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Good morning, Friends! Ready for a great weekend? We are getting ready to leave for the eastern slope once again. This time Nick plays just one game. But afterwards, Nick and Pat get to go to a Rockies game! Woohoo for them and boohoo for me! Just a guys night out. I will drop them off and then head to our hotel. So I get a quiet evening in the hotel and will hopefully get to watch it on t.v.! This is the last league game for the soccer season. I sure do hope they play their best!


Today's card was inspired by the sketch at iSpy. An easy sketch for a quick and simple card. I started with a card base of Whisper White and adhered three strips of Bashful Blue card stock that were run through the Big Shot with the Stripes embossing folder. I stamped the twirly words from Flight of the Butterfly in Pacific Point onto Whisper White. This is adhered to a piece of Pacific Point and then popped up onto the card. I stamped the solid part of the butterfly in Bashful Blue onto a scrap of Whisper White and then the flower part was stamped on top in Pacific point. I cut the butterfly out and used my white gel pen to color the flower centers before popping it up onto the card. The last bit was to add a flower that was punched from Pacific Point with the itty bitty shapes punch pack and a rhinestone. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!


Card Recipe: Stamps- Flight of the Butterfly; Paper- Whisper White, Bashful Blue, Pacific Point; Ink- Bashful Blue, Pacific Point; Accessories- Stripes embossing folder, white gel pen, itty bitty punch pack, rhinestone, dimensionals

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Good Sunday morning everyone! I hope your weekend is going great! I know that a lot of people in the mid west didn't get a lot of sleep last night because of all the storms. Wow! I will need to check in with my family today to see how they faired. We are in Denver and they got a lot of rain. The boys still were able to play their game yesterday. We will see about today. And it looks like the mountains probably got snow so going home will be interesting...


Today's card was another that I did with my stamp club this month. This is a very simple card and I really like this unique layout. I also tried some different colors together. My card base is pool party. I took two strips of Concord Crush and rounded the ends with the 1" circle punch. I added two silver brads and adhered them to the card base. Then I stamped the sentiment from Flight of the Butterfly in Concord Crush onto a piece of Whisper White. This is popped up onto the card. I stamped the butterflies onto a scrap piece of Whisper White - the solid one in Pool Party and the little one in Concord Crush. I cut them out, layered them and put a brad through them. These are popped up onto the card as well. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!


Card Recipe: Stamps- Flight of the Butterfly; Paper- Pool Party, Concord Crush, Whisper White; Ink- Pool Party, Concord Crush; Accessories- silver brads, mini brad, 1" circle punch, dimensionals

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Good morning, Friends! I can't believe that the week is going by this quickly! I hope yours is going great! Nothing special going on around here at the moment so I will expect to get some crafting done today (even though I should probably clean my house - lol).


Today's card was inspired by a sketch at Stamping 411. I loved the simple design and that the squares could be any shape you wanted. I left them square but I had some other ideas, too. May have to try those some time. I do apologize for my photo. I thought when I had edited it, I had lightened it up but I guess I didn't. The two colors I used were Whisper White and Concord Crush. I punched squared of Concord Crush using the 1 3/8" square punch and then using the postage stamp punch I punched squares from Whisper White. I layered these together and adhered them to my card base of Whisper White. Then I stamped three butterflies from Flight of the Butterfly stamp set in Concord Crush and punched them out with the 3/4" circle punch. I added a mini brad to each one and then popped them up onto the squares. Then I stamped the sentiment in Concord Crush onto a strip of Whisper White and flagged one end. This is attached to the final square. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!


Card Recipe: Stamps- Flight of the Butterfly; Paper- Whisper White, Concord Crush; Ink- Concord Crush; Accessories- postage stamp punch, 1 3/8" square punch, 3/4" circle punch, mini brads, dimensionals

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Good morning everyone! It's time for another super wonderful and fun challenge at Create with Connie and Mary! This week's challenge is a color challenge. Take a look at these fantastic colors!

