Monthly Mix Blog Hop - killer!

It’s time for another Lizzie Anne Designs Monthly Mix Blog Hop! Tricia and Meridith, the company owners, have been kind enough to let the Monthly Mix members join in with their Design Team in posting cards made with Monthly Mix stamps on the 15th of the month.  This time they’ve surprised me by tagging me as a “guest Design Team stamper” for the day.  I’m feeling genuinely honored!  Their Design Team is an incredibly talented group of ladies!  If I’d known in advance I would have tried to make something more original and less simple.  But I’m still very flattered to be considered an honorary LAD Design Team member today.  

My card uses this week’s Lizzie Anne Designs sketch challenge, some of my favorite colors, and a stamp and sentiment pair that always makes me smile. This shark always seems just too friendly to me to be a killer for real. He’s part of the July 2010 Monthly Mix set. For this card, I stamped him on a scrap of designer paper and cut him out before adhering him to the circle. Oh – this is actually a mirror image of the sketch – I thought it looked better this way, so the shark wouldn’t seem like he’s swimming off the edge of the card, kwim?  This card is going to be donated to Operation Write Home so I wanted to keep it pretty simple and easy to mail.

Be sure to visit the Lizzie Anne Designs blog for links to the other participants’ blogs.  Check out what the other ladies have been doing and give them some blog love, too!

Supplies:
Stamps: Simply Sweet (Lizzie Anne Designs)
Cardstock: Basics White (Papertrey Ink); Soft Sky, Sahara Sand, Fall Flowers designer paper, Spring Flowers designer paper (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine)
Other: Soft Sky ribbon (SU); standard circles dies (Nestabilities); brad (Making Memories)