Walk It Off

Hi all,

Sadly, the weekend is basically over and I need to get busy packing for another work trip. I'll be back in Palm Springs to start a new project at a different hospital than where I've been working the past month. Hopefully, the weather is a little cooler, since it's fall.

Since I will be there until Friday afternoon, I wanted to get my Paper Players Challenge card done and posted today. Claire has a CAS Sports challenge this week. I had tons of options and pulled out several stamp sets, but I couldn't resist using one of my favorite Fred Bear sets.

The colors come from this week's Color Throwdown Challenge. The colors this week are red, orange, green, and kraft.

I decided to use my Polychromos colored pencils to color today so I stamped the image on 64lb Neenah Solar white card stock. This lighter weight is a little "rougher" and I think it works well for colored pencils. After stamping Fred and coloring him, I made a mask of him and a negative space circle mask so I could stamp the forrest behind the focal image. The trees are from the Winter Woods SU Holiday set. It is stamped using SU Crumb Cake ink. To anchor the bottom, I used a Lawn Fawn grass die to cut a small section of grass for Fred to hike on. Finally, I used a yellow Zig Real Brush yellow marker to create the sunshine through the forrest.

This card was meant to be a single layer card. Unfortunately, when I stamped the greeting, I totally messed it up and there was no way to fix it. I didn't want to start over from scratch, so I used a circle die and cut it out, hence, the layers. It's still fairly CAS though. The only embellishment is the pine tree corner punch. It's one of the first punches I bought, probably about 25 years ago.

That's all from me until next weekend. I hope you all have a great week.
Thanks for looking in,
Colleen

Supplies
Stamps: Fred Bear Takes A Hike set by My Favorite Things and Winter Woods set by Stampin' Up
Paper: 64lb Neenah Solar white and Desert Storm card stock, SU Garden Green card stock
Ink: Memento tuxedo black and SU Real Red
Other: Spellbinders circle die, Marvy Uchid corner punch, Polychromos colored pencils, Gemini Jr, Misti Stamping Tool

Hello

Hello crafty friends,

I spent yesterday exactly as I said I would, crafting, watching US Open Tennis and some baseball. In the evening we went to our friends for dinner and as per usual, had a great time catching up with them. Jai always cooks a fabulous meal. His theme last night was Hawaiian Luau. Grilled chicken, a take on Chinese cabbage salad with serrano peppers, sticky rice and Mai tais. My own Personal Chef made a yummy shrimp cocktail for apps, and chocolate pie for dessert. Hopefully, I haven't made you too hungry, LOL.

This is one of the cards that I made yesterday. It uses the sketch from this week's  SIP Challenge and the colors from this week's Color Throwdown. I'm not really loving the mixed gingham look. In my mind, I thought it would look super cute, but really, not so much. However, I spent some quality time putting it together and coloring the PI, so I'll send it to someone and they probably won't be so critical.

Aw with many of my cards, there are several companies represented. The stamps, patterned papers, and flower die are from MFT. The stitched scalloped circle and hello die are Lawn Fawn, and the red gingham circle is cut with Spellbinders.

I stamped the PI image on X-Press It Blending card stock and colored her with Copics. I decided to cut the "hello" die again with black paper and use the black for the inserts in the loops of the letters. Just for something different. To complete the card I rounded opposite corners and added some enamel dots.

It's more of the same for me today. The weather is gloomy again, even with a few rain drops this morning. It beats the heat we've been having over the last 4-5 days.

Thanks for stopping by,
Colleen

Supplies
Stamps: Pure Innocence Sunflower Girl by My Favorite Things
Paper: SU Heavy Whisper White, Real Red, Summer Sun, Daffodil Yellow, More Mustard, Gumball Green, Basic Black and X-Press It Blending card stock, MFT Gingham Patterned Papers
Ink: Memento tuxedo black and Copics
Other: Lawn Fawn Stitched Scalloped circle and Hello, Spellbinders circle, Die-Namics Sunflower dies, Fiskars corner rounder punch, enamel dots, the Big Shot, dimensionals

Wishing You a Harvest of Blessings

Hello stampers,

Got home from work early enough to finish some reports that needed to be completed and then I had time to take some pictures of a couple of cards that I made yesterday afternoon. Before I get to those, I want to send prayers and good thoughts to all of the folks in TX and LA that are in the path of Harvey. Boy, are the news pictures of the flooding, especially in Houston, heartbreaking. It's just so amazing how weather events can be so devastating.

