Summer City of Festivals

Sorry no card today as I'm getting ready to travel very soon. I thought I'd show you what my daughter and I did yesterday.

Okay, there's not much to do in Edmonton during the winter, but in summer you can choose to be forever on the go! We have so many festivals going on during the months of June thru to August, it's a wonder anybody works around that time. The thing is, that around the last few weeks of July til the first 2 weeks in August there are 3 - 4 events going on at the same time.

Yesterday, I took my daughter to The taste of Edmonton. This is where you can go and sample many of the different hotel and resturant food in one place and not pay a arm, leg and hip for it. Not only can you sample food but beer and wine as well, they have live music and entertainment.

I had never heard of fried mars bars before Saturday, when the girls over at The Stamping Boutique talked about it, I thought fried chocolate? When we went to the taste, they had some there and I decided to try it! hhhmmmm good!

Here are some more pictures of what we saw and ate yesterday!

Hope you all have a great day!

Beary Cherry

The freebie image this week if you played last week over at Stretch N' Bubbles is called Bear Cupcake. If you missed last week, you can still play along, just head over to the SNB Shop and pick up this week's image. I decided to play along this week at Card Pattern and used their sketch #74 with this image. They are being sponsored by Some Odd Girl Digital Stamps this week, the winner gets a choice of 3 stamps. Well, alright than, I'm in, are you? You have until Friday the 30th to enter, good luck.

Sweet "Mice" Day

On Friday when I opened my inbox I recieved this cute image and sentiment from Faith at Designed 2 Delight, it's called Mice Day. Isn't it cute, you can find more wonderful images here.

So, Double Delights challenge this week is to add buttons, buttons, buttons with a hint of blue somewhere on your project. This is what I came up with. The sketch I used is from The Sweet Shop challenge #66, I saw this and knew it would be perfect with this image.

July Mingle!

Here is a card I did for the Magnolia-licious July mingle group on yahoo, this month it was all about butterflies. I used a Martha Stewart butterfly punch for the the one at the top of the card and then cut out the one at the bottom from Recollections Tatton Garden design paper. I'm also entering this card into the Beary Sweet Challenge #6 or BSC6, this time it's a sketch challenge. Their challenges runs on the first and the 15th of each month. They offer products from their very own Beary Scrap shelves. There's still plenty of time to enter, go over and check it out, you have until July 31, 2010 to enter.

Chicken In!

Over at Double Delight the challenge is to POP IT UP, that's right use dimensionals to pop up all or parts of this image. If you played last week you would have gotten Cluck for free, if not then you can find him over at Faith's Designed2Delight digital stamp shop. I popped up all of Clucks body and than partially cut out the wing and curved it. I also use flower soft to give it a little more dimension. This card will also be entered into Paper Sundaes challenge, where you are to make your own flowers. They are being sponsored by Lili of the Valley this week, go check them out here!

Baby Blue

Over at Phindy's Place the challenge this week is to "Go Blue", but, who could get blue after seeing this super sweet image, don't you just love it. There is nothing blue about a Mother's love. Anywho, I thought the little toy the baby is holding looked like a lamb, so I puffed it up to give it some texture, than I added this cute little brad buddie from Hot Off The Press (HOTP) . The bow brad on the lamb was actually purple and I used my blue copic marker to color it and than heat set it.

Gamer Alert!

This week over at Mo's Challenge blog the challenge is to make a male card, I don't make very many of these so this was really a challenge for me. I chose this image beacause it reminded me of my son, who loves to game any chance he gets. The sketch is from The Sweet Shop and the the twist is to use a tag somewhere on your card. I'm also entering this card into Stamp Something challenge. They are holding another one of their monthly "Go Digital" challenges, so all you have to do is use something digital on your creation. They are being sponsored by several different digital companies who will be giving away several of their images or a Gift Certificate if you win! Go over and check it out, challenge ends Thursday, July 22, 2010.