Meljen's Sick Little Bear

I made this card for Nate a 3rd cousin of ours who is having surgery on Monday, Nate is a special needs child that is going to be 5 in September and is going to have a colostomy. I hope this little guy gets well real soon and our prayers go out to him and his family. Hopefully this will put a smile on his sweet face when he receives it.

This image is from Meljen's Designs and it is called Sick Little Bear, isn't he a sweet image, just makes you want to hug him.

Have a beary great weekend and thanks for dropping in!

Bugaboo Digital

My post today is the Brat w/balloon digital from Bugaboo. They really have loads of darling images. I also used the cupcake trio from Meljen's Designs on the inside. I used my copic airbrush on the clouds, for a little different look.
How do you all keep track of your digitals? I have been printing them on copy paper and keeping each company I buy on a different page. I also am saving them all to a thumb drive for safety. (After all these can really add up after a little while. Hehe) I'd like to know other options that may work better so give me your input please!

I found some really nice stuff today at The Cutting Cafe. I haven't purchased any yet, but they have some backgrounds digital which I really haven't seen before now.

What type of image just really grabs you? I would love to know what makes you think "I just can't live without buying/checking out this". Mine is always Halloween items, anywhere I go whether your blog or a stamp company etc. I always check out the Halloween section if there is one.

So of course I purchased a Halloween stamp from here, already bought some rubber from Crafty Secrets too. I buy to many and forget what I have come Halloween then have to buy more of course! LOL The paper I used is from SU an older set that I had not cracked open until now and I am trying to get out of the comfort zone on the colors I am using with my copics. Hope you have all had a wonderful weekend and thanks so much for dropping by!

Meljen's Topsy Turvy Cake

Oh my I see more of these in my future, I love these Easel cards. They are so easy to make for a different type of card. If you haven't tried one I really recommend these. For this card I used Meljen's Topsy Turvy digital image it can be found at Whimsy Stamps. I printed it a total of three times, twice real small for the inside of the card. I loaded it with stickles as you can see, I left the main body of the cake white as this is my sister's favorite! I used some paper I have had for sometime, the DP on the front of the card says Sisters are Forever.

My sister and I are very close, we lived in the same town for the last 5 years until I moved back to Nevada recently. She worked for me in WY so we spent a lot of time together. I hope she enjoys her card that I have made for her, it's not like being there for her birthday but she knows I love her and miss her.
Have a blessed day and thanks for dropping by to see me! {{Hugs}}

FS218 Becky

A card for the Featured Stamper at Splitcoast this week. Congrats to Becky Spinks for being the FS today! Here is Becky's card that I chose to case.

Here is my story and I am sticking to it... I tried and tried to merge this stamp with the stamp called Garden Fence (both Meljen Design stamps) on my PSE last night, uurrggg! I can not use that program, so I looked up tutorials on youtube, one had no sounds and the lady whipped thru there so fast there was no way to follow her! When you are older like me and the screen is not as large as your computer screen, well let me just say that was a worthless waste of time. I am aging and need a magnifing glass to see... LMBO Oh well, so this morning after attempting again and did get two layers on the screen they just didn't blend together and mask the way the should I finally gave up and used just the bird house image. It took me longer to try to figure all that out than to make the whole card!

So I would love love love to hear from anyone that can point me in the direction that I should go to, to find help on this very perplexing problem that I have with PSE. (I am running an older version 7.0 and until I can run it partially don't really want to spend money to get newer version.)


Copics used for this project were: E33, 25, C3, 5, Y11, 19, 21, BV00, 02, V04, B0000, 21, 34,and YG03

As always thanks for stopping by and have a spectacular day!

You say it's your Birthday?

This is my submission for the Saturday sketch challenge and the FS217 Irene, she has some really great cards so I chose this one to case I changed a few things and it becomes a Saturday Sketch Challenge also. You will find a link to Saturday sketch challenge below and on the right (purple box). I hope I did Irene justice, her card is fantastic! These are both Meljen's Digital Designs.

A closer look at the card laying down, you can see I added some stickles to the frosting on the cupcakes. These fold flowers can be a challenge in themselves! LOL