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Yesterday I was looking for a quick sketch and came across the Stampin Queen Sketch Challenge 31.  I had come across this already-colored image as well as these DPs in my image folder and wanted to utilize it for a fast card.  I see that they are SU demos so I hope it’s not an SU-only challenge, as this was a digi image.

It’s really CAS (the only thing I seem to be able to come up with here lately) but I love the colors and simplicity of it!

Thanks for visiting today!

Anyone need some inspiration?  How about Calypso Coral & Whisper White!

SR116 Sympathy

 

My brother’s MIL passed away yesterday after a valiant battle with cancer and dementia.  She was a wonderful Nanny to over 20 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren, and always kept us in stitches with her sense of humor.  She will be greatly missed.  The Stampin Royalty sketch 116 was perfect for my card:

I used some Spice Cake DP and Creative Elements and Established Elegance to make a collage-style creation in Pool Party and Crumb Cake:

I added a couple of scalloped borders, and I fussy cut my panel and added a sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes.

Some little pearls were my only other embellishment, as my SIL is creeped out by buttons!!  A funny phobia!  And since I stitched both my main panels, my card qualifies for Linda’s Catered Crop this week, too, which is “In Stitches”!  Thanks for visiting today!

Merry Monday 12

Oh so many things to do today---a quickie post for Merry Monday 12.  Sketch here:

Card here:

Really, reaalllly CAS.  I think it needs a little sparkle (as does my life right now) but perhaps I can add it later!  When time permits!  Cardstock is Pacific Point and Whisper White…..any questions, you know what to do! 

A peaceful moment…..

ColourQ129 & RetroSketch 3

Happy beautiful Tuesday!  Spring has certainly sprung in SE PA and Arielle has a beautiful spring color combo for us today:

Yum yum!!!  These cookies are too cute to eat (not!)!!!!  Here’s my confection:

I gave my Big Shot a good workout with this card, using a couple folders and the Little Leaves and Tasteful Trim dies.  I gave my corner a nice big rounding after learning from Kay Kalthoff that you can use your circle punches to round corners!  WHO KNEW???  You can see her nice video here!!!  Thanks, Kay!  What a sweetie to share this tip!  The polka dot stamp from Best Friends Forever was used to add a little interest to my Wisteria Wonder leaves, too. 

I used the sketch from Retrosketches 3:

Any questions, give me a holler!  Hop on over to the ColourQ blog to see what the other designers did with this glorious combination of hues!  And we can’t wait to see what you come up with too!

Thanks for all the well wishes for my cold, too…it’s getting better, but I still can’t taste or smell anything!  Hopefully I’ll get back around to visiting & commenting on everyone’s blogs real soon!

Paper Players 87 #2 & HSS109

Some of us Paper Players team members had rainbows on our minds this week!  This was the card I was going to post, although it wasn’t my first idea!  You can see that one here. I needed a thank you card for a customer, and when I saw the Handstamped Sentiments challenge this week, which was “rainbows”, another little idea clicked in my head:

I don’t think I have ever done a card in colors of the rainbow….technically, this is not all the colors  and in the correct order, but I used what I had! (By the way, if you want a cool way to remember the colors, check out Linda’s card here!!  Who knew?)  The butterflies are from the Beautiful Wings embosslit and each one has its own little floral button:

This also loosely uses the Fall to Layout #181!  I did add an embossed panel on which to “hang” my butterflies, and used the Billboard alphabet for my sentiment.  Thanks for visiting today and be sure to stop back tomorrow for the ColourQ!!!

Not quite what we had in mind when we set up the table for her!

Paper Players 87

Happy Sunday to you all!  It’s been a wonderful week, weather-wise; I hope you all are enjoying it!  Today the Paper Players have another challenge for you; it’s Nance’s turn to be the hostess and she’s got a clean and simple challenge for us:

This was not the first card I came up with…..but after seeing some of the other Paper Players’ cards this week, I thought I would change gears (no pun intended) and go with a different design!  Buttons are probably my favorite embellishment for a card, but I haven’t been using them as much lately because of the bulk!  But I threw that hindrance right out the window with my “little boy” card today:

I apologize for the photo quality…for some reason, I just couldn’t get the colors quite right!  The stamp set is I Dig You; Bashful Blue is the card base, and  I  inked up my Square Lattice embossing folder with Soft Suede ink before running the Soft Suede “mountain”  through my Big Shot to give it some texture.   I think this will be a perfect birthday card for one of my little nephews!  And stop back tomorrow, when I’ll share the original card I had made for Nance’s challenge. 

I sure hope that you’ll motor on over to the Paper Players blog and show us your CAS buttoned-up creation!  You may be chosen as a Cut Above, or even our Headliner for the week!  Have fun! 

Happy St Patrick’s Day!

Happy St Patrick’s Day!  Still nursing my cold, and I have nothing that I felt like posting, so I am just sharing a vintage postcard from the Graphics Fairy AND my favorite joke of all time:

Q:  What’s white and sits in your backyard?

A:  Patio furniture!  (Paddy O’furniture)

Okay, corny, I know….but I am terrible at remembering jokes and that one is one I won’t forget!  Be sure to stop by tomorrow for the new Paper Players challenge!