Congrats

Here is a card I made just because, no reason just playing around. I love this color combo and have been wanting to make a card using it. I got the great tan paper a while ago and haven't really used it to much but now watch out, I love it!
Stamps- background by Great Impressions, word and oval by MSE (My Sentiments Exactly)
Ink- white Brilliance, latte and denim Adirondack, VersaMark
Plus- chocolate embossing powder by Stampendous, circle stickers by Stampendous, glitter glue, satin ribbon, scallop scissors

On Sunday my daughter and I went whale watching with our Girl Scout troop. It was only the girls who are working on their Gold Award (it's like the Boy Scout Eagle Award). The weather was great and luckily it didn't rain so we were able to go out to whale watching, go on the tide pool walk and pick up trash on the beach. Boy did we put a lot into our day, we left at 6:30 am and got home at 6:00 pm. Everyone had a great time.
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The picture below is of a World War II fighter ship. The captain of our boat told us to take a picture because we will probably never see another that is sailing, so I did.

Here Melanie and I are while on the tide pool walk.

Isn't this a beautiful picture of the lighthouse! I didn't know it looked so good until I got it on the computer. This was take while sailing out to the ocean.

Time To Break Out The Glossy Paper!

In my stamp room I have tons of glossy paper and decided it was time to use some of it! This is one of the things I just forget to use but the results are beautiful. To make this card yellow ink was lightly brayered over the paper, then a circle punch was used to make a mask out of a post it note and it was placed at the top right of the glossy paper. Yellow ink was then brayered again. Then rust Adirondack ink was sponged starting at the bottom going about a quarter of the way up. Butterscotch Adirondack ink is then sponged to blend the rust into the yellow to give a gradual change of color. The leaves by Great Impressions are stamped twice in the left corner and the words from MSE are then stamped, the ink used is black StazOn. For accents silver square stickers from Stampendous are used.

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Now it's time for me to get ready for lunch with Mom, today we are going to Mimi's Cafe yum yum, one of my favorites! Then tonight is back to school night for Melanie (10th grade), I can't wait to meet her teachers and to see her classes. That must be a goofy Mom thing.

Have a great week and weekend.

Enjoy Life!

This was a fun and easy card to make. I stamped Fluffles on a cream panel and watercolored with pencils and added glitter to the yarn then layered it onto a blue panel (set aside). Stamp the circles on a kraft colored panel that is 1/4" smaller than your blue card with beige ink and stamp the flowers inside the solid lined circles. On a half panel of olive paper, stamp the flowers with white and punch a circle in the right side and stamp the dots over the punched area. Glue to the kraft panel and stamp the sentiment in beige then wrap with blue ribbon. Fold a olive green circle over the top of the panel and attach with a blue brad then glue to the card.
Recipe
Stamps-Circles & flowers stamped in white- Great Impressions, individual flower & Fluffles- Stampendous, sentiment & circle stamped in blue- My Sentiments Exactly
Inks-timber brown StazOn, white & beige Brilliance, denim Adirondack
Paper-misc
Plus- glitter glue, satin ribbon, circle punch, watercolor pencils, blue brad, foam squares

Thanks

I made this horizontal pocket card for the SCS challenge TC141. I used my new clear set from My Sentiments Exactly and the stamp used on the tab (my new punch I got from Michael's) and the dot border are by Stampendous. The inks are Adirondacks in denim and lettuce, I love all of the earth tone shades by Adirondack. I just happened to have decorative paper (The Slab by Provo Craft) that matched my inks, I love it when that happens!
I have a Thank You card class next month and this is one of the cards the ladies will make, hope they like it!