FMS139 and CM23

Yay!  It’s Friday---the end of a long week for me….don’t know why, but I am glad it’s here!  I was thrilled to see the Colour Me…! challenge this week:

because I LOVE Coastal Cabana, and I used it with the Freshly Made Sketches sketch from Rita for this fun card today:

I love how CC and black look together….a cool combination, and even though black flowers seem a bit odd, I think they look striking here!  I used several different sets, along with the Scalloped Tag Topper punch, to pull this all together.  I also used the new heart punch from the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack...it fits nicely on the polka-dotted heart from Kind & Cozy!  Here’s the sketch:

Thanks for visiting today!

I can tell you, when I was a kid, my mom never let me jump on the bed!  Wonder what happened when I became a grammy?

The accompanying music was “The Wheels on the Bus”, “This Old Man”, and “She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain”…..just so you can get the right feel for the moment!

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

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Happy Thursday, peeps!  I haven’t played with the Mojo Monday sketch for a while, so I used it for a little thank you note I needed:

I used some MME papers from the Honey Cake line, and an image from Crafty Secrets’ For the Birds:

And a sentiment on the inside from SU’s new set, Something to Say:

…all stamped in Tangerine Tango!

John found this awesome wooden art center on the street, being thrown out…can you believe it?  It has pull-out drawers with pastel crayons and an easel, and Cassidy loved it!

She drew an ocean, and I helped her draw some fish and a shark, onto which she added teeth:

Getting into the details!

Enjoy your day!

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Happy Wednesday, peeps!  Today I have a little thank-you notecard for you!  It’s for three challenges!  The Kraft Journal has “Water, Water, Everywhere”; Shopping our Stash wants “critters”, and the Technostamper sketch looks like this:

I pulled out last year’s Oh Whale set and matching die to make my watery notecard!  I used some new papers from the Moonlight DP stack and Lost Lagoon to stamp my little whale:

I stamped the heart from Kind & Cozy a couple of times in Strawberry Slush and used different punches to punch out my spout of hearts!

Thanks for visiting!

Cassidy is lining up her people again!  She was probably making an audience so she could entertain them with Let it Go from Frozen…she really likes that song!

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Happy Tuesday, everyone!  Did you get through Monday okay?  I went on a little relaxing weekend with some ladies over the weekend and my Monday was spent trying to get back into “work” mode!  Plus, the new Stampin' Up! catalog went live yesterday----trying to decide what to buy is such a dilemma, LOL!!   But I was able to create a fun card for Arielle’s color inspiration today: 

Isn’t this a fun graphic design?  The colors seem masculine to me, but they could be interpreted in lots of different ways!  I was perusing my Pinterest posts and came across this card (it’s her 7th card in the post) I really liked, so I used the sketch to make my card for today:

I used some fun products from Echo Park (All About a Boy) which had this cool denim paper and matching brad and cog wheel!  I did stamp some splashes from Gorgeous Grunge on the lighter blue panel, and the chevron flag is from the SAB set, Banner Blast.  The sentiments on the tag are from a little Impression Obsession set called Imagine Words.  I stamped them in the challenge colors, and then stamped some of the other words on the inside, with some more speckles from Gorgeous Grunge:

I think this makes a great masculine birthday card!  I hope you’ll find a ton of inspiration from the photo as well as the other designers’ creations at the ColourQ, and that you’ll play along with us!

I don’t have any Cassidy photos today, but here are a couple of pictures from my weekend; my friend Elsie's family has a beautiful farm in upstate PA, with a gorgeous farmhouse, lots of comfy bedrooms and modern facilities that blend in well with the original farmhouse.  Honestly, it was better than a resort hotel!!!  The weather was gorgeous, we ate wonderful food, we all met some new Christian friends and saw lots of ORIOLES!!!   Or maybe it was one oriole (well, I saw a pair) that we saw LOTS OF TIMES, who knows!  But it was one of the most relaxing weekends I have had in a long, long time!  Thank you, Elsie!

 

Here are a few of the “activites”:  sunning, (yes, that’s me), beading, playing scrabble, swimming and kayaking in the pond, and some fabulous chef-ery (that’s homemade strawberry shortcake with real whipped cream)!

A view of our gorgeous accommodations:

And the star of our stay, who had his nest in a tree right next to the porch, so we were entertained all weekend long!

Enjoy your day!

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Hi everyone!  It’s Monday, and that means it’s time to make Christmas cards for Merry Monday!  Here’s our beautiful challenge from Karen for this week:

I went clean and simple for my card today, using a wreath image from Papertrey’s Wreath for All Seasons, stamped and embossed in white:

To mimic the pretty ornaments from the inspiration photo, I colored some pearls with Copic markers and added them to the wreath:

I added some retired Certainly Celery ribbon and a sentiment from Amy R Stamps called Handy Christmas Greetings, stamped in Strawberry Slush. The image was stamped on Soft Sky and matted with Coastal Cabana and adhered to a stitched mat from Lil’Inkers. 

I hope you will play along with us using this fabulous photo as your inspiration…it’s so nice to get a head start on all those Christmas cards so you can relax a bit come December!  And be sure to check out all the wonderful samples from the other designers as well!

Miss Movie Star (wearing Mommy’s glasses)!!!

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Happy Sunday, peeps!  Sandy is our Paper Players hostess today and she has a great theme challenge for us:

This theme could be for weddings or for anniversaries…..I just happened to need a wedding card for my niece’s upcoming nuptials!  Sandy’s challenge gave me a chance to use a sentiment from the retired Word Play…this sentiment had never even been inked up!  Here ya go:

Paige’s colors are gold and pink, so I heat embossed the sentiment in Gold Glory embossing powder:

and stamped the leaves from Papillion Potpourri in Encore Gold ink on some MME papers. 

I adhered the layers to a Confetti White card base; some pleated ribbon in Blushing Bride completed the look.  I used Mary Jo’s Technostamper sketch 316 from this week as well:

As you know, this is probably my favorite go-to sketch, so I had to play along!  Now, what wedding-themed creation will you share with us this week?  Can’t wait to see what you come up with!  Check out the beautiful samples the design team has created…they will knock your socks off!

• Ann
• Anne Marie
• Jaydee
• Nance
• Sandy

Cassidy was spending some time “writing” with her baby dolls: