A clean and simple card

Okay, so I don't know what to do with myself....the two older boys are at soccer camp, and Sam went to Nona's (grandma) for the morning. Wow. A summer morning with no kiddos....and what have I been doing? Messin' around on the computer!

Here's a card I made the other day, using the sketch/template from Clean & Simple....Fall To Layout #54, I think it was. Anyway, these are my new favorite colors together. Bermuda Bay, Old Olive, and Basic Gray. Love 'em! And, if ya can't tell, this flower has been a favorite of late as well!

It's Dylan's 6th Birthday today, and we're going out to lunch after I pick them up from soccer. And tonight we are going to the Mariners game. Super fun! I'm glad Dylan picks fun places to go for his birthday! The kids are going to make a rally fries poster this afternoon, in hopes that they will get picked for the rally fries give away in the seventh inning. For those of you who don't know, it's become this crazy tradition in Mariners Baseball, people make crazy signs, and the broadcasters pick their favorite and bring those people french fries in the 7th Inning. It's fun for the kids! Wish us luck~!

A very simple Sunday Sketch

Wow. I don't know what got into me. I wanted to see how simple of a card I could make using Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch. And here ya have it. And simple it is. Perhaps it's too simple, or it just needs a different image in place of the butterfly. I don't know. Maybe something a bit larger.....perhaps if a get a minute in the near future, I'll try it with something a little different....see how it turns out!

The Goods:

Paper: Basic Gray textured cs, Whisper White, both SU.

Inks: Basic Gray, Bermuda Bay, Both SU.

Stamps: Butterfly: Stampendous; Sentiment: Inkadinkado.

Extras: Old Olive Grosgrain Ribbon, SU, Corner rounder punch.

A Simply Sublime Sketchy Thursday, and a bit of eye candy!

This is my second post for the day....so scroll down if you'd like to see my entry for Dawn's Color Challenge! Okay...I'm finally playing catch up from being so 'out of it' yesterday! Here is the card I did for Tracy's Sketchy Thursday! This was a super fun sketch...but then, I think all the sketches she's done are fab!

Someone gave me a card a few years ago using these colors.....and I've loved 'em together ever since! And it gave me a chance to pull out one of my OLD In-Colors....it was a bit tricky trying to find the scrap of matching cardstock, mind you!

The Goods:

Paper: Whisper White, Real Red, Tempting Turquoise, Marigold Morning

Inks: Basic Black, Real Red, Marigold Morning, Tempting Turquoise

Stamps: A Muse: image and sentiment

Extras: Hemp twine, SU Buttons, Sponges, Blender Pens, Copics

Oh, yeah....and I was dorkin' around on the computer earlier and found this little beauty.....Tracy, I know you'll enjoy this....hope everyone else will too! I can't wait until November! Am I worse than a 14 year old girl, or what? LOL!

Raspberry Suite #14

Hey all! I'm gonna keep it short today.....I came home from dropping 2 of the boys off at soccer camp this morning, and saw that Dawn put out another challenge! And we all know I can't resist a color challenge! I would have NEVER picked these colors to use together, but I love 'em! That's what I love about these color challenges!

Anyway, here's my take on the challenge:

Here are a few pics of the Gorge, where we saw PHISH Saturday night. This is the best venue in the entire country to see a show (and I've seen concerts in a bunch of states), and I'm blessed that it is so close....you know, within a few hours. So if you ever get a chance to see a show at THE GORGE......take the opportunity. The river you see is the Columbia.

We decided to drive back after the show, and got home at about 3:30 in the morning. I was dead to the world yesterday.......but I'm sorta functioning today....hopefully tomorrow will be even better! Happy Monday!

A birthday card and a BIG Thank You!

Just wanted to post something, but don't have much time....we're leavin' in less than an hour to go drop the boys off with Grandma and Grandpa and then we are off to the other side of the mountains to see a concert.

This is another one of those 4.25 square cards.....are y'all sick of them yet?

Lastly, I have to give a big THANK YOU to Winter Sims...she is such a sweet gal, and mentioned my blog in one of her blog awards that she gave out over on her blog, Winter Wonderland! She is super talented and has a great blog! Check her out!

Hopefully I will get a chance to craft tomorrow, if I'm not too tired, before the kiddos get back from their sleepover! Wow....time by myself....what's that?

Some simple thank you's

Here are a couple of mock ups of Thank You's that I am doing for one of my cousins for her wedding. Her colors are cream and Navy, and she wants things really simple! We're debating on the use of the honey bee.....it may make an appearance on the save the dates, and ivites too!

Hopefully I'll be back with some more to share later today....that is, if the boys cooperate....I kinda feel like I should just take a break and play games and read with them this afternoon!

A squeeze of lime.....and a problem.

Here's another one of those 4.25 square cards that I have been all about lately. I can't remember where I saw someone use this stamp, which I have always used as an orange, as a lime. Anyway, I tried it out, and I think it works!

Okay, so here's the problem. I totally have an addiction. With patterned paper. I know I've talked about it before, but I think it's really getting out of hand. I used to have it all in a couple of those plastic 12 x 12 upright storage things that SU sells....but then those filled up, and I had maybe a couple dozen sheets, so I stuck them in my other cabinet. Today I decided to go through all the paper, and I opened my cabinet, and I swear a third of the width of the cabinet was taken up by patterned paper! Oh dear! There is too much! And some of it, I don't even like! How did that happen? I think I need a support group or a 12 step program......because all of this paper is insanity!

The funny thing is, the paper that I don't like, the pattern of the back of the paper, is those school lines with the dotted line in the middle, you know, the stuff that kiddos use when they are learning how to write? So I'm going to use if for Dylan, as I am having him write 3 sentences each day to practice for first grade. Love it when I can find another use for something.

Well, that's all for now, hope everyone is havin' a great Wednesday!