Home Sweet Home

Catered Crop is sponsoring a "house and home" challenge this week.

Since Spring has officially arrived, the birds are singing every morning so my 'home is for the birds' Ha Ha Ha

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Masculine Sketch

This Card was chosen as the A+ Winner at "Seize the Sketch"

Lesley has designed a great sketch for the Seize the Sketch challenge this week. Welcome to the new members of the DT, all the newbies have well known names and faces in the blogosphere. Looking forward to seeing their wonderful and inspirational cards.  This card uses the lovely color palette from the ColourQ  challenge.

The stamps are from Flourishes, the stencil from MFT and the embossing folder is Stampin Up. The compass was fussy cut from the map stamp. I rotated the sketch to accommodate this masculine themed card.

The color combo:

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Sew Nice of You to Visit

This week the Virginia's View Challenge is to create something with stitching. When you have some clothing that needs to be stitched it is hard to justify stitching on paper when there are clothes to sew. But....sewing on paper is definitely more creative. lol

Real and faux stitching were used on this card. Wish I could 'faux' stitch the clothes that are in need of repair! lol

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Thank You Flowers

I am really enjoying these one layer cards. There was a time when I would cringe at the thoughts of making a card with only one layer.....but not now!! I think this type of card is a REALLY difficult challenge bit if it was easy it wouldn't be called a challenge! The Less is More challenge is to create a one layer 'Thank You' card and the One Layer Simplicity challenge for May is all about 'Flowers'. I combined the two.

I really love tulips but I wish they would last longer.

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Daisy Sketch

 I am loving all the great colorful spring flowers so I decided to use some for this weeks challenge at CAS(E) this Sketch.

This is the sketch;

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Shades of Purple

The challenge at Less is More this week is to create a card using 'three shades' of one color or three colors.

A fun CAS card to create. The three tiny purple heart shaped rhinestones are from a 'fingernail set' that I purchased at the Dollar Store. It contained many tiny different colored rhinestones and a tiny bottle of clear nail polish.

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Hello Spring

Well according to the calendar it is 'Spring' and has been here for about 3 weeks....someone forgot to tell Mother Nature....it is overcast, rainy and a mere 40 degrees!  In order to bring a little 'spring' to my Butterfly Garden, I decided to make a card using both the Colour Q Challenge and the Retro Sketch Challenge for inspiration.

The Colour Q Challenge:

The Retro Sketch Challenge:

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Happiness is....

What makes you smile?     Warm tropical breezes, blue skies, sandy beaches, and the sounds of the surf rolling onto the shore....now that makes me smile! The challenge at Less is More this week is to create a card that makes you 'smile'  :-).

After this brutal winter, not only does this card make me smile but it also makes me feel relaxed and WARM :-)

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Me and My Shadow #2

Well this is my second card for the shadow stamping challenge at Less is More. Never mind reading the fine print....I apparently can't read the large print!!!! lol     My card was disqualified because it was two layers. So here is my ONE LAYER CARD.

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Stencil #2

This week I decided to try another stencil technique for Virginia's View Challenge.

Colors were applied using dye inks on pieces of cut 'n dry. Patience and practice are the key words when trying to use multiple colors on a stencil. lol

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