Guylous Inimitability Smile Challenge

So Guylou's Inimitability is having a Smile Challenge and the only requirements for it were that you used her Smile Bingo card and one of her images. When I first saw this challenge I was so excited...I knew exactly what I was going to do....and then we lost our Lady...and I was lost. So my plans changed....

We brought Lady home yesterday and I wanted to do something to commemorate her life...and this is what I came up with. Doesn't she have a great smile? I know I smile everytime I see this picture.  I used the Bingo card and Guylou's wonderful little Christmas freebie, Sundae with heart. I colored her so that she looked like our dog Molly...and of course Molly had to help so she put her paw marks on it and gave it a woof! I also used a new image from Priscilla Style's...it's called a Heart flourish and comes in a set of three.

I used card stock from my stash (sorry, there was no name for it), and white cardstock from Michael's. I traced around Lady's name, the love image and the bingo board with metallic pink pen from Bartell's. Molly's heart is colored in red glitter pen.

I also used some flowers by Portafolia and little pink and blue pearls given to me from a very wonderful lady. The tennis balls have gold glitter on their stripes.

 I colored Molly and the Smile on the bingo card with SU water colors and I colored the Love image with metallic pink, blue and green pens. Each flower has a gold center.

Christmas Bird

Hi all...wow...it's really been a long time since I posted anything on here. I was so busy trying to get things finished in time for Christmas and didn't have the time for posting extra stuff. I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas, and was able to spend it with their loved one's. We had a very nice Christmas with my MIL and FIL...and my dh's niece and her husband. So I did some work on a couple of cards...actually I made 30 some odd cards, but they were a variation of some that I have already posted so I won't be posting them. But I did do a card using a wonderful image called Christmas Bird by Priscilla Styles. You can find the image here. It is such a wonderful image to work with and I hope that I did it justice. I started out with a shimmering red paper that I got from my local craft store Bartell's,  as my base. I used a deep purple paper from Michael's underneath the image.

I colored the image with SU water color pencils and used gold glitter pen from Michaels to color in the sentiment. I also used the gold glitter pen to color the bells and the middle of the ribbon.

I used a red glitter pen (from Michael's) for coloring in the holly berries and a green metallic pen (also from Michael's) for coloring the holly leaves. I used Star Dust stickles for the snow on the tree branch and since I wanted the image to be the focus of the card, I only added a small red pearl in each corner.