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Happy Friday, peeps! Phew, what a long week this was!  I am happy to see the end of it and meet with my club girls tonight!  When I saw the Play Date Café challenge this week, I knew immediately what to submit!  Here’s the challenge:

I actually made this last month but never posted it.  My sister has bee hives and was giving a gift of honey to friends for their anniversary.  Since I love bees too (but not to the extent of having hives!!!!), I had plenty of bee-themed stamps and happily made her a sweet little tag for her honey:

I used a plethora of images here; the main beehive is from an old SU stamp set called Garden Pleasures; the bee is from Nature Walk; the sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes; the honey comb is from MFT and the frame is from Waltzingmouse.  I sponged the edges and shabbied up some Daffodil Delight ribbon to give it a more vintage look:

I loved it so much, I hated to give it away, so maybe I’ll make another!  If you have any questions about specifics on the project, just shoot me an email!  Remember, if you leave a question in the comment box, I can’t always access your email to answer you personally!   Thanks for visiting today!

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Howdy, peeps!  There was an interesting sketch by Linda Suarez yesterday on Freshly Made Sketches, and since I needed birthday cards for a nephew as well as a niece, I put that little sketch to work.  Here it is:

And here’s my nephew card using Soho Subway papers and a couple of new sets:

Remembering Your Birthday and Glorious Grunge made an appearance here, along with the little dater stamp from the Epic Day collection…(it’s his birthday date):

and when I saw how Justin at jkcards made these cool chevrons using the hexagon punch—you can see his here—I just had to make some too!  Of course, the inside sentiment finishes the thought from the outside sentiment, but I forgot to photograph that!

The niece one uses Birthday Basics DP….wow, I just love all these papers, they are fun and colorful…..and some of that new chevron ribbon that sort of gives that strange optical illusion effect:

I added some embossed hearts with my birthday banner….

and another cute birthday stamp from Remembering Your Birthday along with the rest of the embossed hearts!

Cassidy got the giggles yesterday while having a little banana bread snack with Lambie:

Enjoy your day!

Color Throwdown Celebration!

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  Today is a really, really special day!  The Color Throwdown is celebrating their 250th challenge!!  The uber-talented Tammy Hershberger contacted me five years ago and asked me if I wanted to participate in a new challenge she was starting….and as nervous as I was, I said yes!  I enjoyed working with the team and had fun “throwing down” their color combinations!!!  Although I am not on the team now, I still enjoy playing occasionally.  So let’s look at the palette they’ve chosen for us today:

What a fun beachy combination!  I just snagged this cute little sand pail image from the Graphics Fairy, so I printed it out on watercolor paper, colored it in and paired it with some beach-themed images and sentiment:

I added a sand castle punched border, sparkling with “sand”:

and I filled my pail with some shells and starfish from Crab & Co:

Of course, when there’s a celebration, there’s always prizes!  Be sure to check the Color Throwdown blog for all the details, rules and regs, and to see the humongous amount of goodies that they are giving away---like $400 worth!  Personally, I’ll be offering a brand-new wood-mount set called Raining Flowers:

And finally, since today’s challenge had some flip flops, I thought I’d share this photo of Cassidy wearing a really “well-loved” pair of flip flops that Grammy keeps by the door (since Grammy prefers going barefoot most of the summer!):

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Hey, peeps!  It’s Tuesday, and that means ColourQ time!  Look at this fresh palette Arielle has for us today:

I resisted the temptation to do something Halloween-ish, because I really needed to make some samples for my club girls, so I got out Kind & Cozy:

I stamped the little floral image in white on my Tangerine Tango banner, and embossed the Gumball Green one with the FanFair EF.  I popped up the little heart (which punches out quite nicely with the small heart punch—I love it!) and the little teacup as well:

And I really needed some new bolder sentiments, so this one from Four You is just right for the inside:

So what do you think of when you see these colors?  Fruit?  Summer?  Fall?    Halloween?  Actually, I had china with all these colors (except for the black!)—little marigolds on it.  So I really love these colors!!!  Can’t wait to see what you do with them!!!  And be sure to check out the ColourQ blog so you can see all the other fun creations!  Oh, and I almost forgot!  I used the Mojo Monday sketch #301 for my card:

I flipped it on its side, though!  Thanks for visiting today!

Just chillin’ out at the picnic table, eatin’ animal crackers and waiting for Lambie to dry on the line:

Enjoy your day!

Merry Monday

Happy Monday, peeps!  Hope you had a wonderful weekend!  We had a glorious day with a couple of hours sailing yesterday and about 15 minutes after we came home, we had a torrential downpour…came out of nowhere!  So I squeaked in a little bit of stamping time to make my Merry Monday card:

I used the RetroSketches sketch #71 for my card:

and some pretty Melissa Frances papers, a cute little pine cone sticker, and a lovely Waltzingmouse sentiment. 

The final touch was a wee bit of red glimmer paper which brings out the little red sparkles on the pine cone….a bit difficult to see here, but a lovely effect IRL!  It’s Anything Goes at the Merry Monday for the month of July, so be sure to play along….you can use any sketch or technique you like!  Hope to see you there!

Dana & Cassidy went to a parade on Saturday…..all decked out in red, white & blue:

Enjoy your day!

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Happy Sunday, everyone!  Time for a cool Paper Players challenge:

Since we are in the middle of a heat wave, I thought a snowy, ice-skating Christmas card would be appropriate:

You know how when you stamp and stamp and things just don’t “gel” for you?  That’s sort of how I felt trying to make this card, and I make Christmas cards all year long!  Anyway, I saw it through, so it is what it is!  I used a couple of retired stamp sets (Winter Post and The Snowflake Spot) as well as a couple current ones (Everything Eleanor and Petite Pairs).  I used one of the Apothecary Accents diecut to make my Soft Sky panel and added some new Soft Sky seam binding.  The snowflakes are embossed in silver on a piece of retired Festival of Prints DP.  I stamped my image in Midnight Muse and added some color with a blender pen:

And of course, Silver Glimmer Paper makes a nice mat!  And here’s the inside:

This is also for the Festive Friday trigger challenge #12:

Snow and ice keep you cool, so that’s my trigger—keeping cool!

I hope that you can cool off by making a Christmas card for our challenge this week!  Can’t wait to see what you create!  And be sure to check out what the Paper Players Design Team has created as well! 

Here’s the way Cassidy keeps cool!  We set up a kiddie pool,  and she LOVES it:

I’ll have more pix to share later on!