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Happy Saturday, peeps!  Just a quick little post today, both cards using the Sketch Frenzy Friday sketch:

I love this sketch because it lets you use up some of those scraps from the Print Poetry pack!!!  First, a feminine one:

This uses a resin flower in Primrose Petals, some diecut buttons, and an Apothecary Accents Framelit along with a sentiment from Delightful Dozen.

The second one is more masculine; in fact this is going out in the mail tomorrow for a forgotten birthday!  The image and sentiment are from last year’s Ronald McDonald stamp set, Turtle & Co:

My little snail is paper pieced, too:

Thanks for looking today!

A little homemade clay fun!

SC65 & HSS157 Celebrate!

Yay---it’s Friday and it’s supposed to be a beautiful day today!  Here’s a bright cheerful card that I made for a couple of new recruits in my downline:

It uses the sketch from Stampin’ Celebration and the color challenge from Hand Stamped Sentiments:

I guess there aren’t many green daisies out in the real world, but in the stamping world, I can make my flowers any color I want!!!  Decorate A Daisy got star billing here, along with Fabulous Phrases;  I used some canvas for a banner, heat embossed my sentiment and glittered up my flower’s center:

And here’s the inside:

Part of the reason that one of my downline had a recruit was that at the Baltimore Regionals, they issued a challenge for any of the guests (and their demos),  if they signed up right then and there!  So one of the Wee Inkers had a guest and she signed up!  Congrats to both Lynda AND Donna!  Of course, SU has extended that promotion, and if you sign up between now and May 30, you get an extra $30 to spend in your kit…that means you get $155 worth of product for $99! (Hostesses that have a $350 party get an extra $30 to spend too!)  If you’re interested, give me a shout---my email is at the top right corner of my blog!

Speaking of Regionals…..I totally forgot to photograph my swaps, but I did take pictures of the little gifts I gave my downline:

This little hat was a total CASE from the fabulously creative Vicky Hayes; her sample is here.  I changed mine up a wee bit, adding some embossing and shading.  I also CASEd a little bottle cap project from Inking Idaho; the original was a scissors charm, but I didn’t have the wherewithal to run out and buy those little ball chains, so I just made mine into a magnet!

I used images from Collage Curios and Tiny Tags, added Crystal Effects and a wee bit of glitter.  The hole was punched beforehand with my Crop-a-Dile and I added some Summer Starfruit ribbon. 

Wednesday afternoon was just glorious!  Cassidy spent some time trying to catch some bubbles:

Thanks for stopping by today!

RS59 & SR172

Happy Thursday, peeps!  Woohoo….almost to the weekend!  Another swoon-worthy inspiration challenge, this time it’s from my friends at Stampin’ Royalty:

I would take any of those lovely vignettes for my home….if only I had a million bucks, right?  I’ll have to settle for a lovely card:

I pulled some elements from the outer images….gingham, floral, the bird….and my friend Denise inspired me to use this SAB set from last year after I saw her card here!  Thanks, Denise!  It had been on my mind and she gave me the little push I needed! 

I also used the RetroSketches sketch#59—so fun!

 

I love this card so much, I don’t want to mail it out….but it is already on its way to a special someone who did something REALLY nice for me!  Thanks for visiting today!  Any questions….pop me an email!

Cassidy was playing with tattoo markers (blessedly, they wash right off!) while I answered the phone yesterday…..and while I was distracted, she gave herself a couple of teeny tiny facial decorations…..and this is right after a bath, no less!!!! 

  

Can you see them?  They’re so nice & evenly spaced…and no, they’re NOT pink!!!  She’s covering her mouth because she used the pink one on her LIPS!

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It’s Wednesday---happy middle-of-the-week!  My cards today are for the Make It Monday challenge at The Kraft Journal, which is clean & simple; and the sketch at Keep It Simple:

I made four cards, all in different colors, for the top sellers in my downline:

I used Calypso Coral:

Island Indigo:

Lucky Limeade:

and Regal Rose:

These all use three stamp sets:  Summer Silhouette, Circle Circus and A Round Array.  The circular image was stamped with Versamark and heat-embossed for a little extra “oomph”!  Thanks for visiting today!

Dana took these pictures of Cassidy coming down the sliding board via static power:

Electrifying!

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Happy Tuesday, everyone!  Is it really spring where you are?  I saw some wintry pictures on FB yesterday---yikes!  It’s not quite that bad here in PA!  When I saw Arielle’s cool inspiration photo for this week, I was excited by the fun colors:

This would wake you up getting into the shower in the morning, wouldn’t it?  I took a more floral tack:

The other CQC designers always do such a great job with florals, and for some reason, I struggle with them.  I saw this card yesterday and thought, “I can do that!!”  Although I didn’t do the detail that Darlene did on her beautiful card, I was inspired by her three panels and pretty flowers!  And since the colors are all very strong, I chose to use smaller solid images…and I love this effect!   I think this is a perfect card to cheer someone up!  A simple ribbon treatment and sentiment finished it up!  Any questions?  Shoot me an email!

Now, what can you come up with using these colors?  I cannot WAIT to see what you create…put on your creative thinking caps!  And be sure to check out what the CQC courtesans have conjured up as well over at the ColourQ blog!

Lining up the grapes:

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Happy Monday, peeps!  Phew, what a weekend….it took me all yesterday to recuperate from our wonderful day at Regionals in Baltimore!  I think an inky gremlin came in and messed up my stamping area….I don’t remember leaving it that messy!  And I know it wasn’t Cassidy!  Anyway, here is our Merry Monday sketch for today:

As sometimes happens, I made a card but wasn’t really happy with it, so I made another!  I found this adorable little vintage image in my “vintage” file folder, but I cannot find it on my computer (I lost some files when I got my new one)…..so I can’t tell you where it is from!  Perhaps someone recognizes it!  She sure is cute and I’d love to have her again:

Hence, there’s not much stamping…I found some Cosmo Cricket paper that matched, added some vintage MS glitter:

stamped the sentiment & snowflakes, then punched and matted them:

and added my sentiment on the inside:

This is also for the Festive Friday challenge, whose theme is to make a retro Christmas card!

And here’s the “loser” card:

A notecard sized-card, with some retro stickers from my stash and a wee bit of stamping and glitter! 

I hope you can find some time to make a Christmas card and share it with us at Lesley’s blog, Always Playing with Paper!  You’ll be glad you started early, and we’ll be glad to see it!  Check out all the other designers’ samples while you’re there!

I promised a couple of peeks from our Baltimore Regionals; here we are with Shawn who couldn’t make it (she’s the one on the STICK!):

Front row:  Kathy, Shawn-on-a-stick,  Alison and Penny; back row: Donna and me!

Here’s a closer pic of Alison, Shawn-on-a-stick and Penny!

And here’s an action photo of SHELLY….she gave us our free stamp set!

The day WAS a blur, but we had fun!