Make A Wish

What a busy week this has been at our house!  Our kids are away at church camp up in the mountains and I kind of envy them.  It's warm warm warm here, with an expected high temp of 120 degrees today. 

There is one good thing to be said for all of our Arizona sunshine though, we are in our first phase of going solar at our house.  The installers are here today doing the solar hot water heater.  I wouldn't want to be the guys on the roof today installing the solar panels, it's hot up there!   

In the midst of all that's going on I'm still crafting away.  I had the opportunity to play and do something just for fun today.  My card is for the Michelle Perkett Studios challenge, below is the sketch and color challenge.  You were free to do either one or both so I went all the way!

I know I say this all the time but what a fun card to make!

This cute little girl was fun to color with Copic markers.  Since the challenge called for Cream I printed her on cream card stock, after I colored her I realized what I wanted to do with the clouds wouldn't work with cream card stock so I re printed my image on white and paper pieced them so I could flick some color onto the bottoms with Copic markers to make them more realistic.

The scalloped frame is two Spellbinders dies and I used Cuttlebug embossing folders to add more polka dots and swirls.  I wasn't sure what to do for the three objects in the top left corner but thought flowers...  I added a touched up Dew Drop to the center of each and two more touched up brown Dew Drops on the panel at the bottom.  The dotted organdy ribbon is to cover a little tiny boo boo and last of all I stamped "make a wish" from one of my Papertrey Ink stamp sets. 

Too much fun!  Thanks Michelle Perkett Studios for such a fun challenge!

Edited to add:
Do you remember the Operation Write Home blog hop for 4th of July weekend?  Sandy was offering as blog candy to make digital images out of our pets if we won.

Hey, I won!

She and I were visiting last night on Skype and she'd finished my cat Inky's digi and was working on coloring her.  Here's a couple photos of Inky:

Go check out Sandy's blog, she made a card using one of the new digi images and you can pick them both up there for free!  Sandy's blog is "it's a colourful world". 

More challenges she's entered into:
Your Next Stamp - Flower Power
Party Time Tuesdays - Anything Goes Birthday
Aud Sentiments - Any sentimen
Craftalicious Challenges - Birthday's
Stamp Something - Something Digital