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Please see my sidebar for an exciting blog hop that is coming up this Sunday! Hope you can join us! Great prizes and fun!!!

Kitty Love F4A17

This card is for today's Free For All Challenge - F4A17 - at Splitcoaststampers found here: http//www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=495226. We were to create a card with a pet. Isn't this little kitty just adorable??!! He is a digital image from Motivet. Sorry, can't find link now. The little paw print paper is also digital. tfl

Flowers in Vase MMSC58 WT275

This card is for 2 challenges:
1. Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge - MMSC58 - found here: http://priscillastyles.blogspot.com/2010/06/midnight-madness-sketch-challenge-58.html; and
2. Splitcoaststampers Ways to Use It Challenge - WT275 - to use ribbon, found here: http//www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=495124.
The digital image is one I watercolored with pencils a while back from sketchingstamperdigitals (tried to find the site, but couldn't find it, sorry). The background flowered paper is Core'dinations cuttlebugged and sanded. tfl

Classy and Fabulous SC285

This card is for Splitcoaststampers Sketch Challenge - SC285, found here: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=494966. The cute little hat is a freebie from Daisy Doodles, which can be found here on the new Crafters Digital Art Center site:

http://priscillastyles.ning.com/forum/topics/freebie-digi-kick-off. This and many more free digis can be found here. I used watercolor pencils to color the image, and digital word art (sorry, don't remember from where) for the sentiment. Didn't have the right color red for my flowers, so made my own polka dotted paper with a white paint pen and some real red cs. Inside the card says..."and YOU are Both!" tfl

Isabella's Flowers - ISC11 CC275

Hi ya'll! (Have to talk like that now that I'm on the Cowgirl's Posse!!) hehe

This card is for 2 challenges:

1. Isabella's Sketchbook Challenge 11, found here: http://isabellaschallenge.blogspot.com/2010/06/challenge-11-sketch-challenge-using.html; Isabella put this beautiful image as a freebie on the new digital stamping site found here: http://priscillastyles.ning.com/. If you haven't seen this site, you need to check it out...LOTS of freebies and LOTS of fun!!; and

2. Splitcoaststampers Color Challenge - CC275 - found here: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=494840.

My sister gave me a beautiful watercolor set about a year ago, and I've been scared to use it. Have been using watercolor pencils, but not paints in a tube. Well, this image just screamed "Watercolor me!!"...so I thought, what the heck, so this is my first. Of course, it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, although I know practice will make it better, so be gentle ~.~.

Inside is stamped "With Sincere Sympathy" which has a little flower beside it, also watercolored.

Thanks for looking, and hope you're having a great day!

Taking Flight in One Layer TLC277 CAS71

This card is for 2 challenges at Splitcoaststampers:

1. TLC277 - to make a card with one layer; and

2. CAS71 - make a clean and simple card with things that fly.

I used my favorite cardstock (Core'dinations), cuttlebugged with 3 different cuttlebug folders, and sanded it to make the designs stand out. Stamped the cute little bird with white pigment ink, and heat embossed with white detail embossing powder. A piece of white ribbon, and a little red heart for a pop of color, and there you go. Hope you like it. tfl

Sketch Challenge at Cowgirlssundaystampenchallenge

Today there is a new sketch challenge at Cowgirlup, which you can find here: http://cowgirlssundaystampenchallenge.blogspot.com/.

My card is made with this beautiful checked fairy image hand-drawn by CJ. Isn't she just beautiful??!! She is colored with watercolor pencils. I traced her wings onto vellum and cut them out and put them behind her. After I assembled the card I popped her up on the "moon" and put diamond Stickles on her wings. The Stickles made her wings curl a little bit, and I just love the effect!

Thanks for looking, and I hope you'll go to the challenge blog and play along! CJ has just put lots of new images that can be used for Father's Day in the store here: http://cowgirlupdigitalstampenranch.com/.