fresh & fun

How sweet is that. I have been tagged by MJ Weston, Amy Rysavy, Alli Fradgley and Barb Kaszuba. I guess it was TAG BEATE day!  This is my first time playing Blogger tag. This is fun!!!!

Now I have to name five of my favorite blogger. I am a bit late in the game. I know several of my favorite have been tagged already. Here are five of my blogging friends:

Allison Fillo with her blog Stampin’ When I can

Amy Westerman with her blog Heartfelt Greetings

Charmaine Ikach with her blog Oodlebug Alley

Jenn Balcer

Kim McNutt with her blog The Occasional Stamper

I could have tagged so many more. I love every blog on my blog list and I try to visit at least them every other day! Check out everyone’s amazing blog!

I already played! I am so excited. As soon as I got up I checked the sketch challenge. That’s how excited I was to be able to do challenges again.

Today’s challenge is the Sketch Challenge. Roxie picked a card  of my friend Rainy, aka purplewinkle. It’s a great sketch for bigger images. When I saw that I was thinking….big images? What do I have? Well…I just got those BIG flowers from Fancy Pants. I was itching to play with those anyway! So here is what I came up with:

All images are Fancy Pants stamps from the Pollen Dust and Simply Stated collections. I used Tea Leaves, Red Magic and Midnight black Versamagic Dew Drops for ink. The black brad and the black ribbon are from Starlitstudio.

The big flower is cut out and added to the green swirls and ribbon. The smaller flower is cut out and layered over the big one and topped of with the black brad.

The celery cardstock panel are stamped with the same swirl images as the main panel. I added some speckles to the main panel with the Spritzer tool from Stampin’ Up! and celery and black marker.

I am having a great start to what will be a fun day (I think/hope). It is supposed to rain here all day long, but that’s okay. I wanna stamp!

This great greeting from Texas was send to me by Geeta Suggs. Thank you!