As yesterday was Sunday, we have a new Paper Players Challenge. This week, Laurie has a fun sketch for us to use. It seems that I've moved on to Fall themed cards lately and this one is no exception.

I started with the MFT Harvest Mouse set. Using a card base of Heavy Whisper White, I blended orange and gold Distress Oxide inks over the card stock. After it dried I randomly stamped the pumpkins and leaves using Distress Oxide brown and green inks. The lawn and hill was cut with MFT Stitched hill dies from Lawn Fawn Fall plaid patterned paper. The greeting is stamped with the same Distress Oxide brown ink. The mouse image is stamped in Memento tuxedo black and colored with Copics. Since these older MFT sets have dies that are solid, I ended up fussy cutting out the image because I should have used the die on the blank card stock then stamped the image. I forgot! At least it is a small image and not hard to cut out. I popped the mouse up with dimensionals and added some enamel dots.

For the inside, I used a Lawn Fawn Thanksgiving set called Cutie Pie along with one of the pumpkins from the MFT set and more Lawn Fawn plaid paper. I stamped the pumpkin, made a mask then stamped the pie. After all, for Thanksgiving everyone wants pumpkin pie!

Thanks for stopping in,
Colleen

Supplies
Stamps: Harvest Mouse set by My Favorite Things and Cutie Pie set by Lawn Fawn
Paper: SU Heavy and regular Whisper White, X-Press It Blending card stock and Lawn Fawn Fall patterned papers
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Copics, Distress Oxide inks
Other: Die-namics Stitched Hill and Cross-stitched circle dies, enamel dots, the Big Shot, dimensionals

Life Is Meant to Be Enjoyed

Happy Sunday,

I sure hope you are enjoying yours. All is well here.

I've been doing some stamping this morning, as well as a little yesterday afternoon. Of course, my favorite weekend relaxation.

Since it's Sunday, it's time for a new Paper Players challenge, where Claire has a fun summertime theme. Using some fun beach themed patterned papers and a Pure Innocence stamps set, I made this card to fit the theme.

This is a pretty simple card. I used a Concord and 9th die to cut the top layer of patterned paper. The stitched circle is Die-namics and the banner die is Mama Elephant. Taking colors from the papers, I used Copics to color the image. Her swimsuit is paper pieced with the reverse side of the flip flops sheet.

The inside is nice and simple as well.

Have a great Sunday afternoon. I may be back with a second post later this evening. Depends on if I finish my next project.

Thanks for stopping in. It's always appreciated!
Colleen

SuppliesStamps: Fun In the Sun Pure Innocence set by My Favorite Things
Paper: SU Daffodil Delight and X-Press It Blending card stock and I Love Sunshine by Echo Park patterned paper
Ink: Memento tuxedo black and Copics
Other: Select A Size dies by Concord & 9th, Double-stitched Circle Die-namics, banner die from Mama Elephant, the Big Shot, Queen and Co. candy dots, dimensionals

Rainbows (and a unicorn)

Hello and Happy Sunday all,

I hope you're having a great weekend. Yesterday I spent about half a day rearranging some of my stamping room, which lead to doing some rearranging out in the garage. Nothing to involved, however. I made a few more Easter cards using this design that I made a few weeks ago. This time I used colors instead of browns.

For todays post, I've made a birthday card suitable for a little girl using the current CAS(E) this Sketch! layout. The patterned paper was my inspiration for the design.

I cut the "Rainbow" die about five times out of heavy weight card stock and twice out of the patterned paper then glued them all together for a thick sentiment. After gluing it to the card front I use several layers of Wink of Stella to make it glittery. The unicorn is stamped in Memento and colored with Copics then cut with it's die. All in all, another simply put together card and very fast to make.

Here is the inside, even more simple.

I now need to get all of those Easter cards addressed so they can be mailed tomorrow.

Wishing you all a nice Sunday afternoon and evening. Thanks for stopping in,
Colleen


Supplies
Stamps: Winter Unicorn set by Lawn Fawn and Rainbow of Happiness set by MFT
Paper: SU Daffodil Delight and X-Press It Blending card stock and Pink Paislee "Take Me Away" patterned paper
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, SU Watermelon Wonder, Copics
Other: Lawn Fawn Winter Unicorn die, Die-namics Rainbow of Happiness dies, Wink of Stella, enamel shapes, the Big Shot, dimensionals

Hello

Hi again,

I have one more post this afternoon to squeak in a card that I made using this week's Color Throwdown color palette. Amy is hostess this week with some bright colors. Since I'm headed into the snow tomorrow, I thought I'd channel some springtime.

