Sketches in Thyme Design Team Call -- My New Bike

I took a little vacation and I am back.  I did this layout for Sketches in Thyme for their try out for the Design Team.  I love their sketches and this is no exception.  I used the new line from Fancy Pants called The Good Life -- paper  and embellishments, with some added twine.    I thought it was appropriate for Kenny's birthday present of a comfort bike that he wanted.  He was like a little kid with his new bicycle, the only thing missing was a bell and streamers.

This was the sketch: 

Don't you love it.  I do, I get fantastic inspiration from their sketches.

Now this is what I did: 
Loved the chipboard buttons to add the color.

WCMD Cards

I know yesterday was World Card Making Day and I finished making a couple of birthday cards using the challenge at SRM Stickers.  I used my birthday border stickers in ways I had never thought of.  I just had to use the ideas of the DT's so I tried what Shannon did and here is what I came up with:

I used Little Yellow Bicycle --Hello Spring, cardstock, twine and SRM Stickers. I also used this for a challenge on My Sketch Word #2, which wanted us to use animals.

The next card is the idea from Clare:

I used SRM Stickers, cardstock, doily, and twine.

Trendy Twine Challenge

This is a repost from when my dog ate the letter "B" a couple of weeks ago.  I never showed you what it looked like finished.  Remember I used Tim Holtz technique on the letters, used a Polaroid look on the pictures of my sons and wrapped it in twine from Trendy Twine in the color of Chocolate Sprinkle.  I added a little ribbon to give it accent and did it for the challenge on Trendy Twine during the month of September.

and here is a close up so you can see.

2 Birthday Cards

Today is Day 30 and the last day of September.  I did it!!!!  I posted everyday and made something new to show you and I can say I got a lot of things done.  I started out posting at midnight and now it is 10:30 and I am finally posting but still part of Sept. 30th.  I hope you enjoyed my work.
Today I did 2 birthday cards.

The first one is using Little Yellow Bicycle -- Hello Spring, some velvet scalloped ribbon, banner dies from MFT, and SRM Stickers.

The second is Using Jillibean Soup -- Spotted Owl Soup, cardstock and SRM Stickers.

Hope you have enjoyed all my work this month -- I was busy and did  a lot more than I usually do.

** Note I realized it was only September 30th today and not yesterday so I am working on a layout to post real soon.

Alcohol Ink Christmas Ornaments

Day 28 and the realization that Christmas will be here in less than 3 months.  So I went to Hobby Lobby and got some clear square shaped ornaments and loved how Tim Holtz did the July tag with alcohol ink and a can of air.  So I went onto ranger site and sure enough they did a Christmas ornament their also.  I used the colors of Silver,Red Pepper, and Clover and came up with this.  I tried to get a good picture, but the beauty of it is not coming through.  I am going to try more using P)earl with the colors and see what happens.  I tied a bow on top, but might change that to ribbon, not sure.

This is all the same ornament just took the pictures at different angels to try to show you what it looked like.

3 spotted Owls sending Birthday Wishes

Day 27 and I am doing this challenge.  Today I created a Birthday card which I need many of for my friends.  I used Spotted Owl Soup by Jillibean Sup which is one of my MOST favorite lines of paper.  The only other things I used was twine, circle punch and a circle scalloped punch.  I was inspired to do this by a challenge on My Scraps and More issued by Lisa.  She wanted us to use a bird and my bird is the owl.

the gang

Day 26 brings a layout I wanted to do for My Scraps and More.  They posted a monthly sketch and I have never tried it, so it was time.  I used 1 of my retirement pictures, some Canvas Corp paper, cardstock, some trim and some letters from Nikki Sivils.  Later I added bling and a doiley.

This is the sketch: 

and here is my take on this.  Totally out-of-my-box with the paper I used.