It was a long weekend of entertaining. On Friday, we hosted 6 for dinner - pizza on the grill - it was YUMMY!
Oh, and wine...lots of wine. On Saturday - the neighborhood block party was held at our house - that meant about 20 people - but everyone brought food and drinks over.
Oh, and wine...lots of wine. And, on Sunday - we hosted 8 for Tango's visit.
Thankfully, no wine!!! After all that "hosting" (IE: drinking and eating) - the cardmaking mojo was a bit off.
This is the card I made for
Clean and Simple FTL96:
The sketch was really great - and 'should' of been quite easy but I couldn't decide what stamps I wanted to use, so I hemmed and hawed over it - finally grabbing some of these Autumn Leaves stamps. I embossed the sentiment in silver to match the silver cardstock layer. I don't know...guess it's OK - but not one of those cards I'm really proud of. I think I have to go back and attempt this sketch again! (Definitely when there's not sooooo much leftover wine in the system!!)
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(I'm adding to my post before it publishes!!!)
So, I wrote the post above on Monday morning.......now I'm adding this card to the post on Tuesday night!
I've been crafting away - and I wanted to get this card blogged in order to enter it in the sketch challenge!
I signed up for the
Card Patterns Blog after seeing
Cheryl at She Stamps contribution. I'm always looking for new sketch blogs!
This card is for Sketch#70
Here's my card:
I used the All About You set from Papertrey Ink - I think I will get a lot of use out of this set!!! I'm most excited because I finally have some flower stems!! Of all my stamps, I never had flower stems! Yippeee!
The patterned paper is from American Crafts - which I adore as well!
Now for my brown scallop background - that was the most work! Since I don't have anything like that in my craft arsenal - I had to cut 6 scallop squares with my Marvy punch and then layer them on top of each other to create the rectangle. (I had my thinking cap on today, huh??) I added some ribbon and the card was complete!
Thanks for visiting!!
Maria
6 comments:
Hmmmm.... I'm noticing a theme. Sounds like you had a great week end.
I love both cards, but especially the 2nd one. The colors are marvelous. You certainly did have your thinking cap on! I think I might have to get that set. I love the polka-dot "YOU" and how you used the floral stems. I think your mojo was working just fine.
Thank you for jumping in on the sketch challenge. :)
Have a great day!
Very beautiful cards. I like the color combo.
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I wish you very nice day!
Both are great but I really, really like the second card! So pretty. And now I'm off to check out that blog...........
Sounds like yall have a fabulous weekend! I've never heard of pizza on the grill!!!!!
Glad you finally got all the wine out of your system! HA!!!
Lynn
Both cards are lovely. The second is my favorite, bkutk they're both great!
I love both card.
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