Thank You Card #1 for My Mother's Family in California

I am trying to get the hang of this blogging thing. I am not usually very good with putting words on paper. I have discovered though the best way to enter card and craft challenges is with a blog. My mother just came home from vacation with her mom, sister and best friend for 50 years. As soon as she arrived, she instructed me that she needed three thank you cards. Apparently, they want to thank their family in California for letting them stay at their homes while there.

Recently, I have been playing with the concept of digital stamps. So I decided to create a thank you card using a digital stamp from Tiddly Inks. This is one of the free digital stamps, but I have purchases several other ones. I just really liked this one.

Also, I am not all that creative on my own. So I used the sketch from Your Next Stamp. Below is a picture of sketch challenge number 17.

I used copic markers to color the image and CC Design's copic quality 110lb cardstock. I love this paper. I have tried other papers and none have matched this one so far. I also used the doodlebug sunkissed 6 x 6 paper pad for layers. Hope everyone is having a great week!

Created 2 cards using new stamps from my collection

In addition to the previous card, I created 2 other cards. This first card was also colored with the new Stabilo pens and on watercolor paper. I was having trouble coming up with a card composition so I used the sketch from your next stamp.

I used the cc designs A Random Fan Autry's Book Club rubber stamp. This is my first time to color this image and I used to much brown. 

The last card is a new type of stamp for me. It is a digi stamp from Little Blue Button Stamps. The stamp is called Miss Lilly Chef. I used copics for this one but got a little frustrated with the paper. I used a new paper for me from Stamping Bella. I absolutely love those stamps but prefer the CC designs copic quality 110 pound card stock for coloring. 

Erin is my niece's name and I made this card for her. I was going to have it say "Happy Independence Day" but I didn't have that sentiment. 

MFT Sketch Challenge for the week of June 17th

This week I had 4 days off from work. During that time, I got absolutely nothing done except for creating cards. I guess at least I created a few cards. I can't believe I have been so lazy. Oh well. The first card I created was for this week's sketch challenge at MFT.

I used MFT's new BB Adventure is calling stamp set. My mother recently got some new Stabilo pens and tried them out on this card. Watercolor is not my strong suit, so the pens were a bit of a challenge. Here is the card: