You're on my mind (JUGS123)

Greetings!  I found some time this weekend to make a few cards and decided to play along with this week's challenge over at Just Us Girls (JUGS123).  The challenge is to use images with button centers - right up my alley! 

The bunch of flowers is from Papertrey Ink's Everyday Button Bits set and it's paired up with some of my favorite Italian paper.  The sentiment is from Blooming Button Bits.  Simple and fun to bring a little cheer to a friend!

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RI SOTW - Scarecrow and Friends

We have a new Stamp of the Week for you over at The House That Stamps Built!  This week's half-off special is on this great Fall image - Scarecrow and Friend (3309-K).  I colored it using Copic markers and have paired it up with a Happy Halloween (1139-F) sentiment (currently available for 25% off in this month's specials!) and some Cosmo Cricket Matilda papers.  The layout I used is from this week's sketch challenge over at Just Us Girls Challenge (JUGS104).

Please make your way over to The House That Stamps Built to find out the details for getting Scarecrow and Friend for half price and to see the cute cards the rest of the team has made using it!

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RI SOTW - Puffins

We have a new Stamp of the Week over on Repeat Impressions' blog,  The House That Stamps Built and it's this sweet image of three Puffins (2711-I).  For my sentiment, I used You Make me Smile (8602-E) from Quartet Complements. The patterned papers I used are from Stampin' UP!'s Haiku collection and Cosmo Cricket's Material Girl collection. 

The papers were selected to go along with this week's Just Us Girls color challenge, which is to use Chocolate Chip, Deep Yellow, Riding Hood Red and Olive Green.  The layout for my card is from this week's Card Positioning Systems sketch (I won last week's CPS challenge by the way!)  #232.

Please make sure to hop over to The House That Stamps Built for the details on getting this week's Puffins stamp for half price and to see the cards the rest of the team has made using this great image!

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Happy Birthday Old Bird (C4C44, JUGS40)

Greetings! Hope you had a Happy 4th of July!  My closest friend from college had her 50th birthday on Saturday and this is the card I made for her.  I'm most excited about the fact that I will be able to give it to her in person since she and her family are coming to visit tomorrow.  I usually make her something with owls because we were in Chi Omega together.  There is very little stamping on this card - the sentiment is from Inkadinkado and the branch and leaves are from this year's Round and Round anniversary set from PTI.  I cut one of the owls from the  patterned paper and perched it on my branch.

For the inside, I used a sentiment from Heidi Grace, combined with a couple of PTI stamps.  I'm hoping the sappy sentiment on the inside will make up for the sentiment on the front (click on the photo to see it larger)!  I cut out another bird from the patterned paper and popped it up with foam tape next to the sentiment.

The patterned papers are from My Little Shoebox's Whoo Loves You? collection, the pink ribbon is from Stampin' UP, the piece of yellow ric rac is the last bit from my stash and the buttons and twine are from PTI.  The card is based on this week's sketch from Just Us Girls (JUGS40).  The two layers of ribbon on the front qualifes it for this week's Crazy 4 Challenges (C4C44) challenge to use at least two ribbons.

Enjoy the rest of your week!  Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Easter!

Just a quick post to wish you all a Happy Easter!  I made this card for the JUGS27 sketch challenge and it also qualifies for this week's OCC challenge, which is to use buttons.  These days almost all of my cards qualify for that challenge! 

The cute little chick in the egg is from Penny Black and the sentiment is from Flourishes.  The patterned paper is from Three Bugs in a Rug.  Hope you're enjoying your weekend and having a Happy Easter! 

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Winter Happy Birthday

I made this card for two challenges - the JUGS10 sketch challenge and this week's CAS44 Color Challenge which was to use red, brown and white or cream. Of course, this card isn't exactly Clean and Simple....but at least I got the color part right!

The background paper is from a Christmas paper stack and the brown paper is from Stampin' UP!. I stamped my snowflakes (from Stampin' UP!) and the bird image (from Inkadinkado) on the brown paper with PTI's Vintage Cream ink and then added some Stampendous glittery embossing powder and heat embossed. I added the red dots around the scalloped edges with a red Spica pen for a little more sparkle. The velvet ribbon is from Cosmo Cricket and the striped ribbon is from Stampin' UP!

That's about it! Thanks for looking!