Happy Memorial Day Weekend!!!

   Are you having a wonderful weekend?  I sure am and even though most of it is being spent at home, I'm totally thrilled to have lots of time in my craft room, especially after being away last weekend.   I am also very happy that I'll be heading down to IKEA tomorrow with my son Alex, his girlfriend, Acacia and Acacia's Mom, Patti.   I think it'll be fun to all go together and I already have my list of the new goodies I want to pick up for my craft room.

   Today, I'm also happy to be sharing four new cards, all inspired and created for a variety of fun new challenges.  My very first card was created for a Recipe Challenge over at Crafting by Designs and also as my way of remember Memorial Day and the beginning of Summer, which is my favorite season.   I chose to create a Red, White and Blue color inspired card and started with this wonderful little digi from by Lori Designs.  If you know me well, you'll know that I LOVE whimsical and fun images and also love the color with my Copics, which is exactly what I did on this card.

  This card is also being submitted to the new "Colors of Your Flag" (Red, White and Blue) Challenge hosted over at The Crafty Pad, as well as the new "Anything Goes" Challenge #28, being hosted over at Here come the Boys! 

  My next card was created and inspired by the new Color Combo Challenge over at Catch the Bug, which is Bugaboo's Challenge Blog.  I have included a copy of this week's Color Combo, which is one that came from Design Seeds.  

     If you recognize that cute little flower image, you'll notice that I colored it up in different colors for another challenge earlier this week.  It's such a fun image and you can find it over at the Bugaboo store HERE!
      My next card also features another cute digi from Bugaboo and this card I created for this week's Twisted Thursday Challenge over at 'The Outlawz'.  Our challenge this week to was create a project that featured a sport and I chose 'skating' as that was one of my favorite childhood activities and something we did all winter long.  I also happen to love this little image and it makes me smile.  I colored him up with my Copics and added some Crystal Lacquer to add the wonderful dimension and shine.   It was a really fun image to color and I hope you'll join me and hop on over to The Outlawz and join the fun.

    I am also submitting my adorable little Skating Bird, to this weeks' challenge over at Dream Valley Challenges, where the current them is Humor and where Bugaboo is the current sponsor!!

     And next we have what may have turned out to be my favorite card today.  It's another sweet little digi image and this one is from DigiStamp Boutique and is sweet little ballerina, named Rosie.  You can find her in a little collection over at the store HERE!   I created her with a few challenges in mind, all are outlined below.  She was also colored with my Copics and the colors were inspired by the new color challenge over at the Color Me Creative Classroom.

  I am submitted this new card to each of these fun challenge and I encourage everyone to play along.  They are all open to all crafters and are all really fun groups!

• Color Me Creative Classroom - Copic Challenge #44 - Pinks and Greens
• DigiStamp Boutique - Customer Challenge - Month of May
• The Outlawz Challenges - Copic/ProMarker Challenge - Anything Goes

  And now I'm heading back to my desk to work on two more challenges.   One is the new CAS Challenge being hosted at The Outlawz and the second is the new Sunday Sketch Challenge, being hosted over at Operation Write Home's - Stars and Stamps Blog.   I am sharing a copy of this week's sketch and hope it will inspired YOU to join us!!

Have a wonderful day!!!

Hugs,

Lis