Whenever I hear the Song of a Bird (DT)

I found this sweet little image, Spring Swing, over at the Paper Shelter and just had to try my hand at coloring it up and seeing what I could do with it. I was pleased with the end result and it was so much fun to color I cannot possibly describe.

One of my lil granddaughters has long long blonde hair with a bit of gorgeous curl so I made this for my lil chessa. She is such a sweet gentle lil soul and this reminded me of her. As a side note, seems if there is a bird in a picture I just have to color it as a robin. Every year I just love to see the Robins come out in spring. It is impossible for me to watch them hopping around on the lawn and not smile till it hurts and I find myself chuckling out loud. They never fail to brighten my day and lighten my heart.

I was reminded of one of my favorite songs as a child that I have never outgrown.

 I know Heavenly Father Loves Me 

Whenever I hear the song of a bird or look at the blue, blue sky, Whenever I feel the rain on my face or the wind as it rushes by, Whenever I touch a velvet rose or walk by our lilac tree, I’m glad that I live in this beautiful world, Heavenly Father created for me. 

 Thank You for stopping by and Happy Creating…..


robbiestockton@hotmail.com

The Joy of Color

I think one of my greatest inspirations when it comes to creating my digital stamp projects is the image itself. B/W Digital Stamps just cry out for me to grab something to color them in with.Guess I am still a lil girl at heart and I just love to color, to see something in black and white lines come alive. Some of my fondest memories as a child where of sitting with my sister at the feet of my great Aunt Dee and coloring while she sat in her chair and watched a bit of television, probably Art Linkletter or Merv Griffin.  She always had a special place on her bookshelf with color books just for us and one of the Giant boxes of Crayola Crayons. All those color choices and a crayon sharpener in the back of the box. This lil girl was in Heaven.

This wee lil image from Melissa at MelJens Designs, entitled Little Teenie, just made me smile as I added bright greens, oranges and a bit of purple. Naturally a brightly colored image deserves an equally bright and colorful background to find a home on.

Another set of images that just had to have lots of bright bold color: Turtle's Little Star and Starfish Buddies

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.  ­­~ John Calvin

Thank You for stopping by and I hope your day is filled with sunshine and color, no matter what the weather in your neck of the woods.

And the Winner is.......

Congratulations Theresa at Theresa's Studio, you are the winner of Mushroom Mouse! Theresa, an email has been sent to the email address you left with the file attached. Thank to all y'all for joining with us for MelJen's 2nd Anniversary Blog Hop. Y'all are the best.

Have a wonderful Day!

HOP-PY Anniversary Melissa!

It's a MelJen's Designs   Blog Hop to celebrate Melissa's 2nd year of providing adorably cute digital images. If participating in the Hop you should have arrived here at Buttons and Bows from Rae Ann's Blog featuring a 'Bundle of Toe-Wigglin' Monkey Shines'. To encourage you to Hop along the 'digi trail', each blog will feature one of their favorite MelJen's Digi and draw from the names of those who leave comments on their individual blog to recieve the spotlighted image free. Winners will be announced on April 6th.

To share this happy event with all y'all Melissa is offering a BOGO, buy one get one free, sale during the Hop, April 2nd 9 am EST- April 6th 9 am EST.

I simply adore Melissa's 'Mice' images, I think I would say they are my favorite. I am featuring 'MUSHROOM MOUSE' and will randomly draw from those who leave comments on my blog to recieve this adorable image free on the evening of April 5th 8pm CST. I have to be at work 7 am CST and need to have the winner randomly chosen and posted before I leave the house. Honest I would rather stay home and play.

Your next HOP STOP on the MelJen's Trail will be to Robin's Blog. Robin is simply awesomly talented and I promise will have you 'Dancing with Delight with her Tutu fabulous card'. (C'mon admit it, y'all are curious now aren't ya?) So what are ya waitin' for....Robin's anxious for your visit.

Thanks for Hopping by and hope your Story has Happy Days ahead.


Blog Hop List in Order:
Audrey
Candace
Ceal
Cheryl
Dee
Dianna
Katja
Marlena
Nicole
Rae Ann
Robbie
Robin

How SWEET it is.....

... and that's no foolin'. It's the 1st of April and that means a brand new release of images from Laurie at the Doodle Pantry.  Be sure to check in on the fabulous specials and sales as well as free images with purchase and participation in the monthly challenge. No Joke....they're f-ANT-istically TWEET.  (Peaked your interest didn't I?)

I worked up this new image from April's collection, Lollipop Worm comes with both B/W outlines as well as the pre-colored image, sentiments and 2 digi papers. "SWEET"! For this card I used the pre-colored image and both digi papers.

Hope you have a SWEET Day and thanks for stopping by,

Have a Mice Day!

This Quirky lil fella comes from Doodle Pantry....All of Laurie's lil critters  in her line of "Quirkies" are simply too cute. I hope they bring a smile to the face of those who receive as much as they do to mine when I am working with these adorable images. Quirky Mouse comes precolored with a gray, brown or white mouse, B/W image, sentiments and also both of these fun digital papers. What more could you ask? Unfortunately I really wish I had only used the 'stickles' on the cheese, cheeks and nose. Oh well, live and learn.

Doodle Pantry has two opportunities to earn a free images.

Get the LOVE SNAKES product FREE with any purchase from January 1 thru 24!   You just have to add it to your cart of other products and checkout!

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JANUARY COMPLIMENTARY IMAGE FOR PLAYING DOODLE PANTRY DIGITAL CHALLENGE 19 IS WORKOUT BIRDIE, (see 1/1/12 post) which will not be available in the shop for sale until January 25.  So just enter our challenge on our blog from Jan 1 - 24, and you can get it for free!

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Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you have a very mice day!

I'm seeing Stars...

....and it's because of the new challenge at MelJen's Designs, featuring....you got it, STARS! I ran across these cute cute cute lil Sea Turtle and his Starfish Buddy  and the 2 lil Starfish Pals when I did a search in Melissa's shop for 'Stars'. I fell in Love immediately. Made a card for my Hubby to remind him that he has the  love and support of the boys and I. The entire time I was working on it, I kept hearing in my mind the voice of Crush and his son, the sea turtles from the movie Finding Nemo. They are some of my favorites.

You will want to double-check the new challenge guidelines at Meljens' HERE and then you can 'Aim For the *** STARS ***' as you join in.

Thanks for stopping by and Have an Awesome Day, Dude...