To:my hubby_

Didn't this turn out fun? I really liked the end result. I have to admit that I am a bigger lap top user than my hubby, but it is still a fun one. Hope you are having a great day!

It's a good life!
Terri E.

Love You

Have you checked out the Stamp TV challenges? If not, you really should. Not only are they tons of fun and 5 days a week, but every challenge they give away a free stamp set to a random winner. Can you beleive how generous Gina K is??? All you have to do is stamp and you have the chance to win some great sets. LOVE IT!!!!! Okay enough gooshing LOL, here is the sketch for the last week.
Here is my card.

Isn't that little monkey the cutest? I colored him in on GKD pure luxury 80lb cardstock. I am still learning my copics, but it is getting a little easier to work with them the more I do it. There is hope for the average colorer LOL! I used floss for the balloon strings and it really seems to add some dimension.

The fun polkadot ribbon is from PTI, the stiching just seemed to tie everything in. This is one of my 8 cards going to the cards for kids drive. I think I am going to be missing the Jan drive, but it is on going, so hopefully I can hit next months group and send them some fun valentines day cards.

In the midst of all of this, I realized I haven't made Izzy's or my hubbys cards yet. I need to get on that quickly. I am done with their shopping, but still need some goodies.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are GKD unless noted

Stamps: Just so Hippy

Paper: Pure luxury 80lb, su chocolate chip, basic grey autum dsp, su kraft

Ink: Momento black

Accessories: Copics Box A&B, PTI satin polka dot ribbon, white gel pen, threading water punch, nesties, brown floss, su stampin dimensionals, su glue dot, su large corner rounder punch

80!!!!!

I am so excited to share the card I made for Randy's grandma Avis who just turned 80. We just got to see her right after Christmas and she is quite a doll! I only hope I have as much energy when I turn 80.
This is a fun card and it was just as much fun to make. It has a black base that I embossed with irrodecent embossing powder. I wanted it to look like a fun stary night. This was made with the Finally Friday challenge in mind as well, which was to use black on the card. I know it isn't a normal way to use it, but it I think it turned out fun.

The ice berg that our hippo is on is also all kinds of sparkly. Thank goodness we can be creative in a card, because I am really not that sure when a hippo would ever be on an ice berg, but he is now LOL! I also loved the floss detail on the balloons. It really added a neat element.

It's a good life!
Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Stampin Up unless noted
Stamps: GKD Just so Hippy, GKD Just so sporty
Paper: Basic Black, Tempting tourqoise, PTI stampers select white, GKD Pure luxury white
Ink: Momento Black
Accessories: 3/4 circle punch, irrodecent ice embossing powder, heat gun, copics, blender pen, dmc floss

Mel's Blog Hop card #2!

Well it is no surprise to anyone here that I adore Melaine's sets that can be found here at Gina K Designs. She is celebrating her second year blogaversary and 25 released sets. Not only can you win neat things found here at her blog, but you can also create a card using one of her stamp sets and join the hop as well.

Okay I just couldn't not put Mel's sets down. I needed to make a fun card for my friend's anniversary coming up in January. So of course I had to pull out Cuddles and Hugs. It is so much fun to color and play with.
I colored my fun lions with the copics and then restamped the image on scrap paper and used it as a mask so I could spounge the background. I have also decided that the copic coloring system is on the "need" list for 2010. Maybe for my birthday or a baby present to myself LOL! I added the bushes so there was some texture. Hope you enjoy.

It's a good life!
Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Gina K Designs unless noted
Stamps: Cuddles and Hugs
Paper: Pure Luxury 120 lb white, Kraft su, cosmo cricket mr. campy
Ink: Momento Black, SU soft sky, SU mellow moss
Accessories: Copic Markers box A & B, SU stampin dimensionals, PTI Spring Moss double stiched ribbon, spounge

Melaine's Blog Hop!!!

Well it is no surprise to anyone here that I adore Melaine's sets that can be found here at Gina K Designs. She is celebrating her second year blogaversary and 25 released sets. Not only can you win neat things found here at her blog, but you can also create a card using one of her stamp sets and join the hop as well. How fun is that?

I just got home late yesterday and do you think I unpacked, put away Christmas decorations or cleaned? NO, I just had to go and make a fun card for this great celebration. One of my new years resolutions is to keep up and blog my challenge cards. Too often I create them and then never get around to posting.

