life is a beach...

It has finally cooled off here today and the humidity is almost non-existent. Now that is probably because it is grey, cloudy, and rainy outside.

I got a new stamp in the mail yesterday that I had won from Claudia and Company and it is Christian who is one of Lori Boyd's "puddle jumpers". I think they are so cute and it worked perfect with some scraps of paper I had sitting on my desk.

The inspiration for this sketch besides this cute little image was the sketch over at Pals Paper Arts.

Enjoy!

~ supplies ~

paper: neenah (solar white linen) little yellow bicycle (boardwalk collection)

ink: memento (black) ranger (distress vintage photo and tumbled glass)

accessories: cosmo cricket (tiny type stickers) signo gel pen and dew drops

hello there ~ monkey ~ hb2u

I never know how to title my post so these days I am just doing something from the title of the card or layout and when I have multiple pieces to share, you get  a little bit of a weird title ~ like the one above.

We had quite the storm last evening, everything from rain, to big bolts of lightning to 1" hail. At one point our sky was even pea green. I hate storms.

I have a few cards to share with you today and the first card is for this weeks challenge over at Taylored Expressions.

For the card above I  used some more of the BasicGrey "Olivia" papers. I hope you are not bored with this collection yet as you will probably see a lot of it in the coming days.  To shake things up a little my next cards will use the BasicGrey "Oliver" collection which is just as cute.

The monkey paper was just perfect for the challenge over at Clean and Simple Stamping.

My last card is for Pals Paper Arts which is a new blog challenge to me. I found it while blurfing today and thought I would give it a try. I did rotate the sketch just a little bit as you will see.

Don't you just love the train paper, journal card and the colors of this collection.

Well I will be back tomorrow with some scrapbook layouts I hope. I am planning on spending the entire day and evening at Archivers at their Scrap Mania. I haven't gone to one in ages and it is always fun to meet other scrappers and see what they are working on and exchanging ideas..

Have a great day!