Are You Yeti?

Time Out Challenge #96 is up and running. The challenge is to CASE this gorgeous card created by Michele Ferguson of I Card Everyone.

I decided to use the layout of Michele's card with ink blending and the sentiment on the diagonal. I  changed the theme to Christmas, and stamped my sentiment rather than die dutting and stacking it. Some time ago, one of my dear Time Out teammates, Jill Vickers, gifted me this adorable MFT stamp set called BB Beast Friends. I decided it was high time to pull it out and go to work on my creation. I stamped 3 of the beasts on Nenah Solar White card stock, colored them with Copics, and arranged them on the masked, DOX-inked background. Since the little guy holding the present had his head tilted, I set the one with the cuppa a little off to the left on top of him. I hope he doesn't fall off!!! LOL. I stamped the punny sentiment on the diagonal, and mounted the white panel on Gina K Red Velvet base layering card stock.

Happy Little Stampers is sponsoring this challenge. Challenge winner will receive a $15.00 gift voucher to spend in the Happy Little Stampers Store.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is the very creative Bobby of Bits and Pieces. Bobby's blog is full of creative and inspiring cards. We are so pleased to have Bobby as our Guest Designer. Not only do we find her cards inspiring but Bobby has supported Time Out for a long time and we thank you Bobby for this. We urge you to check out here blog here.

Please hop on over to the Time Out Challenges Blog and see what Michele and the DT have created for your inspiration. How does Michele's card inspire you? I am looking forward to finding out.

Books Fall Open...

Here is my second overdue teacher card! I am thrilled that I got them both done this weekend. I just LOVE this new MFT set - I {Heart} Books. I can tell already that I am going to get LOTS of use out of it! I used this week's MFT sketch MFTSC95 for my layout and turned it on its side. Seems to be the trend for me this weekend.

I was browsing on SCS for a little inspiration, and came across THIS post by Michele Boyer. I loved her project, so I went to her BLOG for more details. She had the brilliant idea of switching the heads from another image in this set so that she could have a girl head on this image. That was just perfect for my card!! Thanks Michele! I wish I had thought of that, but I am glad you did!!!!!

I am so happy with this card, and even happier that I can cross this off of my to-do list. It's about time!! Thanks for stopping by today!

Peace, Love & Literature

I LOVE this new MFT set by Stephanie Fizer - I {Heart} Books. I work in my sons' school library and I {heart} what I do. I work with books and kids!! Now if I could just stamp for a few hours in my work day...

Summer has screamed by. The end of the school year was crazy, and I never got the boys' teacher gifts to their teachers in June. I still have 8 days until school starts... better late than never, right??? The gifts are books that I chose very specially for these two wonderful teachers. I wanted to make cards to go along with their gifts, of course.

For this one, I used this week's Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge MTSC35 for the layout. I turned the sketch on its side to make it work with this image. The colored and patterned papers I used are all from Taylored Expressions Easter Key Ingredients Kit as is the cording that runs between the 2 DP's. I used Choice Buttercream cardstock, also from Taylored Expressions, for the base of the card and for stamping the image and sentiment. This paper is an absolute DREAM for coloring with Copics. The image is stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa ink and colored with Copics.

You can't see it in the pic, but I used some crystal effects on the glasses to make them look - well - glassy. I got this idea from a post by teacher114 on SCS that you can see HERE. Thanks for the idea teacher114, and good luck with the upcoming school year!

I really love this card, and it is perfect for the person for whom I made it. I love it when that happens!!! Now I have to get to work on the other one.