Beate's Weekend Sketch #5 and TLC 119

Again I combined two challenges into one card. This time I combined Beate's Weekend Sketch #5 with SCS's Try a New Technique Challenge (TLC 119). I used More Mustard cardstock and the new print palette in So Saffron. I really enjoyed making the origami shirt for this card. Beate's challenge was to make a gate card and I love how that turned out. The only stamping is the sentiment and I stamped that right on to the shirt instead of putting a tie on the shirt. This is the last of the four Father's Day cards that I have to make. I have to say thanks to my SU Demo for reading my blog and giving me more paper to make more cards for last week's challenge. I am still going to do it but instead of more Father's Day cards I am going to do Thank you cards.

Oh I used the tutorial on Cambria's blog to make the shirt.

Lowes Kids Clinic

The kids had a blast at Lowes today. They got to make picture frames for Father's Day. This week they were able to pretty much do it all by themselves.

Beate's Weekend Sketch #4

I had so much fun this afternoon that I decided to play with my stamps once my kids went to sleep. I really liked the sketch used in this challenge from Beate's blog and decided to give it a whirl. My father-in-law loves martinis and I had this awesome paper that I bought to use on a card for him, so this is the Father's Day card I came up with for him. The red part of the olives is actually a red rhinestone. How cool is that?

Make 'n Takes

Well I went to my demo's house today to do a buy, sell, trade with her and some of her customers and she surprised us with 3 make 'n takes when we got there. She is just the coolest. Here are the three cards that we made. Oh, she got the idea for the cards from someone else's blog and threw it all together this morning. Check out her blog for more info, The Stampin' Chick.


The first card is for Dad and can be used for several occasions, including Father's Day. Melissa used the left make n takes from this card to make several new ones, or makeovers as she calls them. This is the only card we made that did not use retiring sets.


The second card used a set from last year's summer mini and at the moment the name escapes me. I love the color combo she chose.



The third card uses the soon to be retiring Best in Cluck and it was my favorite. I have never been a fan of this set but I love how it was used in this card.


Thanks again Melissa for a wonderful afternoon.

My First SCS Challenge Card

I haven't been stamping lately and with Father's Day coming around I needed some help. I decided to check out the daily challenges at SCS and loved the color challenge this week: chocolate chip, cool caribbean, and garden green. All the dads in my life golf so I pulled out the retired Back Nine set and gave the challenge a whirl. I really love how it turned out. I wish out had more chocolate chip paper to make the other 3 cards I need. Oh well, maybe I will try another challenge and come up with something else.