birthday challenge at cheerful stamp pad continues...

it is week two for the birthday card challenge at the cheerful stamp pad. you can never have enough birthday cards on deck and you have one more week to join this challenge for a chance to win shopping credit with our sponsor stitchy bear digital outlet.  this week i chose a digital image from stitchy bear called "gran's garden" and i've also added a birthday sentiment digital image from clear dollar stamps.

starting with a digital background from the primavera series by itKuPiLLi, i've once again this week created a 100% digital creation.  i arranged my images and did all the coloring in photoshop.  the sun in the corner is not a stamp -- just a digitally hand-drawn image.  should i decide to give this card i'll only need to print it and adhere it to cardstock.

i hope you'll link up a birthday creation of your own.  there is also a birthday challenge at the squirrel and the fox blog so i am linking to that as well.

wishing you a wonderful week.
love to all.

curiouser indeed!

for week two of the "secrets and hidden things" challenge at lunagirl moonbeams i wanted to do something kind of whimsical.  i was thinking that the alice in wonderland story includes secrets and hidden things so i turned to one of the alice collage sheets from lunagirl.  i colored the image of alice pulling aside the curtain with promarkers and cut it out. but i wanted her to find something a little more surprising than the queen's garden. so while the mysteriously smiling cheshire cat looks on, here is what happened in my alice scene...

whoa, what is rudolph the red-nosed reindeer doing behind that curtain? i guess he is telling me i'd better get going on making some christmas cards.

the alice, cheshire cat and "curiouser" all came from the lunagirl sheet.  the background was a freebie karen at lunagirl provided on her blog a month or so ago.  the rest are little things i had laying around.  i decided to link this card up to the "humour" challenge at dream valley challenges  and also to the "animal antics" challenge at the squirrel and the fox challenge blog.

happy week!  love to all.