Since I had a lot of time at a hotel room Friday and Saturday due to a weather delay, I was able to check out quite a few challenge sites, needless to say I was swimming with inspiraiton. First I used the skech from JUGS. I really like this fun challenge site, but I haven't played as much as I would like. Then I saw this fun challenge from Embellish Magazine and thought it would work well with some of Mel's cuttie patottie animal sets.

Then when surfing, I ran into this fun card campaign for Winter. She is wanting to get a ton of cards for St. Judes. I really thought it was a fun idea, so I am going to be whipping up some more to send out.
Finally the card

Don't you think a little child would love this fun Valentines Day card? I have always loved the fun and playful animals that Melaine draws and this zebra is no exception. Hopefully there are more cuties headed our way LOL!

It's a good life!
Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Stampin Up unless noted
Stamps: Jumping for Joy GKD, Just so Hippy GKD
Ink: GKD Momento Black
Paper: PTI Stampers select white, black & white dsp, basic black
Accessories: Stampin dimensionals, GKD Copics RV colors, PTI raspberry fizz ribbon, PTI sweet blush button, white floss

Hippy Birthday

Good evening! I am so excited to share another fun card with you today. This was a card that combined two challenges. The first was the SPCC challenge with colors seen below. The second was a kick stand card challenge from Stamp TV.
Here is a picture of the card with me holding it together so you could see the whole effect.

Here is the card standing by itself.

How cute is that little guy? Anyway, I really liked making this card. I hadn't made one like this in a while if ever. It is for Owen a fun friend who is turning 2 in November. I am way ahead of the game right now with my birthday/anniversary cards. If only I could get them out in time.

I have one friend who puts the actual date on the back of the card and then mails 2 times a month. So everyone gets their card early, but they do know that you know when their birthday actually is. What do you think of that? Would you be offended/would it still seem personal? I guess it is better than this year when I was late for some of them even though the card was made weeks in advance. I would love to hear what you guys think.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: GKD Just so hippy, PTI background basics dots and spots

Paper: Not quite navy, PTI stampers select white

Ink: Not quite navy, dusty durango, soft suede, GKD momento black

Accessories: Nesties, stampin dimensionals, copics box A & B

Big 34

Well my hubby turns 34 in November, so Izzy helped me create this beauty. She loves helping pick out things for others cards. Randy always seems to be wearing big hoodie sweatshirts and baseball caps, so that was the inspriation for this card. I used this fun WCMD color combo from SPCC. I also based the card on this sketch by Stamp TV Here is my card

It is a loose interpertation of the sketch for sure! I was going to add some ribbon at the bottom, but it was just too much, so I left it off. I adore using all of the sketch for a jumping off point. I think the spiral punch and the cute little clip add a fun dimension as well.

I am sure my hubby will love it!

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: GKD Just so sporty, PTI Journalig lines

Paper: PTI Kraft, Throughly Modern dsp, real red

Ink: Soft suede

Accessories: Real red marker, clip, red ribbon, stampin dimensionals, spiral punch, spounge

Hoppy Birthday

Okay I am super excited about this fun card. I don't know if any of you are like me, but I learn really neat techniques and then seem to forget about them. Well this week on Stamp TV, they are going over spotlighting. I learned this a long time ago and haven't used it in a while. I LOVE it and it worked well for me with this CPS sketch found here.
Here is my card

As you can see, I flipped the sketch around, but I really like the effect. This is for a Stephen's birthday. He is a little boy that we know and I think he would get a kick out of this. I really like my copics and I have been taking a class with them. One of my favorite things is creating scenes. I have had a hard time with that and the copics. I don't know how to make a background work for me. I think perhaps the answer is an airbrush system LOL! Anyway, this technique allowed me some freedom with that problem.

Gina did the circles a bit differently, but I was always taught to layer with a black circle just a bit bigger than the cut out. I used two punches for the little circles and nesties for the center spot. I really like the effect and I think Stephen will adore this fun card.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are GKD unless noted

Stamps: Jumping for Joy, Cuddles and Hugs, Hip Hop Accessories

Paper: Pure luxury white layering weight, SU Basic Black, SU Bermuda Bay

Ink: Momemto Black

Accessories: Nesties, Copics box A & B, Black pen, SU 1 3/8 punch and 1 1/4 punch

Tiny Treasures

I am so excited to share this scrapbook page. I had some more fun challenges that I just couldn't get out of my head, so I had to create and boy am I glad I did LOL! I used this fun sketch from Stamp TV for my scrapbook page.
I combined it with the Verve release bling challenge.