I started with a Strawberry Slush card base that I stamped with the SU Hardwood stamp using the same color ink. The next stamped layer I made using the MFT Mini Hexagon Background stamp that I inked using a brayer and a SU Ombre Black ink pad. (Love the way it turned out!) The PI image is stamped with Memento black and colored with Copics using the challenge colors. The "hello" greeting is SU that I inked with VersaMark and clear embossed. I did two layers to make it look nice and shinny. A few enamel hearts and Wink of Stella over her green gardening boots are added for embellishments.

I'm also playing along with the  Fusion Card Challenge, sketch, and the Less Is More, Ombre challenge.

Thanks for stopping in. I hope you have a fabulous week a head!
Colleen

Supplies
Stamps: Pure Innocence Little Gardner and Mini Hexagon background sets by My Favorite Things, and Hardwood background stamp by Stampin' Up
Paper: SU Strawberry Slush, Basic Black and X-Press It Blending card stocks
Ink: SU Black Ombre ink pad, SU Strawberry Slush, Memento tuxedo black, Copics, VersaMark
Other: SU Hello thinlet die, the Big Shot, SU clear EP, heat tool, enamel hearts, dimensionals

A Jolly Hello

Happy Saturday stampers,

I had a very busy and somewhat stressful work week and I for one am so happy it's the weekend! After doing some morning chores, I decided it was time to relax and do some stamping. Looking through my favorite sketch challenges I noticed that Linda has a fun one over at Freshly Made Sketches this week. Using her sketch and this week's colors from Color Throwdown, I came up with this Holiday card. In addition to these challenges, Merry Monday's challenge this week is to use plaid.

Rudolf and his friend Comet are stamped in Memento tuxedo black and colored with Copics. I used a scrap of water color paper and brushed water and a Zig Marker in Turquoise Green over it to make the panel, then when it was dry I cut out the trees. For the bottom sketch element, I used a piece of Lawn Fawn Winter plaid paper and rounded the corners. These elements are layered onto a piece of SU Pool Party paper embossed with the TE Falling Snow EF. The card base is also SU Pool Party.

The inside of the card uses images from the same set, but the greeting is from MFT Jingle All the Way set.

I'll see you back here tomorrow for another fun Paper Players challenge. You'll love it!

Thanks for looking in today,
Colleen

Supplies
Stamps: Christmas Cuteness and Jingle All the Way sets by My Favorite Things
Paper: SU Pool Party and X-Press It Blending card stock, Lawn Fawn Christmas Plaid patterned paper
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, SU Real Red, Copics, Zig Real Brush Marker
Other: Christmas Cuteness Die-namics, TE Falling Snow EF, Lawn Fawn Forrest Border, Fiskers corner rounder punch, sequin, the Big Shot, dimensionals, Wink of Stella

S'mores Anyone?

Hello,

It's the middle of our Labor Day Holiday weekend here in the U.S., and I've been having a great one. We are away for the weekend visiting friends in the Central Coast wine region of California. This is a great time of year here, although I really can't think of a bad time of year here.

We have a really fun theme challenge this week at the Paper Players. Jaydee is our hostess and she has picked circles as the theme. You can do like me and make a circle card or you can incorporate circles on your card. It's totally up to you and I know we are going to see some fun and clever cards in our gallery this week.

This card kind of came out of nowhere. I had a completely different plan, but when I was looking through my stamp sets to find the one that I had in mind, I came across all of my Fred Bear stamps. Then, this Doodlebug "Happy Camper" 6x6 paper pad happened to be in the front of my box of patterned paper pads. Wa-la, this camping card was born. I guess it's fitting for the last summer holiday weekend.

I did know I wanted to to a round card because I haven't made one in a long, long time. The base and background dies are all Spellbinders as is the top layer of patterned papers. After putting the card together, I stamped Fred and his campfire on X-Press It Blending card stock with Memento tuxedo black and colored them with Copics. I fussy cut them and placed them on the card. I decided it was a little plain so I added the tree, also cut from the patterned paper using Die-namics dies. I added a ton of Wink of Stella to the fire and then the three enamel stars in the sky for embellishment.

