And the winner is...

Mary Mahey! Mary, you have won the Sweet 'n Sassy Penguin digi stamp! Please contact me at ksdm@comcast.net and I'll get the image out to you asap! Thank you again to everyone who participated in the hop and left such lovely comments!!

SALT Challenge - Transformation

It's that time again...time for another SALT challenge! This week Pauline brought us our topic of transformation. You can read her thoughts on the SALT blog. In her write up, Pauline referenced a verse in 2 Corinthians, "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature." Since I'm feeling a bit under the weather this week, I decided to bring you a few thoughts from Martyn Lloyd-Jones (italics mine), taken from his daily devotional "Walking with God." The topic of the devotional focused on this Scripture verse is titled, "A New Creature." "A Christian can have an entirely new birth, a new start, a new nature, a new life. This is the very thing that happened to Paul. (Read Acts 9 for the account of Paul's transformation...it was quite extraordinary!) In his old life Paul was a self-satisfied, proud Pharisee, a highly religious and highly moral man - a very good man and a very nationalistic Jew. Yet he despised everyone else and was proud of himself....boasting that he kept the moral law while actively seeking to jail and kill those who followed Christ. But once he realized the meaning of the death of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross, he made an absolutely new start. Saul of Tarsus died, and the apostle Paul began to live. It was Paul who penned the words, "if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature." There is nothing that will get rid of the old sinful man, that we all are by nature, except through Christ's death on the cross. If you believe in Him and in the purpose of that death and what that death accomplished, you are truly dead to your old nature. Your old nature was crucified with Christ and that is gone forever. As a result of this, our whole position and status is entirely changed before God and man...You are free!" Christ really does have the power to fully transform an individual and that was my thought behind the sentiment, from Sweet 'n Sassy (the tree image is also from SNSS), on my ATC. The butterfly isn't just a bit different after it emerges from it's cocoon, it's transformed into a new creature. Such is the person who trusts in Christ... I pray that you enjoyed today's topic...Be sure to stop by the SALT blog to see the art submitted by the rest of the design team and remember, if you create something based on our topic, leave us a comment with a link back to your blog or gallery!

Christmas Itty Bitties

Happy day after the blog hop day! Did you all enjoy the hop? There was so much beautiful artwork is see and what a great display of the wonderful Sweet 'n Sassy images! (Truth be told...I'm still working my way through that impressive list of participants!) A HUGE thank you to everyone for their wonderful comments!! I'll be pulling a winner tomorrow (so you still have time to enter the prize drawing for a free digi) and will announce on Friday! Today I'm sharing a darling new Christmas stamp set called Christmas Itty Bitties. It's so cute!! The set includes six of these darling 'itty bitty' images for only $9.00...now that's a holiday bargain! I decided to keep it simple with today's card and only utilized white cardstock (one piece being embossed with the swiss dot embossing folder) and a tiny bit of green layered behind the images. I even kept my coloring simple, going with just red, green, and white. I'm lovin' the simple approach to card making these days! How about you? Hope you all enjoyed yesterday's hop and today's card! Have a great week!!

Sweet 'n Sassy Happy Birthday Blog Hop

Yippee!! I'm so excited about the Sweet 'n Sassy blog hop today! We're celebrating our third birthday and have we got a treat for you today! We have over 30 amazingly talented ladies participating in today's hop plus a prize at every stop so you really don't want to miss a single blog! Enjoy the hop and enjoy the art! If you didn't start at the beginning, you'll want to hop back to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Blog and pick up from there where you left off. Today, three years ago, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps "opened for business" with just four acrylic stamp sets and a simple blog. Since then SNSS has grown to over 100 clear stamp sets and hundreds of digital stamps! God has been good! SNSS's images, sentiments and scripture stamps are sweet and sassy and everything in between. You're sure to find something you'll love... On my card...I'm using this darling digi image called Festive Penguin and I'm in love with him! He's so cute and I've been holding on to him, just waiting for the perfect opportunity to pop him on a card! I colored him with my Copics, added a few red rhinestones for the holly berries, and paired him with some designer paper from Imaginsce. And...Mr. Penguin can be yours! Just leave me a comment and I'll pick a winner, which will be announced on Friday, November 12. (PS - My layout is from this week's Mojo Monday sketch!) On with the hop! Hoppers will start out on the SNSS blog and will then hop along the blog trail below: Janette Lorie Kim: You're here! Janice Stephanie Leah Deb Chupa Nancy Claudia Amber Kelly Jeanette Melissa Lisa Melanie Joni Julie Ceal Micki Chrissy Debbie Monika Tricia Tami Denise Jacquie Roxie Lynne Christi Deb Felts Korin We hope you enjoy hopping along to see all the fun things we've created for your viewing pleasure. May you be inspired to create something truly amazing......something from your heart!

