Just for Fun!

I bowl with my mom on Fridays--on a seniors league and it is so much fun.  Well one of the guys had a funny experience earlier this week when they were bowling.  His ball jumped alleys and knocked out pins on the alley two over, lol!  I am so sorry I missed it--would have been a riot!  So I thought I would make a silly card to remind him of it today, lol!  Can't let him live it down too fast.  I  made out side plain and simple....

But did up the inside a bit (he uses a red ball, hence the red ball bouncing around inside)....

All images digital and non-SU.

Hope you have a great day!
TGIF!!!!
Mary Jo

A Special Day Today!

Today my great niece is being baptized!  I have not even met her yet, but am excited to see he become one of God's children.  Here is the card I made for her....

I do not have any Stampin Up! stamps for this occasion so I went on a web-search and found this darling digital image at Di's Digital Downloads.  It is such a cute image.  The sentiment is from Crosses of Hope that is a Stamin Up! set.  Going to keep it short and sweet.  I will be back later tonight with my new sketch for the week.  If you have not played along please consider doing so--I think I need one more player to have a top three pick.  Here are the details of the sketch challenge from this week.

Enjoy your Sunday!
Mary Jo

Wow, what a nice break I had! I made my own digital stamps!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!  Ours was great, although with all the chaos we never even got a tree up. So on Christmas Eve we put up a Charlie Brown tree in an empty room that we have been doing some work in and that was our tree!  Kind of fun actually.  My son said it really don't matter about the tree mom--it's important that we are together and celebrating Jesus birthday!  How heartwarming that was to hear!  I am excited about the upcoming New Year!  I know it will be better than this year.  Too much sickness and death this year.  Here's to a healthy , happy and prosperous 2012!

I have not stamped in weeks and had time today but couldn't even get motivated to do it.  Even though I have lots and lots of brand new stamp sets.  So I decided to try out my new Bamboo writing tablet and make a few of my own digital stamps.  It is not so easy to draw on these.  I will need to practice a lot but though I would share the first three images I drew and the cards I was then able to make with them.  Nice and simple cards--hard to get back into the swing of things, lol.

I couldn't decide what I wanted to draw so I just started with a Santa!  I tried to make him look like he was sorry about the gift he brought.  Don't ask why, just thought it would be fun for my first try at drawing on this tablet.  Here is the card with the image...

 Then I asked my son what I should draw and he said a tiger so this is what I came up with.  Pretty silly but kind of cute...

Then finally I decided to try a penquin how hard can that be--ha ha..

I think they are kind of cute especially since it was the first time ever to use a writing tablet and try to draw.  I will make a few cards with them and who knows maybe I will get better.  My problem is thinking of what to draw--any ideas??

All stamp images are drawn by me--all other supplies are Stampin Up!

Happy today!
It's good to be back!
Mary Jo

Girl you are one COOL cat!

I am so excited about the fact that I just found another new sketch challenge. And it is for Hambo stamps. They are so cute, I would love to win some since I don't have ANY yet--boo hoo. But I do have this adorable free digital image from Hambo that I can use for the challenge! I am doing the happy dance, isn't it just adorable?!?

I combined the sketch with today's Color Challenge on SCS. CC234--Crushed Bermuda Mango

Stamps: Cool Cat Hambo Stamps Free Digital Image

Paper: Brumuda Bay, Crushed Curry, Mellon Mango, Whisper White, Basic Black

Ink: none

Accessories: computer, scallop edge punch, cuttlebug folders, large oval punch, scallop oval punch, rhinestones, copics

Happy today!
Mary Jo

Blogger's Challenge!

Let me start this post by saying -- DID YOU EVER HAVE ONE OF THOSE DAYS?????

It is only 9:45 and I have already had just about everything that could go wrong go wrong. It is actually becoming quite comical, remember I have a strange sense of humor so that could have something to do with why I am finding it funny. I won't bore you with all the details but I do want to publicly (especially since my hubby don't read my blog--I don't think) admit that HE was right. Ohhhh how I hate that. I have this shelving unit next to my desk that is 5 foot high and it it is one of those wire units. He is always saying---"ya know that thing is gonna fall some day with all the sh*# you pile on there. It gonna knock you right out!" Of course I just smile and nod--yea yea yea. Well guess what happened this morning. Yep you got it. Fell and yep, it hit me when it fell--didn't knock me out though so he is not 100% right, lol. What a mess I have. I was laughing so hard at how many things have gone wrong this morning that I decided to just leave it for a while so I don't hurt myself again cleaning up the mess. So here I am with my blogger's challenge post--with a huge mess all around me.

