A Challenge & A Giveaway

Have I told anyone that I love sketches? Nothing beats a sketch to get my creative juices flowing! Anyway, My Mind's Eye is having a blog challenge and the winner will receive one of everything from three MME collections of their choice! Deadline is Dec. 17th at midnight, so hurry! Here's my challenge entry!

Here's the sketch (awesome, isn't it?!):

And here's my take:

Gotta love those lollipop flowers, right? I got the idea from Helen Croft's blog and they're super easy! Just cut 3-4 circles of different sizes & they don't need to be perfect. You can ink them, glimmer mist them, stickle them, paint them...you get the idea...then put a pretty little somethin' in the middle, like a brad, and you're done!

In other important news...I just found out about this great giveaway by GCD Studios and thought I'd share with all of you. They are giving away 10...yes, TEN...of their new collections! All you have to do is sign up to be a GCD Studios follower and leave a comment on their blog by January 1st! Easy peasy, right? Here's the linky and the blinkie! Good luck, everyone!