for a good cause

okay gang, i read a post on one of the blogs i follow tonight, and my heart just ached for this blogger friend's neighbour, a 12-year-old girl, who lost part of her arm in a boating accident. erin, at Scrap, Stamp and be Merry has posted a link to the article, and while there is no more space for toys and flowers and such in this little girl's hospital room, apparently "cards are welcome", so this is our calling, team! i was anxious to get on this right away, and started to create at 1 am.

cards can be mailed to Paige Welch at Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115.

erin is also giving away some blog candy to those who make a card for Paige and send it off, so i took this sketch:



from Triple the Sketch, and tried to make a card that might be cute for a sad 12-year-old. i hope she likes it - and i hope that some of you readers will make something to send to Paige as well.

i also mentioned erin's blog post to my hubbin, who was busy sorting beads in the bedroom, and he said i could pick one of the beaded necklaces he's made to send along with my card.

so here's the card - i tried to take a picture without flash so that i could capture the Twinkling H2Os properly, but it's a little dark. i bet if i'd used SHIMMERZ, they would show up better! hmmm.



now i just have to ask erin if she thinks that Paige is a girlie kind of girl who would wear a beaded necklace (with a butterfly!), or if she is more of a tomboy.

it's 2:30 am. i'm not remotely tired. it's been a LONG day, and i found out that my little old Miss Ophelia's biopsy came back positive. it's cancer. :(

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JESSICA! :)

and many moooooooooore!

hope it's fabulous, girlie!


hey gang, drop by Miss Jessica's Blog and wish her a wonderful 25th birthday!

she rocks!

would you like a cup of mojo?

Cafe Mojo, that is!

all the new Design Team members are officially on board, and my term has begun! first of all, go check out our new challenge, and play along with me and the Mavens! :)

here's today's sketch, to turn into something wonderful:



and here's my card, with lots of bling!








it's a great sketch, isn't it?! i have total confidence that you can rock it... go see what the Mavens at Cafe Mojo have done with this, and show us your magic!

also, please drop by Bev's blog for a chance to win Elodie:


(ends 9/4)

and happy hump day, everyone! :D

Hi, Diana!

this fabulously creative and talented (and SWEET!) girlie i know has a sketch challenge site, upon which i very recently stumbled, and i loved this sketch so much i had to play along...

Here's the site!
and here's the sketch:



and my lovely dollie, Adina, sent me some stamped images that were just SCREAMING to me from their envelope, so i played with Claudia the Artist. here's m'card:



design by diana is a blog i shall be visiting frequently for inspiration, and to say hi to miss D!

the vet called while i had my phone off tonight, so i have to call in the morning to get Miss Ophelia's biopsy results. and now i'm off to the gym to let off a bit of steam. g'night!

getting up to date here...

well i made these a while ago, but they were projects for the Shoe challenges, so they've been hiding in a folder on my desktop for a few weeks. :)

monday's challenge was all about DOTS, so i loaded up my card with 'em:



and the following was to be for a sketch that the lovely Miss Adina provided, but of course i don't have the sketch saved to my desktop... maybe she'll help me out with this. :)
anyway, the hat is a little unruly, and it just did NOT want to stick to that brown glittery paper, even with the glossy accents! i'm still on the hunt for the perfect adhesive.





the cute girl, by the way, is actually one side of a clothing tag that came with a shirt i bought a few weeks ago. the girl on my ketchup card was the sticker on the other side. :)