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Happy Friday all! Hope your week was good. Not bad here!! Still wish I could find (or make??) more time in the stamp room but otherwise all is good!!

As you know, Friday means another round of Sketch Frenzy Friday!! Here is what I came up with this week

based on this sketch by Robbie Rubala.

I initially thought DSP with this sketch as those backgrounds are always great with something like this. Then I settled on this set Oh, Hello and the pattern on the oval was too much for another background. So, card stock it is!! I stamped the oval and flower on Whisper White and cut out with Oval Framelits. The flower is attached to the large oval with dimensionals, and the oval to the background with dimensionals as well. I added pears to the top right corner and stamped the saying bottom right. Whisper White Taffeta ribbon was the perfect final accent. Colors, Basic Gray, Strawberry Slush and Whisper White.

Thanks for stopping by today! Hope you have a great weekend on tap! High school football tonight (go band!!), then hopefully some yard work tomorrow unless its raining!

Make sure you stop over at the main Sketch Frenzy Friday blog to see the creations of the rest of the team AND to play along!!

Open House Oh, Hello!

Happy weekend all! No snow flying here yet-yeah!! Here is the second card from Open House last weekend. 

Not a color combo that I naturally go to, but I really like how it came out!! As I mentioned in my last Open House post, none of these cards were original creations. This one I found on LeeAnn Greff's blog HERE. Turns out she cased it too from Yvette HERE. Love all the sharing that goes on among fellow SU! Demonstrators!! I completely changed up the colors because I wanted to use the Tangerine Tango ribbon that was free during Sale-A-Bration. I was already using the Indigo on the previous card.

The card base is Tangerine Tango with a Chocolate Chip accent layer behind a background of Very Vanilla. I textured the upper part of the background with the new Honeycomb folder. I left the bottom untextured so we could stamp the saying there. Both the "Oh Hello" and "Thanks So Much" from the Oh, Hello set work wonderfully on this card.We sponged the edge of the Very Vanilla background with Chocolate Chip ink and also over the texture just a little to accent it. Above the saying we attached a strip of Chocolate Chip with Old Olive stripe Designer Series Paper. Around that we had knotted the Tangerine Tango ribbon. Next we stamped the Just Thinking stamp (page 21 Spring Mini) in Chocolate Chip on a square of Chocolate Chip. We cut it out using the coordinating Window Frame Framelit. Onto that we attached a Tangerine Tango 2-3/8" Scallop Circle. The Very Vanilla circle was cut with the Circles #2 Die in the Big Shot. I think it was the next to largest circle on there, it fits the scallop a little better than the 1-3/4" Circle Punch. Onto the circle we stamped the flowers which were inked with markers, Tangerine Tango for the flower, Old Olive for the stem. There are dimensionals between the Tangerine Scallop and the Chocolate Chip Window, and behind the Chocolate Chip Window.

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Catalog Items used: 130733 Oh, Hello * 111349 Tangerine Tango Card Stock * 102128 Chocolate Chip Card Stock * 101650 Very Vanilla Card Stock * 117155 Brights DSP Stack (Old Olive) * 126979 Chocolate Chip Classic Ink * 119702 Brights Markers (Tangerine Tango & Old Olive) * 130812 Sycamore Street Ribbon & Button Pack (Tangerine Ribbon) FREE SAB * 104430 Stampin’ Dimensionals * 101610 Stamping Sponges * 118874 2-3/8” Scallop Circle Punch * 114526 Circles #2 Originals Bigz Die * 129378 Honeycomb Embossing Folder * 129021 Window Frames Framelits

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Happy Friday all! Hope you survived being back to a normal week with no holidays :) Not so bad here so far, but you never know what Friday might bring!!

What we know it brings though is another round of Sketch Frenzy Friday! Make sure you make time to play along!! Here is my creation

based on this sketch by Deb Currier.

Finally I got to play with some new stuff from the Spring mini! I've worked a little on getting my room back in shape and hope to get back to more regular stamping!! The DSP here is from the Print Poetry Designer Series Paper Stack. Lots of fun prints in this one-in a fun size of 4-1/2" x 6-1/2"! Colors featured are Summer Starfruit, Primrose Petals, Raspberry Ripple, Very Vanilla and just a hint of Gumball Green. The card base is Raspberry Ripple. The stripe print was cut just 1/8" different in size and is layered onto the background. Next is a Primrose accent behind the dotted print. The banner is Summer Starfruit and I cut the points at the bottom with a square punch, and as usual it isn't quite straight. On that, I stamped "Oh, Hello" from the new set of the same name. The rose is also from that set and was stamped on a Very Vanilla oval cut with the smallest in the new Ovals Collection Framelits set. I inked the rose with Raspberry Ripple and Gumball Green markers. After stamping I added some Summer Starfruit accents with a blender pen. Lightly, and of course it blended with the Raspberry and Gumball. The Vanilla oval is layered onto the next size oval in Raspberry Ripple.

That's it for today! Thanks for stopping by! Make sure you stop over by the Main SFF Blog to see the creations of the rest of the team, and to play along!! We love to see what you come up with!! Have a GREAT weekend all!!