I really think it turned out pretty darn cute. Speaking of petty darn cute, don't forget to stop by the rest of the DT's blogs for more cuteness. You can find them here:

The Paper Players Design Team

Claire Broadwater

Jaydee

Joanne James

Laurie Schmidt

LeAnne Pugliese

Nance Leedy 

Sandy Mathis

Linda Callahan

Hannelie Bester

That's all from me today. We are out doing some wine tasting since we are in the heart of wine country. Have a fab Sunday and Monday Holiday tomorrow, if you are in the U.S. to celebrate Labor Day.

Thanks for stopping by,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Fred Bear Goes Camping by My Favorite Things

Paper: SU Crumb Cake and X-Press It Blending card stock, Doodlebug "Happy Camper" patterned papers

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Copics, SU Early Expresso

Other: Spellbinders classic circle and large scalloped circle dies, Die-namics Tree and Leaf dies, the Big Shot, Wink of Stella, enamel stars, dimensionals

Wishing You A Harvest Of Blessings

Happy Hump Day,

I'm excited because I only have one more work day then I have five days off. Whoo-hoo! We are heading to our friend's farm up on the Central Coast. There will be lots of visiting and lots of wine drinking. They may even be harvesting the grapes this weekend too. That's always a fun time (if you're not the one doing the work, that is.)

When I finished work today, I looked to see what the new Freshly Made Sketch looked like for this week. Karen has a fun one and I immediately had an idea of pumpkins. Of course, I had to throw in a Jack-o-lantern too.

I changed mine to a square card as I thought the pumpkins would look good framed with a square.  I stamped the pumpkins, gourd and leaves with Memento tuxedo black and colored them with Copics. I fussy cut them and layered them with dimensionals onto the background that is made using patterned paper and Die-namics stitched hill dies. I had some leaves left over so I colored them in autumn colors and placed them blowing across the sky. I added some very small  enamel dots as embellishments next to the blowing leaves.

I think I'll send this one to my brother.

Have a great rest of your week and thanks for looking in,
Colleen

Supplies
Stamps: Autumn Harvest set by Stampin' Up and Harvest Mouse set by My Favorite Things (sentiment)
Paper: SU Crumb Cake and Apple Cider by Imaginisce pattern papers
Ink: Memento tuxedo Black, Copics, SU Cajun Craze
Other: Die-namics Stitched Hill dies, enamel dots, the Big Shot, dimensionals

Eat the Icing First

Good Morning,

It's Sunday morning and that means it's time for a new Paper Players challenge. Our hostess this week is Sandy with a fun CAS theme challenge. Use something "sweet" on your project.

When I sat down to make my card earlier in the week, I was in the mood to color. What's more fun to color than a PI stamp? This set is called "Hello Cupcake" and is a perfect image for something sweet. Since this is also a CAS challenge, I kept the outside of my card to a single layer. The image is stamped with Memento tuxedo black in the lower left corner and then colored with Copics. I made a mask of the image so I could sponge in the grass and sky.  You know me, I had to do a wee bit of embellishing, so I added a few white enamel dots. Also, to add a little more interest to the image, after coloring her dress, I used my white gel pen to add polka-dots.

Here are the links to the other PP DT blogs. Be sure to stop in for more awesome inspiration and to say hello.

The Paper Players Design Team

Claire Broadwater

Jaydee

Joanne James

Laurie Schmidt

LeAnne Pugliese

                 Nance Leedy - Off this week

Sandy Mathis

Linda Callahan

Hannelie Bester

I'm looking forward to seeing some "sweet" images and projects this week. 

I hope you all have a great week ahead. Thanks for looking in today,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Pure Innocence "Hello Cupcake" set by My Favorite Things

Paper: X-Press It Blending card stock

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Copics, SU Emerald Envy, So Saffron, Pool Party, gel pen

Other: enamel dots, sponge

2 Glasses

Hi and Happy Sunday!

Here in the U.S. it's the middle day of our Memorial Day long weekend, and kind of the official start to our summer. Since it's Sunday, we have a new challenge for you at the Paper Players. This week, Joanne has a fun Tic-Tac-Toe challenge, and I'm looking forward to see what you all create.

