TSG19 -- Sketch Challenge

I received one of my wish list stamp sets from There She Goes and decided to participate in their weekly challenge. Although you cannot tell, the flower image I used is layered - I tried to photograph it, but it was frustrating me. I really enjoy how this card came out. I wanted to try this technique because I believe this is how I want to fashion my card holiday cards. Plain and simple!! Although cutting the hole and getting everything lined up wasn't that simple.

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Tuesday Morning Sketches #10

Wow! I just can't believe that 10 weeks have already gone by...at this rate I'll be on holiday break soon! actually I am loving my classroom this year - I only have 1 (one) discipline problem this year compared to the 7 I had last year. I'm definitely more relaxed. Now I can make cards and not feel guilty that I'm not at work till 9 at night.

This week's sketch was simple and fun...check out the TMS blog. Here is my take on the sketch. What was cool was that I ordered the Polka Dot Pie line, Carnival with Pezzy from Pez-a-Doodle, and I sat down yesterday to determine paper colors and emblishments. I was cleaning my space (which then only takes 1 card to mess it all up again) and I was looking through a paper pack I received from my Close To My Heart Consultant - and viola! there was Fleur-de-lis paper in this pack - how could I resist.

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TSG18 - Custom Designer Paper

I recently had a wonderful conversation with Sr. Trendsetters, Angela and Holly from There She Goes and I expressed how much I would love to one day participate in Jessica's blog challenges. They didn't understand why I just didn't do it now. I explained that I was too intimidated. They both encouraged me to give it a try. Well here is my try...it didn't come out the way it was planned in my head, but it's not too bad. I'll keep trying. I can't wait to get my new sets from TSG and the one the was already on back order. Jessica's new set are awesome!!



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Tuesday Morning Sketches

One of these days - I'll post more than for Tuesday Morning Sketches...in other words I will get school under control and will be able to make more cards and such. Oh wait, I think I need to wait for summer break - is that here yet?

I decided to get some images from the companies that are sponsoring my little sister's sketch site - just to see what everyone had the chance at winning. I just absolutely loved the mask from Sassy Studio Designs (I think it's cool she named her company after me - Sassy). I really liked Princess Penelope. It was my first try as digi-stamps. Needless to say I sort of yelled at Melissa because I couldn't get the digi's to work - and of course it was all her fault!!

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Tuesday Morning Sketches

For this week's challenge on Tuesday Morning Sketches the design was our choice, but the color scheme required using the following colors:My card was designed from a Close To My Heart stamp set that I absolutely love, but really didn't know what to use it for. I just love that these stamps didn't require coloring -- school is taking a great deal of my time and since I am such a perfectionist, I didn't have time to color.

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Back to School

Well the summer is quickly coming to an end for me - boo hoo!! I have 2 days left before I have to return to work. Part of returning to work means a new classroom set-up. I love celebrating the children's birthdays. Last year I didn't even put their birthdays up. I'm not making that mistake this year. I spent the day making the 2nd Grade Birthday Calendar. I gleaned the idea from Close to My Heart Stamps. They made the calendar from a 12x12 and made it as family birthdays. I scoured Archiver's papers for the cardboard bottoms and cut, spliced, and taped them together to get a 15x15 template. What's going to be hard is that my class won't be finalized until close to mid-September. I made sure that the student names would easily come off. I also have other stamps that I want to use to put a emblishment that reflects the month, i.e., January - snow, December - holidays!!

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ATCs

I recently joined my neice's ATC swap and was concerned about making the 3.5 x 2.5 card. Course once I got the hang of it I really enjoyed making them. Below are two ATCs that I made for two separate ABC swaps. I think they're really cute!