merry - mm #55

It is the 4th Monday of the month and that means time for a tic-tac-toe challenge over at Merry Monday.

I decided to go straight across the top and use an animal, designer paper and ribbon on my card.

For my card I used papers by My Minds Eye from 'sweater weather', the image is by Whipper Snapper. I added some of my handmade crinkle ribbon.

If you want to check out what the rest of the design team did with this weeks challenge you can find them here.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me. 

 ~ hugs Sherry ~

Seize the Birthday

I was all set to post my card for this weeks challenge at Seize the Birthday and even had it done a week in advance as I knew that Lesley would have us use same sketch as last week only this week we would do a masculine take on it.

Well I had the card done, the post done and scheduled to go live when the day came.

Yesterday, I got an email from Lesley asking me to be the guest designer this week. Of course I said YES.

That meant making a new card using one of Lori's wonderful images as she is the sponsor this month at Seize the Birthday. Since I used to be on Lori's design team I had no problem finding the perfect image to use. (don't tell anyone I think I have almost all of her images)

So here is my card. Isn't he a cute little digi? Papers are by My Minds Eye from Lost and Found 3 and that polaroid frame is by Papertrey Ink.

Here is the sketch.

And just so my original card doesn't go unseen here it is.

I used a new stamp by Whipper Snapper that I picked up about 6 months ago but never used. The polaroid frame is by PTI, papers are by MME from the Lime Twist collection, wood stars are by Studio Calico and the sentiment is by KaiserCraft, the alpha stickers are from my stash.

I hope you will stop over at the Seize the Birthday blog and see what the design team created with the sketch this week. Tell them I sent you, I am trying to get brownie points so I can apply for the next design team call, but don't tell Lesley.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me. 

 ~ hugs Sherry ~

jingle balls

Doesn't the name of my post just make you laugh or at least snicker a little.

Isn't this just the cutest little stamp? Love those little snow guys. I had the hardest time with the card though and almost trashed it after my second go at coloring it. Not sure why but on the first image the red bled really bad and even my colorless marker would not remove the mess I made and then on this image the blue did the same thing. So don't look too close at this image.

I used this weeks 'what if wednesday' challenge for the inspiration on my card layout. I also used some of my wrinkle ribbon which I haven't used in awhile and a large dots embossing folder.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me. 

 ~ hugs Sherry ~