Tiffany Doodles Challenge - TD06

It's time for another Tiffany Doodles challenge!! Wow!! How does a month go by so quickly? :-)Did you participate in last month's challenge? Did you know that you have an opportunity to win oodles of free digis if you play along with our challenges? Fabulous!! Be sure to check out all the details here. This month our challenge is to create anything but a card. What fun! I love making creations with paper and just wait until you see what the rest of the team has come up with, definitely worth seeing! Speaking of design team...Tiffany Doodles is looking for a few new members to join the team!! Interested? Find all the details here. For my project I used an image I've had my eye on since joining the team, just waiting for the perfect creation. Let me introduce you to Pocket Mouse! This little baby was the image that pushed me over the edge to try out for the DT...I loved it and I Mr. Mouse is just adorable all dressed up in his Christmas duds. I printed out the image two times on plain cardstock and twice on designer paper. I then colored Monsieur Mouse with Copic markers and cut out just the head from one of the print outs and then just the face from the other to create some serious dimension with foam tape. (The bottom mouse image was printed on a piece of designer paper but not colored) I did the same with the pocket and sentiment (from Sweet 'n Sassy). The designer paper is from Little Yellow Bicycle and the ribbon is from Papertreyink. And hey...I made a little video to show you how to create this super easy box....Hope it makes sense! ;-) Click here.

And now for the challenge details!! Here are the rules of the challenge: Start date: Today, November 7 End date: November 30, Midnight EST Winners Announced: December 1 Don't forget to add your card to the Tiffany Doodles Flickr Gallery! Tagged with: TD06 The Prizes! You have 4 chances to win up to 7 digis of your choice from Tiffany Doodles! 1st place - 7 digis 2nd place - 5 digis 3rd place - 3 digis 1 Random - 3 digis Want to see what the rest of the team came up with? You're in for a treat, their designs are amazing! For details on any of the team cards just click on their name to visit their blog! Tiffany Cammy Deirdre Donna Julie Lindsay Peet Ruby Shannon Vanessa Virginia Enjoy and be sure to stop by the Tiffany Doodles site to enter your card into the prize drawing!!

CAS Challenge

I think that this would have been a great Keep it Simple post, however, I actually made this card on Monday...for a Monday challenge. Let's see, what day is it? Oh yeah, Friday. Humm...I think I'm running a bit behind! LOL! This card is for this week's SCS CAS (Clean and Simple) challenge, which was to create a sympathy card. So I have to share that making this simple card took me longer than making my turkey card that was posted a few days ago. Goodness, why is it so hard to keep it simple!!?? I had to giggle as I was sitting at my desk agonizing over how to make a quick card. This quick card features a brand spanking new stamp from Sweet 'n Sassy! The November Chrysanthemum features this beautiful chrysanthemum image along with five sentiments. I decided to keep my card really simple and not fill in the image with color and only added a sentiment over the image. I really liked the pink and black color combo but I hope it doesn't look too much like a wedding card...sigh...To finish the card I only added black ribbon and two pearl embellies. The card is long, I like this size, and measures 6" x 4". Enjoy!

Tuesday Throwdown Sponsor

Oh my, has it really been an entire week since I last posted? I'm not sure where I've been...which is to say I've been so busy I barely noticed that it had been a week! I have, however, been working on lots of fun crafty projects that I'll be sharing in the coming days... But for today...I'm excited to share that Sweet 'n Sassy is sponsoring this week's Tuesday Throwdown challenge. This week's challenge is "Give Thanks" and with Thanksgiving (don't remind me!!) only a few weeks away, I figured a happy turkey card should be in the works. This sweet turkey is from the Gobble, Gobble set that features Mr. Turkey and five sentiments for only $11.00! (This set also contains one of the funniest sayings ever...you can see it here). Want to participate in this week's Tuesday Throwdown? You can win free stuff!! :-) Click here to go directly to their site. More to come.... *Sweet 'n Sassy released a boatload of new stamps on November 1, check them out here! *Join me on November 9 for a birthday bash blog hop, celebrating Sweet 'n Sassy's third birthday. There will be prizes galore! Enjoy!