My Favorite Bookworm

Another great sketch from Jen + MFT's I {heart}books = a fun customized birthday card! This one will be going to a co-worker who is the best reading teacher I know...Happy Birthday, Judy!

My post is going to be short and sweet because I need to meet a couple of my stamping friends in (aaack) 30 minutes! Hope you find some time to work Jen's sketch this week, and if you do, be sure to upload to Jen's slide show over at her blog.

Here's the sketch crew with new faces, including Jen's May Guest Designer and Jodi Collins, a regular to the sketch team. Welcome, Jodi!

Jen & May Guest Designer, Iwona
Amy
Susan
Leigh
Kelly
Jodi
Amber
Jenn
Megan
Sonja

Have a great weekend!
~Amy

welcome home {SFYTT}

Happy Saturday, everyone! I'm here with the final SFYTT for February, but don't worry, there will be more coming in March. Before we leave February though, remember to play along with the sketch and link your card to Jen's slideshow to be eligible for her super dee-duper prize package and for your chance to be a future monthly guest designer for Jen's SFYTT challenges. Ok, let's get on with the sketch and then my take on it...

I decided to combine a few things that I love: October Afternoon paper (Farm Fresh), anything felt (tree top and bird wing), buttons (PTI), and Kim Hughes images (The Landing Pad tree trunk). Oh, I almost forgot--the discarded dictionary page...love the script stamps, printed papers and the real stuff! The sentiment is from PTI, another place I love! I hope my card brings you a little hope for Spring to soon arrive in your neck of the woods...

Ready for more inspiration? Here's the crew...
Jen del Muro & Mona Pendleton
Amy Sheffer
Kelly Lunceford
Leigh O'Brien
Susan Liles

Have a good one!
~Amy

A toast to you!

I have had a pad of fun Crafty Secrets Girlfriends Notes for quite some time now, and I finally got the nerve to use one of them! Honestly, I just didn't know how to incorporate them into a card or some type of project, so they just sat gathering dust, and every once in awhile I'd stumble upon them...just waiting to be used.

This is a gift bag tag that I used for my SIL's birthday, and she's a New Year baby, so it couldn't have been more perfect for her. I added other vintage elements with the Damask Designs and Text Style sets from Papertrey Ink, and then topped the stamping with a piece of leftover K&Co. Classic K Margo patterned paper that I'd been using on my Whipper Snapper quilt cards. I topped off the image with a sentiment flag secured with a felt blossom and Foo-fa-la button.

Looking at that button reminds me of my first IRL visit with Lisa Zappa, who gave me the Crafty Secrets pad and talked me into buying the bag of Foo-fa-la buttons, all about a year ago. Here's to you, Lisa! BTW, Lisa is also the one who gave me my first Bingo card. Ü

I'll be back on Tuesday as your TCP Tuesday hipster hostess with the mostest, so be sure to stop in and play along!

Amy