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Monday Card Sketch 109

Did you notice I had a little number confusion on my sketches the last few weeks?  Probably not - but I am getting it all straight I think!  I got excited about last weeks sketch and wanted to do it before this one is all!

So the sketch for this week is pretty straightforward - use up some of those scraps I know you are hanging onto and just do not want to toss!  If you give the sketch a try be sure to leave your linky!

I had posted last week a blog candy giveaway for any sketch players - the winner was Sue! She did a fresh springy card full of love - you should go back to the last sketch and check it out! !

Today is our first track meet - so this afternoon is gonna be fresh air and cheering!  Go DJ!  I have a TON to do before we leave so I better get to it!

Two Minute Technique - Modified Retiform

This is one of my all time favorite techniques for stamping and scrapping - probably because you can create beautiful backgrounds with just ink, cardstock, post-it notes and a sponge! 

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Like what you see? Click these links to shop my secure TAC website - and don't forget you can get ANYTHING (even a Scor-pal or set of Copic Markers!)  for half price as a hostess with $100 in orders from you and your friends!

Stamps: Cute Curliques, Vintage Backgrounds, Bookoo Blessings stamp sets from The Angel Company
Ink: Noir Palette Ink, Seascape Palette Ink, Landscape Palette Ink
Papers: White Cardstock
Accessories: Sponges, Scor-pal, Scor-bug, Pop Dots, Blue Organza Ribbon

Be sure that if your order totals $30 or more youtake a look at the Purchase with Purchase stamps!

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My video is a little longer than 2 minutes - I just could not wittle it down any further!  :-)

I hope you enjoy it!

  Don't forget to leave a linky for this weeks sketch to be entered into the drawing for my blog candy!

My card for card sketch 110

here is my card - if you give it a try be sure to leave your Linky and link back to here so we can all see.  I have not done a giveaway in a LONG time - and am feeling in a giving mood - so lets do it!  Leave your linky by FRIDAY and I will enter you into a drawing for some goodies from me. So leave your linky so you can be in the drawing!

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Like what you see? Click these links to shop my secure TAC website - and don't forget you can get ANYTHING for half price as a hostess with $100 in orders from you and your friends!

Stamps: Fleur Birdies, Running Stitches, Sinscere Sentiments PWP stamps from The Angel Company
Ink: Noir Palette Ink, Reflection Blue Palette Ink
Papers: White Cardstock, Mia's Cottage cardstock and Catelynn FWIC Pattern Papers
Accessories: Copic Markers, Pop Dots, Sanding Block, Labels 4 Nestabilities,

Be sure that if your order totals $30 or more youtake a look at the Purchase with Purchase stamps!

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I am loving the Catelynn papers this spring!  I p[aired them up again with cardstock from Mia's Cottage Collection and sanded the edges to make them pop a bit more.  I am still learning with the Copic's - Having fun!  Here is a detail shot.

For the sky i scribbled on the lightest blue color and then scribbled over top with the Colorless blender.  I don't know if that is an dofficial technique or not but it is how I like to do my sky!

I almost forgot.....  here is the blog candy just waiting to go out to one lucky Sketch player! 
 

It is a sheet of Catelynn tags, pink ribbon, borad clips and a spring stamp set with a cute bird, tree and tree swingplus some flowers!  Be sure to add your LINKY of a card you used the sketch on to be entered to win by FRIDAY!!

Monday Card Sketch #109 - Blog Candy Alert!

Can you hear that?  It is the silence of kids back to school after spring break....No fighting, no cartoons, just quiet.   Ahhhhh.....

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Time for my Monday sketch - if you give it a try be sure to leave your Linky and link back to here so we can all see.  I have not done a giveaway in a LONG time - and am feeling in a giving mood - so lets do it!  Leave your linky by FRIDAY and I will enter you into a drawing for some goodies from me.  I will post a picture tomorrow of the loot along with my card for the sketch so check back!  And leave your linky!

