Gingerbread Man

 Playing today with this weeks sketch at Freshly Made Sketches

I love gingerbread for Christmas. We always made gingerbread men when I was  kid. We had so much fun decorating them

I used an e/f that reminds me of plaids. The SU plaid DSP are from. the scrap box. The gingerbread is from Sarasota Stamps.  The Santa hat and candy cane are from a retired SU stamp set.I can't decide where to put a sentiment. 

Halloween for Kids.

I am so excited to have been chosen as guest designer for Send A Smile 4 Kids. 

They collect cards for kids from stampers and distribute them to children's hospitals. I appreciate the volunteers who do the collections and mailings. It warms my heart to think I can bring a moment of cheer to a hospitalized child.  Check out their blog for rules. If you have extra cards appropriate for kids, I am sure they would be honored to receive your donations.

It may seem early to think about Halloween cards but they do have to be sent off several weeks early for the volunteers to get them to the hospitals.

The background paper has bubbles on it (you know double, double, toil and trouble, fires burn and cauldron bubble...) It is from SU. the b/w stripe is from the scrap pile. The witch's hat and shoes are also from SU. The ghost is an old unlabeled wood stamp, stamped on a scrap and fussy cut. I did a smattering of green behind the image to make the image pop.  The sentiment is an old SU retired stamp. That ghost just looked blah so I added googly eyes to bring him to life. Isn't he just too cute kicking up his heels to celebrate Halloween?

Just a fun not too scary card I think a kid will love.

Head on over to Send A Smile 4 Kids blog to check out the designers' inspirations.