Today Lisa gave us a sketch--you guys all know I love sketches and since I missed last week I made two for this week!

First is a card made with stamps from Storage Units Ink and More. It is a card that has a ornament that the recipient can take off the card and hang on their tree or where ever. At least I hope that is what they do with it and not throw it away, lol

Here is the card together....

and here is a separate picture of the ornament by itself. Cute huh? I love this retired paper as you can tell, since I used it on both of my cards today.

And my second card is another adorable image from Mo's Digital Pencil. I love mice. I actually have a huge collection of them made from many different things but they have been boxed up for years--I don't know where to put them all. I boxed them up when my son was little to make the house more child friendly and to protect them from getting broken but now that my son is older he has pretty much taken over all the whole house with his stuff and there is no room for my collection. Oh well, back to the adorable card. If I wasn't so stinkin lazy I would make this for all my Christmas cards this year, but there is no way I could color this images that many times, lol.



Isn't he the cutest ever! I just love this card.

Card One
Stamps: tree and sentiment both from SUINK
Paper: Kiwi Kiss, Real Red, Night of Navy, retired dp
Ink: Basic Black, Night of Navy
Other: copics, bling, ribbon, brads, bows, cardboard ornament, sticklers, liquid applique

Card Two
Stamps: digital image from Mo's Digital Pencil
Ink: None
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Whisper White, retired dp
Other: Brads, ribbon, copics, rub ons

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Happy today--here's to it can only get better!

Mary Jo

Unusual Halloween Colors!

When I got up today I knew I was going to combine the Midnight Madness Sketch with the Color Challenge on SCS (real red, kraft, chocolate chip) and I was also determined to use this digital image from Mo's Digital Pencil. So with all those restrictions, lol, I think it turned out pretty stinkin cute--IMHO! Isn't this witch just adorable. I love her.

Stamps: Haunting Halloween, and digital image from Mo's Digital Pencil

Paper: Real Red, Kraft, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Misc retired dp

Ink: Chocolate chip

Accessories: , Copics, large oval punch, scallop oval punch

Here is the sketch for this week in you would like to play along. You can see the original post HERE.


Happy Tuesday.
Mary Jo

Three Clovers Thursday Challenge!

3 Clovers Thursday Challenge #26

Welcome to 3 Clovers Thursday Challenge #26!

Thanks for coming by today!
We hope that you enjoy this weeks challenge:

Techie Time!!

Use a digital downloaded image or make a background using your computer.


You can get Free digi stamps here:
Dustin Pike



Or make a background on your computer like Kerry did on this card.

Come on and play along--visit Kerry's blog here to see the original post and some other places to get digital images! Here are my cards. Remember I did one yesterday too with the digital image you can see that one HERE.

And now for today's cards. If you can help me figure out where the heck I got the giraffe image I would love to know, I believe I purchased it with another one call the early bird? I will edit as soon as I find out!

EDITED: I have been told the image is from the Digi Shack?

Stamps: Digital Giraffe?? don't remember can you help? Sentiment retied SU, Small flower on ribbon and bottom dp is from the Simply Said stamp set SU
Paper: Melon Mambo, Whisper White, Razzleberry DP
Ink: Melon Mambo
Other: scallop circle punch, circle punch, nestabilities, ribbon, rhinestone flowers, Copics

This next image is from a bunch that I bought at the above link--Dustin Pike, what adorable images. I matched this up with the retired Many Mower set for the sentiment.

Stamps: Dustin Pike bird in bath image, Many Mower retired SU for sentiment, SUINK for grass
Paper: Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss, Whisper White, Mat Stack DCWV with glitter
Ink: Basic Black, Kiwi Kiss,
Other: Copics

Come on and play along.
By the way I still need to post my sample for the SUINK challenge yesterday but I am still on a mission to find my camera--sure hope I didn't leave it at the theme park yesterday! I don't think so though, just need to remember where I did put it--I am on my first cup of coffee so hopefully it will begin to work soon and I will find it.

Happy Today!
Mary Jo

Cheers to you!

This is for both the SC241 and the Color Throwdown #55 for this week.

I have gone digital for a few days, lol! Today and tomorrows post will both use digital images. Very fun to use if you have a decent printer. This image is from PC HugBug collection Flakes for Every Season. The word cheers is done with black glitter, not sure you can see from the picture.

Stamps: none digital image from PC HugBug collection Flakes for Every Season
Paper: Melon Mambo, Kraft, Whisper White, Razzleberry DP
Ink: Melon Mambo, Crushed Curry with water pen
Other: sticky rub on for sentiment, black marker for edging, In color makers, faux black brads

Thanks for stopping by
I hope you have a blessed "hump day"
Mary Jo