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Happy Saturday, peeps!  Just popping in with a quick card for the Freshly Made Sketches sketch this week:

A special friend gifted me with some vintage goodies, and there was a little package of beautiful vintage tiles….one of which worked perfectly with these pretty MME papers:

Here’s a close view of the tile; they’re all different; this one is two friends sitting together:

I stamped the half-doily from the retired set, Kindness Matters, four times to make the base for the tile; the sentiment is from PTI.  I almost forgot that SU now has seam binding in Soft Sky----I’m in heaven!!---so I used that to make a little shabby bow! Sweetness!

Just hanging out on the porch, doing a little chalk art!!! 

Enjoy your day!

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Happy Thursday, peeps!  Woohoo….almost to the weekend!  Another swoon-worthy inspiration challenge, this time it’s from my friends at Stampin’ Royalty:

I would take any of those lovely vignettes for my home….if only I had a million bucks, right?  I’ll have to settle for a lovely card:

I pulled some elements from the outer images….gingham, floral, the bird….and my friend Denise inspired me to use this SAB set from last year after I saw her card here!  Thanks, Denise!  It had been on my mind and she gave me the little push I needed! 

I also used the RetroSketches sketch#59—so fun!

 

I love this card so much, I don’t want to mail it out….but it is already on its way to a special someone who did something REALLY nice for me!  Thanks for visiting today!  Any questions….pop me an email!

Cassidy was playing with tattoo markers (blessedly, they wash right off!) while I answered the phone yesterday…..and while I was distracted, she gave herself a couple of teeny tiny facial decorations…..and this is right after a bath, no less!!!! 

  

Can you see them?  They’re so nice & evenly spaced…and no, they’re NOT pink!!!  She’s covering her mouth because she used the pink one on her LIPS!

Thank You Collage

I made this card before I went on vacation; it was for my friend who just placed an order!  It was fun just to “play”….no sketch, no color challenge, just fooling around with stamps, ink, paper and tools!!  Back to the basics!!

My tag is a panel from the Fan Fair DP on which I randomly stamped some collage-style images.  I added some butterflies from Papillon Potpourri as well as a ribbon & brad embellishment.  The embossed scallop on the side was made with the Borders Scoring Plate, which I trimmed by hand.  The card base was  embossed halfway with the Honeycomb EF and stamped with the single doily stamp called Gossamer Lace, and a flourish from Creative Elements:

Thanks for visiting today…if you have any questions, shoot me an email!

Cassidy actually asked to play with stamps when she arrived on Monday morning!  I pulled out some little foam Christmas stamps from a long time ago, an old ink pad and she went to work:

If she knows what to do at 2 1/2, imagine how she’ll be in a couple of years!  Now if I could just make sure she puts the rubber side down on the ink pad!!!

Halloween Thank You Cards

After a morning of no phone, internet or TV, we are finally back online!  I did some errands and made a batch of cookies, cleaned out my flower bed and went to Curves!  I hope I haven’t shared these cards with you already….my sweet friends gave me some cute little goodies lately, so I thought I would make some thank you cards!  Especially since one of the goodies was a container of these cute Halloween brads:

These both use my go-to sketch with Scaringbone & Howlstooth DP and the Googly Ghouls set, framed by the oval Designer Frames embossing folder.  Some of the little brads are sparkly….sooooo cute!  The sentiment is from Kindness Matters.

Cassidy really tried hard to put her shoes & socks on all by herself:

Just look at that frustrated expression on her face!!!

We’ll keep working on it!  Enjoy your afternoon!

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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!

A Birthday Blog Hop!

I am super excited today, because I can finally reveal a secret—it’s Lesley’s birthday and we’re honoring her with a blog hop! Woohoo!  Be sure to stop by her blog, Always Playing with Paper, to say hi!!

Lesley is just one of the sweetest crafters I know!  As a teacher, I can see where she would be a wonderful influence on her students’ lives—one of those teachers that you never forget!  Her cheerfulness and positive outlook spill into every area of her life.  I honestly have never read a negative word from her!!  So let me show you the card that I made in honor of her big day:

I have to tell you that this card is a direct CASE of one my sweet friend Martha Stewart did.  (Yes, her name really is Martha Stewart!)  I had the pleasure of meeting her at convention and she and her roomies made me feel right at home!   The card that inspired me can be seen here.  I love fabric, I love to sew, but I often struggled with integrating SU fabric with stamping.  How simple is this?

I just ripped a rectangle of Springtime Vintage fabric and adhered it to my card with Sticky Strip.  I still had this Brides Specialty Paper on my desk, so I stamped the butterflies from Kindness Matters in Stazon and added a sentiment from Easy Events by coloring it with a Basic Black marker.  I love the effect of watercoloring on this specialty paper, as it resists part of the design and makes for an interesting pattern on the wings.  A mat of black cardstock, a black glimmer brad and some narrow grosgrain ribbon finishes it off.

There are several other stampers helping Lesley to celebrate her big day.  Feel free to visit any or all of them to see how they’re wishing her a happy birthday!

Anne Marie Hile - Stampin’ Anne
Carrie Gaskin - Artistic Avenger
Cindy Beach - Stamps, Paper and Ink
Jaydee - Stampin’ with Jaydee
Jen Mitchell - I Create
Joan Jeffery - JJ Creations
Lauri Ingram - Paperville
Laurie - Hiding in My Craft Room
LeAnne Pugliese - wee Inklings
Nance Leedy - Canopy Crafts
Rita Wright - Cards by Rita
Sandra Azzopardi - Sandra’s Stamping Spot
Tui Nathan - Stampin’ Time

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LESLEY!!!

Wee Details:

• Stamps:  Easy Events, Kindness Matters
• Paper:  WW, Brides Specialty Paper (ret), Basic Black
• Ink: Stazon, Baja Breeze
• Acc:  Springtime Vintage Fabric, Aquapainter, Black Marker, Sticky Strip, Basic Glimmer Brad, Narrow Grosgrain Ribbon

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Yum yum, I just loved the colors that Arielle chose today, although the inspiration photo creeped me out just a teeny little bit:

When I was a kid, I could hear owls “hoo-hooing” all summer long in the woods around our house late at night.  It used to frighten me –I probably thought they were going to fly into my open window!  Now, I love hearing owls, but Mr Owl here with his one eye opened and one eye closed, is a tiny bit scary!!!  He is rather dapper, though, but I chose to interpret his colors in a different way:

I really wish you could see this IRL, it’s quite pretty!  Here are a couple closer views:

I stamped the butterflies from Kindness Matters in Early Espresso on Vellum cardstock, colored them on the back with coordinating markers, then outlined them with a Gelly Roll pen.   Can you see the sparkle?  Soooo pretty!  The words from Nature Walk are also stamped on the front in Craft White ink.   A sentiment from Bring on the Cake as well as a little ruffle of Patterns DP finishes this simple card.  I added some additional interest by adding a Calypso Coral “w” for the first letter.

I hope you’ll find some inspiration in these colors and flutter on over to the ColourQ blog, not only to see what the other designers have made, but to play along with us as well!

Wee Details:

• Stamps:  Kindness Matters, Bring on the Cake, Nature Walk
• Paper:  Whisper White, Calypso Coral, Island Indigo, Pool Party, Cardstock Vellum, Calypso Coral, Island Indigo, Pool Party Patterns Designer Paper
• Ink:  Early Espresso, Island Indigo, Calypso Coral, Craft White
• Acc:  Markers, Dauber, 1’ circle punch, 1/8” circle punch, Gelly Roll pen