Friday Sketchers 101 and Some Sweet Stuff for YOU!!!

Happy Friday Everyone!! I hope that everyone has had a magnificent week and that you are also looking forward to a wonderful weekend!! As you know I had my 4th of 6 chemos on Monday and then the BIG shot on Tuesday so my week has been one of great interest!! hahaha So interesting that I hope I never see another one quite like it!! But, on the upswing, GOSH!!! I am 2/3 finished so thanks for all of the sweet support you have given me...it means the world, believe me!!

Today at Friday Sketchers we are celebrating our Two Year Anniversary and I am so excited because I am hosting and have made the sketch for the week. I hope you will participate along with us for sure!! Since all of the DT Members wanted to get the party started we decided to do a Blog Hop for you rather than put the DT Sample Cards on the regular blog...so please hop along with us and see not only the cards but the neat prizes you can win as you hop along!!

So if you arrived at my blog first, please go back to the Friday Sketchers blog to start your party!! For my card, I used some cute MM black/white and yellow/white gingham papers which were a gift from Suzan! Thank you so much Sweetie!! The base of the card is Bazzill and the matting is all PTI. You can see that I machine stitched the background panels and made a frame of gingham and satin ribbon around the outside of the card, placing the ribbons in diagonal slits made in the card base after tieing a soft knot in each ribbon. Both the center square and oval nesties are propped up for dimension. I used that darling little Honey Tilda from the Raising the Ceiling Collection over at Magnolia-licious but it looks as though she is out of stock at the moment. Contact Diana if you would like to have her. I stamped her on Cryogen White and colored her with Copics, adding bits of Stickles to the antennae, wings, and tummy! To finish the front of my card, I added a couple of bumble bee buttons and several tiny yellow flowers to soften the corners!

And now for a touch of SWEET STUFF!!! This is my very favorite part!!!!



1 Making Memories Journal Decorating Kit
1 Honeybee Box of Truffles
1 Pack Lindt Bugs and Bees Chocolates
1 Martha Stewart Cosmos Garden Punch
1 Fiskars Tool Taxi
1 Fiskars Craft Knife
1 K&Co Urban Brads
1 K&Co Adhesive Rhinestones
1 K&Co Arte Metalico
1 Making Memories Flower Shop Tin
1 K&Co Metal Art

Please leave a comment for me before Thursday, May 13, at noon DST in order to be eligible for my prize. For those who also participate on the Friday Sketchers blog this week and use my sketch to submit a card, they will receive an extra entry for the prize!!! How fun is that??

And now, it's time to get this anniversary party moving a little bit more so please continue on your merry hopping way and pay a visit to the most lovely and phenomenally talented and creative Jeanette who will certainly have a magnificent surprise for you!!!

Thank you sincerely for dropping by to see me today and I hope you will come back often!! I can't tell you enough how much I appreciate all of your kind comments, your sweet emails and notes, and most of all your continued support as WE go over this bump in my road together!!! You are all so very special to me!! Have a magnificent weekend and until we meet again...great big hugs for each of YOU!!!