Pet Sympathy Card

My good friend's son's pet parakeet just died. I've lost three birds myself, they are quite fragile creatures, so I know what he is going through. So I made him this sympathy card. I know its a parrot image, and not a parakeet image, but I'm sure he'll appreciate it nevertheless. I probably should have looked up how parrots are colored, I colored him like a lovebird, cause that what I know, I don't know how parrots are colored, but I was too lazy/busy/whatever. LOL! Anyway, I can't tell you who designed this bird image because I picked it up at a local scrap booking store where they literally had a child's swimming pool filled with unmounted stamps. It was so overwhelming because you had to dig through this pool of stamps and then try and figure out what the image even was when its backwards on the stamp and there's no picture of it. It was so frustrating. The images were three for a dollar, but I don't know if the experience was even worth the cost savings. LOL!

Anyhow, onto the details of my card. The sketch is from last week's Paper Craft Planet Sketch Challenge, and the papers are Cosmo Cricket. The sentiment is retired Stampin Up! Have a great day! Amy

Digital Tuesday Challenge: "Heart to Heart"

Hello and welcome to another Digital Tuesday Challenge! Today's challenge is "Heart to Heart": show someone in your life how special they are to you by including a heart somewhere on your project. This week's sponsor is our very own Digital Stamp Oasis. They are offering three digital images to one lucky randomly chosen winner.

For my card today I used the Digital Stamp Oasis 'Mail for You'. Isn't this just the most adorable image? I love the smile on her face and the sparkle in her eye as she notices the cards of love in her mail box. And would you believe I have 6 hearts on my card? It doesn't look like it does it? But I do! There are 4 heart brads, and two card stock hearts. The image was colored with Copic Markers, the card stock colors are Sage Shadow, So Saffron, Ruby Red, and Close to Cocoa (all from Stampin Up!) and the designer paper is Cosmo Cricket. If you'd like to play along with us this week and get a chance at winning some cute images from Digital Stamp Oasis, simply click on the Digital Tuesday Challenge Blinkie in my side bar and it will take you directly to the challenge site.

Have a great day, and be sure to send some love to someone in your life today! Amy

Sip and Relax

Sip and Relax. That sounds good to me. Maybe I need to send this card to myself. My work schedule has been grueling. If you work in retail, between now and Christmas, you are BUSY! I've been working 6 days a week. Sometimes I think I should not even bother to come home and just sleep in my car in the parking lot. LOL! But I sure am enjoying the money though! Right now it just goes right in the bank because I have no time to spend it, but when I do have time to spend it, it will be fun! LOL!

I made this card weeks ago for the CC233 Color Challenge on Splitcoaststampers, but since I haven't had time to create anything 'new', I'm posting this one now. The colors were Real Red, Chocolate Chip, and Kraft. The image is from Papertrey Ink 'Tea for Two'. I just love this little tea pot, and since I am a tea drinker, and I collect tea pots, I thought it was the perfect set for me to own. I mounted both the tea pot and the sentiment up on dimensionals. All the various shapes on the card were cut using Spellbinder's Nestabilities.

Well I'm off to work again today, but I hope you all will have time today to 'Sip and Relax'. I know I won't. LOL! Amy