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Happy Wednesday, everyone!  Sadly, I needed another sympathy card, so I relied on this very simple sketch from Unscripted Sketches:

and some older Basic Grey papers:

The papers alone are just gorgeous, so I thought they would be good for this sketch;  I just added a little postage stamp square on which to adhere my chipboard bird, and stamped the sentiment from Blessings from Heaven in Always Artichoke ink.

Thanks for visiting today!

Cassidy is enjoying the new floor in my craft room!

ColourQ 176

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Time for another ColourQ challenge!  Try this one on for size:

Mmmmhmmmm….who wouldn’t want to snuggle into this?  Well, maybe my DH, but I sure would!  I dug up an old Valentine stamp for my card this week:

I paper-pieced the hearts by stamping gingham images in the challenge colors, then stamping the image on top and cutting them out.  The background was watercolored with Lucky Limeade, and I mounted it on a strip of Woodgrain-embossed Calypso Coral.  Sentiment is from Delightful Dozen.  My niece got married this weekend, a small ceremony, so this will be for her!

And as seems to be the norm for me lately, this is the second card I made, not really liking the first one.  Don’t laugh:

I had these little birds already on my desk, so I colored them in with the challenge colors…no problem.  The issue started when I mounted them on this way-too-busy BG paper from last year…..just a tad bit overkill.  I persevered, though….perhaps someone won’t mind getting it as a Valentine’s card!!!!

I hope you’ll find some sweet inspiration from this delightful floral confection!  Check out what the other designers did at the ColourQ blog, too….they’ll make you smile!

Playing with Grammy’s little turtles and birds…lining them up!

Merry Monday 49

Happy Monday, everyone!  I hope you all weathered the weekend okay!  It’s time for another Merry Monday challenge!  Lesley has a sketch for us today:

A fun little sketch; I made a 4 1/4” square card for this one:

I don’t think I used this little silhouette image last Christmas, so I thought he would be perfect for the sketch as well as the Festive Friday challenge, which is an inspiration/color challenge of red, white and silver:

as well as the Jingle Belles challenge, which is “Ho Ho H2O”, or to use snow, sleet, ice, etc on your card!  I think my sledding boy fits that just fine:

I used some beautiful SU Silver glimmer paper, a glimmer brad,, some retired SU silver cord and a snowy embossing folder.  Of course, I added a little Dazzling Diamonds “snow” as well!  I hope you’ll be able to play along with us this week and get a good head-start on those Christmas cards for 2013!  You’ll be glad you did!  Be sure to scoot on over to Lesley’s blog, Always Playing with Paper, to see the wonderfully creative cards the DT made this week!

I don’t think I shared these photos….my friend Sandy gave Cassidy some washable markers for Christmas….they were a great hit!

Thanks for visiting---any questions, shoot me an email!  Stay warm!

Paper Players 132

Happy Sunday, everyone!  How about some nice spring colors from Ann for today’s Paper Players challenge?

I was excited to see these colors, but I must admit that it took me forever to complete this card!  That just happens sometimes, I guess.  Anyway, here it is:

I just received Blooming with Kindness, so I thought I would use the floral image as my focal point.  Instead of just stamping the image, I heat embossed it with clear embossing powder on shimmery white paper and did some loose watercoloring with Primrose Petals ink to make it really stand out:

I added a couple of circular mats and mounted it on a piece of Comfort Café DP and embossed Very Vanilla.  Some resin Dahlias and a sentiment from Fabulous Phrases complete my card.  It uses the Seize the Birthday sketch from this week as well:

I hope you’ll hop over to the Paper Players blog to see what the other designers have come up with as well with these deep, saturated colors!  You'll be happy you did when you see their wonderful creations!

Sometimes, playing just wears you out and you have to lay down:

Or you have to use a couple rolls of painter’s tape!!!

Ears to You

I loved this little trio of bunnies stamp as soon as I saw it in the new Single Stamp flyer from SU!  (You can see them all here!)   I used to it make three thank you cards yesterday!  Here’s one of them:

I stamped the first three images on a rectangle of Whisper White in Melon Mambo; then I stamped them again in Lucky Limeade and Daffodil Delight, just using scraps and cutting each one out.  I then adhered them to the Melon Mambo-stamped piece, mixing and matching so each one was different!

I also stamped “thanks” from Fabulous Phrases and added a little bunny from Itty Bitties, just for fun!  Thanks for looking today!  Email me if you have any questions!

 

Dressing a baby doll is harder than it looks!

Valentine Treat Bag

Happy Wednesday!  I actually made something other than a card!!  Amazing!  The Nacho Average Challenge had a pretty color palette:

although I didn’t pay attention to the Rose Red and used a few elements of Primrose Petals…..although I don’t think you can tell too much.  Anyhoo, I pulled out a little cello bag from last year and threw on a bunch of embellishments:

I began by embossing the top with the hearts EF from Adorning Accents, and used the heart-shaped doily from the Artisan Embellishments Kit as a base.  I just kept adding elements until I felt I had enough….well, can you ever really have enough, LOL!?  This also qualifies for Shopping Our Stash Challenge, which is to use your oldest bling!  The little heart-shaped rhinestones are probably some of my oldest, that’s for sure!!!

Most of the stamping is from SU’s retired set, PS: I Love You; I did break out my new Papillion Potpourri and it’s coordinating punch, though!  Sweet!  AND the new pinwheel die!  Now, what should I put in this?  Maybe a big cookie or a few candies?  Hmmmm…I haven’t decided yet!    If you have any questions about any of the products I used here, just shoot me an email!  AND, I just saw Stampin' Royalty's Valentine/Love challenge....so I'll enter that there as well! :D

Miss Cassidy tried alphabet soup for the first time a couple days ago:

I would say she liked it!  Thanks for visiting today!

ColourQ 175

Hey, it’s Tuesday, peeps!  Check out this sweet lil’ inspiration photo from Arielle for today’s ColourQ:

What a cute little headband.  I feel cheated….I never, ever had long hair growing up…my mom did not want to deal with it, so I never had any pretty hair bows or clips or headbands.  Now Cassidy gets them all!  I wanted to make a cute little Valentine card with these colors, although I was too lazy to pull out my Pink Passion, so I used Melon Mambo, a close match:

I used the Unscripted Sketches from this week, too:

I just thought those little pop caps would be so cute filled with hearts…watcha think?

I searched my stash for all my “love” stamps, made them into tags, added some twine and embossing…. the sentiment at the top is from PTI!

I hope you’ll find some lovely inspiration from this photo…..we can’t wait to see what awesome creations you come up with!  Share them with us over at the ColourQ blog…..you’ll find a plethora of sweetness there to inspire you!

 

Cassidy loves to brush her teeth…actually she mostly likes to eat the toothpaste!  But she knows how to pull out her stool, climb up and brush!

Of course, EVERYTHING is better when you have hot pink cowboy boots to wear!!!