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Happy Thursday, peeps!  Ah, the weekend is almost upon us!  I have a quick little card today using the FMS sketch:

 Friendly Phrases is one of those fun stamp sets that I just never got to use enough, and since it's retiring, I thought I'd ink it up for today's card.   I stamped a big flower from Flower Patch and trimmed it down, then positioned it behind a stamped gingham strip (retired wheel).  It all went atop an embossed piece, over which I placed my sentiment:

Both stitched elements are from Lil'Inkers; the smaller flower is also from Friendly Phrases!  Thanks for popping in today!

Cassidy spent an hour or so in the craft room with me yesterday, making a birthday card for one of her dolls.  Now, at any given moment, her doll could be 3, 5, or as in this case, 12!  She stamped a little puppy dog, cut out the number 1 and 2 and adhered them on the card:

  

She even came up with her own sentiment, which I wrote out and she traced with a black marker:

I thought this was pretty clever!

 

The clincher was this one though....on the inside, she used a green glitter pen to write her sentiment, and after the first word, she looked at it longingly and said "I could just eat this up!  It's like there's a party going on here!"  LOL...I cracked up!  Who of us hasn't felt that way about something glittery!!!

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Hi everyone!  Happy Sunday!  Today, I am the hostess at the Paper Players with a sketch for you!  Here you go:

Today I veered away from fall and Halloween creations again, giving my beloved Mint Macaron a little love!  I needed a thank you card for someone who did me a big favor, so I cut some of the Color Collection DSP into strips, did a few layers of cardstock and added a sentiment from Friendly Phrases:

I rescued a Basic Black scallop that I had been chasing around my desk, unused from another project, added it beneath my circle, and stamped the “thank you” from the retired Itty Bitty Banners in Basic Black.  The flower embellishments are from Endless Thanks, stamped and fussy-cut; the larger ones have a candy dot center; the smaller ones, I simply filled in with a black marker!  Some narrow grosgrain ribbon finished it off!

I have to tell you, the designers outdid themselves with this sketch this week!  I hope you’ll visit them all, then use their ideas to inspire you as well!  Can’t wait to see what you create!

• Claire
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Laurie
• Nance
• Sandy
• Amy
• Jodi
• Lisa

The one-cheek method of stamping!

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Happy Tuesday, everyone!  Are you ready for another ColourQ challenge?  How about this:

Gorgeous!  I wish I had a place to wear this…..of course, I guess I could always STAMP in a skirt like this, right?!! LOL!  Anyway, I took the liberty of adding Crumb Cake to the mix when making my card.  A couple of weeks ago, I fell in love with this one-layer card and vowed to try this simple masking technique myself!  So here we go:

My first step was to cut a circle in a piece of scrap paper; then I clipped the mask to my Crumb Cake panel.  I brayered the inside circle with Craft White ink, then heat-dried it and stamped floral images from Summer Silhouettes and Fabulous Florets in the challenge colors, still leaving the mask intact.  The Blush Blossom flowers are a bit hard to see, but they are there!  To make the circle stand out a bit more, I used the reverse part of the mask (the circle) and laid it on top of my stamped area, and sponged some Crumb Cake around it, just to give it some more depth; I also paper pierced it.  I made a banner with vellum cardstock, embossing my sentiment from the retiring Friendly Phrases set in white ink and white EF, then mounted it with my shabby bow.  Can you believe this---I dyed my seam binding with Sage Shadow ink, and this is the green that it gave me!!  So weird, but I just went with it!

This is also for The Kraft Journal’s Make It Monday challenge, which is “Just for Her”!

Now, what can you create with this beautiful springy-sunshiney palette?  I can’t wait to see what floral masterpieces you come up with!  Be sure to share them with us all over at the ColourQ blog!  We can’t wait to see them!

Putting the baby dolls to bed:

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Happy Friday, peeps!  I haven’t played with the Mojo Monday sketch for a looong time, so I thought I should remedy that!  Here’s the sketch:

I needed a little boy baby card and I was just itching to use these fun papers from MME:

I flipped the sketch on the side to make it work a little better for my little car!  This baby’s extended family is VW-crazy!  It’s a large family and there are probably 10-12 VWs!!!  So I found this snappy little car in my MDS (On the Go), printed it in red, and snipped it out!  The banner is from Itty Bitty Banners; I mounted it on some Gumball Green cardstock and hand-cut a mat for it, anchoring it to the little car with some twine:

I added some fun papers on the inside as well, and included a sentiment from Friendly Phrases:

This just makes me smile with these fun, cheerful colors!  Thanks for visiting today!

If you close your eyes, it makes the person telling you to pick up your toys disappear, right?

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Hi everyone—I hope you all weathered the 4th of July and enjoyed your day!  We watched some fireworks from our sailboat on Tuesday night and ate too much at my nephew’s picnic yesterday!  But we had fun!  Today’s card uses Jennifer’s sketch from this week’s  Freshly Made Sketches:

as well as the colors from Stampin Royalty:

Since a certain someone in my circle of friends recently had a baby, I could not wait to ink up Storybook Friends!!!

 

The images were too big to use on their own and still fit on the panel, so after stamping them in Basic Gray ink, I punched each one out with a 1 1/4” circle punch and lightly watercolored them, then popped them up on a Baja Breeze panel embossed with the Fancy Fan EF:

 

Since all the sentiments are so stinkin’ cute and could be interchangeable, I cut them apart from their images and used the “yippee!” one for the front of the card, then added a sentiment from Friendly Phrases for the inside:

Enjoy your day!  Here’s Cassidy, checking out her daddy’s pile of crab shells from the picnic yesterday….she was really more interested in the hammer!  And her dessert, which you can see on her face!

 

 

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It’s Sunday, and another Paper Players Challenge is upon us!  Today, Lesley has a fab & funky color challenge—woo, this one really threw me for a loop!

I went bold and basic today, since these are really strong colors together!  I used my new Betsy’s Blossoms and paired it with Friendly Phrases to make some cards for my top four sellers in my downline:

It’s a bit dificult to see, but I stamped the sentiment on the Basic Gray DP in Stazon; I wish I had heat embossed it, oh well!!!  I added some dry embossing and new stitched ribbon, along with a few strategically-placed pearls!

  

I also used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches for this week as well:

I sure hope you’ll fly over to the Paper Players blog and see what the other designers have created with this bold color palette!  And we hope you’ll share your creations as well!

Cassidy wanted to go “wimmin” and decided to take matters into her own hands, going into the storage shed and hauling out her blow-up pool from last year!  All on her own!

 

Grampy convinced her that playing with her water table would be just as fun:

 

And between it and the sandbox, she had a blast!!!

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Just a quick little post today; I have been following the Ribbon Carousel challenges for a while, but never participated!  This is my first one, and it’s a sketch:

A while back, I always sent card to my top sellers in my downline, and I have dropped the ball lately, so this will be an attempt to get back on track:

This is really quite a simple card, monochromatic in Blissful Blue; I used some Beau Chateau DP and Four Frames, Friendly Phrases and Kindness Matters stamp sets.  I made a scrunchy Very Vanilla seam binding bow and attached it to some crochet trim.  I did tap my sentiment stamp lightly in Pacific Point to give it a little darker tone.  Thanks for looking!

While having lunch on Mother’s Day, Cassidy kept asking for pickles…..we didn’t even know she knew what a pickle was, let alone to say it!  She tried a bread and butter one, and then gave it back to me!  Gee, thanks!