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Hi Friends!
I hope you're having a wonderful Thursday!

I've got another fun card for you using this week's Deconstructed Sketch #102!

For my card I've used a stamp from Amuse and paired it with papers from American Crafts.

Thank you so much for popping by! I hope you will check out the fabulous creations of the other Deconstructed Sketch Girls! See you back here next week for Sketch 103!
Sketch Girls:
Judy
Cresta
Joni
Sandra
Dawn
Tobi
Arielle
Donna
Jen
Kadie
Lori
Sheri
Tracey

Congrats

Hi Friends!
Happy Monday!

Well, we have officially reached challenge #200 over at The Pink Elephant!! Can you believe it? Happy 200, TPE!! And this week your challenge is to celebrate the graduate with a GRADUATION CARD!

I made this card over the weekend for my little brother who graduated Bible school. Such an accomplishment for a young man who was working full time, with a family and also driving 3 hours to and from school one a week! We are all so proud of him.
But as I was getting ready to post, it occurred to me, since this has a huge congrats on the front, I thought it also fitting in congratulating TPE for reaching 200 challenges!

The card is very simple as far as supplies go. I just used SU very vanilla and early espresso card stock, three shades of Washi that I picked up at TGF back in the day, Sizzix letter die cuts and a small stamped sentiment from SU.

Thanks for popping by! Be sure to go visit The Pink Elephant Blog to see all the wonderful creations.
Have a wonderful day!

Live Your Bliss

Hello, Friends and happy Friday!

Today is another beautiful Release over at  A Day For Daisies!! And it is another whimsical, gorgeous one!!

Be sure and check out what all the rest of the team has created for you!

Here's a list of all the ladies blogs!
Mila
Danielle
Sherry
Broni
Arielle

Celebrating Moments

Hi Friends!
We've reached Deconstructed Sketch #101 and it's also time for another Duel with the Dueling Darlings!

This month our hostesses (for the DDD) Kelly (for the Divas) and Jeanette (for the Dazzlers), chose a theme to celebrate special moments.

Here is what they had to say: Since May is traditionally the month of celebrating Mother's Day, many anniversaries, upcoming June weddings, Holy Communions and Confirmations, graduations and so much more, we thought we'd take this time to celebrate the moments that mean so much! Our theme this month is: Making Memories, Celebrating Moments!

Kelly provided us with just the yummiest kit! In my opinion you can't go wrong with a Kraftin' Kimmie stamp! This beauty is called Tessa Tassel and she's paired with papers from Carta Bella, button from We R Memory Keepers, ribbon from Offray and graduation hat from EK Success. Thank you, Kelly!

We were also asked to share a past memory or current moment that means much to us. There are so many special moments in my life, but I will go with something recent. Last weekend I got to spend time with my almost 2 year old niece, just she and I. She's getting really good at speaking and it's also quite adorable. Something she always does when you ask her a question is say, "yeah." So I asked her something, she said, "yeah," and then I decided to mimic her with my own, "yeah." And then it was a full on "yeah" fest! It was adorable and so is she! I just can't get enough of that sweet girl. So, that's my special moment for the week!

Hope you all have a great day!
Please be sure to visit my fellow Sketch Girls (on my side bar), as well as the listed Dueling Darlings below.
DIVAS
Kelly
Carol
Barb
LJ
Judy
Kadie (me)
Tami

DAZZLERS
Melina
Debbie
Terry
Paola
April
Darlene
Jeanette

Super Amazing

Hi Friends!
Happy Monday!

It's time for challenge #199 (can you believe it!?!) over at The Pink Elephant and this week it's time to to make a MALE BIRTHDAY CARD. For this challenge you are to make a card with a masculine theme.

For my card I decided to go with a kick booty boy card! I pulled out my old Karate Ian from The Greeting Farm and even paired him with a TGF sentiment too. The papers are from Echo Park--All About Boy and the buttons are Basic Grey.

Thanks for popping by! Be sure to go visit The Pink Elephant Blog to see all the wonderful creations.
Have a wonderful day!

Home is where your Mom is

Hi Friends! Happy Friday!

I'm back with another card for A Day For Daisies! And this week is round 2 of using May's AWESOME club kit!!

It's all about celebrating Moms!!
I know I say this every week, but these are such GORGEOUS images!

Don't forget ADFD also has a LACE-Y CHALLENGE going on right now. All the deets on on the ADFD blog. 

I've also used Deconstructed Sketch 100 for this. There's still time to get in on the prizes and hop!
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It's the Deconstructed Sketch's 2 year anniversary AND 100th sketch! To celebrate we have some special guests joining us as well as two amazing sponsors and we want YOU to join us too! Now here's what you want to know - how can I play too?!?

