Pretty Scraps and a Cool Sketch Challenge

Well, despite my plans to get oodles of stuff done, a very nasty headache had other plans for me.  I've not been at my craft table or online much for the past three days so now it's time to play catch up.  I have 10 swap cards to make before Wednesday (tomorrow) and 24 swap cards to make before Thursday but I wanted to get a card posted to the current Paper Craft Crew Challenge.  I'm sliding in under the wire with the deadline is just hours away.

For this card, I used up more of my pretty scraps I had laying on my craft table.  Everything but the little banners were already done.  Now how's that for getting a card to come together fast!

Stamp Sets:  Gorgeous Grunge, Painted Petals (sentiment), Lovely Little Labels (retired); Inks:  Hello Honey, Mossy Meadow, Tangelo Twist, Copic Marker YR09 Chinese Orange; Card Stock:  All Abloom Designer Series Paper Stack (butterfly), Painted Blooms Designer Series Paper, Tangelo Twist, Whisper White; Accessories & Tools:  Butterflies Thinlits Dies, Hearts Collection Framelits Dies, Banner Punch, Linen Thread, Stick Strip, Pearl Basic Jewels, SNAIL Adhesive, Glue Dots, Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine

All Stampin' Up!® product unless otherwise noted.

The sketch from Paper Craft Crew Challenges can be found HERE.

Thanks for stopping in at the Coffee Pot Stamping Cafe,

Marsha

A Graphic 45 School House

Since the theme for the card class was about school or Autumn, I thought this little school house was a cute addition to this card.  So many of our friendships began during those school days.  While I didn't spend any time in a one room school, I remember my grandmother and mom talking about it.  The sentiment inside the card reads as follows:

As long as we have memories,

yesterday remains.

As long as we have hope,

tomorrow awaits.

As long as we have friendship,

today is beautiful.

The colors from A Place in Time from Graphic 45 are wonderful and so reminiscent of Fall.  The remind me of the cool, crisp days that will soon be upon us. 

Until next time. . .happy creating!

Framed Friends

Over the past couple of days I've just been a busy little thing.  I've even spent time with family and enjoyed a fish fry on Monday.  Yum!  I love spending time with my sons and their families but they sure do wear me out.  :-)  A very noisy,  happy bunch are we!

I've been working on more projects for my display at the Crafters' Gift Boutique.  I've had this 'friends' frame for some time but just couldn't decide what to do with it.  Once I learned to make flowers, it wasn't hard to figure out.  I didn't need a lot of embellishment for this frame as it had a nice design to it.

The flowers are made from Soft Suede, Bashful Blue, Very Vanilla card stock and the leaves I used are punched from Lucky Limeade card stock using the retiring 5-Petal Punch.  I sponged the Very Vanilla and the Bashful Blue with just a hint of Night of Navy Classic Ink.  A Lucky Limeade Brad from the Sale-A-Bration Everyday Enchantment set but it no longer available.  The flowers add just that little bit of dimension to the frame.

Wisteria Wonder Easter Dove

Here is another of the cards I made the other night.  It was the first time I'd used the new 3/8" Ruffled Ribbon in Wisteria Wonder.  It comes in all the new In Colors.  This is a very simple card and when I was thinking of adding embellishments, I realized that in it's simplicity, it says so much.  The ribbon and the little Jewels Basic Pearl were just right.

Stamp Set:  Easter Dove; Ink:  Wisteria Wonder; Card Stock:  Wisteria Wonder, Whisper White; Accessories & Tools:  Labels Framelits Dies, Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine, 3/8" Wisteria Wonder Ruffled Ribbon, Jewels Basic Pearls, stencil for ribbon

As you can see in the photo, the card front is the window to frame the sentiment.  The sentiment is stamped on a cutout using one of the Labels Collections Framelits Dies.  I think friends and family are going to get this one for their Easter cards this year.

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Until we meet again...