Friday....at last!!!

   Yippee!!  It's Friday and for some reason I always seem to like Fridays.  I guess it goes back to those days when I still worked and would be excited for the weekend!  I think everyone enjoys weekends, well....except for those who have to work.  The rest of us seem to love having more time at home and time to rest, relax and spend time with family and friends.

    My back is slowly getting better and I also slept in this morning, trying to again feel less fatigue.  I am here now to share two new challenge cards and both were really fun to make.  My first card is one that I started yesterday after I was inspired by the new Hero Arts Challenge at Two Peas.   I had created several new backgrounds while I had all my inks out yesterday and this card was created with another of those backgrounds.

   My Thinking of you card is being also being submitted to each of these challenges and everyone is welcome and invited to play along.

• Craft us Crazy  - Challenge # 14 - Anything Goes
• PaperPlay Challenges - Challenge #11 - Make your own Designer Paper
• Operation Write Home - Stars & Strips Blog - Thinking of You!

    Almost every product I used for this card is from Hero Arts and I started with two of my favorite new Background Stamps - This Lotus Background and this new Flower Dot, which I stamped directly to the card base to create a tone on ton look.    The back 'Lotus' background was created on Watercolor paper and I used a combination of Distress Stains, Distress Inks and Perfect Pearls mist to create this look.   These are all techniques I had learned from Jennifer McGuire and it was her workshop and online classes that really has me hooked on Hero Arts and so many of their awesome stamps.   I really love the 2011 collection and now have a great collection.  I've also loved being back into stamping and inks and it's great to try all kinds of new things.

   My next card is a Copic Colored card and was inspired by today's new Copic Coloring Challenge over at The Outlawz Challenge Group.   The challenge this week was to use your Copics to Color an animal of your choice and use that on your project.   My cute little Monkey is from PollyCraft and he is Chester.  I also bought the brand new Christmas Set featuring Chester and think they will make some really fun Christmas Cards.

   This is my fun little "I have your Heart" card will be submitted to the challenges shown below!

• The Outlawz Challenge Group - Copic/ProMarkers - Color an Animal
• iCopic Weekly Challenge - Challenge #42 - Coloring Fur
• Through the Craftroom Door - Challenge #7  - Dry/Heat Embossing

  And now I am off to work on a new Challenge and this one looked like it would be really fun.  It's a color combo challenge over the Colour Q - I LOVE this bright fun colors and hope I can come up with something fun!   This is a copy of the color inspiration image --- I LOVE it!!

   Not to mention that I'm a Flip Flop queen and they are my absolutely favorite type of foot ware.  I've even broke down and spend the extra money to make sure that I buy quality flip flops that have arch support so that they are 'better' for my back and spine!!    One of my favorite pairs this years is this pair that are by Reef.   Soooo comfy and I love the Purple and Sparkles!!