August Stamp of the Month

Well, it's down to the wire yet again because I was away last week doing this...

and yes, it was probably the worst weather week of the summer, hence the tarp. Barely saw the sun but I did get home in time to complete my 8th stamp of the month in a row. Yeah, me!

I wanted to use this intricate snowflake die from Memory Box and I'm not going to lie. It was a pain. Usually they go through the machine and cut very well but this particular one had some issues. The little snowman is glamour dusted and I popped my birdie up. Its a fun card and I like the purple tones.
Here's the image I was given for FREE...

I am linking up to the Stamp of the Month Challenge at From the Heart Stamps. If you like snowmen, Faith is doing a 100 snowman challenge and for a time her digital images are just $1.

Another Card Swap

I was asked to participate in another Card Swap, so much fun to get all the different cards and see what everybody makes but it takes a fair bit of time to make 13 of one type of card and I'm finding I'm not getting to my individual challenges.

I always make my BFF guess which one of the cards I made and she's usually pretty good at picking out mine but this time I tricked her a little bit. I used a pre-coloured illustration from Sassy Cheryl. Huge time savings when you are making multiple cards so even though she had me narrowed down to 3, it threw her off a bit. I love how this card turned out. It looks simple but it had many parts to it, some embossing, some glamour dusting, some diecutting and I tried to step up my game on the interior.

I'm linking up to Sassy Cheryl's Show ME Thursday challenge so she knows I'm not just baking every week.

Back to Nature Card

The challenge this week at    http://sassycherylschallenge.blogspot.ca  is Back to nature. So according to my new goal to be more computer savy, I decided that I would purchase a few digital images so I could link up to her challenge.
Well, needless to say, this was the only image that I could figure out how to get onto my computer and resize and print. Still some challenges in the technology department for me, but I'm working on them. Anyhoo, I pulled out a snowflake embossing folder (for the first time), coloured up my snowman and here it is. Maybe I'll give it to my neighbour who snowblowed my driveway after 20 cm of snow fell Friday. I sure appreciated his help.