Making Spirits Bright

 There's a new card sketch up at Atlantic Hearts Sketches today. We have a new one ever Monday and on Wednesday we announce the previous week's winners and reveal the DT members cards. 

Here's my card

Here's the sketch

I decide to make another Christmas card. I used papers from a Recollections Red and White Christmas paper pad I've had for a couple of years.

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Live, Laugh, Love

 There's a new sketch up at Sketches in Thyme today. This week's sketch is by Brenda Ragsdale. I hope you'll check it out and play along with us. 

Here's my layout

Here's the sketch

I dug through my collections and finally pulled out one from Fancy Pants from 2014 called True Friend. There wasn't much left of the collection but there was just enough for this sketch. The Live, Laugh, Love is from Me & My Big Ideas Pocket Pages Cards. The shine button is from Creative Embellishments and the tags are from Kaiser Kraft's Seaside Collection.

The photos aren't that great but I love the big smiles on my granddaughter's face.

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Joy to the World

 We've got a new card sketch challenge up at Atlantic Hearts Sketches today. We have a new sketch every Monday and on Wednesday we announce the previous week's winners and reveal the DT members cards.

Here's the sketch

When I saw this sketch I thought it would be perfect for a Christmas card. I started by cutting the snowflakes out with my Cricut and then sprayed them with some blue and white glimmer mist. Then I embossed some white cardstock with a snowfall embossing folder and brushed on some Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide. The banner is a die cut from Lawn Fawn called Bannertastic and the sentiment is from Pink and Main.

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Sunset

I've got a new challenge up over at Cookin' Up Creations today. This month's theme is Careers. Each challenge will focus on a different career. For my career, I chose Astronomer, someone who studies planets, starts and other celestial bodies. My example shows a sunset at Topsail Beach, NC.

I started with a white background and sprayed some blue and copper mists around and used a chicken wire stencil also. I stamped some beach grasses too. The papers were from my scrap pile and I pulled out some cork paper for the triangles and flags. Then I just added some beachy embellishments and some coconut shell buttons.

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Christmas Card

 There's a new card sketch up at Atlantic Hearts Sketches today. Every Monday we have a new sketch and on Wednesday we announce the previous winners and reveal all the DT members cards.

I decided to start on my Christmas cards with this sketch.

Here's the sketch

I had such a hard time getting a good picture of the card. The sentiment is cut from a smooth, shiny glitter paper using an Impression Obsession die. All the papers came from a DCWV stack called Cranberry Christmas.

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Birthday Calories

 We've got a new card sketch up at Atlantic Hearts Sketches. We have a new one every Monday and on Wednesday we announce the previous week's winners and reveal all the DT Members cards.

Here's my card

Here's the sketch

Isn't this a cute sketch! I really had fun with this card and it came together so quickly. The stitched scalloped rectangle die is from Lawn Fawn and the ice cream goodies are stickers that I've had forever. The stamp is from Stampendous....I use it a lot on my birthday cards.

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Fenway Park

 There's a new sketch up today at Sketches in Thyme. This week's sketch is by Shawn Lahr. I hope you'll come play along with us!

Here's my take on it

Here's the sketch

When I first saw the sketch I was a bit overwhelmed, it seemed like a lot going on, but once I started breaking it down it began to take shape. It's always been hard for me to scrap more than 2 photos on a page but once I found 3 photos that worked together, the rest just fell in place. All the paper came from my scrap pile and I still had some softball stickers left over from other lo's. The title and the softball along the bottom were all cut with my Cricut. 

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Happy

 There's a new challenge up today at Cookin' Up Creations. This month's theme is He Said, She Said and all challenges will be based on a quote or saying. This should be a lot of fun! I hope you'll come join us!

I chose a quote by Leo Tolstoy. "If you want to be happy, Be". I love that quote and when I saw this photo of my stepdaughter and granddaughter that was the first thing that came to mind. They both just look so happy. Of course they are in their favorite place....Disney World. 

I started with a white background and added some Distress Oxides mixed with water and then scrunched the ink on the paper. All the layered papers are from a DCWV paper pad called Pocket Blossoms. I don't know where the tiny hearts, flowers and feather stickers are from...I won them in a challenge. The large happy puffy title is from Thickers, genius collection.

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Merry & Bright

 There's a new card sketch up at Atlantic Hearts Sketches today. We have a new one every Monday and on Wednesday we announce the previous week's winners and reveal the DT Members examples. I hope you'll come play along with us! 

Here's the sketch

Such a versatile sketch. I decided to start on my Christmas cards with this one. The papers and the sentiment are from a cute 6x6 paper pad from Recollections called Red & White Christmas. The star ornament is a die cut from Jeanine's Art and I used some silver foil paper to cut it out.

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Smoky Mountains

  I've got a new challenge up at Cookin' Up Creations today. Our theme this month is America the Beautiful and you can interpret that in so many ways. It can be something in nature that you think is beautiful or even a beautiful person. It can be a candid moment you caught on film. Just something that you think makes America beautiful. 

These photos were taken on our vacation in the Smoky Mountains. I couldn't believe it when I saw what looks like smoke coming out of the vallleys. It was beautiful! Now I understand why they are called the Smoky Mountains.

I kept this simple so you could focus on the photos. The title is a laser die cut that I bought at a huge scrapbook store I found in the Smoky Mountain area. I typed up the journaling and then cut it into strips. Easy and quick layout!

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