CCMC160 and CRU#40

This card takes care of 2 challenges--Create with Connie and Mary sketch and color challenge from Color Roundup.  There is just something about this chair and flower image from Cherish Friendship that really gets to me.  Kind of a nostalgic feeling.

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Carol

Colour Q Challenge 95

I created this card for the color challenge at Colour Q.  I had the hardest time photographing this.  The coral always looked almost neon!  I think I took about 20 photographs to get one I finally wanted to use.  The ones in my light box were the worst surprisingly 

I haven't used Aviary  all that much even though I really like the set. I like the CAS design of this card.

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Carol

Stampin' Royalty Challenge 82

The challenge at Stampin' Royalty this week is Summer!  I think that flowers (especially these golden beauties) are so summery.  I created this page in My Digital Studio.  I also used the sketch from mydigitalstudio.com.

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Carol

Turtle & Company birthday card

This card was sent to my soon-to-be son-in-law for his birthday last week.  My daughter was here the weekend before when I was making his card and told me to put some frogs on it.  This cute little frog is part of the Turtle and Company set.  When you purchase this set $3 of the cost goes to RMHC.  I always buy the RMHC (Ronald McDonald House Charities) set every year whether I like it or not.  But I really like this one a lot.  It has several cute images and sentiments.

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Carol

Mojo Monday 201

I used the sketch from Mojo Monday for this cute little snowman from Snow Much Fun.  I really love this stamp set from the new IBC.  It can easily be used for a variety of card styles.

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Carol

SUStars Blog Hop - Movers, Shakers and Summer Mini Make & Takers

Welcome to the SUStars Mover, Shakers and Summer-Mini Make and Takers blog hop. You may have arrived here from Charlotte Hollingsworth's Stamping Is My Therapy blog.

This is my very first blog hop.  I am really glad they added the Summer-Mini Make & Takers part because I like simplicity in my cards and have never done a mover and only a couple shaker cards.  I have a couple cards from the summer mini catalog.  I have had On the Grow for quite a while now and this is the first time I have inked the stamps.   

My first card uses Paisley Petals dsp, always artichoke dsp, cajun craze and whisper white.  The ribbon is always artichoke seam binding.  The image was colored with blender pen using markers and watercolor crayons.  I roughed up the edges of the whisper white and sponged and spritzed the panel with river rock. My image panel is attached with dimensionals

My second card uses Beyond the Garden dsp, daffodil delight, wild wasabi, rich razzleberry and whisper white cardstock. This image was colored the same way as the card above.  I stamped my sentiment on a banner and added a button from the brights collection.  The image panel is attached with dimensionals and the banner has a double layer of dimensionals just in the middle to make it stand out a little.

Your next stop on the blog hop is Denise Foor Studio PA.  If you get lost along the way you can go to the SUStars blog to find your way again!

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Carol

See what I have been up to!

My daughter was home over the weekend to do some wedding things.  One of those things was making her wedding invitations.  She came up with the design (funny thing-it is pretty much what I had in mind, also) and we both worked on them.  I cut the paper and she punched out the birds.   I punched the border and we both stamped the swirls from Priceless.  Then we both glued the pieces all together.  It did not take nearly as long as I thought it might.  And it was a lot of fun doing it together.  Made it more special for me anyway.  I am very pleased with the way they turned out.

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Carol