Melonheadz and Sliekje

Today's cards are from 2 very talented ladies that have greatly inspired my last few posts....

Nikki at Melonheadz is such a great artist and has quickly become a wonderful virtual friend of mine! I've posted on her before so you may recognize her name, but this time I asked her to draw a special pic for me. My oldest daughter enlisted in the Army Reserve so I asked Nikki to draw a soldier girl holding a flag. By the next morning, this adorable girl was in my IN Box!!

I used Stampin' Up markers to color my little soldier, and SU Blender Pens to create the camouflage. I don't have a distressing tool, but I've found that a sponge rubbed on an ink pad works just as well! The tag and sentiment are also from SU, and the patterned paper is from an old Paper Pizazz pack I had in my closet...

Unfortunately my daughter will be coming home early due to some minor medical issues, so I will be sending this card to another virtual friend's daughter instead!

My 2nd card is a Sliekje drawing. My 10 year old daughter wanted to help make cards and loves to draw, so I asked her to color some of my digi's....

Obviously purple is her favorite color, so I mounted her beautiful art onto different shades of purple cardstock and outlined it with ribbon. The tag was cut and written freehand...

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Another Award!

I just want to give a GREAT BIG THANK YOU to Nikki at Melonheadz! Nikki is an amazing artist that has offered some very unique digi's to the cardmaking community! Besides being so creative, Nikki has proven to be a very selfless, giving, and considerate person....

Not only has she drawn up a personal digi just for me, she also awarded me this much appreciated award....

 

Please take a moment to visit Melonheadz and leave some love for her!!

Thanks Nikki!!!

OWH Sketch #60

Just a real quick post today... here's the sketch and my entry for OWH Sketch #60...

I got the brads from a Scrapbook Expo about 2 years ago and the patterned paper is from one of my old paper packs, added brown rafia and inked the edges... That's it!!

Thank you again for visiting! I know your time is valuable and I appreciate you using some of it on my page!!

OWH Sketch #59

I'm in the middle of getting a pack of cards ready to send to OWH and thought I'd take a minute to post my card for Sketch #59.  I made a few of these with some paper I got in one of my Cardmaker Kit of the Month sets.... not sure which one though because I took all the kits apart and tossed them in a big bin.

Anyway.... here's the sketch...

and here's my card....

I'm trying to get some Mom cards finished so I can send a decent sized box before the Mother's Day deadline of March 31st. I believe I read on one of Sandy's posts that they have lots of Mother's Day cards but could use some nonspecific Mom cards, so I chose this sentiment from Stampin' Up.

Better get back to work! Thanks for visiting!!

OWH Sketch#58-MidWeek-Throwdown-Easel Card

I don't know why, but for some reason I seem to do my best work in the middle of the night! I can sit at my table for literally HOURS during the day, but it's usually close to midnight when my projects finally come together and I have something worthy of posting!

This was certainly the case again today! I worked all day on getting a card together for the S&S Sketch #58 but I also wanted to make a Mother's Day card for the S&S MidWeek Throwdown BUT I also wanted to make an Easel Card!!!

So, here it is...12:05am and it's finally ready... My OWH Sketch#58-MidWeek-Throwdown-Easel Card!

The patterned papers are from my Exscrapaganza pack, the orange paper and stamped sentiment are from Stampin' Up, flowers were bought at a local scrapbooking store, and the chocolate pearls are from Queen & Co (bought them at the Scrapbook Expo!!).

And now... off to bed... I hope!!