Midnight Madness, Crafty Secrets and Crazy 4

HAPPY TUESDAY EVERYONE!!! 

WOW ...  I have a lot to share with you today so please bear with me on the long post!  I'll try not to be too long winded!!  First I'd like to share with you the creation I made for the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge.  As I have said before ... the fact that they now give you the option of TWO sketches (easy & more detail) ... and a SNEAK PEEK ... I can actually give my creation a little more thought and always TRY for the MORE DETAILED version of the sketch. 

Here is what I've come up with today!  I just love these vintage images from Shabby Chic papirskatter and have used one for my creation today.  Here is a listing of items used on my card:
Stamps:  Hero Arts
Papers:  Kraft, Garden Green, WW, SU Groovy Guava dp
Inks:  Versafine black
Accessories:  Detail Clear EP, Target paper doily, Prima flowers, Darice brads, Mrs. Grossman sticker stitches

I would have loved to go MORE ornate on this creation but I just know that the ladies who purchase my cards wouldn't like having to pay the extra postage by doing that (ask me how I know, LOL!)

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For today's Crafty Secrets Forum Challenge over on SCS, Jan is our hostess this week and has asked us to use "sweet little birds" on our creations.  Crafty Secrets has some awesome bird images both in their stamps, booklets, cotton scraps and their post card kits like I have used here.

There wasn't much to making this creation ... the postcard kit does all the work!!  I simply added a little stickles to the birds winks and flower centers as well as Darice satin ribbon & Target half pearls.  Pretty Easy Peasy but very eye appealing!!  Like I said, these CS images are beautiful ... you really should check 'em out!!

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My final card to share with you on this posting is for the Crazy 4 Challenge.  This week they have a sketch challenge for us and an easy one at that.  I had just finished coloring this adorable image by Creations By Penny and thought it would work perfectly.  What do you think???  Ooops, I just realized the sentiment was to be in the bottom right corner ... oh well ... it came with the image and is close enough to qualify I hope!

Isn't this image just too cute!!  The designer paper is by Colorbok and I have used Nestabilities scallop ovals for my matting.  Prismacolor markers were used for coloring and the edges where stippled with SU Old Olive ink.

Hope you have enjoyed my cards this morning.  I will be back in a bit to share some BIRTHDAY fun with you all!  Until then ... have a wonderful day!