Challenges and Applications!

Today was a busy day after a late night Monday night. For those of you who follow Paper Makeup Stamps, you already know that they had an amazing blog hop yesterday followed by a superb launch party. I spent a little over an hour on Monday at a friend's house blog hopping while she watched - sorry Christine! However the end result was worth it - I won a $25US gift certificate to spend on PMS. Then I had to order almost $60 in stamps to get free shipping and use my GC. In the end I spent $23 Canadian out of pocket and now I am anxiously stalking our postman! The release included amazing new fairies (Marissa and Fairy Friends found their way into my cart), coffee sentiments/word art (also jumped into my cart) and a brand new artist - Cynthia Liu. Cynthia Liu's Moody creations are different and perfect for more sophisticated card tastes. My cart felt empty until Moody for Art, Moody for Music, and Moody for Coffee found their way into it. Those stamps are just what I need to create cards for my newly turned teenage niece.

This afternoon I decided to complete the first Paper Makeup Challenge sooner rather than later - although PMS does have an amazing word art which fits me to a "t" usually, today I was on the ball. I cased Lisa McKinney off SCS and found the end result fantastic.

I decided to step outside my comfort zone and doodle on the inside too.

This evening I decided to try to complete PMS's second challenge - and surprised myself when the kids and Chris cooperated enough that I was able to create this...

I love this retired designer series paper and colours (Riding Hood Red and Pink Pirouette) by Stamping Up. Glimmer mist from Tattered Angels on the flower, buttons from SU, stickles (wings) and nesties were all dragged out for this beauty. Oh, and for the first time ever my sewing machine came out to play with paper!


Then I probably pushed my luck a little too far but did actually end up completing a Sugar challenge. I used the same buttons and DSP as the card prior.

Here is a link to the Sugar Challenge - check out all the beautiful cards others have made with their sugar.

http://www.sugarbowlblog.blogspot.com/

At this point I might have to take a few days rest - my family has had enough of card making!

Thanks for looking!