crafting this and that

Hi, hi, hi!  Happy National Scrapbooking Day!  Happy Boy's/Children's Day!  and Happy Free Comic Book Day!  Wow, lots of special events going on today!  You know that if you go to a participating book/comic book store, you can get a free comic book?  Even our local library participates so we usually go there to get one for each of our kids.  Just Google it! Okay, I'll try to talk more about my card today.  I haven't played with my SOG stamps in a really long time.  I really love the 2 new Nouveau Girls stamps, Renew and Royal.  I love their dresses and their hair!  So I kind of had to get them.  Hehe.  And I got them just in time to participate in SOG's May Sketch Challenge . I decided to stamp up Renew first.  I love her dress so much!  I think I could've done her hair better but I still think she is pretty.  And my daughter actually thought she was pretty too and she rarely hands out those kinds o...

Hi!  Wow, how often does Blogger change their "look?"  Trying to get used to the new one.  I'm feeling a lot better today.  Thanks, everyone!  I thought I'd play along in Flutter By Wednesday's Challenge #199 which is to case Danni's first card .  This is almost the last challenge as Danni will close the challenge blog after the 200th challenge.  I didn't get to play too long but it was fun.  I followed the basic layout of Danni's card and the blue colors.  But I did add the bow and the circular die cuts.  I used CC Designs Ima Butterfly.  She's such a cutie too!  I paper pieced her dress and colored the rest of her with Copics.  I added some highlights with a white gel pen.  I also masked in the clouds in the background using PTI's cloud die.  I really like the look of the clouds. The sentiment is also from CC Designs which I heat embossed and cut out with a Spellbinders circle die.  The blue di...