As you all know I am working on making my daughter a fun scrapbook with pages that are all about my prayers for her. I want to leave a legacy of faith for Izzy, so I thoght this would be a fun way to show her what I pray for for her. All of the My Prayers for You serries is found on Faith Sisters Blog Here is the page

Here is a close up of my prayer and the fun title I used

I also wanted to give you a close up of the scripture and all of the fun bling. She is such a bling girl, I knew this would be a perfect touch to the page.

Isn't this a neat idea! I have about half of the pages done, but I did take some time to go through and find pictures that work for the rest of the challenges, so now it is a matter of getting up to my room and making the pages work. I used my glue pen and glitter from Gina K. There was a great video on how to use them over at Stamp TV and I must say I LOVE THEM!!!! Izzy loves them as well and she was so excited we were breaking those out today, LOL!

I do have some super fun blog candies that start tomorrow on Izzy's birthday. I do know they will not be until later in the day, so look for that tomorrow.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: GKD What's in you tin, GKD Jumping for Joy

Paper: PTI Stampers select white, pacific point

Ink: Momento Black, Pacific Point

Accessories: SU real red button, PTI plum pudding button, PTI new leaf button, mat pack, paper piercer, GKD glue pen, GKD glitter, SU Only Orange, Summer Sun, Lovely Lilac, Orchid Opulance, Gable Green, Brilliant Blue, Real Red, Pixie Pink markers, Black Pen, Pacific Point ribbon

Time to Celebrate

I had to whip up a fun card for Asa. He is a little boy who "helps" watch our daughter. Izzy is really in love with him, so it makes her time there tons of fun.

I decided to combine some fun challenges. The first is from Stampin sisters in Christ. They had a challenge to make a card for a child and to encourage them. As I was thinking about what to do for Asa, I ran into this challenge from Stamp TV. It was to have some of your card outside the edges of the normal card. I can't even begin to tell you how uncomfortable this made me to even think about LOL! I then saw this video by Beate and new I could do it LOL! Right before I went up to create, I saw this new color combo from Color Throwdown and there we go.
Here is my card
Isn't this little guy stinking cute? Every time I see Melaine host a challenge, I can't wait to break out one of her cute little animals. I am addicted. I will take a picture of Izzy's Brithday card for Asa, she used some of Melanie's cute animals as well.

I combined these with some fun stamps from Papertrey Ink. I love the leaves and it worked so well for this card. I just thought about a little boy jumping in a big pile of leaves. What could be more fun than that LOL!

Okay I also am LOVING this card. I have seen tons of these in the past, but I have never tried one on my own. Isn't that stinking fun! There might be more of these on here soon as I am loving this new to me idea.

It's a good life!
Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Stampin Up unless noted
Stamps: GKD Jumping for Joy, PTI A tree for all seasons, PTI Background Basics: Dots and Spots
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Kraft, PTI Stampers Select White, Ruby Red, Pumpkin Pie
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Ruby Red, Close to Cocoa
Accessories: Nesties, Chocolate Chip ribbon, Flock GKD, stampin dimensionals, Glue Pen GKD

Good Luck

Have you ever had just one of those days? I needed to make a card for my sister Dana. She got a new job and she starts tomorrow. So, I started working away and everything I did I actually liked. I ended up making 3 cards today and I like all of them!!!! It really is a great day. If only I could have had such sucess with my business today. I have one home that I am working on closing this week and 2 more contracts we are working through. If only my stamping mojo could transfer to my real estate LOL!

Okay this was for 2 challenges at Stamp TV. Wednesdays are such fun days for us here at the Earley home. I traditionally have the day with Izzy and we always start it with our Stamp TV video. Did you know Beate is also doing a SCS video every wednesday? It just keeps getting better. This week Gina K did one on glitter pens and there is always a challenge for the techniques showed. I also combined this with the color challenge from Stamp TV which was Black, Green and White.

Here is my card
I wanted to do a close up of the fun tag and glitter on the clover.

