Sketches and Candy!!

Hi everyone!! Happy Saturday! This post MAY go a little long (just a warning!!), but there is BLOG CANDY at the end!!! WOO HOO!!!

I have been invited to be a Sweet Shop Sugar Baby! I am SOOOO excited to join this AWESOME sketch team!! Each Saturday there is a new sketch and you can even win!! Check out these FABULOUS stampers I get to play along with!!

Korin Sutherland
Nicole Anderson
Bev Gerard
Holly Brown
Barb Guinan
Ann Clack

Although I don't "officially" start until next Saturday, I did play along with today's sketch, SSS23!! My card is also for today's Inspiration Challenge on SCS, IC199, The Pajama Squid! This site is SUPER inspiring, and as soon as I saw this Mushroom Bib, I knew what I wanted to do!

I was quite inspired by all the mushrooms on the inspiration piece, and so I pulled out some yummy new Cosmo Cricket, EarthLove!! All the patterned paper on my card is from this collection! The colors differ from the inspiration piece, but they are still mushrooms!!

For my focal image, I stamped this ADORABLE mushrooms (which I masked to put one in front of the other) from Fairy Good Day by There She Goes. The mushrooms and butterfly were stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black and colored with Copic Markers. I opted to leave off a sentiment as I am not sure what I am going to use this card for as of yet.

Notice there is no piercing on my card! I am OBSESSED (seriously!!) with SEWING on my cards!! I have a few projects in the works that I can't show yet (wink!) and almost ALL of them are sewn! I have to say...I resisted this for SO long, but I am glad I finally gave it a try! I just love the texture it lends to a card!


Tonight is the There She Goes Release Party in the There She Goes Forum right HERE (you just have to register first!) I will be there along with the other Trendsetters chatting and partying it up! I hope you can stop by and say hi!! We would LOVE to have you and ONE lucky participent is going to win the ENTIRE RELEASE! Yikes!

NOW....FOR SOME CANDY!!

I would really like to say THANK YOU SO MUCH for all of you that visit me here on my blog!!! I am always SO excited to read your comments!! THANK YOU! I know I have been promising candy for a while, and here it is!!!

What do YOU have to do to win? Well, it's easy peasy lemon squeezy! All you have to do is leave a comment right on this post and tell me what YOUR favorite type of challenge is!! Mine are sketch challenges for sure!! You have until next Saturday, October 3, 2009 at 11:59 EST to leave your comment, and I will use a random number generator and announce the winner right here on my blog on Sunday, October 4, 2009!!


Here are the deets on the candy! These items are some of my FAVORITE things to use:

1. One (1) Collage of Leaves Stamp Set from Innovative Stamp Creations

2. One (1) Perfect Package Card Box from Taylored Expressions
3. One (1) Multicolor Taylor's Tiny Twinkles from Taylored Expressions

4. Twenty (20) 6 X 6 Sheets of my FAVORITE paper ever, Early Bird by Cosmo Cricket!! That is TEN different patterns (each are double sided!!)

5. Eight (8) Hand Crocheted Flowers that match the Early Bird Paper, crocheted by my biggest cheerleader, my Mom!

6. SU! Ribbon Bundle in Certainly Celery and So Saffron!

Thanks SOOOOO much for stopping by and Good Luck!!

Recipe:
Stamps: Fairy Good Day by There She Goes
Paper: Suede Brown Dark, Spring Willow Green, both by Prism, Choice Buttercream & Earthlove by Cosmo Cricket
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Sewing Machine, Copic Markers, Chestnut Brads by American Crafts and Foam Tape

Jodi