Happy Thursday!!  Only one more day till the weekend!!  Woot woot!
I'd like to welcome all of my new followers, both on GFC and Facebook!  I'm so glad you are here!  I hope you will stick around and enjoy the fun items I share with you here :)

I wanted to show off 2 cards today.
This first one popped into my head right after I purchased the image yesterday and I got right to work on it...though I had to reprint the image and try to color it again as the first round didn't set well with me :)

Now I try not to be obsessed with these movies...but I do get a little excited at the thought of watching them...just ask my hubby :)  So when I found my sentiment, it sort of seemed perfect to go with the image...there are always moments where I feel this way.

This image is My Twilight Mama from Saturated Canary.  Honestly, I'm surprised it took me this long to purchase this image...I love it so much!  And it cracks me up...the over excited mom with the totally embarrassed daughter...how many times will you see this once the last movie comes out in a few weeks?  Lol...

I've colored the image in with my colored pencils...though I'm starting to get the itch to upgrade to markers...my pencils keep breaking and won't sharpen very well and it's just ticking me off...I might just have to make the leap into markers :)

I distressed all the edges with my scissors, and then printed off the sentiment and scallop cut around it.  Pretty simple, but I love it :)

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
    Challenges 4 Everybody #5-Anything Goes
    One Stitch at a Time #136-Use a Digi
    One Stop Craft #201-Anything Goes
    Sketch Sunday #170

My next card is geared toward the holidays/coming winter.  I purchased this image a few weeks ago after seeing a few adorable cards featuring it..new I had to use it :)

I love light blue...I never seem to have enough paper of that color :)
Anyhow, I colored in my image (Inky Critters from Tiddly Inks) and then scallop cut around it.  Wrapped a few ribbons around and behind the image and then printed and flagged a sentiment under the bow.
The snowflakes are punched out and then covered in light blue stickles.  I added a clear gem to the centers as well.

I like that each square can be used individually, or all of them together...gives the whole thing diversity and lots of options for layouts :)

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
    ABC Christmas-U for Up to You
    The Crafty Pad #193-Use Animals
    Fab 'n' Funky #144-Animals
    PanPastel #41-Animals
    There She Goes #178-Sketch

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I am a big fan of the Twilight books and films, but with our recent move and adjusting to life in a new city I had completely forgotten that Breaking Dawn came out in theaters last Friday!  So I was totally stoked when Pixie Dust Studio came up with a Twilight challenge and blog hop!
I really wanted to purchase some of their new Twilight digi images but had to restrain myself because I knew if I purchased 1, I wouldn't be able to stop :)  I did the hop through all the blogs and they each had fabulous projects!  So after all that inspiration, here is my card:

I cut out the phrase using the Cricut Jubilee cartridge.  It's cut right out of the card so I attached a piece of white cardstock behind it so that it could be seen.  The lion and the lamb are both cut from the Create a Critter cartridge.

I manipulated them a little bit by tilting their heads and moving the lambs leg so that it looked like she was kicking it out behind her, and her arm was reaching for the lion to embrace.  They turned out sooo cute!  I'm very proud of them :)
I also made the roses by following this tutorial by Cindy at Tools of a Cropping Queen: Rose Tutorial

The tutorial was super easy to follow and the roses came out beautiful!  Once I got the hang of how to put them together, it went pretty quick.  I've been wanting to figure out how to make small roses to put on my cards since I see them all the time, so now that I've learned, I will be using them a lot more :)
This card has been entered in the following challenges:
    Pixie Dust Studio's Twilight Inspired Challenge
    My Craft Spot #34-Handmade Flower
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