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Hello again everyone! I hope you're enjoying the weekend - hard to believe we are almost halfway through August already....which means back to school is right around the corner! Not sure I'm ready for that - I'm sure the kids are even LESS ready than me.  :)

So we've got a fun sketch for the next two weeks over at the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge - quite a few  little bits that leave lots of room to make it your own and be creative.  I decided to flip the sketch upside down - that doesn't surprise anyone, right?  ;)

 

I was able to play along with Arielle's Colour Q this week - don't have any of the new SU! colors so had to make do with what I had...

 

All of the fabulous Sweet Sunday Stampers have inspiration for you, so please stop on by and say hello to:

Dana White 

Dawn Easton 

Jackie Pedro 

Karen Giron 

Karen Motz 

Lori Tecler 

Lynn Put 

Sarah-Jane Kalé 

Tracy Clemente 

Vicki Burdick 

...and our fabulous Guest Stamper, Amy White!

Thanks for stopping by today!  Hope your week is  a good one - later alligators!
 
 

4CC102 {Up, Up and Away}

Welcome back! Can you believe summer is half over already???  July just flew by and now we're into the second week of August...crazy!!  Over at the 4 Crafty Chicks' Challenge this week, I am your hostess extraordinaire and I've got a theme for you to play with - "Up, Up and Away."  I want to see your cards with things that fly...birds, bugs, airplanes, kites, balloons...the possibilities are endless so have some fun with this one.

I immediately went to my stash of Cat's Pajamas stamps and found the PERFECT set...aptly titled, "Up, Up and Away."  I played around with a funky Colour Q combination and combined it with Jen's July Sketch For You to Try...

I love this little penguin-dude.  :)  Makes me smile every time.  I hope you will find some time to play along with us this week...should be fun going to all your blogs to see what you've created for us!  Enjoy your week!

 

4CCC-101 {Distressing}

Hey there, everyone! It's Thursday and that means a brand new challenge over at the 4 Crafty Chicks' Challenge.  This week, Leanne is the hostess-with-the-mostest and she wants to see some projects that are in distress.  No, not a project that's sending out an SOS - we want to see some distressing on your project.  You could ink the edges, distress the paper, use distress ink... it's up to you.

For my card, I used a lovely color combination from the CR84FN Color Challenge as well as a fantastic Mojo Monday sketch I will be using again...perfect for those leftover bits of paper we all have in our craft rooms:

I never seem to have any birthday cards when I need them so I figured I'd use a lovely sentiment from Verve on this one.  Thanks for stopping by - make sure to stop and see the rest of the Chicks 'cause I know they'd love to see you. :)

 

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Happy Sunday, everyone!!  I am so excited to share this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch with you all.  I must admit that the little, tilted tag made my heart race a bit when I first saw it but in the end it wasn't as big a deal as I thought it would be:

I always love when a color challenge has black as one of the colors so when I saw this one from the Colour Q, I jumped to use it!

All of the fabulous Sweet Sunday Stampers have inspiration for you, so please stop on by and say hello to:

Dana White 

Dawn Easton 

Jackie Pedro 

Karen Giron 

Karen Motz 

Lori Tecler 

Lynn Put 

Sarah-Jane Kalé 

Tracy Clemente 

Vicki Burdick 

 

 Supplies used for {SSSC164}:

4CCC-100 {Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue}

Have you all enjoyed your July? Can you believe it's almost over and August is right around the corner?  ACK!  Summer is the perfect time of the year for many to get married and that's the inspiration for this week's 4 Crafty Chicks' Challenge.  Lori is our hostess with the mostest and she has a recipe (of sorts) as well as a theme...she would like to see some wedding cards made with something OLD, something NEW, something BORROWED and something BLUE.  Fun, right?

For my card I used the current Sweet Sunday Sketch but this time I rotated it so it's on its side...

And here's how I used the recipe:

Something Old - I used my sewing machine for the stitching and I've had it for almost as long as I've been married...16 years.  It has seen MANY projects, sewn some clothes and quilted a couple of quilts and it's still running like new. 
Something New - Both the heart die and the DSP.
Something Borrowed - See that little, clear button on the heart?  I snipped it off of one of my old shirts...it was the extra one they sew on the inside so I figured I might as well use it....right?  ;)
Something Blue - The paper and twine both have blue in them.

Need more inspiration?  Stop by the other Chicks' blogs to see how they made this recipe work.  Enjoy the last weekend of July and I'll see you back here on Sunday for a new Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge!
 

4CCC-99 {Make a Box}

Hello everyone!  We've got a fun challenge for you this week over at the 4 Crafty Chicks' Challenge.  Tamie is our hostess-with-the-mostest and she is challenging you all to make your own box.

There are tons and tons of fabulous tutorials over at Splitcoast Stampers that show you how to make your own box.  I used this one to make mine...oh so easy!!  There's a box for any occasion and most of them don't take a genius to figure them out. :)

I used this beautiful, bright, summery color combo from the CR84FN Color Challenge to make my box:

Still not sure what I'm going to put in this little gift box - almost don't want to give it away.  :)  Thanks for stopping by - don't forget to take a few minutes to stop by and visit the rest of the Chicks' blogs and see what kind of boxes they made.  Later, gators!

 

Supplies 
Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes (SU!)
Paper: Real Red, Whisper White, Picadilly DSP (BG), Yours Truly DSP (Echo Park)
Ink: Real Red
Accessories: Button, twine, ricrac, white satin ribbon, Floral Circles die (Verve), oval Coluzzle, Scallop Edge border punch

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I am sooooooo excited this morning!!!  The last week has been EXCRUCIATING trying to keep the secret a secret...but now I get to explode!  :)  I, along with four other very talented ladies, have been chosen to join Karen and the AMAZING DT over at the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge!!!  I KNOW!  I can hardly believe it myself.  :)  I always have such a fun time playing with Karen's sketches that I know this will be an easy-peasy gig.  :)

Without further ado, here's this week's fabulous sketch and my take on it:

I decided to use the sketch the way Karen gave it to us for my very first week - no rocking the boat or flipping it around this time.  (But have no fear...there *will* be one before this sketch has expired :)   I also used the awesome color combo from the TCP Tuesday Challenge #218.  I *think* this combo is courtesy of one of the OTHER new Sweet Sunday Stampers, Lori Tecler!!!  LOVE it!  I used one of my favorite Cat's Pajamas images and the cloud die works perfectly for the horizontal strip.  Some embossing, a button and some fabulous red twine (from the Ribbon Carousel via my friend, Jenny...she ordered it twice!  I've never done that before...have you? :), and it's all done!

All of the fabulous Sweet Sunday Stampers have inspiration for you, so please stop on by and say hello:

Dana White 

Dawn Easton 

Jackie Pedro 

Karen Giron 

Karen Motz 

Lori Tecler 

Lynn Put 

Sarah-Jane Kalé 

Tracy Clemente 

Vicki Burdick 

And our amazing guest stamper for this week is Jen Shults! 

Thanks for stopping by and letting me share my awesome news with you all!  Enjoy the rest of your weekend!