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Happy Saturday, everyone!  Another green card today, this one with more of a vintage feel!  I used the Freshly Made Sketches sketch:

and the Take Your Pick challenge at The Kraft Journal; my choices were green, white and button:

I used a Crumb Cake cardbase and added some layers of DSP from a DCWV seasonal card stack.  I found a cute little Irish lady image from a Crafty Secrets Seasonal Booklet and trimmed it to fit my card.  I added a little Naturals White banner, stamped with a sentiment from Papertrey and a little floral image from Tiny Tags, then finished it off with some natural ribbon and a Very Vintage button tied with Linen thread!  Thanks for visiting today!

Cassidy has just started gymnastics, and the gym had a demonstration for all the parents….it was packed, and I did not get any good pictures.  I did snag this one (she was being held up by one of the spotters) on the small bar; she was too afraid on the higher one!  But all the kids got a medal, and she was thrilled with that!

Enjoy your day!

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Happy Friday, everyone!  Yay, the weekend is almost upon us!  Green seems to be the theme of a lot of challenges this week, and I was able to use the Colour Me…! “striking” combo of Garden Green and Pear Pizzazz:

with the sketch from Match The Sketch:

for one of my first Easter cards of the season:

I turned the sketch on its side so that I could use this adorable Puttering Around Topiary Bunny image from Michelle Masters!  My friend Lisa snagged this for me last year and this is the first time I’ve been able to use it!  I stamped it on Whisper White and used inks and an aquapainter to paint it loosely:

I diecut it with the Chalk Talk die, trimming one side and added a PTI Easter sentiment.  The DSPs are from Flowerpot and the retired Trim the Tree pad.  I added a Candy Dot and some retired Pear Pizzazz ribbon at the top!  CUTE!

Cassidy spent some time outside making mud pies with what little bit of snow and mud she could dig out of my still-frozen flower bed:

Enjoy your day!

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Hi peeps!  Happy Thursday!  We had some sunshine and warmer temps yesterday, definitely a cause for celebration!  I made a really simple  “celebration” birthday card using the Try Stampin’ on Tuesday sketch for this  week:

My card is 4 1/4” square and I used some scraps I had lying on my table!  I just love Bermuda Bay and Pool Party together:

I used the cake image from the SAB set, Big Day, stamped it on a Whisper White scrap and colored it with markers, then cut it out, mounted it on a circle of Pool Party, and popped up the candle:

Some glitter made it extra-yummy!  And since I already had Good Greetings on my desk, I used it to stamp on a little leftover scrap of Best Year Ever DSP for my sentiment.  I added some Dazzling Diamond glimmer paper stars for the final embellishment!

Well, most of the snow is gone, leaving a soggy, wet mess of our yard!  But it was nice enough to ride the trike, and yes, she is in pajama bottoms, since she fell earlier in the day and her jeans were in the laundry! 

And here’s a closeup of her hat, which Grammy just knitted her:

Owls!  She actually asked to wear it….a big deal for a kid who prefers to run around as close to unclothed as possible!  LOL!  Enjoy your day!

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Hi everyone!  A quick card today, using Mary Jo’s pretty Technostamper sketch:

I have been needing lots of thank you cards for all the SAB orders I’ve been getting, so I pulled out some Best Year Ever DSP scraps and the Flower Patch stamp set:

I was worried these prints might be too busy for the florals, but I like them together!  I stamped the flowers in Calypso Coral, Crumb Cake, Crushed Curry and Pool Party, then diecut them with the Flower Fair dies:

I added some Soft Sky seam binding and In Color sequins, then stamped “thanks” from the Great Greetings set!  Fresh and fun, and thanks for visiting!

Cassidy and Grampy built a snowman….well, Grampy did the building; Cassidy added the carrot and some stones:

Enjoy your day!

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Happy Monday, peeps!  Hope you had a great weekend….we had so much fun sledding on Saturday with Cassidy!  The temps were reasonable, the snow was plenty deep to make a great run and soon it was so slippery, we ran right into the swamp at the end of the hill!  I’ll share pictures during the week!

I have a quick card for you today; this is for the As You See It challenge:

Oh my goodness, PURPLE and speed stamping!  Yikes!  My friend Jen had a beautiful card (all her cards are beautiful, just sayin’) and I just felt like I had to play along!  The young man up the road uses his 4-wheeler to “plow” our driveway this year, so I made him a loaf of bread and wanted a little card to send with it.  I do not do much with purple, but I remembered that I had a bunch of DSP left from the In Color Concord Crush, so I relied on one of my favorite quick layouts and the SAB set Simply Wonderful:

I used the Postage Stamp punch to punch out the squares and a retired small star punch to punch a star from Wisteria Wonder, and embellished it with a brad.  I glued down the squares,  stamped my sentiment and it was done!  I didn’t time myself but I know it was less than 10 minutes!!! 

And here is another cutie in purple (along with a naked Baby Alive doll!):

Thanks for visiting today!

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Hi, everyone!  I trust you’re having a great weekend!  It’s Paper Players time, with Anne Marie as our hostess!  She has a wonderful color challenge for us this week; check it out:

Seeing those colors together like that made me think of the current Create with Connie & Mary sketch 345:

so I went to work, pulling out some scraps to make my card for this week:

Since I had the Hi There set already out, I thought it would be fun to incorporate the sentiments into the circular elements; I added a “hello” from the So You photopolymer set, just isolating it from the “hello sunshine” sentiment:

I also stamped some faux washi from Tape It along the diagonal and added a wee bit of linen thread!  It feels good to use some of my older stamps along with the newer ones!

I think the DT did an awesome job with these colors!  Be sure to check out their samples, and show us yours as well!  Here’s their links, or you can just go to the Paper Players blog to see them all!

• Ann
• Anne Marie
• Claire
• Debbie
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Karren
• Laurie
• Nance
• Sandy
• Shannon

Enjoy your day, and thanks so much for visiting today!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Tape It, Hi There, So You
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Wild Wasabi, So Saffron, Crisp Cantaloupe, Crumb Cake, DSP:  Story Time & Sweet Sorbet
Ink	Wild Wasabi, So Saffron, Crisp Cantaloupe, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Linen Thread, Candy Dots
Tools	Big Shot, Fancy Fan EF, Perfect Polka Dots EF, Circle Thinlits, Punches:  Small Banner, 3/4" Circle, 1 1/4" Circle, 7/8" Scallop, 1 1/4" Scallop, Dimensionals

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Happy Saturday, everyone!  Just a quick little post today!  I snagged this wonderful tutorial for these little treat boxes from Pootles…she is a MASTER at using the Envelope Punch Board!  You can see it here!  This is a great way to use up some of the plethora of DSP I have, LOL!  For my project today, I used the Best Year Ever DSP from SAB, along with Four Frames, for an Easter treat:

I stamped the frame (and sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes) in Soft Suede and colored it with a blender pen.  I stamped another one on scrap paper and cut out the inside to make a mask, then sponged some Soft Sky ink lightly inside.  I stamped a couple of flowers from Something to Say, although next time, I would probably stamp them in Soft Suede again and color them, as I feel they don’t quite match this way.  I punched out my image and flowers, and mounted them on a piece of burlap ribbon, glued it to the front, then punched a “handle” with the 3/4” circle punch and tied it with some Baked Brown Sugar baker’s twine.  Since the Little Red Wagon challenge this week is “birds”, I’m entering it there, too!

The huge tower of Legos made it into the living room, where it collapsed!  A new “line-up” began; she told me these were swimmers, getting ready to swim in the pool:

And, of course, I hung around with the camera a wee bit too long:

Enjoy your day!