Isn't this stinking cute? I NEVER use glorious green ,but I decided to really challenge myself this week and I adore the results. I had actually picked out the green before the lightbulb went off with the good luck theme. My daughter is OBSESSED with all of the animals from Melaine and GKD. She know which box has those 4 sets and she gets them out daily to stamp out nanimals to color in. She has really been loving the baby animals. She opens up to them and then says AWWWE, look at all of the babies. Stinking cute. Anyway, she had it opened up to the babies and I thought frog. I was going to color him in, but then I thought less is more.

I went with less is more on the glitter pen as well. Luckily when I was at the GKD store this summer, I remembered to pick one up. I must admit at first I thought it had a gold hue, but I know realize it is the shimmer itself. The bling on the tag is from My Favorite Things and it matches perfectly. I wanted to add a little color in the corner and so the hunt was on for green galore ribbon. Soon I realized I have NONE!!! I then decided to try coloring my twill with copic markers. It really died well and I was so pleased. I have never done this before, but it is FABULOUS!!! I then needed to tie the hardware I used for the ribbon in with the rest of the card. The little library clip was the perfect accent.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: GKD Hip Hop Accessories, GKD Just so Hoppy

Paper: Black, Green Galore, Night & Day speicaility dsp

Ink: Momento Black, Green Galore

Accessories: Stampin dimensionals, large pewter eyelet, library clip, mat pack, coluzle, paper piercer, nesties, black sharpie, GKD gel glitter pen, PTI white twill, Copic Box A, Green galore marker, MFT bitty bling

Let's Party

I must admit I adore Verve sketches. I think they always produce a fun jumping point for a card. This is a card I made for the Verve June release sketch challenges. Here is one of the sketches
This is my card

It is a birthday card for my cousin Matt. We got to see him when we visited Flordia in May and Izzy loved the pool, so I decided to incorporate that in the card. The sentiment is on the ball and it says let's party. I really love Melaine's animals. They are tons of fun to work with and I really hope there are more coming :)

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: GKD Jumping for Joy

Paper: PTI stampers select white, bitty dots lemon tart, aqua mistdsp, aqua mist, SU saraha sand grid sarah sand

Ink: Momento Black, Real Red, Aqua Mist

Accessories: Real red stripped ribbon, stampin dimensionals

Hippy Birthday

Hello peoples,

I have to explain this a little bit. We had a fabulous weekend at Lake Shelbyville in southern Illinois. It was the most fun ever. The first day Izzy went crazy with boat rides, floating out back and last but certainly not least the jet ski rides. My little daughter is a tad CRAZY!!! She kept saying faster, I go super fast. She couldn't get enough. Here is a shot of the two of us and then an action shot.

That night, while we were at the hotel she said she had to call her peoples. She then spent 20 minutes on the phone talking to her "peoples" all about how much fun she had that day. It was too stinking cute for words. I wish we had out video camera right then LOL!

Anyway, I had to work on the Kirsten Werner color challege right away. I really thought this was a tough one, but like most of the color combos, I LOVE the end product. Here is the challenge

I also used the sketch challenge from Stamp TV found here

Here is my card

How much fun is this? This card will be for our little second cousin in North Dakota. He will be 2 when we are there, so I wanted to make this fun card for him. I really love how it turned out. The basic grey dsp really made the more mustard and really rust pop. I used an aqua painter and ink to color him in and to make fun clouds as well. It was all I can do not to make grass in green and blue clouds, but I really tired to keep to the color combo only LOL!

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: GKD Hip hop accessories, GKD Just so Hippy

Ink: Basic Grey, More Mustard, Really Rust

Paper: Verry Vanilla, Basic Grey, Basic Grey dsp, Water color paper

Accessories: Aqua painter, more mustard ribbon, more mustard brads, 1/8 punch, stampin dimensionals

Chalk!!!

I must admit Wednesday mornings are becoming my favorite of the whole week (except Sunday of course). I typically have that morning off and Izzy and I are a bit lax in our schedule. We get up at the normal time, but we don't get changed right away. We have started watching the Stamp TV new epsidoe and then we go up and stamp after breakfast. Isn't that funny! Well today Gina had us pull out our chalks and I must admit I haven't used them in YEARS!!! I loved that it was also something Izzy could do. Here is the link for the Chalk Challenge.

