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Happy Wednesday, peeps!  Today is an extra-special day, since the sweet girls on the Colour Me…! team have asked me to be their guest designer for May!  I have really found their color palettes to be fun, you should check them out too!  Here’s the one for this week:

Isn’t that a lovely inspiration photo!?  Oh so many possibilities!  For my card today, I chose to pair CC with Whisper White for a crisp, clean look:

I hadn’t used Six-Sided Sampler for a while, and it looks so fresh stamped in Cherry Cobbler, especially with a perky sentiment from Yippee Skippee and some bling:

I used the sketch from RetroSketches as well:

My little banner is another piece of Cherry Cobbler which was embossed with the Perfect Polka Dots EF!  Easy peasy!  Hope you’ll play along…there are some amazing creations made by the design team, so be sure to check them out as well as the Colour Me…! blog!

Enjoy your day!

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Hi everyone!  It’s Tuesday, and that means it’s ColourQ time!  Look at this delightfully delicate color palette Arielle has for us this week:

I just happened to have this image from Fabulous Florets already stamped and colored with Strawberry Slush ink, so I cut it out and added it to some MME DP stamped with the flourish from Everything Eleanor, mounted on a Sage Shadow card base:

I diecut some leaves from Pear Pizzazz cardstock, and added some color with an aquapainter and some PP ink:

I added a sentiment from Bring on the Cake on some Shimmery White paper, diecut with an Apothecary Accents die.  I left the die on the cutout and sponged it with some Pink Pirouette ink, which is a bit difficult to see here:

I also colored some pearls with a Copic and added to the right side for a little extra femininity!  I hope you’ll play along with us this week…these colors are perfect for Mother’s Day or any feminine creation!

Cassidy was disobedient (besides being messy) and wrote on the table with a pencil:

So I made her clean it up with some Fantastik and a paper towel:

She loved it and wanted to clean everything! I hope I can keep her enthusiasm going!

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Happy Monday, peeps!  Another Merry Monday is here…this time Katie has a sweet sketch for us!  I just love this sketch….lots of interesting elements to play with:

At my clubs this month, we are making shaker cards, so I made this one as an example:

I used Retro Fresh designer paper and A Round Array for my little snowflake, and some retiring Silver Glass Glitter for the “snow”!  SU’s Shaker Frames and Window Sheets make it easy to make a circular shaker window! 

A sentiment from the retired Endless Wishes polymer set, stamped in Encore Silver, a few Silver Glimmer accents and it was finished!

I hope you’ll pop by the Merry Monday blog to see the other designers’ samples and get some inspiration from them as well!  Then play along with us so you can add to your Christmas card stash!!

We have a pretty big rabbit living in our backyard; Cassidy tried to chase it!

It ended up escaping under Grampy’s dinghy:

and then she chased it into the flower bed (can you see him on the right side of the photo?)…..where he ran onto the patio and under the porch!!!  Smart bunny!

 

Enjoy your day!

Products used (including retired Endless Wishes and Silver Glimmer paper):

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

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Happy Sunday, everyone!  Hope you are having a wonderful weekend!  Today, Jaydee is our hostess at the Paper Players, and she’s chosen that wonderful May holiday of Mother’s Day to highlight this week:

I found a lovely image at the Gecko Galz website and they are having a Mother’s Day challenge as well, so I incorporated my tag into a vintage-style card:

My card base is Very Vanilla and I used some MME Lost & Found papers, I think the line is Blush.  I sponged all the edges, added some machine stitching on one panel, then added my tag.  I did diecut one edge and added some piercing, although it’s tough to see here.  My sentiment is from the retiring Delightful Dozen, which was inked in Versamark and then Soft Suede and heat-embossed with clear embossing powder:

It stands out nicely on my tag!  Now, show us what you are going to create for this special holiday!  Share it with all of us on the Paper Players blog!  And here are the other designers’ samples as well:

• Ann
• Anne Marie
• Jaydee
• Nance
• Sandy

I did make another card for this challenge (you know how that goes!) and it has a more whimsical feel:

I just had to play with some new goodies, LOL!  Enjoy your day!

DON’T TAKE MY PICTURE!

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Happy Thursday, everyone!  I can’t believe it’s May already!   It certainly has started off wet!  Hope you and your families are safe and sound, wherever you are….there has been some unbelievable weather out there this week!  Great weather for ducks…..and that’s why I put one on my card today, LOL!  I used the Freshly Made Sketches sketch created by Karren….and I just love it!

My friend needed a baby card and I thought it would nice to make one that wasn’t the typical pink or blue (plus I didn’t know the gender, LOL!), so I used some textured Pistachio Pudding cardstock with Birthday Basics DP, along with the little duck from the retiring Storybook Friends:

This little image is so cute!!  I did flip the sketch so he wasn’t looking out into nowhere, though!   I added two little ribbons, colored the image a wee bit and added the sentiment.  I cut all the sentiments apart in this set because they are so interchangeable and fun!  I added an embossed border using Delicate Designs EF and it was done! 

Just a couple of views of my yard during yesterday’s deluge:

Front yard (swamp, really):

Back yard bridge to my brother’s:

We might be needing this soon:

But inside we were warm, dry and happy:

Enjoy your day!