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Happy Sunday of a long weekend!  Yesterday was nice here most of the day.  We had a few showers in the afternoon.  Today and tomorrow is going to be hot (high 80's).  I have a wedding to go to today.  I hope the AC is working at the reception. 

Today is the Stempeltraume weekly challenge.  The theme this week is swirls.  I decided to use this stamp by Karen's Doodles.  I thought that the vine fit the theme well.  I then used my swirls from Spellbinders.  You should join us.  Swirls is an easy theme!

The other wonderful challenges this fits are:

Karen's Doodles - Stitching - I stitched around the pieces of DP

Just us Girls - Dry Embossing - Remember the days before the embossing folders?  I love embossing and still have alot of stencils.  I embossed the purple CS.

One Stop - Swirls and Pearls - I love both and have my spellbinders swirls and the pearls all over the place

Sweet Stampin - Pimp your card -Lots of embellishments and bling - I have pearls everywhere on this card and lots of glitter.

Polka Doodles - Sew Sew - I faux stitched around both pieces of DP

Truly Scrumptious - Sketch.  I really liked this sketch when I saw it and thought if I turned it on it's side it would work with this.

Quixotic - Emboss it! I embossed the purple paper using my cuttlebug dot folder

Totally Gorjuss - Wings - I cut out and glittered the wings on the butterfly and did the same for the bee

One Stitch at a Time - Something New.  My new is the DP.  I went to a convention a couple of weeks ago and bought this Melissa Francis paper.  It is beautiful.


Thank you for visiting me.  Thanks to everyone who leaves comments.  They make my day and I love reading them.


Peggy
Supplies:
CS:  SU Orchid Opulance,
DP:  Melissa Frances
STAMPS:  Karens Doodles, Hero Arts
MISC:  Recollection Pearls, SU Glitter, Stickles, Cuttlebug dot embossing folder, Spellbinders Swirls.

3CTC20

Time flies, doesn't it? The 4th of July came up so quickly I never made a card for it. Kerry's challenge is red, white and blue which, of course, made me think of the 4th.

I don't have time to make a new red, white and blue card before Thursday but still wanted to participate. I made this card for a friend of mine that just bought a new house. They were not sure they could pull it off without selling their house which they can't do right now. They were thrilled when it happened because they are downsizing. They will rent it until they can sell their house. First step towards retirement...She isn't a pastel person so I made the card Red, white and blue. I know I'm cheating with the pink in it for the challenge but since it's mostly red, white and blue I figured it still counted.

I colored the side red to make it look like she was painting. I put crystal effects everywhere there was paint. I was stuck on what to do with the floor. I like the beige (I know, another not red, white or blue) because now it is so hard for me not to put something on the bottom of my cards. Remember when everything we did was suspended in air? I'm also having a hard time on the backgrounds now that I am use to seeing clouds. I outlined the girl and the white rectangle in blue to take away some of the white.

I hope everyone has a great week. Thanks for stopping by. I hope you like my card.



CS: SU Real Red, Not quite Navy
DP: SU
STAMPS: Sugar Nellie, Hero Arts
MISC: Prima's, Ribbon, Buttons, Nesties, SU die, Copics

TSSC60

Happy Tuesday everyone! It's a bright sunny day here. Now if it would just get warmer and all the snow would melt.

At first I had problems with Mary Jo's sketch but then I found this image I colored last year with chalk (remember when....) and thought it would work. I like the way it came out. I like all the blue.... I will need to pull out this stamp and color it with my copics. I bet this would be a good image to use.

I hope you enjoy my card! Let me know what you think.

Peggy

SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Bashful Blue, GP White
DP: SU
STAMPS: SU, Hero Arts
Brads: SU
MISC: Prima, CTMH flowers, no name ribbon

TSSC58

Good Morning! I hope everyone is having a good week. Mine is crazy. I am so busy at work, I am having some rooms in my house painted, and I have to go to the dentist in a little while. I had hoped to get this posted last night but seem to be having some problems. I don't know if it is my computer or changes in blogger.

This is the card I made for Mary Jo's sketch challenge. I have been trying to use some stamp sets that haven't seen ink in a while and this one from Outlines is one of them. I have always liked Outlines stamps and have a few of them but since I am not an expert with the exacto knife I don't tend to reach for them first. Since I used circles on my sketch a couple weeks ago I mixed the squares and circles this time.

Well gotta run...too much on my plate today.

Peggy

SUPPLIES:
STAMPS: Outlines, Hero Arts
PAPER: Tempting Turquiose, Pretty in Pink\
DP: Memory Box
Misc: SU brads, CTMH Ribbon, Joann's white dots