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Happy Thursday, everyone!  Another quick post today…we are gearing up for the fairy birthday party event on Saturday!  Should be fun!!  For now, I have a card for the Stamp, Ink Paper sketch challenge:

 

and the Kraft Journal’s Take Your Pick challenge!  I think I managed to use five of the listed elements! 

So here we go:

I have had this Papertrey paper and cute little stamp set for a long, long time…I think you might say I have been hoarding it….and it seemed to be the time to break into it!  I stamped the apple in Watermelon Wonder, the stem and sentiment in Chocolate Chip and the leaf in Kiwi Kiss:

I actually used my ruler embossing folder AGAIN and used some retired grosgrain ribbon for a little accent.  The whole thing is on a Chocolate Chip card base….a color I haven’t used in a while, I might add!  Now, hmmm…to whom should I send this?  I can think of a couple of friends!  Speaking of which, here are a few more birthday cards:

I love the CAS simplicity of Kristie’s card:

as well as Shawn’s:

And both of them in such bright, summery colors!  Love them!

And here’s my bright summery girl with a couple of our first black raspberries ever; my friend gave me three plants last year for my birthday and we actually got a few berries this year!  These did not last long…..she was trying to eat them before I could even get my camera out!

Thanks for popping in today!

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Hi all!  It’s the middle of the week, yahoo!  I have a sweet little card using the sketch from Try Stampin’ on Tuesday:

and I have incorporated the colors from the As You See It challenge for this week:

Isn’t that a gorgeous challenge photo?!  Swoon-worthy!  Since the bonus challenge at Try Stampin’ was watercoloring, I pulled out the retired set Perfectly Preserved and stamped the mason jar with the new archival Basic Black ink and colored it with Bermuda Bay ink and my aquapainter on a heavyweight Whisper White tag:

I think I am going to like this new ink…it worked great and didn’t bleed when I used my aquapainter!  I stamped some florals from Flower Patch and Summer Silhouette in Watermelon Wonder; hand-painted the stem in Cucumber Crush, and finished it off with the little banner and sentiment from Endless Thanks!  I added some Wink of Stella to my “water”, I wish you could see it, it’s so pretty!

My horizontal piece is from the In Color “Color Collection” stack…I love how the font matches the font in my sentiment!  And here are a couple more of my lovely birthday cards:

This beautifully-colored little lovely is from my friend Broni:

and the photo just doesn’t do this card justice!  From my friend, Darlene, this is diecut, embedded and GLITTERY!  Just gorgeous!  Thanks, ladies!

I haven’t had my wee one for a few days, so I am looking forward to seeing her today!

So happy you stopped by today!

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Happy Tuesday, peeps!  I am playing with some new goodies, along with the sketch from Mojo Monday:

I am trying to use some of Bohemian DSP; it’s not my favorite out of all the DSPs this year, but the smaller prints aren’t too bad, and I thought I could make it work with this cute little Lawn Fawn set, You’re A Hoot…and thanks to Julie Gearinger for being such an enabler!  After seeing a card she made with it, I had to have it!  So here we go:

I was trying to watch Last Tango in Halifax….anyone watch that PBS show?  I’ve gotten a bit hooked on it, so I wasn’t really paying attention to the sketch and put my circles a little too low for my liking!  BUT the glue had set, so it is what it is!!!  I stamped the owl in Bermuda Bay; the sentiment in Blackberry Bliss and the tree branch (actually two glued together) in Delightful Dijon!  Isn’t he a cutie?  Or maybe I should say he IS a hoot!

And I finally had time to photo all my pretty birthday cards!  Here are a couple!  This is from Martha, a very shimmery one:

and Bev used my favorite Awesomely Artistic for this pretty one!  Thanks, ladies!

The generator is almost ready to be installed; here it is, sitting in a bed of gravel that Cassidy seemed to find inviting…who can figure what’s in her mind!  I think it seemed like a sand box!

And when I brought in the mail, there was a catalog featuring lots of fun costumes and fairy things, so she sat and picked out her favorites!

Enjoy your day!

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Happy Sunday, peeps!  Claire is our amazing hostess today for the Paper Players challenge and she’s got an awesome color palette for us:

I love these colors!  I need a birthday card for my step-FIL and these hues are perfect for a masculine card.  I got some new goodies with my birthday money and went to work:

The number and typewriter EFs are from Tim Holtz; the Old Olive panel is stamped with SU’s retired Dictionary background stamp, and the banner is from Banner Blast.  I cut the circle with a Lil’Inker’s Stitched Circles mat, and I used SU’s Little Letters to diecut the H and the B.  I used a Paper Pumpkin stamp to stamp the “happy birthday” on the circle, and I left the spaces in the B unstamped, just for fun! 

