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Happy Friday all! Wow, what a week! I'm ready for some down time, but not sure I'm going to get it until Monday! What a crazy time of year with my Boys' school year winding down.

As you know, Friday means another Sketch Frenzy Friday challenge and mini hop! Luckily, this was my sketch and I had an idea in my head going in! Brain power was quite low this evening when I finally got to this! But, it took me less than 15 minutes to do!! Yeah! 

Here is the card I created.

based on this sketch

The card base is Daffodil Delight, with a Chocolate Chip accent layer behind the main layer of Confetti Cream. I scored the top layer with the Simply Scored every 1". The length of that layer was 5", so that was easy, but the width wasn't an even number. I tried to center it on the board, and score on the inch marks. Maybe not exact, but its close. I inked my flower image from Inspired by Nature using Markers: Lucky Limeade for the leaves and stems, Daffodil Delight for the petals, and Chocolate Chip for the flower centers. The accent on the top left and bottom right are the Chocolate Chip 5/16" Neutrals brads. I used the Mat Pack guide for perfect placement.

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Evening all! Don't fall off your chair but I made a card tonight just for fun!! Not a "have to" stamped one!! Feels good to be back on the creative train!! I've joined the Create with Connie & Mary Occasions Edition so I decided to play with their first weekly challenge. Here is my creation

based on this sketch

I started out thinking hearts and ended up nowhere near that!! I did my Sketch Frenzy card before this one and it is hearts, but that didn't work out for this one. Card base is Early Espresso with a Calypso Coral DSP print for the background. This DSP is the FREE pack you can earn during SAB!! Across the background is a Calypso Coral strip of card stock that was punched with the Lace Ribbon border punch, and a strip of Early Espresso grosgrain ribbon. On the rounded rectangle (?? not sure what to call it) I stamped the flower from Inspired by Nature. It was inked with Calypso Coral, Lucky Limeade & Early Espresso using sponge daubers. At the bottom is a Scallop Trim Border in Calypso Coral. I added a butterfly near the top, cut with the Beautiful Wings embosslit, also from Calypso Coral. Pearls for the butterfly "body" are the final accent. The saying, from Inspired by Nature, was stamped near the bottom in Early Espresso. 

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Morning all! Hope you have a great weekend on tap! Ours started great last night with a come from behind win for the Crete High School football team! They are headed to the State Finals!! Great job boys! Neither of my boys play, but they are both in the Cardinal Band which does a great job of supporting the team and fans!

Anyway, on to the stamping! Here is a card I created several of the week, some get well, some Sympathy. I used the Simply Scored again to do the "tile" look.

The colors are Calypso Coral, Lucky Limeade and Chocolate Chip. I started this time with a Naturals White piece of card stock, 4" x 5". Score it every inch in both directions. I inked the flowers by using a Sponge Dauber with each color and dabbing it onto the desired area and stamped over the recessed side of the scored  lines. Love this look!! I knotted a Calypso Coral ribbon around the bottom of the card stock and added the saying over that with dimensionals. The flower panel was layered onto Chocolate Chip, then attached to the Calypso Coral base. 

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SU! Catalog Items used: 111656 Inspired by Nature * 115068 Sincere Salutations * 122925 Calypso Coral Card Stock * 102316 Naturals White Card Stock * 102128 Chocolate Chip Card Stock * 100908 Chocolate Chip Classic Ink * 122939 Calypso Coral Classic Ink * 122935 Lucky Limeade Classic Ink * 122334 Simply Scored Scoring Tool * 122976 Calypso Coral 3/8" Ruffled Ribbon * 102892 Sponge Daubers * 104430 Stampin' Dimensionals * 119856 Scallop Oval Punch * 113438 Big Shot * 115953 Movers & Shapers Punch Windows

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Thursday! Wow, what a week! I was actually thinking last week (and I should know better!!) that summer was going well and not too crazy. Then Monday happened. Late night of baseball and I'm still trying to get back on track!!

The good news is it's ColorLab day!! Grab your lab coat and play along!  Make sure to stop over by the ColorLab and see what the other girls came up with!! That is my first stop most Thursday mornings!! 

Here are the colors, selected by yours truly this week!!

