Sherri Baldy Sweetie Needs A Name

I've been taken with the artwork of Sherri Baldy and absolutely adore her whimsical and sweet images.   I love how you can look at her images and just see that each image has their own story behind them.  You'll be seeing more of her work here from me!  You can find her images at Scrapbook Stamp Society.

Today I want to share the cutest image but this cutie needs a name!

She's colored with copics and has Stickles on her flower, around the top of her hat, petticoat, ears and a touch on her bear.  Glossy accents is on her collar, ribbon and on the bears tongue.  She's cut out with my spellbinders and I used my new Floral Flourish and the paper is from a DCWV calender pack.

The lace and pearls are from my stash.

Here's a close up of her sweet little face.  Adorable, isn't she?

I added a flourish to the inside and inked around the edges of the paper in Antique Linen distressed inks.

We can't let this cutie go too much longer with out a name!  Head over the Sherri Baldy Art and leave her a suggestion.  You could win this baby for free!  Enjoy!

Cocoa's Latte from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps for Tuesday Throwdown

One of my favorite things is coffee!  Love it, must have it every day!  Want to make me happy?  Just get me a coffee mug.  Nichole's husband banned me for bringing another coffee mug into the house.  We literally were running out of space in the cabinets!

It's time for another Tuesday Throwdown Challenge!  Our sponsor over at Tuesday Throwdown this challenge is Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps and they have some of the sweetest stamps!  Our ever so talented Helen challenged us to create something using this picture as inspiration:

Here's my take on this photo:

I love Cocoa's Latte!  A latte is one of my favorites, but I'd sell my soul for a cappicino any time!  I love this cup and this little cutie poking her head around from the back.  Cocoa is colored with copics and Spectrum Noir markers and I added some stickles to his ears, the cup band and gave my hot cup some steam rising.  The papers are from K&Company and the pearls are from Studio 112.  I used my spellbinders Parisian motif for the circle and my new Floral Florish in the corner.  The ribbon is form Recollections.

Here's a side view.

I touched her little nose with a tiny bit of Glossy Accents.  Isn't she just the most precious thing?  You can see the distressed ink I used around the edges better close up.

This is another florish from the Spellbinders set.  I think they're so pretty.

Make sure to stop over at the Tuesday Throwdown Challenge blog and see what my fellow crafters in crime have come up with to inspire you and for more details on the challenge!  Can't wait to see what you create!

The Grimm Reaper - Sassy Studio Design Mini Release Halloween Blog Hop!

Welcome to day 2 of Sassy Studio Designs's Mini Release Halloween Blog Hop!  If you didn't blog hop yesterday, boy, did you miss out!  Makes sure that you take the time to go back and see all my uber talented design team sisters fabulous work!  If you came to my blog from Regan's spectacular blog, then you're on the right track.  If not, head over to the Sassy Studio Design's blog and start things off right!  I don't want you to miss a thing!

The oh so inspiring Kim came up with a fun game of Bingo for us to do!  Here's the card and doesn't it look like a blast to do?  

I loved working on this challenge and ended up using the top horizonal line with bat, bird, spooky sign, fence, and spider web.  I am so luck to have been able to work with The Grimm Reaper and I think she's so spooktacular!  For my project I did a tri-fold card and made it into the shape of a

I colored her with copics and Spectrum Noir markers and added some stickles (yep, even Grimm's have to sparkle too!), to her dress and eyes.  They don't show up very well in the photo but they're pretty scary!  The papers are from K&Company's Halloween paper and the flowers are from Recollections.

I love this fence from Tim Holtz.  It's so scary and rickety looking!  I just thought the black and grey flowers were perfect!

Here's a close up of her.  I used some Goosebumps (appropriate don't you thing?!) all over her and that's what gives her hood such a shine.  The texture that stuff gives your image is out of this world!  It's the first time I've used it and I love it!  Isn't she just beautiful?  I think she looks very haunting.

 This is the first panel and you can get a better view of the fence here.

