Let sleeping dogs lie...

Look at this FACE! AAACK! I love my Lukie-bear:) He's sitting here next to me, face all squished up in the couch but he's sleeping SO HARD! I was petting him and trying to get him to wake up, but he wouldn't budge, lol! When his eyes finally did open, they were all stuck together and he couldn't open them all the way...you know the way your eyes do at 5:00 in the morning on a PT day when your alarm starts SCREAMING and wakens you from a dream where you're a millionaire heiress on a Saturday afternoon shopping spree? NO? Guess it's just me:) Bahaha!

Everyone else gets to share proud mama pictures of their real babies, so I hope you don't mind my posting some of my furr-babies every once in awhile:)

I do have a card to share! Today, the Monday chicks are all about JEWELS! No matter the size, cut, or color, I love me some jewels! And rhinestones on my cards are just about as close to heaven as it gets;)
I printed some more patterned paper from Two Peas in a Bucket, the paper pack is called "Orchard" by Apricot Avenue. Isn't it purdy? I love the blues and purples! The stamp set is Time for Tea by Papertrey Ink. Another fun set I ordered and finally had time to play with! The little tea pots are so adorable and have a ton of possibilities! I poppped most of my layers up for lots of dimension, now I need to buy more dimensionals, lol!

Jen Buck, Jimmi Mayo, and Jeanne Streiff are for SURE playing in today's challenge so check em out! The rest of the Monday girls were busy/swamped so they couldn't play this go around but we'll all be back next week in force!

Have a fantastic week ladies, see ya tomorrow!

Somebody stop me!

Well, I gone and done it. I dove head first into the digi world and I'm LOVIN IT! I've been downloading kits all day and playing with them! Wanna see something I did today? Okay, this first one is a hybrid project I did!

EVERYTHING except for the stamps and ribbon is digital! I created the basic layout in PSE 5 first, using digital papers from The Digi Chick (I'll come back and edit with the name of the paper pack when I find it!) , and then printed it out on a piece of 4.25x4.25 Whisper White cardstock. Then all I had to do was stamp the mushrooms from the Unity May KOM, color them and cut them out, stamp the flower and turtle from You + Me = Happy, and then add the ribbon! Even that stitching is digital! Is it not the coolest thing evah??? Man I'm having fun:)

One more project I created is for this weeks VLV May Sketch Challenge!

Again, I used digital papers (except for the Kraft background) from The Digi Chick! I printed 4 different papers out and then sewed them down on my card. The stamp in the middle panel is from Because of You and the sentiment is a newly released Plain Jane! I added some butterflies and ribbon and that's that!

I'm afraid I can't turn back now that I've discovered how fun it is to print these papers off and have them whenever I need them, w/out exhuasting my supply! w0000h000!

I created a layout today as well, I'll share it even though I was going to wait, don't want to post too much or I'll bore you:) BUT I had fun doing this today...

These papers are from The Shabby Shoppe, the kit is called Damask and Dots and the title alphas are from Promise. I kinda wish I would have made my journaling a little smaller, but I'll remember that for next time! I'm no professional, but I am happy with one of my first attempts:)

Thanks for letting me share, hope you have a fantastic Sunday!

I'm a hybrid chick!

I finally dove into the wonderful world of Hybrid! I've been reading so much about it and decided that it'd be silly NOT to try it! My favorite aspect is the unlimited DP! Oh my, you download a paper pack for 2.00 and can print it out as often as you'd like, awesome right? My buddy Julee is on the DT over at The Digi Chick so I checked the site out and downloaded lots of fun paper packs! I used a piece from Tangerine Twist for this card, featuring Unity's April KOM!
Printing out that paper was SO fun and EASY! Honestly, I am LOVING digi paper...Especially the papers in this paper pack. The fun, summery colors are so inspirational! And what better compliment to that paper than Unity's April KOM? The font of the sentiment is a favorite of mine! I hope to see many more in that same font, it's very vintage and chic. The butterfly and the VERY light bird image (stamped in versamark) are also from the KOM. The ribbon is Aqua Mist by PTI and still my all time favorite PTI color:)

In this photo, I tried to capture the sparkle I created when I spritzed some water that I added green Perfect Pearls to, it's really shimmery IRL but I'm afraid it didn't come through in the photo. BuMMEr! Isn't that button embelli fun? I finally learned how all the pro's do that, so I've been having fun with it too;) Don't blame me if you see much more of this treatment in the future!

Monday will be the beginning of a week long celebration of the Unity Anniversary! Unity will be a year old, awww! There will be TONS of games, prizes, and challenges so make sure you come back to find the details! We'll also begin showing PEEKS of the May KOM! Girls, it is SERIOUSLY my FAVORITE KIT EVAH!!!!!!! I honestly want to use it on EVERY. SINGLE. CARD. You'll ADORE IT! :)

Okay, I'll be back tomorrow with more stampy goodies, I'm feeling very inspired this weekend:) Have a great weekend!