I incorporated the Stamp TV sketch as well.
Here is Izzy's card.

Here is my card

Since Izzy was helping we had to use an animal! The zebra is one of the only chunky GKD animals I have, so that was the one. On my card, I also did some white dots as accents. I am usually a stiched sort of girl, but I wanted to change it up. I like the effect. There was some debate in my mind about dotting around the ciricle and the other strip, but eventually I went with just the rectangles. What do you think?

Izzy's card is for some new friends she got to play with last night. We had a great time at their home and she is going to go there tonight, so we will take her cards as well. If we could only get MORE cute animals Izzy would be set for life LOL!

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: GKD Jumping for Joy

Paper: PTI Dark Grey, SU dsp

Ink: Versa Mark

Accessoreis: White gel pen, stampin dimensinoals, SU chalk pretty in pink, bashful blue, white, certain cerely, regal rose ribbon, nessties

GKD & Izzy Love

LOL! This card was so much fun to make and it is a combo of Mega GKD challenges. If you don't already LOVE Gina K Designs, go and check out their latest release WOWZIERS! If only I could win the lottery LOL! This card is for 4 Gina K challenges. First her technique challenge this week was about paper piecing . Then the pot luck Friday challenge for this week was to use dsp paper and texture. Then last night at the release party there was a challenge to celebrate the children in our lives.

Lastly if you don't know about the Stamping out Alzheimers site run over quick. There are so many companies involved with this mega fundraising challenge. I believe there is over $5,000 raised right now. Isn't that fabulous!!! Gina K also has a sketch challenge on there and here is the sketch.
Here is my card

I also wanted to show you a close up of how the seal was attached. I made a spring out of some crafting wire I had and then attached it to the seal. He bounces all over and Izzy loves it.
So needless to say this is for my little Izzy. My Mother's Day card had a fun skunk on it that wiggled around and it gave me this fun idea for a card. I was having such a hard time with this sketch from Melaine. Once the challenge about making a card for a child in your life came it all came together quickly. If you haven't checked out the Stamp TV epsidoe on paper piecing, go over now LOL! I never thought to use the quickie glue pen for paper piecing, but oh the difference it made. Those little yellow stars went down in a snap and I usually have the worst time with little images. LOVE IT.

Can you see the scoring I did in the background. It was to add texture, but also I thought it looked like the curtains at a circus. Perhaps I am out there on that LOL! Anyway, go check out that Alzheimer's site it really is fabulous and it will only be going on until May 31st.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All Supplies are Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: GKD Jumping for Joy

Paper: PTI Stampers select white, Real Red, Good Morning dsp, Pink Flamingo dsp, Water color paper

Ink: Staz on Black, Chocolate chip, Close to cocoa

Accessories: ScorPal, Stampin Dimensionals, Wire, GKD quickie glue pen

So Hoppy

I had to share another fun photo from vacation. This was Izzy with her first sand castle. She had help from Mom and Dad. She then became a sand castle maniac LOL!
This is another of my cards for the Viva La Verve May challenge. I love their little twists as it always gets me thinking. This one was to use only shades of blue and green and any neutral. I had such a fun time with this. It also worked well for the Stamp TV technique challenge of paper pieceing and also the Stamp TV color challenge which was shades of blue, blue/green or blue/purple.

Here is my take on the challenge

I'm not usually a blue and green sort of girl, but this was tons of fun. I really like the way this turned out and it will be for our nephew. He is early teens, but who wouldn't love this little guy? I colored him in with a blender pen and reinkers. The balloons are paper pieced. Is he not the cutest little guy ever LOL!

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: GKD Just so Hoppy

Paper: Pacific Pointe, Good Morning dsp, White

Ink: Kiwi Kiss, Staz on Black, Soft Sky

Accessories: White brads, stampin dimensionals, black marker, blender pen

Super Mom

Hello everyone! We should be on our way home right now. I just wanted to leave you with some eye candy. This is an older challenge that for some reason never got published LOL! Hope you enjoy it.

Another marathon card. I just go from one blog to another and then BAM my idea starts to come together. Here is the Kristen Werner Color Inspiration #43 challenge. Instantly I remembered my Au Chocolate dsp from Stampin Up and now I have the background paper under control.
Then here comes StampinTV. It is absolutely fabulous! Not only is the quality the highest, but it is also a wonderful source of challenges. This was the first sketch challenge. I loved how it was just a center piece and needed to come up with a main image that would also serve as my sentiment. Then BAM Melaine's stamp set Little Tees.