Aren't they awesome? The challenge colors are Pool Party, Sahara Sand, and Basic Black. I always love to pair colors with black. It just makes everything pop! So I found a layout in a magazine that I recently purchased and came up with this:

Can I say that I just love the way this turned out? Everything really fell into place! And it is a very easy layout! My card base is a 6 x 6 piece of textured Sahara Sand card stock that is folded in half to make a 3 x 6 card. Then I cut another smaller piece of Sahara Sand and layered a piece of Sahara Sand polka dot designer paper onto it. Then I tied the Pool Party ruffled ribbon around it before adhering it to the card. I used the small butterfly from the Flight of the Butterfly stamp set and stamped it in Pool Party onto Very Vanilla card stock (three times) and cut them out. Each butterfly got a mini brad. The butterflies are glue-dotted to 1" Sahara Sand squares which are glued to Basic Black card stock that is punched with the postage stamp punch. Then the squares are popped up over the ribbon. The last thing I did was to stamp the greeting at the bottom (also from the same set) in Basic Black. And there you have it!

I hope that you all will go on over to the Create with Connie and Mary website and see all the other wonderful creations that they have there using these colors. Then make your own creation and upload it to their site so that we might all look too! I can't wait to see what you do with these colors! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Flight of the Butterfly; Paper- Sahara Sand, Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Neutrals designer paper stack; Ink- Pool Party, Basic Black; Accessories- Pool Party ruffled ribbon, mini brads, postage stamp punch, dimensionals

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Happy Friday, everyone! The Sketch Frenzy Friday team has a great challenge for you today! Today's sketch comes from Jennifer Weide. Take a look:

So many possibilities on this one! But here is what I finally decided on:

Cute, huh?! I do like the way this one turned out! And it is SO super simple! I got my color inspiration from the Color Coach. I started out with a card base of Concord Crush. Then I cut down a smaller piece of Pear Pizzazz. The strip is Whisper White and I stamped the greeting from Flight of the Butterfly in Concord Crush. On a scrap of Whisper White, I stamped the solid butterfly in Concord Crush and cut it out (I really need to get the punch), and the smaller butterfly in Peach Parfait and cut it out, too. Under the Whisper White strip I punched out two strips of Peach Parfait using the dotted scallop ribbon border punch. I love the look of the scallops "peeking" from underneath! I stamped the second part of the greeting on the Pear Pizzazz piece in Concord Crush. The strip is glued to the Pear Pizzazz and then that is popped up on the card. The butterflies are glued together and then to the strip. I also added a Peach Parfait flower that was punched with the itty bitty shapes punch pack with a rhinestone in the middle. 

Please go and see what Jennifer has done with her sketch 'here'. Be sure to keep going through the tour to see what the design team has done and to get inspired! We have a few new members to our team and they are fantastic! I do hope that you will have some time this next week to join us in our sketch challenge! I always love to see what you come up with so be sure to upload your creation to the Sketch Frenzy Friday blog! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Flight of the Butterfly; Paper- Concord Crush, Pear Pizzazz, Peach Parfait, Whisper White; Ink- Concord Crush, Peach Parfait; Accessories- dotted scallop ribbon border punch, itty bitty shapes punch pack, basic rhinestones, dimensionals

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Good Friday morning everyone! I hope you are ready for another sketch challenge at Sketch Frenzy Friday! This week's sketch was created by Jennifer Weide. Take a look:

What a fabulous sketch! This has so many possibilities and is open to all kinds of interpretation! In fact it was really hard for me to narrow down my options but I think I came up with something really nice and spring-like. Take a look:



I started with a card base of Bashful Blue. Then I punched a border from Pacific Point with the dotted ribbon scallop border punch and glued that down. I took a piece of Whisper White and stamped the swirly words from Flight of the Butterfly in Pacific point. On a piece of scrap Whisper White I stamped the solid image of the butterfly in Bashful Blue and then the flower part in Pacific Point right over it and cut it out. Then I took my white gel pen and colored the flower centers. The Whisper White panel is glued to a piece of Pacific Point and popped up on the card. I took my cut out butterfly and popped him up and gently bent his wings up. The last thing I did was to punch a flower from Bashful Blue cardstock with the itty bitty punch pack, glue dot it onto the card and add a basic pearl in the center. Easy!

Now it is time for you to see what Jennifer did with her sketch. Take the tour to get inspired and then create your own project. Upload it to the Sketch Frenzy Friday blog so we can all see. I just love to see how you all interpret our sketches. Too fun! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Flight of the Butterfly; Paper- Bashful Blue, Pacific Point, Whisper White; Ink- Pacific Point, Bashful Blue; Accessories- dotted scallop ribbon border punch, itty bitty punch pack, white gel pen, basic pearls, dimensionals