This simple card took me about 5 hours! That's because I made three others and they ended up in the recycle bin, then I took a break, LOL. I don't know what was going on with me but three times it was "YIKES! NO!" I was on a mission because I needed to make a birthday card since tomorrow is my "personal chef's" birthday. He loves We love wine, in fact, we are in the Central Coast (California) wine country for our long weekend. I had the idea to make a watercolored background with wine glasses and use this sentiment in some sort of die cut. It wasn't happening! After doing three versions, I pitched them, cleaned off my table, put everything away and had dinner. I came back with a different, simpler approach. Here is the card that I finally ended up with. And, I actually think it looks pretty good and I know Denis will like it.

In case you haven't figured it out, I used the bottom to top diagonal with embossing, die-cut, birthday. The sentiment is heat embossed with gold EP, the banners and background patterned paper are die-cut and as you can see from the picture below of the inside, it's a Birthday card. I've used several different stamp/craft companies to put it all together too.

See more creative goodness when you visit the other DT's blogs. Their links are below.

The Paper Players Design Team

Claire Broadwater

Jaydee

Joanne James

Laurie Schmidt

LeAnne Pugliese

Nance Leedy

Sandy Mathis

Linda Callahan

Hannelie Bester

For those who live in the U. S., Happy Memorial Day. I hope you are spending it with those you love, and taking time to remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice to preserve our freedom.

Thanks for coming by today,
Colleen

Supplies
Stamps: Taylored Expressions Witty Wine Quotes set (outside sentiment), stamps from SU and MFT used on the inside.
Paper: SU Emerald Envy and Very Vanilla card stock, SU Playful Palette DSP Stack (new catty)
Ink: VersaMark, SU Emerald Envy and Sweet Sugarplum
Other: Ranger Gold EP, heat tool, Die-namics Pierced Fishtail Flags and Stitched Rounded Rectangle dies, Doodlebug enamel shapes and dots, TE Wine A Little dies (inside), the Big Shot, dimensionals

You're On the Nice List

Well Happy Monday morning,

I am hitting the highway in a few minutes, but first I wanted to post this card that I made last night after dinner. It was super quick to make and I love how it turned out. The inspiration for this Christmas card comes from this week's CanYouCaseIt? #97 inspiration photo. The layout is the 150th CAS(E) this Sketch.

I used the gold, red and white colors as well as the little red gift as the inspiration. The sentiment is heat embossed with gold EP and the gold ribbons were made with gold Stickles. 

Supplies

Stamps: Jingle All the Way set by My Favorite Things

Paper: SU Brushed Gold and X-Press It Blending card stocks

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Copics, VersaMark

Other: SU Gold EP, heat tool, Gold Stickles, TE red sequin

As always, thanks for looking,

Colleen 

HAPPY

Hello,

After traveling all last week, I am enjoying some stampy time this weekend.

My mom's birthday is next Saturday, so of course I need to get her card made and in the mail. Since I always like to see what Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch has for us on Sundays, I went to the new SSSC blog to check it out. It's a fun one this week where we get to pick a sketch from all the previous sketches. It was a hard choice, but I really wanted to use my new Die-namics Stitched Rectangle Frame dies so I picked sketch #195.

This is not one of those 10 minute cards, LOL. Lots of coloring, paper piecing and die cutting, and boy, was it fun to make! I think mom will love it too.

I used some SU mini glue dots to glue the banner pieces and hair bow over the stamped image. They are just fat enough to give some dimension without being too high. After coloring her shoes with black and gray, I used my Wink Of Stella clear glitter pen to add some shine. I also used it on the white polka dots in the hair bow. After using my R20 Copic to color her cheeks, I used my white Gelly Roll pen to add white freckles.

The inside gingham frame is raised with foam tape to look like a true frame around a picture.

Here is the inside, much simpler.

Supplies
Stamps: Pure Innocence Happy Banner set by My Favorite Things
Paper: SU Pale Plum and XPress-It Blending card stocks and My Mind's Eye Kate and Co patterned papers
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Copics, SU Strawberry Slush, White Gelly Roll pen
Other: Die-namics Rectangle Stitched Frame dies, Wink Of Stella pen, SU small banner punch, Doodlebug brad, the Big Shot, SU mini glue dots, foam tape

Thanks for looking in today,
Colleen

Deck The Halls

Hello,

Here is a card for the current MFTWSC150 challenge.  I love the graphic lines of this sketch and thought that these polka dot and striped papers would suit it well. I used some newish MFT stamps to make another Christmas card.