Here is my take on the color and card inspiration.

This is for my Mom. Can you believe that I am that far ahead this year. Chalk up my prepared style up to all of these challenges. Where have I been all of this time. This is about as fun as it gets.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: GKD Little Tees

Ink: Brocade Blue, Chocolate Chip

Cardstock: Au Chocolate dsp, Brocade Blue, Pumpkin Pie, Ruby Red, dsp

Accessories: Brocade Blue 5/8 grosgrain ribbon, stampin dimensionals, paper piercers, old olive, ruby red, more mustard, brocade blue markers

Sparkly Chickie!

I am already off track with Father's Day cards. I have 2 of the 6 done. The goal was to getall of the cards done before I left for vacation, but I'm not sure that will happen.

Last night we had the Mother/Daughter Banquet at church. It is always such a special night! We had to leave early because Izzy had an accident, but it was still a ton of fun. This is the only shot of the two of us that was good yesterday.
Here is the face Izzy had for pretty much every picture at the church. She thinks she is hilarious!!!

It was a fun beach theme and my good friend Christy is the one who put everything together for the fun night. Even though I missed the entertainment, I knew I needed to make her a special card. Wouldn't you know when I got home Dawn's next color challenge was up! It seemed like the perfect opportunity for my fun card I needed to make.

I also found this fun sketch from Unscripted Sketches.

Here is my take on the challenges.

Isn't that fun! I am not sure that there really are any white chicks with pink beaks, but hello creative license LOL! It is hard to see in the picture, but that chick is 100% glitter and bling. I love it!!! The damask that is behind the sentiment is stamped in Berry Sorbet and then stamped off once, so it still qualifies for the color combo :)

I am so excited that I can get Christy's thank you off tomorrow! It is nice to be punctual and since I had some free time last night it worked out well.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Papertrey Ink unless noted

Stamps: GKD Just So Hoppy, Handwritten Notes, Damask Designs

Paper: Stampers select white, Aqua Mist Bitty dots dsp, SU Chocolate Chip,

Ink: Berry Sorbet, SU Chocoate Chip

Accessories: Brown Buttons, Berry Sorbet sating ribbon, dmc floss, SU top notz die, glue dots, stampin dimensionals, GKD glue pen and glitter

KWerner Color combo #51

I am addicted to color challenges. I was never a fan, but they are really pushing me in directions I wouldn't have gone by myself. On that note, here is the one from Kristen Werner. This card is a combo of many challenges. It really all came together. Stamp TV color challenge was use brown and any other colors, so this worked great for that as well.
I also used the Stamp TV sketch for this week.

Here is my take on the challenge combos.

What do you think? I am really loving how it turned out. If you can believe it all of the ink is brayered to get the different effects, but it is all from Chocolate Chip, More Mustard and Regal Rose inks. Kristina had strict rules to use only and all of the colors in the color challenge. Thre is white on this card around the sun and in between the sky and ground there is a faint line or white. I didn't really intend for that to happen, but I liked the effect it created. It ended up looking like my lions were cuddling at dusk. The colors are always warm and wonderful at dusk around here, so I am sure that is the way in Africa as well.

I did all of the lions with flock as well. I used a dark yellow (more mustard), brown (chocolate chip) and dark pink (regal rose). I love to death the quickie glue pen. It makes the flock so much fun to put on the animals. It also gives them such a great feel and look on the card. I would highly recommend this to anyone who has an animal stamp set. (If you don't have an animal stamps set I would highly recommend that as well!) This was so stinking fun to make. I have never really brayered like this, but I love how it turned out.

This is for one of my good friends for their anniversary. The inside says never be the first to let go of a hug. Isn't that so much fun! How prefect for an anniversary gift.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All Supplies are Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: GKD Cuddles and Hugs

Paper: Chocolate Chip, More Mustard, Whisper White, More Mustard dsp

Ink: Regal Rose, Chocolate Chip, More Mustard, Staz On Black

Accessories: Stampin Dimensionals, Brayers, Spounge Daubers, GKD Doodle Flock, GKD Quickie Glue Pen