Normally I might sponge the embossed areas for a distressed look, but I wanted them to remain bright and colorful, so I restrained myself!  I do love the bold look that the black mats give these colors, so I used them with each of my panels….and the sketch is from Match The Sketch:

I hope you’ll play along with these colors too!  The design team has created some awesome samples….it always amazes me how they each come up with their own unique design and style!  Check them out:

• Ann
• Claire
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Laurie
• Nance
• Sandy
• Amy
• Jodi
• Lisa

If the sight of a naked doll baby turns your stomach, you might want to skip these photos….naked babies don’t deter Cassidy at all!  The little engineer  was determined to adapt her swing (which desperately needs a new seat, LOL!) so that her baby could use it.  Since Grampy has a plethora of bungee cords, she went into his shop and asked him if she could borrow some and tried to make her own baby swing!  She had them wrapped around and over, and finally, with some help from Grampy, she managed to make them work:

Swinging success!  And yes, she’s wearing Minion PJs in the middle of the day.  I choose my battles and that one is not worth fighting!

Enjoy your day!

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Happy Saturday, everyone!  A quick CAS card today using the (CAS)e This Sketch sketch from this week:

Here we go:

I had this Schoolhouse DSP on my desk from yesterday’s project along with a Watermelon Wonder flower that I had previously diecut using the Flower Fair dies, and the sketch seemed a perfect fit for it!  I embossed a flower on it using white embossing powder, and I had been wanting to do one of the embedded diecuts for a long time, so I finally used my Greetings thinlets to try out this fun technique!

I rarely add real buttons to my cards, but I felt like this flower needed a pretty center, so I added Very Vintage Boutique button and a little line of dots stamped from the Friendly Wishes set, and it was done!

Thanks for visiting and be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Paper Players challenge!

On Thursday, John had a little baby sparrow flying around the ceiling of his garage for almost the entire day.  It just could not figure out how to fly out the doors!  When he opened the garage door yesterday morning, it was so exhausted, it was sitting on the floor!  He picked it up and took it outside, but Cassidy and I got a look at it before he gently placed it in the flower bed.  Later on, it was gone, so I hope he got his strength back and flew away!

Enjoy your day!

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Happy Friday, peeps!  Yay, it’s the weekend…do you have some fun stuff planned?  I hope to do some cleaning up…and stamping!  I have one more thank you card, this time using the sketch from Create with Connie & Mary:

and the new, uber-cute set, You’re Sublime:

This looks a tad bit busy, but I thought with all the colors of the flowers in the wheelbarrow, I could get away with the plaid from Farmers Market and the stripes from Sweet Lil’ Things!  I stamped the image in Black Stazon on our watercolor paper and colored them with an aquapainter:

I added a little sparkle to the centers; some “grass” to ground it, a couple of Watermelon Wonder banners and a little Pear Pizzazz bow!  It’s all on a Very Vanilla card base!  Thanks for visiting today!

More dirt removal:

This was on the other side of our porch….John put a conduit under the porch in which to hold the wiring….and yes, he had to uproot almost my entire flower bed.  It was mostly mint, because the builders chose that location to dump all the stones from when my house was built!!!  So it’s almost impossible to plant anything there.   But anyone who has had mint seed in the garden knows that it takes NO TIME at all for it to come back!  So I’m not concerned!  Anyway, Cassidy had fun for about three shovelsful, and then she was done!!!  But she “helped”!

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Happy Thursday, peeps!  Another thank you card….almost through my list…this one incorporates the Kraft Journal’s Back to School challenge; the By The Numbers challenge at Retro Rubber:

and the Freshly Made Sketches sketch:

I have to give a nod to my stampin’ pal Linda Callahan, as she inspired me by her card here!!  I took a little different tack with my back-to-school theme!

I used some diecut letters and numbers that I received long, long ago from another Linda, and using dsp from Schoolhouse, I stamped the sentiment from Something to Say in Smoky Slate ink.  I also used a ruler embossing folder that I am embarrassed to say, have maybe used once, but it seemed appropriate for the “numbers” challenge!  Finally, some denim ribbon and three gold stars finished it off!

And it is in the mail!

John is tired of losing electricity out here in the country, and finally bought a generator, so there has been lots of digging and dismantling as he wires it up to the house.  Of course, Cassidy wants to “help”!  Here, she is stacking up the bricks as John takes them out of the patio:

We all thought the final effect looked like a zipper!

More later…..today, we’re off to the Herr’s Potato Chip Factor Tour!  Enjoy your day!