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There's a new challenge up today over at Cookin' Up Creations.  This month's theme is all about Mood Boards. Mood Boards can be used to pull ideas, styles, concepts, textures and most importantly provide a starting point for your inspiration. So my favorite color is teal, so I went looking for a teal Mood Board and came up with this one. I love the soft teal color against a chocolate brown.

In addition to the Mood Board, we have a sketch to work with today. I found this sketch by Laura Whitaker and knew it would be perfect for my layout.

And finally, here is my layout using the Mood Board and sketch.

I really had to dig to find these papers. I had plenty of brown and teal cardstock but hardly any patterned paper in those colors. I was just about to give up and head out to Hobby Lobby when I found a very old 8x8 paper pad from Hot Off The Press. It was from 2006 but it was perfect for my Mood Board!

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Christmas Card for AHSC

We've got another card sketch up over at the Atlantic Hearts Sketches Blog. This week's sketch is a very clean and simple one and would be good for any type of card. Since I'm still working on my Christmas cards, I had to go with the Christmas theme.

Here's my take on the sketch

Here's the sketch

I hope you'll stop by and play along with all of us. All the DT members cards will be revealed on Wednesday along with last weeks winners.

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Sympathy Card

 It's time for the December Card Challenge over at Cookin' Up Creations. We have a new card challenge each month and you may enter as many cards as you like. This month's theme is Anything Goes. I know we're all busy right now so I thought I'd make it easy for you. Sadly I needed a sympathy card for a dear friend.

This card came together quickly and used up lots of my scraps.....even the card base was in my scrap pile. The floral stamps are from MFT and I inked them with black ink, stamped them on a piece of scrap paper and then without reinking them I stamped them on the card to get the dark gray look. I love how it turned out. 

I hope you'll stop by and play along with us!

Sargent Camp

 We've got a new sketch up at Sketches in Thyme today. I just love this sketch and really had fun with it. This is my granddaughter on her first time at camp. I was surprised she actually wanted to go but she did and she loved it. She can't wait to go again!

Here's my take 

Here's the sketch

I first used a wood grain stencil on the background and then added some bundled sage Distress Oxide that I watered down.  I used several different size plates and bowls to trace around for the circles. The trees were die cut from several different papers and I then added some Stone Nuvo Drops. They came out too white so I added some Glimmer Mist to them. 

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Are We Having Fun Yet?

 There's a new challenge up today over at Cookin' Up Creations. This month's theme is all about Moodboards. Each challenge will have a different moodboard to work with.  

Here's the moodboard I chose for my challenge

And since it's Wednesday it is also Gallery Lift Day.

I picked this fun layout by Lolis to lift

And here is my take on the moodboard and the lift

This is a great layout to use up your scraps on and if you're like me, I got to dig into my huge stash of buttons too. 

I hope you'll come join us and did I mention we always have a monthly prize....a $20 gift certificate to the store of your choice.

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Merriest Wishes

 There's a new card sketch up today over at the Atlantic Hearts Sketches Blog. This is a really cute sketch we have for you this week. And since it's Christmas time, I, of course, had to make a Christmas card.

Here's my take on the sketch

Here's the sketch

I hope you'll stop by Atlantic Hearts Sketches and play along with us!

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