 

This is gonna be a fun one!  I hope you get a chance to give it a try.  You can leave a linky anytime to any of my sketches - even months and months after I post the sketch.   There is alot of traffic to these sketches for inspiration so leave  your linky!

So spring break is over - and I am so happy to report that I FINALLY got those darn taxes off my to do list.  Now I can start bugging my husband to see if he has finished them yet!  LOL!  I have of course vowed to keep better records this year - and since it is already March I have the first 3 months atleast  taken care of.  Now to maintain that order and organization for the whole year.... UGH!  The best part about having that all done is the difference it made in my studio!  I can actually see the pink cutting mat on my studio table - AND I cleaned it!  I even shot my next TAC-nique video which I will be editing and getting out this week.   FUN stuff I tell ya!

I finally got to play with this week (and last weeks!) card sketch -if you give it a try be sure to leave your Linky and link back to here so we can all see. 

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Like what you see? Click these links to shop my secure TAC website - and don't forget you can get ANYTHING for half price as a hostess with $100 in orders from you and your friends!

Stamps: Great Greetings, Watercolor plants and Vintage backgrounds stamp sets from The Angel Company
Ink: Noir Palette Ink, Toille Pink Palette Ink, Boudoir Blush Palette Ink, Belle Rose Palette Pnk, Charcoal Palette Ink, Cloud White Versamagic Ink
Papers: White Cardstock Bazzill Greys Monochromatic and Black Cardstock
Accessories: Scor-pal, Labels 4 Nestabilities, Sponges, Corner Chomper, Misc. Ribbon  

Be sure that if your order totals $30 or more youtake a look at the Purchase with Purchase stamps!

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I have been drawn to the color grey lately - I just love it mixed with black and other bright colors - in this case pink.   I love the textured lattice background I created with the scor-pal and white ink pad.  I could not resist adding ribbon!  :-)  I am just glad to have finally had a chance to do this sketch!

Let's try sketch 108 again!

I don't know what it was last week - but I did NOT want to do my card for the sketch!  I think I was waiting to get my COPIC Markers!  LOL!  Anywho - I thought we could have a re-run from last week!  :-)

Monday Happy Monday!  :-)

Time for the weekly Card Sketch - if you give it a try be sure to leave your Linky and link back to here so we can all see. 

I am looking forward to playing with this sketch - I might change the shape from an oval - I dunno!  One thing I do know is it is going to be a spring card for sure!   (and I am going to use my Copic's!)

Time to crack down and get some stuff DONE!  first things first - my piles of receipts for my taxes!  UGH!  I wanted to have it done over the weekend, so today is the day!  I just have a couple things I have to do first....  (which is how it always starts!)

I read a quote yesterday and I just HAD to write it down.  I do not know who said it or even how to find out.  I read it on a scrapbooking blog - Donna Downey maybe?  It was...

"In a world of possibilites imagine yourself as one of them"

I got a major craving yesterday to get out my paint and start painting again.  I know I will be painting for VBS soon but that is not the kind of painting I am talking about!  :-)  I think I will start with a big one for my living room - so I can FINALLY get the wolves off my walls.  Uh ya - my hubby's man cave decor still resides in our living room on the major wall space.  Why have I let it stay there all these years?  I dunno - but i think the only way I will get them down is if I do my own painting for the space.  I have had conversations with my hubby before aboiut taking them down and I am not getting the sense that it will be easy for him to part with them.  Atleast it is not a stinky stained recliner right? 

Seriously though - I have to get these receipts off my desk - so I better get to it!

Monday Card Sketch #108

Monday Happy Monday!  :-)

Time for the weekly Card Sketch - if you give it a try be sure to leave your Linky and link back to here so we can all see. 

I am looking forward to playing with this sketch - I might change the shape from an oval - I dunno!  One thing I do know is it is going to be a spring card for sure!  

