A Deconstructed Celebration!

Hi all!  I am SUPER excited to be taking part in something very special

It's a full on celebration and I can't believe I get to be a part of it!  Jen always has amazing sketches and I had a total blast with this one...

Fun right?  And here's my take...

Now, here's the official deets and all you need to know to participate- I hope that you'll join in for the fun and, of course, for a chance to win some awesome prizes!!

It's the Deconstructed Sketch's 2 year anniversary AND 100th sketch! To celebrate we have some special guest joining us as well as two amazing sponsors and we want YOU to join us too! Now here's what you want to know - how can I play too?!?

Commenting:

• There is a prize hidden somewhere out in the 100th sketch blog hop!! One very lucky randomly selected commenter will win a $25.00 gift certificate to Tiddly Inks Stamps!
• So what do you need need to do? Visit all the blogs on the link list below and leave a comment on their Deconstructed Sketch 100th sketch post and cross your fingers!
• The commenting prize deadline is May 15, 2013 at 8 pm CST. We've got TWO things to celebrate so we are celebrating for two weeks!

Make a project:

• There is also a prize saved for one of our sketch participants! One very lucky randomly selected sketch participant will win a $25.00 gift certificate to Taylored Expressions!!
• So what do you need to do for this one? Use sketch 100 to create a project - your project can be a card, layout, Project Life creation - anything, just make sure the sketch is visible. Photograph your creation and upload it to an online gallery or blog and come back here and add a direct link to your project in InLinkz on the Deconstructed Sketch 100 post on Jen's Blog.
• The project deadline is May 15, 2013 at 8 pm CST. Enter as many times as you want with different projects! 

Now it's time to hop!

1.	Amber Hight	10.	Lori Boyd
2.	Arielle Gordon	11.	Sandra MacLean
3.	Cresta Woodruff	12.	Sheri Gilson
4.	Dawn Easton	13.	Tobi Crawford
5.	Donna Wardle	14.	Tracey Pickersgill
6.	Jen Shults	15.	Jodi Amidei - Special Guest
7.	Joni Wilson	16.	Jodi Collins - Special Guest
8.	Judy Rozema	17.	Katie Perry - Special Guest
9.	Kadie Ensley	18.	Laurie Willison - Special Guest

A Darling Birthday

 Hi All!  Boy, I don't know if you've missed me but I've missed you :)  Some changes in my world- like a promotion at work!- have kept me from getting too crafty lately but I finally managed to find the time to take a seat in my craft room and get some cards done...

Ever since I saw this image, Violet Vintage, for the first time by Krista over at Saturated Canary I've been absolutely dying to get my hands, and Copics, on her!  I'm so in love with her hair and those huge glasses on that cute little face that I decided to do the 'big head' look and have some real fun coloring.  I paired her up with some pretty soft papers from the MME Be Happy line and think it's the perfect compliment.  Because the card making was a little rusty I set out to find a sketch that could get me started and came across the beautiful one for the week over at Deconstructed Sketch which caught my eye with it's banner taking centerstage...I love me some banners lately, lol!  As usual I threw some of my favorite embellishments on there to balance it out and called it good.  And I was glad to find that the card making skills didn't completely disappear during my absence :)  Thanks so much for stopping by to visit!

Copics:
Skin: E000, E00, E11, R30, R21. BV31, BV34
Hair: E93, E95, E97, E99, E27, E29
Clothes & Headband: V12, V15, V17, BV29, BG70, BG72, BG75, BG78

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges-
Deconstructed Sketch- Sketch
Fussy and Fancy- Anything Goes
By The Cute and Girly- Birthday
Totally Gorjuss- Bling It On

Supplies: Cardstock- Bazzill; DP- My Minds Eye Be Happy; Bling Flourish- My Minds Eye; Flowers- Prima, Recollections; Sentiment Sticker- Jillibean Soup

It's The Simple Things

Hi All!  I know you're shocked that I'm doing two posts in two days but I told you I had lots of crafting time this weekend :)  I've been eyeing the sketches over at Deconstructed Sketch and I finally got my bum in gear in enough time to get one entered.  I flipped it on its side and left off the sentiment just because I'm not sure exactly what I want to use it for yet.  I may use it for a birthday card to fill an order or I might just keep it for my own stash mostly because I really like how the coloring on Pippa from Tickled Pink Stamps turned out this time around....she's so much fun to color and every time I just like her more!  So here's another card from my crafting whirlwind...hope you enjoy :)

Copics:
Skin: E000, E00, E11, R20, R32, R35
Hair: E50, E51, E53, E55, E57
Clothes: B91, B93, B95, B97, B99, W0, W1, G40, G82, G85, T1, T3, T5, T7, T9
Flowers: G24, G28, RV13, RV14, RV17, RV19, V15, V17

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:
Deconstructed Sketch
Deep Ocean Challenges- Cards
Papertake Weekly- Anything Goes
Stampalot Challenge- Anything Goes
Stamps R Us- 'There was a little girl'
Tickled Pink- Flowers

Supplies: DP- KaiserCraft Chanteuse; Twine- Jillibean Soup; Flowers- Prima; Border Punch- Fiskars; Tag- Tim Holtz