Commenting:

• There is a prize hidden somewhere out in the 100th sketch blog hop!! One very lucky randomly selected commenter will win a $25.00 gift certificate to Tiddly Inks Stamps!
• So what do you need need to do? Visit all the blogs on the link list below and leave a comment on their Deconstructed Sketch 100th sketch post and cross your fingers!
• The commenting prize deadline is May 15, 2013 at 8 pm CST. We've got TWO things to celebrate so we are celebrating for two weeks!

Make a project:

• There is also a prize saved for one of our sketch participants! One very lucky randomly selected sketch participant will win a $25.00 gift certificate to Taylored Expressions!!
• So what do you need to do for this one? Use sketch 100 to create a project - your project can be a card, layout, Project Life creation - anything, just make sure the sketch is visible. Photograph your creation and upload it to an online gallery or blog and come back here and add a direct link to your project in InLinkz on the Deconstructed Sketch 100 post on Jen's Blog.
• The project deadline is May 15, 2013 at 8 pm CST. Enter as many times as you want with different projects!

Now it's time to hop!

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Celebrating Mothers

Hi Friends!
Happy Monday!

It's time for challenge #198 over at The Pink Elephant and this week it's time to CELEBRATE MOTHERS.

I was staring at my desk over the weekend, thinking about Mother's Day and out from beneath the papers I spied this beautiful A Day For Daisies image that I'd printed out. I just knew this was what I wanted to use for this week's challenge. The mom's dress is paper pieced in papers from My Mind's Eye with background to match. I've done a bit of hand stitching, used a Kaisercraft rub-on for the sentiment and added a Prima flower.

Thanks for popping by! Be sure to go visit The Pink Elephant Blog to see all the wonderful creations.
Have a wonderful day!

Fairy Friday

Hello, Friends and happy Friday!

Today is another beautiful Release over at  A Day For Daisies!! AND a challenge week (which I promptly forgot about--*thumping myself on head*). The challenge this week is to use a little LACE on your card.

This week's release is an adorable and spunky collection of Wild Nymphs!

Be sure and check out what all the rest of the team has created for you!

Here's a list of all the ladies blogs!
Mila
Danielle
Sherry
Broni
Arielle

Deconstructed Sketch 100 Celebration

 

It's the Deconstructed Sketch's 2 year anniversary AND 100th sketch! To celebrate we have some special guests joining us as well as two amazing sponsors and we want YOU to join us too! Now here's what you want to know - how can I play too?!?

Commenting:

• There is a prize hidden somewhere out in the 100th sketch blog hop!! One very lucky randomly selected commenter will win a $25.00 gift certificate to Tiddly Inks Stamps!
• So what do you need need to do? Visit all the blogs on the link list below and leave a comment on their Deconstructed Sketch 100th sketch post and cross your fingers!
• The commenting prize deadline is May 15, 2013 at 8 pm CST. We've got TWO things to celebrate so we are celebrating for two weeks!

Make a project:

• There is also a prize saved for one of our sketch participants! One very lucky randomly selected sketch participant will win a $25.00 gift certificate to Taylored Expressions!!
• So what do you need to do for this one? Use sketch 100 to create a project - your project can be a card, layout, Project Life creation - anything, just make sure the sketch is visible. Photograph your creation and upload it to an online gallery or blog and come back here and add a direct link to your project in InLinkz on the Deconstructed Sketch 100 post on Jen's Blog.
• The project deadline is May 15, 2013 at 8 pm CST. Enter as many times as you want with different projects!

Now it's time to hop!

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Matt 22:37

Hellooooooooooo and HAPPY MAY DAY!

I'm running a bit behind this week, but as promised I have a card for you with combined challenges--The Pink Elephant's WASHI TAPE challenge, as well as, my Crafter's of Faith card for April's FLOWER theme.

Here is what April had to say about her challenge this month:

I spent my childhood being called April Showers or even April Flowers.It would probably be called bullying nowadays, but I seemed to take it all in stride. Because of this moniker, I wanted to highlight a verse which is about Spring. I think this one is apropos!

Leviticus 26:4 - Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Although my verse does not say flowers explicitly, a plant must flowers before it bears fruit. I would love your card this month to show off flower --- stamps, die cuts, crocheted, etc! {If you want, you can add rain, but that isn't a necessity.}

Have fun with this verse and the glorious Spring Season!


For my card I went a little easy on the flowers, I know, but I was trying to think outside the box. I do LOVE flowers and I also LOVE COLORING flowers, but I really wanted my focal point to be on this verse from Matthew that I love so much. I also wanted the WASHI to be prominent, so I used that in lieu of a patterned paper for the background.
The Washi is from Impress, the verse stamp is from Our Daily Bread and the flower is from Kaisercraft.

Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure and visit all of the other beautiful Crafter's of Faith (listed on my side bar) and leave them some love!