Birdbrain Inner Tube

Well, I have passed the halfway mark in my challenge to complete a card for every month in the From the Heart Monthly challenge. That means I have added 7 new digis to my library just for completing the challenge for free!

This month the image was my favourite Birdbrain and even though I left it to the VERY last minute, I think it turned out great.

Here's the images that we got to work with...

I based my card on this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch so it came together in a snap...

Love it when a plan comes together! Especially when time is a factor.

Sweet Sunday Sketch #277

I enjoyed a leisurely day of scrapping yesterday so I was actually able to get something done besides the endless chores.
I used the Fast Food stamp set from Your Next Stamp. Thanks Nicole and based my card on the sketch provided at Sweet Sunday Sketch. I like the basic designs. I figured out when anything is asymetrical on the page it bugs me.

So here's the card. The inside says Lets Do Lunch...

The little epoxy dots in red, green and yellow (ketchup, relish, mustard) made the card. Thanks, Keri.
I stepped out of my comfort zone and made the background from a stripe and hand cut the food and popped up the burger.
Here's the sketch....

From the Heart Stamps February Monthly Freebie

So far, I'm two for two with my monthly challenges, but its still early days. I decided to combine From The Heart Stamps Monthly Challenge with the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge. I guess you could say I was killing one bird with 2 stones (that's a reference to my favourite Birdbrain images in case you didn't get it)
This month's free image included several sentiments...

and here's the sketch I used....

Voila! The card...

I love my new zigzag circle dies and I wanted to put pearls along the bottom to match the pearls in the necklace. The background was screaming for a little cloud action but I was growing weary and didn't want to print and cut another image to mask for the background. I DID manage to put a sentiment on the inside of the card. I love the yellow and navy colour combo.

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge

I just happened to be working with the adorable Love Struck line from WeRMemory Keepers, when I spotted a cute Valentine tag. I needed to make a wedding shower card for a lady at work with birds as the theme but I wasn't quite sure how to use the tag. I happened upon the Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge and I had my answer. Just cut off the tag part and I could use the sketch.

I follow the sketches pretty closely, no design team aspirations here but I love how it turned out and I think the recipient will as well.

I'm excited to link up to a new challenge site.