It is going to be such a specTACular week!  First we are staring VBS planning this morning - and I get to head up the decorating committee (my permanent position I think!)  Which means colaborating with another church and painting a big backdrop - LOVE IT!  I cannot wait to see what we can do this year.  Tonight my son is playing at Kansas State university with the KSU band - only one school gets to do it every year and they are so lucky to have been chosen this year! 

Then thursday night - Bon Jovi!!!  It is so silly but I am so excited - for my 16th birthday my mom got me tickets to my very first concert - and now 23 years later I get to go see him again this time with my hubby and brother and sister in laws!  It is going to be so much fun!  The best part is that the kids do not have school on friday so it will not matter if DJ does not get them to bed on time!  Friday is the start of their Spring Break - so we will have a week and some days home (and their rooms are already clean!)

Friday is my actual birthday and I will be celebrating at my monthly Wamego crop!   Every second Friday we meet at the Wamego Middle School for a creative escape - hopefully I am not too tired for the night before to hang with my peeps. 

I got some birthday money early from my in laws - and I am going to get my first set of Copic Markers as a half price item!  Whoo Hoo!  Nice huh!  I have resisted and restrained myself from spending that much moolah on another coloring medium - but as a gift it is ok right??  :-)  I would love to treat you to the same - all you have to do is be a hostess and you can get your own set for half price too!

Check out all the great specials for March - don't forget More Mimi is buy one get one FREE!

Two Minute Technique - Perfectly Pierced Circles

Got another Two Minute Technique for you!  Love the look of Paper Piercing and want to get a perfect circle?  Here is a cheap and easy way!

I used that Technique on this card

 
Hope you have a fantastical weekend! 

Card for Card sketch #107

Well if you get a chance to give the sketch a try be sure to add your linky info so we can all see - and link back here too!

Here is my card:

 

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Like what you see? Click these links to shop my secure TAC website - and don't forget you can get ANYTHING for half price as a hostess with $100 in orders from you and your friends!
Stamps: Joy of Easter stamp set from The Angel Company
Ink: Burnt Umber Palette Ink Noir Palette Ink
Papers:White CardstockKraft Cardstock,Mimi Cardstock,More Mimi Pattern paper
Accessories:Labels 1 Nesties,Pastel Chalks,Dove Blender,Grey Tombow Marker,Pop Dots, Embossing folder
Be sure that if your order totals $30 or more youtake a look at the Purchase with Purchase stamps!

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I  just love this new MRO set - Joy of Easter! I have just been loving all her new images in our Spring Serendipity - they are all so fun to color.  For this one I went back to those same Pastel Chalks and my dove blender.  I also outlined the image with my grey tombow for added depth.

 

In fact I am thinking this just might be the start of my March Oz-some Card Kit!  With the Buy One Get One FREE on the More Mimi - I just cannot resist including it in the kit this month!   What a great deal! 

Monday Card Sketch 107

I got a new set of Nestabilities - Labels #1 - a few weeks ago and I have been looking forward to using them on a sketch.  They add such an interest just with shape alone.   And did you know you can get them from The Angel Company at Half Price as a hostess?  Well if you get a chance to give the sketch a try be sure to add your linky info so we can all see - and link back here too!

I have a BUSY day with a kid sick at home and one with an afternoon Doctor's appointment!  Should be interesting.  Plus my to do list is HUGE!  Isn't it always on Monday?

Today is the last day for Stamp Spree orders to be placed!   That also means the last day to get my Half Price Copic Special!

Copic Marker Half price special:
Black memento pad and refill
Brown Memento pad and refill
Colorless Blender
Premium White Cardstock - 25 sheets
$33.95

You choose which set of 36 Copic Markers you want for just $87.98!  That is less than $2.50 per marker!  I will also include one of our hostess level A stamp sets for FREE!

TOTAL: $150 (includes shipping to you and tax)

Here is the information on the colors included in each set - just let me know which set you want:

 

 

 

 

It is also the first day for the March Stamp of the Month and Vintage set!