Sunshine....

    Wow!   What a fabulous morning we had today!   The sun was shining brightly and the temps are warm and comfy, the prefect weather for anyone who was planning to celebrate Easter outside and I'm sure there were some fun egg hunts and visits with the Easter Bunny.

      Other than making some goodie bags for my guys and some cards that I mailed out, we are not really doing anything special for Easter.   I've actually spent most of the day in my craft room and it's been wonderful to have the windows opens and the fresh air pouring in.   It's now after 4pm and is pretty cloudy, but it's still very mild.

       I seem to be losing a bit of my MOJO again, but that has not stopped me for 'trying' to create some fun new cards.  I started by coloring up some new images, all the new stamps that I bought at SCACD.  I was really exited to color my first new 'Peeker', but I have to admit, it did not come out as well as I would have liked.   This is my very first Peeker card and it features Hey Birdie Peeker, who can can also see HERE!

    
    I think the next time, instead of using Distress inks for my background, I will plan to use my Copic ABS.  The distress inks are easy, but the colors ended up being a bit to dark and was really not the look I had hoped for.  If you would like to see some of these adorable Peekers, colored to perfection, please hop on over to the Follow your Heart Blog and check out how fabulous Susana's Design Team has colored them!   WOW!!   I have not mastered my coloring skills to level, but I am a work in progress and I'm still enjoying every minute I color.   These gals are all very talented and have amazing artistic skills!

     My next card was a very simple card and this one was created based on today's Sketch over at the Stars & Stamps Blog for Operation Write Home.   Here is a copy of our sketch for this week:

Sketch # 66

My Card

  And my next few cards were new cards I created for the CAS Challenge over at 'The Outlawz'.    I decided to re-work the card I made yesterday and made these new cards instead, based on the feedback the Girlz on the DT provide!  Thanks Girls!

 CAS Challenge Sketch 

My Original Card

Revised Cards

My Favorite!!

   I'm off now to clean up my room and Hubby just lit the grill and will be grilling our dinner very soon!   We opted to skip the big Easter Dinner and to take advantage of the nice warm weather to break out the grill!   It's been a long time since we have been able to cook outside and I'm excited that we finally the the daylight and warm weather to do it.  This will be our first grilled dinner of the season!   Yummy!!