Chock full of Goodness Friday...

Woot Woot for Friday!!!!!

I have tons to share with you today...so grab that cup 'o joe and get ready:)

I was inspired by Karen B's telephone card that she designed for her CAS-tastic Wednesday Challenge. I knew that I wanted to play with my new Tim images...

Here's the first card I designed....the card base is Stampin' Up Basic Gray...love that color. I used Charcoal Chalk but stamped off once so that the black wasn't as dark. I do like the contrast between the black and the PTI Fresh Snow but with the distressed text, it will make it slightly tricky to send to any of my friends...it seems we're all battling the beginning stages of "wise eyes"....getting old stinks....Did you notice I rounded the lower left hand corner...gives it an interesting shape...

Here's my second card....primarily the same design but I used PTI Hawaiian Shores as the card base...oh la la love that color! I inked up the brocade image with my PTI Hawaiian Shores cube {I'll be going to full size pad on my next PTI order} and decided to go with the Charcoal chalk for the quote...I like the contrast of the black on the gorgeous Hawaiian Shores and then at the last minute decided to bling it up with a strip of Kaiser black bling...

Next up....the DeNami Sketch Challenge:

I hadn't inked up my DeNami Espresso Stamp Set and thought it would be perfect for the sketch challenge. The image size is great for inchies!!!

I happened to have some of The Cutting Cafe Coffee Background leftover so it was perfect to team up with the DeNami challenge.

Did you notice the pink stitching?! I colored the images with copics...filled in the sides of the inchies with dark brown copic ink and then distressed the edges with Chestnut Roan chalk to even everything out. I love the punches of colors....the raspberry button is from the DeNami Tutti Fruitti button bag and the other is PTI Aqua Mist. The sentiment is ala A Muse....and quite frankly is my motto in life {says that girl that easily downs 6 cups of coffee before work}...

♥♥RAK Alert♥♥

Over the next couple of days I'll be sharing some happy mail that I've received...gotta love Happy Mail!!!

Check out what I received from the very fabbie Gina of Tyggereye Art:

This girl is MULTI-TALENTED....not only does she make gorgeous cards like this Yummy Sushi number....the girl carves her own stamps too:

I'm the proud owner of this Gina original stamp...I won it from her blog candy drawng, pretty coolio, huh? Well, that's not all peeps....she also designs her own digi-kits:


Woot Woot...whatta surprise when she sent this along too...I'm one lucky duck....thanks sooo much Gina....you're thee best!!!! You'll be seeing some sushi goodness from me...I'm planning on doing a theme gift for my brother's upcoming birthday....

Okay, thanks for hanging out with me....I appreciate you stoppin' by...happy friday...I'll be back tomorrow:)