Hello Friend

 TGIF all,

I'm visiting my mom in Northern California for most of the month of June, and per usual, I loaded my car with some crafty supplies to use while here.  This trip, I brought less that I usually do, but I did do a SU Demonstrator pre-oder from the new July-December mini catalog and had it shipped to her house. My goal is to get a head start on my Holiday cards. (Christmas in July, LOL.) I packed card stock and inks to match the new DSPs in the order, so I should be all set. 

For today's card, I used some of the other things that I packed and made a card that works for the current Paper Players, Freshly Made Sketches,  and Color Throwdown challenges.

I love this new Embossing Folder from Gina K Designs. The detail is beautiful and it embosses very deeply. I used it on three panels of card stock, SU Vanilla, SU Parakeet Party, and GKD Kraft. I trimmed the green and kraft at angles and used liquid glue to adhere them onto the Vanilla panel. I trimmed this down and cut a black mat, and glued it all onto a Vanilla card base.

I stamped and die cut the small pears from the GKD One Day at a Time stamp set. The set has an image of small dots, so I used that to add color to the pears instead of coloring them in. For the sentiment strip, I liked it angled rather than straight, so I went with it.

The inside of this card uses more images from the same GKD set, but with a greeting from another. Like on the front, I left the pear uncolored, opting for a stamped image for color, but I did use colored pencils to shade in the leaves and branch.

I hope your weekend is a relaxing and fun one. My sister is driving down from Portland, OR tomorrow to spend the next week with us. I'm really looking forward to that. Later today, I'm going to stir up some chocolate chip and ginger cookie doughs and bake them off tomorrow. 

Speaking of baking, when I got to mom's house on Monday, we went to a nearby strawberry patch and I got a box of very ripe berries and made fresh frozen strawberry jam. On Wednesday, I made a lemon meringue pie using freshly picked lemons from mom's tree. I call it "kitchen" crafting.

I'm happy to report they both turned out pretty yummy!

Thanks for looking in, and have a great Friday,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: One Day At a Time and Succulent Spray sets by Gina K Designs

Paper: GKD Kraft, SU Vanilla, Black, and Parakeet Party card stocks

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, SU Parakeet Party, GKD Kraft, Prismacolor Colored Pencils

Other: Tapestry Embossing Folder by GKD, SU green enamel dots, Big Shot, Misti, SU mini Dimensionals