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Happy Tuesday, everyone!  Another lovely color palette from Arielle today:

Simply gorgeous! And here’s my interpretation:

I seem to be on a CAS kick here lately; my card for today uses sketch 33 from CAS on Sunday:

and I’ve used Gorgeous Grunge, Four You and Itty Bitty Backgrounds for my card.  I added a gold foil banner and a little gold & turquoise heart:

To create this, I first punched a small heart using the Owl Builder punch in Tempting Turquoise; then I punched a larger heart around it with the heart punch  from the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack, which will be available in the new catalog!  I punched an identical heart from gold foil and adhered it to the back of the turquoise one.  It’s “floating” on a little piece of dimensional!!  Of course, gold sequins add a nice touch as well as some speckles from Encore Gold ink!  I hope you’ll play along with this elegant color combo and share you creation with us at the ColourQ this week!!

I am going to give you a break from Cassidy pictures (I’ll be back tomorrow with some) to show you a couple of bird pix.  This year has been amazing for my amateur backyard birding!  Under John’s shed roof, a ladder extension provided a good resting place for a robin’s nest and her four eggs:

A male ruby-throated hummingbird:

A pair of tree swallows that stole my bluebird house (but the bluebird fought back and is now in residence, yay!):

and my thrill of the season, a scarlet tanager, seen yesterday:



Thanks for indulging me!   Have a great day!

Products used (including non-SU Lil' Inker Stitched Rectangles and Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack, upcoming in the new catalog):

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

Merry Monday 108

 

Happy Monday, peeps!  It’s time for another Merry Monday, and Lori has one I know you’ll love:

I used the sketch 256 from Unscripted Sketches for this week:

as well  as the inspiration from Festive Friday 31:

to make my little clean and simple card for today:

I sort of feel guilty, this was so easy to make!  I cut out a few stars from Red Glimmer Paper, glued them in place, added a sentiment from MFT’s Seasonal Sentiments and a little rhinestone-embellished sequin, and I was done!

Be sure to stop by the Merry Monday blog and see all the other star-studded creations from our fabulous design team!  Play along, and soon, you’ll have a big stash of Christmas cards by December!

We went to our niece’s bridal shower on Saturday and Cassidy wore her new kitty kat dress!  She was quite enthralled watching the bride-to-be open her gifts:

Enjoy your day!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Seasonal Sentiments (My Favorite Things)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Red Glimmer Paper
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Sequin, Rhinestone, Red Copic
Tools	SU Star Punches (Merry Mini Punch Pack, Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack, Small Star), Dimensionals

Paper Players 195

Happy Mother’s Day everyone!  I hope you are having a lovely weekend so far!  Sandy is our hostess today with this captivating color challenge for us:

I love this photo but I have to admit that interpreting it into a card was a challenge for me!  I started to go for a nature theme, but I dragged out Decorate A Daisy, which to me, never had a chance to bloom properly as SU retired it after only one year!!  So I stamped it in So Saffron and Calypso Coral, then added some retired DPs and created my card:

I also used sketch #19 from a new-to-me challenge site, Match The Sketch; it’s in German, but they translate for you!  Here’s the sketch:

My final addition was a little banner with the word “friend” from Fabulous Phrases and a little ladybug from the retired Itty Bitties:

I punched it with the Banner punch that is being carried over from the SAB catalog!  Yippee!  Now check out what the other designers have created with these colors, and be sure to play along with us too!

• Ann
• Anne Marie
• Jaydee
• Nance
• Sandy

More tormenting of poor Grampy:

Enjoy your day!

Curtain Call Pink and Pretty

Happy Saturday peeps!  Hope you have something fun planned for this weekend…even if you’re a mom or not!  I am squeaking in this Curtain Call card by minutes; it’s another bridal shower card, and the bride’s colors just happen to be pink and gold, so I thought it was a good choice for the challenge.  Here’s the inspiration photo:

and here’s my card:

I used some scraps from a designer paper stack I got years ago, cutting the floral portion out with a circle die and adding gold elements:  one portion of the Sweet & Sassy sentiment is heat embossed in gold, the other is stamped with gold encore, the leaves are diecut from SU’s Gold Foil and I added a few of SU’s Gold Sequins.  I lightly colored a few taffeta roses with pink ink and added them as well:

I added a Brushed Gold mat and some gold speckles too!  Now be sure to come back tomorrow for a great color challenge at the Paper Players! 

We are encouraging Cassidy in her “cleaning” lessons, and when she asked to clean the table after dinner yesterday, we agreed!  We just didn’t know she’d get so into it:

We were all laughing so hard, we couldn’t yell at her to tell her to get off the table!!!  Enjoy your day!

IB114 and CTS75

Happy Friday, peeps!  What a glorious afternoon we had yesterday…nice warm temps and a beautiful blue sky!  We have been treated with all kinds of bird sightings this spring….orioles, tree swallows, nesting Canada geese AND robins….lots of birdie nature going on around here!  And my cards today are bird-related too!  I loved this little inspiration photo from Inspired By this week:

Cute AND true!!  I just got some lovely Skylark paper from CTMH and couldn’t resist using it for the challenge:

I did add a little collage stamping of some Impression Obsession words in River Rock, then added my Artistic Outpost sentiment atop a banner that was part of this glorious paper.  I realized when I was checking out some other challenges that it matched the sketch this week from CAS(e) This Sketch:

It really is clean and simple, because it’s just one sheet of DP and the little banner!

And I couldn’t resist making another bird-related card, since I have had these bird stickers for a while and a couple of scraps sitting on my table:

The tag is a retired SU diecut; sentiment is from Crafty Secrets’ For the Birds!

Not sure what kind of bird this is, but he is pretty!

It’s spring, and Cassidy wasted no time in covering Grampy with dandelion fuzz:

which she thought was hysterically funny, of course!

And here is my little mother robin, who created her nest under John’s shed roof, amidst all his junk:

  Enjoy your day!  If you have any questions about any of the products I used today, shoot me an email!

KJ170–Just For Her

Good morning and happy Thursday to everyone!  The Kraft Journal has a Just For Her challenge this week; you are required to make a card for “her” and it doesn’t have to be a Mother’s Day card!  I needed a bridal shower card for a fellow TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) gal; we had a kitchen shower for her and I knew just the stamps I wanted to use:

I knew I wanted to use as many of the images from this fun little Vintage Kitchen set from TPC, and I couldn’t figure out what sketch to use, so I just stamped them, cut them out and popped them up on a piece of DP on which I stamped a few country/kitcheny/vintagey images!  Here are a couple closer views:

I added some twine, a burlap banner and a button, mounted it on some Crumb Cake cardstock and put it on a Naturals Ivory card base.  It’s a fairly large card, so I made my own envelope with the punch board.  Sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes.  Aren’t these cute?  I wanted to give her some recipe cards but I ran out of time….maybe later!

I bought a little tub of yard sale matchbox toys for my nephews to play with when they come to visit, and they were a hit with Cassidy:

Even to the point of giving a couple of them a car wash in the birdbath:

Enjoy your day!