I’ve been finishing up more Cards and Goodies for friends and family here at my house. Carrying on with the pink Valentines theme and adding some paper dolls and hearts! First, are my paper dolls featuring the Birds & Bees Gown no.10 from Character Constructions. I stamped the gown and then embellished with chalk, glitter and paper scraps. I then got to make a Barbie paper doll bookmark out of a Barbie catalog, covering the image with contact paper and adding a pink bow on top! The stamped cards of mine were made using the Art Blast collage images, you can see more cards like these on my BLOG, and Close to My Heart stamps and ink. So many fun ideas to make, so little time!

Just had to share a few things I have been up to lately, especially since Valentine’s day is right around the corner! First, are 2 cute books my Mom gave me, Memories Sew Sweet by Sandy Berry and Somerset in Love 2009. I love all of the pink used in both of these books as well as the mixed media. One of Sandy Berry’s quilts from this book is actually featured on pg 136 of Sew Somerset 2007. My quilt is on pg 134! So cool to see her in there with me. I also adore chapter 5 of Somerset in Love, lots of pink and green in Kimberly’s book. The cards I’ve been making lately are from a Martha Stewart Glittered Botanical card kit, so easy and pretty, I changed them up with stamped images on the cards. I also got to go to a Stampin Up card class offered by Kerrie Lightfoot. My daughter and I loved making these together. The blue card was my fav and I changed up the design from her original card to suit my own style. I hope you are inspired to make some sweet stuff of your own!

The month of December is almost over. I can’t believe that Christmas is just upon us and it still feels like it is Fall. I’m thinking of the soldiers that are deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq right now while we are free to celebrate Christmas here in the US many aren’t free to express religion around the world. Thanks to those men and women that fight to protect what isn’t ours for free but is bought by the price of their sacrifice and lives. These soldiers defend our freedoms every day. Some we even take for granted like the freedom to say "Merry Christmas". Well, this Christmas we are giving back thanks to AnySoldier.com anyone can get in touch with service men and women around the world to share our appreciation for all that they do. I thought I would share some of the cards that I got to send this year and also the ones I’ve made for family and friends. I hope you feel inspired to share the Christmas spirit this year. Merry Christmas!

Just wanted to share some cards real quick from the past month! Oy, having an infant sure does funny things with the time, somethings go bye so slowly and then everything seems to wisk by in a haze. I can’t believe that my daughter is already in a baby swing she isn’t even 5 months yet but she loves to be mobile! So now I have a little time to share my glittered Baby cards using Stampin Ups Sticky cuts letters, and my stamped and Inked card using Art Chix Chixie Bubbles collage image. You can check out my earlier glittered baby cards I’ve made HERE. And my earlier post about the Chixies Bubble artwork I did HERE. I have also been scouring the internet for FREE vintage images to use in my cards and artwork and have found some really nice sites.If you are looking to make a vintage style project you will definitely enjoy these! Please link back here and to the other sites if you use the images for your own personal use. And with my photos they belong solely to me so please leave a comment if you have any questions about any of my artwork you see on Pinkdilla.

Karen’s Whimsy has Gorgeous Prints, coloring pages, book pages and more. She is very thorough and has a wide selection of Angels which I love!

The next site is Art-e-zine  Vintage Images offering very pretty and girly FREE images mostly ranging from turn of the century postcards and hand tinted photos.

and Lastly is a very detailed list of FREE Hollywood images on Dr. Macro movie scans site. Lots of Audrey so I’m so excited to be able to make some paperdolls out her image!