Supplies
Stamps: Ornament Border Builder and Holiday Subway Art sets by My Favorite Things
Paper: SU Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler and Whisper White card stock and SU Season Of Style DSP
Ink: SU Cherry Cobbler
Other: Die-namics Notebook Edge border die and Fishtail Flags STAX die, classic circle Nesties, SU corner punch, SU paper piercer, Kaiser red rhinestones, the Big Shot and dimensionals

Thanks for looking in,
Colleen

What's Mew?

Happy Monday afternoon all,

Yesterday I made a couple cards using new MFT Pure Innocence sets.  Using Jen's Deconstructed Sketch #117 layout and the Paper Player's color challenge by LeAnne, this is the first card. The challenge is to use Rich Razzleberry, Pool Party and Black. I colored my little kitty with Copics trying to match the Razzleberry and Pool Party colors.

Here is the inside. I kept it very, very simple.

Supplies
Kitty Costume set, Pure Innocence by My Favorite Things
Paper: SU Rich Razzleberry and Pool Party card stock, X-Press It Blending card stock, SU Rich Razzleberry DSP
Ink: memento tuxedo black, SU Rich Razzleberry and Copics
Other: SU black ribbon, Seeing Spots EF, corner rounder punch, Want-2-Scrap black pearl

Thanks for looking in today,
Colleen

Oh, Hello

Hello all,

How is your weekend going? Very nicely, I hope.

I have a card today that I made for the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge. I received my Reverse Confetti stamp order during the week, so I couldn't wait to ink them up. I love the graphic look of this set, Arrows and Elements. I paired it with some patterned papers from Studio Calico that I think goes perfectly.

The "chat bubble" is Die-namics and I used the coordinating stamp from MFT to outline it.

Here's the inside:

Supplies
Stamps: Arrows and Elements by Reverse Confetti and Saw What set from My Favorite Things
Paper: SU Really Rust, Taken With Teal and Whisper White card stock, Studio Calico "Here and There" patterned papers
Ink: SU Blushing Bride, Taken With Teal, Old Olive, and Really Rust ink pads
Other: Die-namics Say What chat bubble die, the Big Shot, and dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Have a great one!
Colleen

You Make My World Happy

Good Monday morning all,

One of the cards I made over the weekend is a thank you card for my bestie, Alison, to thank her for my birthday presents she sent last week. Her presents always arrive in time, never late.

I used this weeks MFTWSC81 sketch, as well as papers and embellishments from the Taylored Expressions July Key Ingredients kit to make the card.

This little cutie is stamped on X-Press It white blending card stock. Here hair, skin and shoes are colored with Copics. I stamped her again on two of the background PPs, cut out the clothes and paper pieced them onto the white image. She was fussy cut and popped up with dimensionals onto the white panel embossed with a SU EF. The green candy dots and red button are part of the KI kit. The flower was punched using the SU Boho Blossom punch and the ends were sponged with ink.

Supplies
Stamps: Being Cute Is What I Do set, Pure Innocence by My Favorite Things
Paper: TE Hillary and Buttercream CS and Tea For Two PP by Cosmo Cricket
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Copics and SU Raspberry Ripple
Other: SU Fans EF, Pearl and Button candy dots, SU Boho Blossom punch, the Big Shot, and dimensionals

Have a fabulous day and thanks,
Colleen

Hello, Friend

Good afternoon all,

I'm spending a lazy Saturday afternoon stamping and watching baseball. (My two absolute favorite things!)

I decided to "Get Sketchy" and play along with the MFTWSC76 layout. I converted the bottom scalloped element to a banner so I could enter this in Linda's Catered Crop "banners and bunting" challenge as well.

Lots and lots of layers here, which I love to do. After stamping the PI girls on the white CS, I colored them with Copics and paper pieced their clothes with the same PP as the backgrounds. Then I sponged SU Bordering Blue ink all over the white areas making the edges a little darker.

After stitching around all of the panels, I used the Fishtail flag Die-namics die for the sentiment element at the top and the Mini Doily circles Die-manics for the banner.

Here is the inside:

Supplies
Stamps: Pure Innocence Being Cute Is What I Do and Freckles sets by My Favorite Things
Paper: SU Bordering Blue and Real Red CS, X-press It Blending CS and Summer Fresh Simple Stories PP
Ink: Memento Tuxedo black, SU Night of Navy and Real Red, and Copics
Other: Die-namics Fishtail Flags, Mini Doily Circles and Large Scalloped border dies, SU real red brad, SU triple heart punch, SU cherry cobbler bakers twine, sewing machine, and dimensionals

I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. Thanks for coming by,
Colleen