M’s Sketch #4 Winners

Posted on | December 6, 2009 | 6 Comments

Finally!!! Sorry for the delay!

First of all M loved these cards:

But the winners are:

M loved all the cards but we never got to commenting on all of them — or I did and she didn’t. She got a bit distracted with the whole Christmas activities here at home. She picked the cards but when it came to commenting on the last few bits she just said, “Mommy, you do it for me. You can be my assistant and write for me.” Here’s my reply, “Heck no! This was your idea!! You wanted to practice writing!”

So here they are. Autumn/Winter, please email me your address and Ashley, I’ll email your GC/coupon code in the morning. Oh, where’s mom’s favorite? This time M and I are on the same page.

M’s Sketch #4

Posted on | November 17, 2009 | 18 Comments

This is a sticky, scroll down for latest post! Oh, deadline is Nov. 25th by midnight CST.

Hey, M got motivated and made us another (HAAAAAAARD) sketch. Ok, it was hard for me for her, she just whipped her card right out after she did her sketch. Now, the weather has been dreary here and since I work during the day I’ve been having a hard time taking good pictures. So this will do. M was also not feeling too hot this morning. She said her tummy kind of hurts and so that’s why her face looked so sad (I cannot stand her sad face… she always gets me with it or her little pouty lips… I just want to give her whatever she asked but I always have to be tough).

Ok, so here’s the sketch…

M's Sketch #4

M’s card is her usual minimalist style. She used a marker for the lines. I love her buttons. The colors are great against the dark card stock (Dawn McVey, if you’re reading this, she LOVES the card stock you gave her)!

M's Card Sketch #4

My card… I combined M’s sketch with Embellish’s color challenge: red, yellow, blue, and green. Talk about primary colors!! I thought it’d be tough but I had fun with the colors. I actually used different shades of the four colors to make this card. I have all sorts of blue, green and yellow. The only color that’s consistent is the red and white. I think that’s the fun part of colors you can change it around a bit and still stay within the challenge requirement. Ash also wants us to add some brads. Well, I did and uhm I had to fight with my Crop-a-Dile cause I can’t remember when I used it last. I even did some dry embossing with the COD… not straight (look to the right of the stitches) but I did it.

Mom's Card M's Sketch #4

And the prize for the little crafter this week…

Prize Sketch #4

And for you big crafter… This week’s sponsor is Krystal Hartley (click on her name, it’ll take you to her blog with some AWESOME freebies <– there’s a freebies link on the right!) from Sweet Shoppe Designs. Krystal’s an amazing designer and she’s got four pages of goodness in her store! Here’s a bit about her:

“Krystal has been designing digital scrapbook products for just over two years, but she has many years of paper and hybrid experience, including various design teams and published projects. She loves collecting stamps, inks, tools, and more and loves to combine them with her digital obsession to create beautiful keepsakes and gifts. Krystal lives with her husband and two kids near Dallas, TX.”

This week’s winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to her store. How sweet is that? For you paper crafters, this will be a great way to try out a digital/hybrid kit to either print for a card or use Gimp or even Photoshop to create a digital page.

Check out some of her digital stamps too:

Okie dokie, can’t wait to see what you gals create with her sketch! Do encourage your little ones to craft with you. It does the brain good AND it’ll be a nice mommy and him/her time too. Trust me {::SMILES}.

M’s Sketch Challenge #3 Winner

Posted on | November 14, 2009 | 11 Comments

Wow, sorry for the delay. This week’s just been hectic and I haven’t had a good chance to sit on the Mac to put the photos together for the round-up and winners. M LOVES all your submissions and she gets so excited when she sees each one of your work. She wishes she can write more but right now her one little sentence is all she can do. We did talk about “love” and “cute” so hopefully next time she’ll remember to write them correctly. Teaching a kid how to write is so hard, especially for words like “pretty”. The “y” at the end sounds like an “e” and what about the two “t’s”?

Without further delays here are her big crafter favorites:

And the winners are:

Maria – Check out Maria’s post for this card and find out who’s little hand was on this card!

Syd – if you haven’t done so, go to Syd’s post and read her cute little post. She took the picture and wrote the post all by herself!! If Sarah and I lived closer us four would have a great time together I think.

Congrats, ladies!!! I’ll get your gifty ready and I’ll email you when I get the info from the Cutting Cafe!

Mama’s favorite… I deserve to pick a favorite after doing all this stuff for my daughter, right?

Beth Matson! Wow, love the colors and cute design!! The stamps are adorable too!!!

Thanks everybody for playing!!!! Stay tuned for the next challenge. M’s thinking about it — very hard too — she wants something different and mom’s input is not worth anything (sad me!). So we’ll see. My kid’s always stubborn that way, has to do it on her own. Prizes… oh we’ve got some awesome ones for you!!!!! You got to play!!

M’s Sketch #3 + THE Messiest Room

Posted on | October 30, 2009 | 21 Comments

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M got another sketch for you and this time our sponsor is: THE CUTTING CAFE!!!! Yeah (THANKS, Regina)! One big AND little crafter who wins sketch #3 will be able to pick something out from that store (if the winner is a little crafter whose mama is an awesome TCC DT, we have something else to mail out to you). On top of the AWESOME sponsors we also have their wonderful DTs joining us to share some lovely inspirations. Scroll down below to see who they are and what they created based on M’s sketch!!

Before I get to the sketch and samples from M and DT (aka mom) I want to share this Tweet (M visited my work Wednesday):

Me: I need to clean my office. It looks like doodoo.
M: Yeah, it does.

A few folks replied to me and claim to have THE messiest room. Anthonette Chavez said we should have a contest and so this is where this messiest room idea came about.

For this week post your wonderful project (card/scrapbook/etc.) using M’s sketch AND/OR post a picture of your messy desk/room. Next week M will pick her favorite cards as always but the rooms, I will compile THE top 10 messiest ones and you all will get to vote on which room is THE messiest room. There will be a wonderful prize (ha ha… to add on to your MESSY room)!

Ok, here’s the sketch…

Our cards:

See, M in action! She was inspired by Becca (the winner of sketch #2) who took her own photos. Thanks Becca!!!

And mom’s card… super simple! Scraps of paper from who know and a digital paper from Sweet Shoppe.

The coloring I did with Copics and M’s were with gel pens. The images were printed on card stock from Office Depot on my laser jet printer. Nothing smudged from the coloring.

This was the image set we used:

Cutting Cafe Christmas Set

And the wonderful DT who are playing along this week are (THANKS gals!!!):

Deadline: Friday, Nov. 6th by 11:59 p.m.

M’s Sketch 2 Winners

Posted on | October 29, 2009 | 9 Comments

Hey gals, Jovie’s sick and so I don’t have a lot of hands right now. She just wants me to hold her and so here’s me typing with one hand. She has a fever, 101 is the highest, but still nursing.

Ok, here are M’s favorite… fresh from Adobe Lightroom (yeah, it’s a lovely screen capture):

Ange Kelley :: Ashley Newell :: Sarah Martina :: Quirky :: Marlene
Tenia :: Becca :: Paulina :: Amy Tsuruta :: Winter Sims

And the big winner is:

Congrats, Amy!!! She loves the pink and the idea that you can put candies in there. That was exactly how M chose her favorite. Actually there was a tie between Amy’s, Sarah’s, and Ashley’s but the candies got her he he…

The little winner is: