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 Hi and Happy Monday evening peeps!

Our little beach town made it through Tropical Storm Hillary yesterday without much damage. Thankfully. We mostly had a steady rain for about 12 hours. Once the "eye" went through, we had some wind, sometimes pretty gusty, but not too bad. The sun came out for a little while mid morning today, and I headed out for a walk through the neighborhood to the ocean. I saw tons of leaves and branches in the roads, but nothing else. Unfortunately, in our east county and in the Palm Springs area, there was flooding and mud slides. 

Since there wasn't much going on yesterday, I got a few cards made. Today's post has my CAS card for this week's Paper Players challenge. I've used the sketch from CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge. I did rotate the sketch to the landscape orientation for my card.

To go along with this month's CAS challenge, Ann incorporated the theme of "Don't Bug Me." I used one of Gina K Designs' silhouette images for my CAS design that includes some butterflies for my bugs. To make the rectangle I used some Masking Magic and ink blended Soft Stone, Innocent Pink and Peach Bellini inks to form the rectangle. Since Gina's ink is water reactive, I spritzed the blended inks with a little water to give it a muddled background look before stamping the image with black Onyx ink. I used a pre-printed sentiment strip for the sentiment.

For the inside, I stamped an inside sentiment from another GKD stamp set and added a couple of single butterflies from the same set I used on the front of the card.

I'll share more cards from yesterday's stamping session later in the week on my blog. In the meantime, have a good week, and thanks for looking in.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Soaring Mountains and So Many Sentiments sets from Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs Layering Weight White card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Soft Stone, Innocent Pink, Peach Bellini, Black Onyx, Copics

Other: Gina K  Designs Masking Magic Strips, Blending Brushes, Misti