Crafting away my day....

  I can hardly believe that I feel as well as I do today, but I am not about to complain.  Typically, after I am off for a day of crafting or even a few hours of shopping, I'm done in, but today is NOT too bad and it's such a pleasant surprise.   I am started to dray now, (about 5:30), but my pain level is not too bad!  I'm very thankful for every day that I feel pretty good and it's a great thing!  

   I've spent most of my day catching up on some challenge cards and I am back now to share those with you.  My first card was for fun and was an image I had colored on Friday.  It's fast become one of my new favorites and it's from a set of two that I bought recently from the 'Wax Fruit Company'.  It's the other part of the coneflower set and this is the card I finished up today.  I really love Arielle's wonderful images and find for me they are a joy to color.  I've started a nice collection and especially love her flowers, with this image being one of my favorites!

  My next card is for the new CAS Challenge being hosted over at The Outlawz.  The challenge this week to to create a card/project with a Spring Theme in the typical CAS Style.  For this card, I also am using a second digi flower 'Cherry Blossom' also from Wax Fruit Company.  It was colored with my Copics on Cryogen cardstock, which I love.  The Cryogen white cardstock, has a very subtle hint of Shimmer and is lovely.  This card is also going to be submitted to this week's Copic Creations - Challenge # 48, which is being hosted by 'The Paper Temptress", which is where I buy all my Cryogen Cardstock.   I have shopped at the store many times and always been very happy with all my products and the wonderful service.   If you have not tried Cryogen, I highly suggest you do and I'll be you love it!  

   I also have one more card to share and this one was also created for two new challenges.  The first was this week's challenge over at By Lori Designs, which you will find HERE!   Be sure to check out some of Lori's newest digis which were added this month.   The image I used for my card is Ella, one of the adorable Puddle Jumpers, and you can find her HERE!!  This is a copy of the colors for this week's challenge, which I copied over from the Challenge blog:

   My card was also created based on this week's sketch over at the Going Grey with Scrap Creations challenge blog, which you'll find here.  As you may have read earlier, I actually met Kristen, the blog owner, yesterday at my LSS where we both were taking a Jennifer McGuire Workshop.   I was happy that I was able to take this fun sketch from her challenge blog (copy below) and incorporate it with one of Lori's images to make a fun happy card that I will be submitting to both challenges.

Going Grey with Scrap Creations

Sketch Challenge

My Card

Image:  By Lori Designs

Colored with Copics

Paper by: Bo Bunny
Card by Hero Images

   UPDATE:   I found out today that this fun card won TOP 2, over  Going Grey with Scrap Creations!!  This is my new badge, which has now been added to my Challenge Wins/Awards Page!!   Yippee!!

   And that's it for me...I'm now calling it a day !  Tomorrow, I plan to work more on the cards for the class this weekend and hope to have them ready to share.   Have a wonderful night and keep on crafting!!