This is the left side inside panel with the bat and the moon.  Love it!

 Here is a better picture of this gorgeous creature going off to help someone meet their maker - or her!

I absolutely love this bird!  The paper pack had this great, dark paper with this gorgeous purple bling all over the branches.  You know I've got to love that paper with bling!

I hope you've enjoyed it.  I know there's a lot to see, but I hope you've enjoyed it!  Now make sure you hop on over to my buddy Lori's blog where I know you won't be disappointed!  If you get lost along the way, here's the order for the hop:

Regan
Susan  (You're here now!)
Lori 
Karal 
Alaine 
Rina 
Rebecca 
Jackie 
Erin 
Jovan 
Carrie 
Sara
SSD 

Miss Kitty for Fabulous Friday Freebie for Sassy Studio Designs!

Halloween is such a fun time of the year.  You get to dress up and be anything you want to be.  It's the one time of the year you can be that person or take on that personality that really lives deep within you.  Over at Sassy Studio Design, we love us some Halloween!  Make sure you stop by the blog and catch the teasers for the new release we are going to be presenting in a 2 day blog hop tomorrow and Sunday!  Believe me, you won't want to miss them.  They're going to be spooktacular!

Today I've got a little bit of Halloween to share with you for our Fabulous Friday Freebie over at our Paper Craft Planet group!  Today's freebie is Miss Kitty and she is just purrfect!

She's so sassy!  She has attitude like you wouldn't believe, doesn't she?  She reminds me of my cat, Porthos.  Even though he was a male, he absolutely had that way about him that let you know he was his own man and had his own mind!  Gosh, I loved that cat!  He was a cream colored Persian and had this long, bushy tail that went on forever!  This babe reminds me of my sweetie.  He got mad at me when we moved and the first chance he had to get out, he took off and broke my heart.  I still miss that cat to this day and it's been over five years.  But I know he's found someone to take care of him so as long as he's happy, I can bear to be without him.

I colored this independent gal with copics and Spectrum Noir markers, used Stickles all over her, added some Diamond Glaze to her hot lips and some distressed around the edges.  The dies are from Spellvinders and the gems are from Studio 112.  I used my Martha Stewart spider web edger on the sides and the papers are from the Bewitched paper pad from DCWV.

Here's views of the side and here she is up close.  Can't you just hear her purr?

Judy, you need to hurry back and catch up on the insides of my cards because I'm about to change them up on you!

Tell me all about Halloween - do you love it or are indifferent about it?  Make sure to stop over at the Sassy Studio Design group at Paper Craft Planet and pick up this freebie.  She's only available for 24 hours so don't miss out on her!  Also, we're getting close to 800 members over there.  When we go over that magic number, Lindsay has a special something for everyone so hurry over and join!  Believe me, you won't want to miss it!

Have a great weekend and I'll be back with something new for you!

Pretty Pumpkin for Scrappy Frog Challenge!

I had this really great post all set up to automatically post and was so excited since it was my first post for Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog's team (YEAH!) and all that showed was the pictures of this little cutie pie!  I'm not sure what happened to the text to go with this post, but the pictures got saved but not anything else!  I'm so sorry, Deanna, Billie, and everyone else.

The theme over at Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog for this challenge is fall colors.  What's more fall than a little sweetie at a pumpkin patch?  Nothing I can think of!  This beauty is Pretty Pumpkin from Pretty Little Stamps and I simply adore her!

She was colored with my Spectrum Noir and copic markers, with some stickles added to her scarf, dress, socks, ribons, and leaves and the paper is K&Company's Halloween pack.  I added some distressed inks in Black Soot around the image and the inside.  The ribbon, crystal flowers and gems are from my stash.

Here's a peek inside.

Here's the other side.

I couldn't resist showing up a close up of her sweet little face.  Precious or what?

Here's my standard inside.  I'm going to have to come up with something different to mix up the inside, but Judy, hope you're having a great time on your holiday!

Stop over at the Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog and see what my oh so talented designing sisters have in store for you to inspire you to show us your fall colors!