I was definitely thinking Spring when Julie asked for colors!! I think we've skipped right over Spring here in Nebraska. We went from cool and cloudy to hot and humid. Oh well! The flowers and things have been beautiful!! Here is my card:

 

Not the most creative card I've ever done, and probably not the most original (it looks quite a bit like the last card I posted), but I like it. Clean and Simple!! Card base is Concord Crush with background layers of Pear Pizzazz and Daffodil Delight behind Whisper White. On the Whisper White, I stamped the Inspired by Nature flower image. I colored the stamp by using daubers. I was hoping for a softer look, but didn't really get it-guess I had a heavy hand :) It really almost looks like I used markers. Across the bottom I knotted a Concord Crush ribbon. Then I added the "HI THERE" from Fundamental Phrases with a flower accent (reinked the small flower and stamped it off once) on the Large Oval layered onto the Concord Crush Scallop Oval. 

That's it!! Thanks for stopping by today. I'm off to bed, not early by any means (baseball again tonight), but I hope to sleep in tomorrow and catch up.

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SU! Catalog Items used: 111656 Inspired by Nature * 114968 Fundamental Phrases * 119792 Concord Crush Card Stock * 119795 Pear Pizzazz Card Stock * 119683 Daffodil Delight Card Stock * 100730 Whisper White Card Stock * 119785 Concord Crush Classic Ink * 119784 Pear Pizzazz Classic Ink * 119667 Daffodil Delight Classic Ink * 119266 Concord Crush 1/2" Stitched-Poly Ribbon * 102892 Sponge Daubers * 104430 Stampin' Dimensionals * 119855 Large Oval Punch * 119856 Scallop Oval Punch

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Welcome to another Sketch Frenzy Friday!! Here is my creation of the week:

based on this sketch shared with us by Melissa Hedine-Tootle.

My card base is Pear Pizzazz with a Concord Crush layer behind a piece of First Edition DSP. I was inspired by a card I saw this week using this new DSP as a background, and another that I ran across in my files that had white embossing on DSP. For this card, I embossed on the DSP with clear powder, then sponged color over it with sponge duabers. The ink colors are Pear Pizzazz, Concord Crush & Peach Parfait. My side scallops were made with my 1-1/4" Circle punch. I punched several, put them together at the edge like I wanted, then trimmed off at the edge of the Concord Crush card stock. It needed a little something extra, so I added a strip of Pear Pizzazz ribbon at the very edge. Finally is the saying in the lower left corner, from Teeny Tiny Wishes, on a small Oval of Very Vanilla, layered onto a Moder Label punch of Concord Crush with Vanilla brads on each end.

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SU! Catalog Items used: 111656 Inspired by Nature * 115370 Teeny Tiny Wishes * 119792 Concord Crush Card Stock * 119795 Pear Pizzazz Card Stock * 119794 Peach Parfait Card Stock * 121878 First Edition DSP * 119783 Peach Parfait Classic Ink * 119784 Pear Pizzazz Classic Ink * 119785 Concord Crush Classic Ink * 102283 Versamark * 119736 Neutrals Brads * 119265 1/2" Stitched-Poly Ribbon * 102892 Sponge Daubers * 104430 Stampin' Dimensionals * 109130 Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder * 100005 Heat Tool * 119849 Modern Label Punch * 119863 Small Oval Punch * 119861 1-1/4" Circle Punch

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Happy Friday! Time for another Sketch Frenzy Friday creation and sketch!  Here is the card I came up with:

based on this sketch by Sharon Field:

My card base is Night of Navy with a background print DSP in Riding Hood Red from the Love Letter pack. I inked the large flower from Inspired by Nature with Night of Navy and Riding Hood Red using sponge daubers. I stamped that on Naturals Ivory and punched with my new 2-1/2" Circle Punch. I used the stamp-a-ma-jig to add the small flower as well on the left side. I sponged the edge with Night of Navy before attaching over my Navy wide striped grosgrain. I stamped the saying with Night of Navy Craft Ink and embossed with Clear EP so it would show more than just with Classic Ink. Those dots overwhelm it!!  The Photo Corner punch layers were added to the corner, Riding Hood Red behind Naturals Ivory. Lastly, 3 flower brads in Vanilla accent the ribbon.

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SU! Catalog Items used: 111656 Inspired by Nature * 100867 Night of Navy Card Stock * 111348 Riding Hood Red Card Stock * 101849 Naturals Ivory Card Stock * 117162 Love Letter DSP * 111836 Riding Hood Red Classic Ink * 102977 Night of Navy Classic Ink * 119717 Regals Craft Spots * 119730 Neutrals Flower Brads * 119773 Night of Navy 1-1/4" Striped Grosgrain * 102892 Sponge Daubers * 109130 Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder * 100005 Heat Tool * 104430 Stampin' Dimensionals * 116631 Paper Piercing Tool * 105286 Mat Pack * 120906 2-1/2" Circle Punch * 119878 Photo Corners Punch 

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