Beat those winter blues!

Ugg. I am usually a "winter" person for the most part but after having a few teaser days with temperatures near 60, it is really hard to face a day when they return back to the around 35 mark. This wonderful image of Scarlette from Bugaboo makes me feel a little better! Of course I am still green with envy that my mom & sister are flying off to warm Cancun this weekend (lucky dogs!) but I do know summer is just around the corner!

DP: Die Cuts With a View for all but the yellow tone on tone dots, it came for a QVC kit from many yrs ago
Sun, beach balls & sentiments are from The {Stamps} of Life
 I used pencils to color Scarlette & the little beach balls(with glossy accent over top) & chalks for the background

I got the "recipe" for this one from  Sweet Sketch Wednesday
I am also entering it on:
Do You Stack Up? Where the challenge is all about patterned paper
Totally Stampalicious Where the theme is no reason at all/just because

I hope you enjoy & that it helps shake a few of those winter blues!
:) Candi

Birthday4Cookie

Wow! Being new to this "blog" thing is a little overwhelming! If I am not careful I am sure I will be spending WAY too much time blog hopping! So many challenges & so many, many wonderful creative blogs out there to check out! Think I am hooked...

OK, with that said, lets get to the fun creative stuff.. These sweet little images are  The {Stamps} of Life from a set called Birthday4cookie, one of my most reached for sets! LOVE it

Close up of present detail

I colored the background & puppy in w/ chalks & used my pencils, some glitter & some glossy accent on the present. DP is Pink Paislee, ribbon is some I picked up at walmart. The little "pearls" are actually dots of glossy accent that I covered w/ glitter while it was wet. Red cardstock has a self stick backing & I believe I got it from QVC many moons ago (again, woo hoo! using up that stock pile!)
The over all "recipe" is from the Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge
I also am entering this fun card to the following challenges:
Stamp Something where the challenge is to stamp something cute (And how cute is that sweet little puppy!!)
Totally Stampalicious color challenge, pink & red

Well, back to work. Lunch goes by way too fast... more to post later tho :)