Congratulations Mike and Jessica

My co-worker Mike and his wife recently had a sweet baby girl.  I wanted to make a card for him but did not have much in my stamp collection to celebrate the birth of a baby.  I knew I wanted to use this sketch from Sugar Pea Designs:

So I looked at my Sugar Pea stamp sets and found this adorable image of a newly hatched baby dinosaur.  So I stamped, colored and cut out the new hatching (coloring her pink, of course) and a palm tree and put it all together. I changed the card design to a square card but other than that I stayed true to the sketch.

I am finally starting to fee better after 3 weeks of sickness.  I am taking it easy this weekend (luckily no big Easter dinner to prepare or attend) so hopefully I can get a full week of work in next week. No one pays me to stay home and make cards! (I wish!!)

Here's wishing you a happy Easter and a wonderful weekend.

~~Sandi~~

We're Better Together

This is my 5th and last card that I created for the Spring Coffee Lovers Bloghop which closes in about 8 hours.  What an awesome display of creativity!  And we have a new record on the number of link ups....I am hoping for over 700.  Amy Tsuruta and her helpers have done an incredible job.  Check it out HERE -- there are some gorgeous projects and fun prizes!

Here is my card that I made entirely of scraps....except for the fun coffee cup that I cut out from a 4x6 Simple Stories card from their Pumpkin Spice collection.

I used this great sketch from My Favorite Things:

I am also entering this card at the Paper Sweeties March challenge.  I was inspired by the colors on this inspiration board:

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my project.....have a wonderful weekend.

~~Sandi~~

Sickie Selfies

I mentioned in a recent post that my husband and I have been sick for over a week now.  We went back to work 3 days ago but unfortunately are still fighting this thing. In an effort to keep my scrapping "real" I decided to make this page and to document what it is like to live together, work together, be sick together.  I used all Simple Stories papers and embellishments from several different collections but the majority are from the I AM collection.  I also used this awesome sketch from The Scraproom Blog:

I have really been loving their recent sketches and if chosen I would be invited to be a guest designer with one of their yummy looking kits in an upcoming month.  Isn't that an awesome honor and prize?  You can read all the details HERE.

That is about it for this evening....it is almost the weekend and I am REALLY looking forward to it.

~~Sandi~~

A Little Birdie.....

My husband and I have both been sick for nearly a week with upper respiratory junk.  Thankfully yesterday we went back to work and are now on the mend.  But a couple of nights ago my poor hubby coughed ALL night long. We are currently in the process of redecorating our guest room and the bed is dismantled so it was not an option for me to go sleep in the guest room.  By 3am I realized I was wide awake and was not going back to sleep anytime soon.  So I got up and went to my creative place and starting crafting.  Surprisingly my mojo was flowing and by 6am I had completed 4 cards & finished a layout that I had started the day before. This card is for my soon to be 14 year old niece Rachel.  That pretty blue background paper is from the DCWV Chalkboard Stack.  In fact, all the papers are from DCWV.  I also used this March Stack-a-holic card sketch of theirs:

The little birdie that I colored with my Copics is from a Cocoa Daisy stamp set and the sentiment is from Tim Holtz.

I am also entering this in the Mod Squad Springtime Challenge because what say Springtime more that sweet little birdies??

Thanks for stopping by tonight!

~~Sandi~~

Sending You A Latte Birthday Wishes

Here is my final card for the day for the Spring Coffee Lovers Bloghop.  I needed to make a birthday card for my sister-in-law in the Midwest and knowing that she is as big a coffee lover as I am I knew she would appreciate the sentiment.  Have you checked out the bloghop yet?  It is awesome....beautiful and very clever projects, loads of inspiration and some awesome prizes also.  Go HERE for all the details.

I am also entering this card in Simon Says Stamp's Monday Food and Drink Challenge.

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my project.  I love reading all your comments.

~~Sandi~~

Keep the Coffee Coming

Have you been checking out the awesome projects at the Spring Coffee Lovers Bloghop?  Wowzers....there are some super talented ladies out there.  I got so inspired, I decided to make a bunch of cards this morning to link up to the hop.  Here is my 3rd card:

I used this perfect sketch from Sketch-n-Scrap this month:

I am also entering this card in Simon Say Stamp's Monday Food and Drink Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by....I appreciate your kind comments.

~~Sandi~~

Espresso Your Style

It is that time again.....time for the Spring Coffee Lovers Bloghop.  I love coffee and I love to make cards so put the two together and you get a fun time that Amy Tsuruta (with some help from her friends) puts on a few times a year.  There is so much talent and so many fun projects to inspire me that I really look forward to these hops.  And prizes....did I mention the prizes?  Amy has rounded up prizes from the best sponsors in the industry.  I have never won a prize before but I am feeling good about my chances this time around.  I hope you will get inspired and make/enter a few cards yourself.  Leave me your link in the comments below and I promise I will come visit your blog and leave you some love.

Here is my next project.  I actually made 3 coffee themed cards early this morning. 

For this card I used a 3x4 free printable from Paper Issues.  They are currently having their Spring online crop so this card is doing double duty.  You can get the info on the crop by clicking HERE

I am also entering this in Simon Says Stamp's Monday Food and Drink Challenge

And finally I am entering this card in Paper Sweeties March Challenge.  I was inspired by the blackboard on their inspiration board:

Thanks for stopping by....have a wonderful week.

~~Sandi~~