Leave your comfort zone...Yikes that's scary!

Today at notimetostamp# 102 is to leave your comfort zone....Wow that's a toughie!
Well I don't really have a true "comfort" zone, so I decided to do something out of the box. Have you ever seen a brownish Christmas card??? Well, me neither. But, I said " Oh heck, this Crafty Secrets cotton scrap is just too lovely not to figure something out for its use! Soooo....I made a brownish-tone Christmas card and you know what? I like it a lot. It's different and I think quite classy to boot. I love the phrase and the Santa is so bee-utiful for a guy. It's puzzling to me that it looks like he's got a bow and arrow over his shoulder and I'm kinda worried because you know I've been bad so I'm probably in big trouble. Help! I'll try to be a good girl, I promise.

I've used my Nestie's fancy rectangle on both my image and mat which is out of a lovely gold card stock and then I matted on a soft brown tone piece before placing on my white card that I distressed with a few colors of chalk and made a ruffled edge. My ribbon is from Mike's place and my bow done with none other then the fantabulous Bow Easy. Gosh I love that little thing a majig now that I finally can do it. And to end my card, I had to add some bling that I self colored in a brownish tone.Those Sharpie pens color up those jewels really nice. To see what the other ladies did please see the list below with their links....Great Stampers each and everyone of them!
AJ
Deb
Janine
Tammy
Jennifer
Julie -my DD
Barbara
Jenny
Sharon- our hostess with the mostest

And since this is my last week as a guest designer for this team, I just want to thank the academy and all who voted for me to win this wonderful gold naked man named Oscar-- especially all my true die-hard visiters and followers on this blog. Thanks to my family, and friends, but most of all to Sharon who made this all possible and well I'm breaking down into tears now....but seriously, I do thank you all and it's been a dream come true for me. I appreciate all your wonderful words of encouragement. Hope everyone has a truly great weekend. Yes...I am a bit crazy but hey you only get one chance in the game of life and I say...ENJOY!!!

That's What Friends Are For....

Well I know you won't believe this because I can't even believe it BUT...I was asked to be the guest designer for August at Sharon Johnson's Stamp Simply challenge, which is a Friday event that I love to join in on!! Guess poor Sharon finally gave in and said " this old lady is not going away." Can you hear the silent scream???EEEEH!!! So here I am and my smile is glued on from ear to ear all teeth showing even though it may be a bit scary for some of you to see. My cup is running over right now...to heck with the half full stuff, I'm going for full and then some!

Today's challenge is That's What Friends are For (ssnotime99), so make a card for a friend. I love that song "Keep smiling, keep shining la la la la..."quit singing and look at my entry.My card is done with a phrase from Stampendous that I love because friends are a special gift from God. I used two of my Nesties to set off my phrase and my Flourishes stamp from the Sweet Peas set. If you're wondering how I got such a beautiful bow...well first of all I used some wonderful May Arts ribbon (won it in Shipshewana) and the great little gadget called Bow Easy. These can be bought from Sharon on her site by clicking here, I won mine as I already said. I colored my flowers with colored pencils and added a couple matching small pearls. Done! It was a simple card once I got started.

To see what the super talented Stamp Simply ladies created, just click on the links!

Janine
Jennifer
Julie (my DD)
AJ
Tammy
Deb
Barbara
Jenny

Weekend time once again and it's my church picnic so I'll be on the prowl for a cute old man who needs to share his table & perhaps a beer with some sweet old lady like myself. Happy weekend to all and thanks for stopping by!