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Hi all! We are sadly back from our spa weekend and had such a wonderful time, we've decided to take some alone time more often! The first card I made following the color challenge on SCS this week hosted by none other than our own Carole Burrage. I HAD to play along, didn't I? It's very straight forward, and I seem to be grabbing Punch a Bunch quite a bit lately since it's the perfect set for *cards in a crunch*...please tell me I'm not the only one in sheer panic trying to finish a card 30 mins before the party starts!!! Right now I only have time for sweet and simple, and the punch sets work so well for that type of card that it's all I've been grabbing! I don't have the SU colors called for, but subbed Memory Box papers that most resembled Orchid Opulance and Sage Shadow and then used Kraft to stamp my main image on using Versamagic and SU White Craft ink. I think that is still my go-to white since I've not found aything else that is quite as opaque. The little trio of cards below I am using during the sample making frenzy next week in MA. This is an event where store owners come to get a hands on look at products offered by the various rep companies and also an opportunity to take classes from the company owners and best learn how to market their products, cool huh? The projects I will be teaching the class on were created by Jen Del Muro and Lauren Meader, both of which were gracious enough to let me create a class based on the projects, and I can't show them to you just yet since they were picked up for publication! Soon though, I hope! The little sample cards were also created using P-a-B. I wanted to create a few different styles just to launch the creativity and then let the store owners take it from there! Hope you will all join us on the 20th for Celebrating MFT day on our SCS forum, it's a way to see the amazing work done with all the new sets each month, hosted by our own Jen Del Muro! And lastly...Carole Burrage and Michelle Giraud are cooking up a very cool newsletter that will go out very soon to all those subscribed on the site! BOLO...

This is my before/after design assignment for Julie's class. The goal was to take a previously made card and re-do it using some of what we've learned to this point. I falied miserably! I SHOULD have stuck with the original design completely and added to that design what it needed instead of declaring a card making mulligan and going completely off course...ah, but such is life...and card making! It's not that I don't like card 2, I just wish I'd stuck more to the original design to see where I could have jazzed it up. But, it is what it is and I don't have timme to re-do it since the hunny and I are off for our first ever w/e away since the youngest was born at the SPA! SERENITY NOW for both of us! I can't wait to tell you all about it, but until Monday morning, I won't be available. Should you need anything, you can email Jen@mftstamps.com or Cammie@mftstamps.com, but I doubt there will be any stamping emergencies. All orders that could be processed have been shipped through this morning and the rest will go out Mon afternoon.

Hugs and a relaxing weekend to all!

Kim

I made this for our neighbors sons first birthday this w/e! How fun! He is SOOOOO cute...kinda makes me want another...SPEW! I am taking Julie Ebersole's Simply Great Card Design course (why aren't you?) and the assignments are really great at helping me hone in on what I'm trying to accomplish with the cards I make. I am one of those simple designers...making an amazing, layered, complex piece of art is just way above me so I am thinking I am going to stop trying to force myself into a style that does not feel right as much as I might want it to be. Familiar to anyone or am I completely alone in this *quest*?? Anyway, this is meant for a one year old birthday for a tiny boy, so I thought a mix of primary and pastel colors might make sense. I cuttlebugged the dino skin using the reptilian folder (don't know what it's really called...) so add texture to an otherwise flat card and also to add a punch of color in the midst of all the pastels. I am especially liking the gingham ribbon and little cupcake! Now that the big rush of CHA is winding down, I am intent on finding a few minutes to create at least once or twice a week. It stinks to have so much cool stuff and no time to play with it...hmmpf.

#2 Donna Baker....come on down! You win the Ride 'Em Cowgirl set!!!! Please email me your addy and I will get it right out!!!!!!