Warm Holiday Wishes

Took me all day as I am fighting a nasty cold....but.....I managed to combine 6 challenges in this card!
1. Verve Challenge #3 (from their release party): Use embellishments starting with the letters of VERVE..I chose to use E for embossed!
2. 365 cards: sketchy sunday....here is the sketch:

3. Susie's Sassy Designs: Pink and Sparkly!
4. Cuttlebug Challenges Be Inspired #59: add glitter, bling and cuttlebug! my birds and holly berries are blinged up with some Martha Stewart glitter!
5. Papertake Weekly: Christmas Crackers!
6. Saturday Spotlight: Hat's off! must contain a hat! well....does the crown on the bird count as a hat? i think it does....hope i'm right!

So there you have it! And after dinner, I have plans to combine a few more challenges into my next Christmas card....if I can keep this up, I may actually get my cards done at some point! Thanks for stopping by!
~tracey

a christmas card! finally!

Well, seems like I have been making Christmas cards FOREVER! And yet, I haven't posted any of them! laziness is my only excuse...lol! This one is for a few challenges though, so, I kind of had to post it!!! Here is the low-down....
1. sketch thursday's second chance challenge! challenge was this fab sketch, which i mirror imaged....

2. The Pink Elephant: their challenge this week is to use something plaid, any # of brads, and NO RIBBON! I used cardstock as my ribbon, so I think it is ok!
3. Whimsy Stamps: theme is CHRISTMAS! easy peasy right? I am making mad amount of christmas cards!!!

So there you have it, 3 birds with one card! thanks for stopping by today! life is getting back to normal around here, so hopefully I will be posting a little more regularly!!! I will probably be making mad amounts of crafty things tomorrow as it is teh first Sunday that there is NO RACE ON! I need to somehow pre-occupy myself!!!
later gators!!!

My Proposal (for charity!)

Ok....I'm not sure who to send this to, or how to go about it, so I am going to write up my proposal on here, and send the link to everyone I can get in touch with Nascar affiliated and see if anyone thinks it is a good idea. I may just come across as a crazy person, but, well, I have good intentions!
You know how the Greg Bifle Foundation puts out the Nascar Pets Calendar every year, for charity? I personally love this calendar and buy it every year. I would like to propose something a bit different, but still a calendar. Yes, this may sound insane, but....keep in mind, there are a TON of female Nascar fans out there.....a TON. I propose a Nascar calendar, featuring the drivers, as we never see them......maybe shirtless? Posing kind of sexy like??? I was thinking I would love to see a calendar like this, and thought of making my own, but how am I going to find the pictures? We never see our favorite drivers in anything other than their firesuits! What if, someone made this calendar, and sold it for charity?? Proceeds go to a charity of some sort. I don't know what charity, or how to go about it, and well, like I said, I don't have the pictures....
I know I personally would pay good money for a calendar of this sort and would love to give back. Don't you think some of these drivers would l ike to do this? How fun would THAT photoshoot be?? I'm not talking something R-rated, just shirtless! or even sexy tanktops or muscle shirts, anything!
Am I alone in this? What do you think? Please comment and let me know if this is a good idea. I bet it would raise alot of $$ for a good cause, and make alot of women VERY HAPPY! If someone reads this who can make it happen, or knows who specifically I can talk to about it....please let me know. Leave me a comment or email me at twilson1424@gmail.com. Thanks for reading, and no, I'm not crazy....just a fan trying to better the world!