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Hi everyone!  It’s Tuesday, and that means it’s ColourQ time!  Look at this delightfully delicate color palette Arielle has for us this week:

I just happened to have this image from Fabulous Florets already stamped and colored with Strawberry Slush ink, so I cut it out and added it to some MME DP stamped with the flourish from Everything Eleanor, mounted on a Sage Shadow card base:

I diecut some leaves from Pear Pizzazz cardstock, and added some color with an aquapainter and some PP ink:

I added a sentiment from Bring on the Cake on some Shimmery White paper, diecut with an Apothecary Accents die.  I left the die on the cutout and sponged it with some Pink Pirouette ink, which is a bit difficult to see here:

I also colored some pearls with a Copic and added to the right side for a little extra femininity!  I hope you’ll play along with us this week…these colors are perfect for Mother’s Day or any feminine creation!

Cassidy was disobedient (besides being messy) and wrote on the table with a pencil:

So I made her clean it up with some Fantastik and a paper towel:

She loved it and wanted to clean everything! I hope I can keep her enthusiasm going!

Fast Friday Card

Happy Friday, everyone!  I am glad this week is almost over!  I am looking forward to the weekend, that’s for sure!  Before I get to my project, I want to thank the lovely ladies at The Kraft Journal; they’re featuring my project from this post on their blog today!  Thanks again!

Today’s card is a real quickie; again, I am highlighting some products that will be retiring soon!   I already had the floral image from Fabulous Florets stamped and heat embossed on Shimmery White paper and watercolored with Strawberry Slush ink when I saw this sketch from CAS Colours & Sketches:

And this is what I did with it:

In REAL LIFE, the colors in my (non-SU) DP match my Strawberry Slush panel perfectly….you will just have to take my word for it, LOL!  I added a sentiment from the retiring Blessings From Heaven, stamped on a Chalk Talk die and added some black glimmer brads from the Basics collection (also retiring).  Simple and easy!

Thanks for the visit today!

I got a set of chipboard letters for $1 at an Amish stamp store and I thought they would be fun for Cassidy to play with as she is learning her letters….she can identify each letter, but putting them in order (unless she is singing the ABC song) is a challenge.  But she only liked dumping them out and putting them back in the cute little birdhouse box! We’ll work on that!

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Happy Thursday, peeps!  The weekend is almost here!  I loved the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches this week!  Check it out:

In my self-imposed challenge to use some sets that haven’t seen the light of day lately, I dusted off Papaya Collage and pulled out the bird.  Edited to add:  this bird is from Betsy' Blossoms, NOT Papaya Collage!!!  I am also challenged by this particular pattern from the Fresh Prints collection, most of which I LOVE, but this one is just a little out of my comfort zone.  So I paired them up and came up with this:

It’s all pretty straightforward; I did add an embossed panel just so I could anchor my ribbons behind it, but everything else is plain and simple!  I also popped up the wing as well as the “hi” with some dimensionals:

It’s pretty bright….but overall, I like it!

I also wanted to show you my original card for this week’s challenge at the Paper Players:

The theme was Spring Thank You; I love this card, but I really didn’t think the black made it very springy, so I put it aside.  But I thought I would share it anyway!  And Baja Breeze is retired, sadly….it’s still one of my favorite blues!

Cassidy “rediscovered” her homemade play-doh, and she literally played with this for about two hours…..I haven’t had her be so focused on one plaything ever!!!  She informed us she was making Christmas cookies, and she made a whole plateful!

Thanks for visiting today!

Products used today (plus retired Baja Breeze ink and cardstock) and Betsy's Blossoms, not Papaya Collage!:

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

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Happy Sunday, peeps!  Another Sunday and time for another Paper Players challenge:

Ann is our hostess this week with a nice challenge…..I can always use thank you cards, and I will certainly be thankful when spring gets here.  Since we are due for another snowstorm tomorrow, with 6-12” predicted, spring seems far, far away!  But when you are a stamper, you can have spring any day of the month!  Here is my springy creation:

I used the Freshly Made Sketches layout 125:

and I also used the Card Concept challenge 4 for my colors:

I guess I would say my style is “clean and layered”!  I “layered” the images in the Fabulous Florets set on my main panel, then added a strip of Epic Day This & That washi tape and embossed the entire thing with the Perfect Polka Dot EF.  You can see it closer here:

I used two images from the Six-Sided Sampler set to make my sentiment piece; added a hand-cut hexagon mat; diecut some leaves and did some piercing on them as well as around the image.  I just love this look!  It certainly does make me think of spring even though the look from my window does NOT!!!  I hope you can be inspired to make a springy thank you card and share it with us at the Paper Players as well!  You can check all the samples out here:

• Ann
• Anne Marie
• Jaydee
• Nance
• Sandy

We had a couple of warm days last week and the snow was melting off the shed roof, coming through the gutter in a little stream!  Cassidy wanted to go stand under it---NOT!!—but I did let her stand under it with my umbrella….you may be able to see the splashes coming off as she tilted the umbrella!  My little water baby!

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Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Just wanted to thank everyone for their sweet comments about Cassidy’s Paper Players creation!  We really appreciate them!  Today, Arielle has a unique color inspiration for us to play with:

This cute Anthropologie sweater is so pretty for fall.  I interpreted this into a sympathy card:

I remembered I had a 6x6 pad of older SU DP that had some Night of Navy paper in it, so I used it for my background, cutting out the images from Fabulous Florets for the focal point.  I also used Petite Pairs for the sentiment inside and out:

Be sure to stop by the ColourQ blog to see ALL the fabulous designs!

I made one of those cute little candle holders with the Witches Brew washi tape and put in a battery-operated candle.  I showed Cassidy how to turn it on:

After which, she tried to blow it out!!! LOL!

Enjoy your day!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Fabulous Florets, Petite Pairs
Card stock & Papers	Night of Navy DP (ret), Whisper White
Ink	Calypso Coral, Night of Navy, Baked Brown Sugar, Strawberry Slush
Accessories	Pearls
Tools	Big Shot, Lil' Inkers Photo Die, Dimensionals