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Happy Saturday, peeps!  We went to a Veteran’s Breakfast this morning, so I totally forgot I wanted to post this baby card today!!  Our neighbors had a little girl earlier this week, so I put the Freshly Made Sketches sketch to work:

I used the Celebrate Baby set from SU and some pretty MME Lime Twist/Happy Go Lucky papers:

Even though it doesn’t look like it here, the sentiments are stamped in Early Espresso!  I embossed and diecut a series of hearts for my lower element:

The card base is Baja Breeze, and the ribbon is some retired SAB satin!  Oh, and I did add a few little sequins just for fun!  Thanks for visiting!  Now, off to make some chili for our church’s Chili Cookoff tonight!

Can you see that Halloween candy tucked in her cheek, LOL?!

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Happy Friday, peeps!  I was honored to be asked to be a guest designer by the sweet girls at As You See It this week!  Check out this yummy color challenge:

I recently received a wonderful card from a stamping friend and it featured a cool fold!  I know these have been around for a while, but I have never made one!  She shared that she got the directions from Julie Davison’s blog here!  Her directions are really easy, so I got to work with the colors to make a sparkly Christmas card:

Here’s a view of the side:

The sentiment embellishment:

And the inside:

I used Seasonally Scattered and Endless Wishes stamps, and Trim the Tree and Under the Tree Specialty papers along with Silver Glimmer paper and papers in the challenge colors.  I experimented with several different silver elements and in the end, decided on some silver heat embossing on a tag, which I put on top of a silver glimmer paper diecut.  Wondering where that oval diecut came from?  It’s a Word Bubble, and I just trimmed off the little “hook” on the side!  Cool!  Some narrow silver ribbon added the final touch!

I hope that you will play along with us this week…the AYSI challenges are a lot of fun and hopefully, you come back each week!!

Hunting for acorns….just for fun!

Enjoy your day!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Endless Wishes, Seasonally Scattered
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Baked Brown Sugar, Cherry Cobbler, Silver Glimmer, Trim the Tree DSP, Under the Tree Specialty DSP
Ink	Cherry Cobbler, Silver Encore
Accessories	Silver Ribbon, Rhinestone
Tools	Big Shot, Circle Punches, Word Bubble Die, Circle Card Thinlits Die, Silver Embossing Powder, Heat Tool

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Hi peeps!  Squeaking in another card today so I can make the As You See It challenge deadline!   Here’s the cute sketch:

Remember the cute Gift Givers set?  I pulled it out today to make a notecard for Thanksgiving; I had a leftover piece of Under The Tree specialty paper sitting on my desk from a club project, so I used it to layer on my card:

AND I got a chance to do some watercoloring, which I love but never do enough!  Here’s my “loosely watercolored” image (you know I love that term…it means fast and furious!):

I cut it out with a punch and added a sponged wooden leaf….done!  Another for my Thanksgiving stash!  Thanks for visiting!!

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Happy Wednesday, peeps!  I realized my birthday card stash was getting low, so I used the pretty Mojo Monday sketch and Flower Patch to make one (although I need MORE!):

I love that the Motley Monsters DSP has patterns in it that can be used for occasions other than Halloween, and that’s what I used here:

I diecut flowers in Crushed Curry, Tangerine Tango and Early Espresso, and crimped some diecut leaves for my floral embellishment:

I used a retired edgelit, some baker’s twine and I even did a couple of score lines at the bottom, just to balance the white space!  I have someone in mind who I think will like this card, so I’m going to go pop it in the mail right now!  Enjoy your day!

Cassidy enjoyed feeding her babies the playdoh food she made!  On the menu was a well-balanced meal of green beans, macaroni and cheese and pizza….that’s the blue stuff, LOL!

 

Thanks for visiting today!

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While at Sandy’s last week, we found a new challenge, Can You Case It?  At least it was new to me!  Here’s the sketch from this week:

I needed a nice “just because” card, so I searched through some of my papers and found a couple of pretty pieces from the Lullaby DSP line, so I went to work:

I pulled out the colors of Baked Brown Sugar, Pistachio Pudding, Coastal Cabana and Hello Honey for my layers and elements.  The vertical panel is the banner from Amazing Birthday, which I trimmed down; and the butterflies are from Papillion Potpourri. I stamped the sentiment from A Dozen Thoughts on a torn piece of Pistachio Pudding, then colored some pearls gold with a retired Zig Painty pen and added some gold baker’s twine:

I love the combination of colors in this paper!

In keeping with her propensity to line things up, Cassidy decided to string up the pumpkins on our porch:

She was quite busy for several minutes!!!  Enjoy your day!

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Happy Sunday, peeps!  Brrrr, winter has come upon us….hopefully this chilly weather won’t last too long here in PA!  I am the hostess today for the Paper Players, and I chose one of my favorite styles of stamping:  vintage!

I just love the vintage, antique look you can achieve with some of the beautiful papers and stamps on the market these days!  I have tons of vintage digital images, too, but this week I decided to focus on some beautiful papers I got recently from Graphic 45 called Botanical Tea:

Not a lot of stamping here, just a few layered embellishments and a pretty row of organdy roses, retired from SU.  I made a multi-layered flower with the Boho Blossom punch, and added some leaves from My Favorite Things, who also made the sentiment.  I did a little sponging and added a few glittery elements as well!  The sketch is a lovely one from Stampin’ Royalty:

I sure hope you will play along with my challenge this week and shabby something up, or stamp something with an antique image!  Check out what the other designers created:

• Andrea
• Ann
• Anne Marie
• Claire
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Laurie
• Nance
• Sandy
• Yapha

Cassidy told me she was going to draw me a leaf!  First, she drew the outline, then began to color it in:

Not too bad!  Of course, using Grammy’s (retired) SU markers makes drawing and coloring even better!

Enjoy your day!

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Happy Saturday, everyone, Wow, it is rainy, cold and gloomy here in PA today!  I am having a hard time getting started this morning!  But it will be a good day to stay inside and craft, so I’d better get crackin’!

I have a quick little card today using a freebie digital image from The Alley Way Stamps and some fun graphic papers:

The “xoxo” sentiment is from SU’s Project Life Remember This set; I also used MaryJo’s sketch from this week’s Technostamper:

I colored him in with some Copics, and popped him up on some dimensionals:

Papers are from MME’s Lime Twist/Fly A Kite line (I think!!  My papers are all mixed up!)  Enjoy your day!

Last week we came home from preschool to find a little female finch stuck inside the bird feeder (excuse the dirty glass, I never think to wash it!!!!):

We lifted the lid off, but she wouldn’t fly out:

We slid up the glass, and she still wouldn’t fly out!

We finally coaxed her out and she flew away!!!

It was pretty exciting to be so close to one of these little birds and Cassidy loved it!