of the support. Today, I'd like to welcome you back to another Sunflowers & Dragonflies Blog Challenge!

This weeks challenge is all about Sports! So, get out those stamps and embellishments that have footballs, baseballs and bats, Hockey pucks and sticks etc. and come play along with us this week.

For my challenge project this week, I used the Sunflowers and Dragonflies Fishing Beaver stamp. I'm featuring the sport of Fishing this week!

Stamps: Sunflowers and Dragonflies Creative Designs- Fishing Beaver
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Martha Stewart Pigment Ink
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, Colored Cardstock by The Paper Company, American Crafts, and Bazzill
Accessories: Bic & Copic Markers, Cuttlebug and Cuttlebug Tiny Bubbles Embossing Folder, Ribbon by Michael's Dashes, Dots, and Checks, and Ribbon Fx, SU! Photo Corner Punch, Brads by All My Memories, Spiral Clip by The Paper Studio
Finished Card Size: 4.25" x 5.5"

It's been quite awhile since I've played with the Splitcoast weekly sketch challenge. For the sake of ease transitioning into my daily routine I let it work for me this week and was able to create this card rather quickly using SC253 for my layout.

The Fishing Beaver image was colored with Bic & Copic markers. I sponged blue ink around the upper portion of the image for the sky & green ink on the bottom for grass. I used marker to draw in the blades of grass.

To be eligible for this weeks prize drawing, please post a direct link to your challenge project from either your blog or an online gallery to the Sunflowers and Dragonflies Blog, specifically on the Challenge #16 Blog Post, so we can view it. If you upload to an online gallery, please use the keyword S&D16.

This week's prize is a $10 gift certificate to the Sunflowers and Dragonflies Store!

Deadline for this challenge is next Friday November 6th.

Good Luck & Have a wonderful weekend!

Smiles,
Jennifer

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Heavy Heart

It's a sad day for us today. At the age of 93, my Great-Aunt Joann passed away yesterday morning. I am a little teary, but I am more relieved than anything else. I feel as if a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I'm honestly happy that she's no longer suffering. It really has been a long battle, and her passing is such sweet sorrow. I'm glad she only spent the last month of her life in the nursing home & not a day longer.

Here she is with my sister and I on her birthday this past February. Thanks again to all who sent her cards and helped make that birthday extra special.

Of course under the circumstances, I won't be blogging again until later this week.

Please keep Aunt Joann & my family in your prayers.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Purrfect Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Stamps: DRS Designs- L076 Halloween Kitty, E064 Purrrfect Halloween, A086 Candy Corn
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, Colored Cardstock by The Paper Company& American Crafts
Accessories: Bic & Copic Markers, Nesties, Ribbon by the Paper Studio & Bobbie M. Designs
Finished Card Size: 5.25" x 5.5"

Smiles,
Jennifer

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Purple Flower Power!

Flower Power is the name of this week's Sunflowers and Dragonflies Blog Challenge! This is the Sunflowers and Dragonflies 15th Blog Challenge!

For my challenge card I tried to do everything flower!

I added the Sunflowers and Dragonflies Sugar Frosted Pansies Cupcake as my focal image and also stamped the Happy Flower from the Alice in Wonderland series around the cupcake image. You can also see that I used flower designer paper, and added a Prima flower as a finishing touch!

Stamps: Sunflowers and Dragonflies Creative Designs- Sugar Frosted Pansie Cupcake, Happy Flower from the Alice in Wonderland Accessory Set
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Colorbox Fluid Chalk Ink in Yellow Ochre,
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, Colored Cardstock by American Crafts, DP from DCVW Glitter Stack
Accessories: Bic Markers, Nesties, Purple Stickles, Ribbon by Offray, Brads by Joann's Scrap Essentials
Finished Card Size: 4.25" x 5.5"

Anyone can play along in the challenge. There are no limits on time or supplies. Of course we’d prefer that you use images by Sunflowers and Dragonflies, but feel free to use other images. However, there is a bonus if you do use a Sunflowers and Dragonflies Image, you'll receive an extra entry in the drawing for the weekly challenge prize!! So, if you have any S&D stamps it would be worth it to use them! Please post a direct link to your challenge project from either your blog or an online gallery to the Sunflowers and Dragonflies Blog, specifically on the Challenge #15 Blog Post, so we can view it. If you upload to an online gallery, please use the keyword S&D15.

This week's prize is 2 large packages of Prima Flowers! Deadline for this challenge is next Friday November 6th.

Smiles,
Jennifer

Fancy Pumpkins & Witches Are Always In!

TGIF and Happy Halloween!

Today is my day to post on the DRS Designs Blog. Here's a tease of the Halloween cards I've posted there today.

Click here to run over & see what this post is all about!

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend & a safe & fun Halloween!

Smiles,
Jennifer

Friday, October 30, 2009

Pumpkin Princess!

I know that soon enough on Halloween night we will have lots of ghosts and goblins knocking on our door. What are the chances that we'll see a Pumpkin Princess like this one?

Stamps: Sunflowers & Dragonflies Creative Designs- Pretty Little Pumpkin, DRS Designs-G329 Empty Spider Web, E043 Halloween Arc
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Rubber Stampede Embossing Ink
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, Colored Cardstock by Bazzill & American Crafts
Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils, Gamsol, Nesties, Prima Flowers, Brads by the Paper Studio, Seafoam White Embossing powder by Ranger
Finished Card Size: 4.25" x 5.5"

I made this card a little different than usual. If you look close at the above picture, you can see that the card fold is on the left side of the brown cardstock--not the orange base like you would normally see. This is the first time I've created a card like this & I have to admit, I love the unique look!

This image is from Sunflowers and Dragonflies Creative Designs and she is one of 3 Halloween images you can win this week for playing along this week in our Halloween Greeting Blog Challenge. We hope that you'll join us!

Hurry, participation deadline for this challenge is this Friday, October 30th!

Good Luck!

Smiles,
Jennifer

Wednesday, October 28, 2009