fresh & fun

Hmm….did I say this week yet, that I love Amy Westerman’s blog? Today is her scrap challenge. Use scrap paper to make a card.  She threw the gauntlet down when she told me to check out the square card she made. It’s gorgeous, like all her work. I had to make a quick one myself.

That striped paper strip had been laying on my table for like a week. I don’t know why…it’s double sided paper, so I probably used the other side of it for something. After checking Amy’s card I knew I wanted to use that strip up (one way of cleaning up the table). I pulled out my file with paper strips, picked the other two patterned paper pieces and layered them on top of  a 4 3/4″ Chocolate chip cardstock square.

I had to make a square card, since I just posted how much I like them. LOL The card base is 5 1/4″ pumpkin Pie cardstock. I did DTP with the Pumpkin Pie pad to make it look a bit shabby.

I don’t know what posessed me to pull my Cool Cat out. I haven’t stamped her in ages. I still like her though.  The greeting is from Happy Everything. I love that saying set.

Oh…I almost forgot to mention that I used my new stickles!!! Green on the eyes of the cat and clear on her collar! Got to use my new STUFF. I love new STUFF!

I will go and try to convert some of the birthday cards back to blank cards now. Thank you so much for all those wonderful greetings. I can’t even express how wonderful I feel being showered with cards like that.

I am simply floored how fast the numbers rise! It’s time for more Fresh and Fun Freebies!

These freebies contain:

• assortment of Prima Flowers
• assortment of May Arts Ribbon
• one 6×6 sheet of each Stampin’ Up! designer paper in the Spring mini catalog
• unmounted Reason to Smile hostess set

Please only one entry per person! I will pick a name tomorrow at 3 p.m. CST.

This time please let me know if you have a favorite card type, e.g. slider, trifold, square card….

I have to say that I love square cards a lot. But then I also love unique folds like the triangle or Cami’s trifold, the joy fold etc.

Dawn Griffith is a fellow SCS member, a guest tutorial writer for SCS as well as a sweet blogging friend of mine. Her husband recently went to Iraq for a year. After receiving so many birthday cards I was wondering if I should send them to the troops. Then I saw that Dawn is organizing something like that. So that’s where I will send all your gorgeous birthday cards to, after I changed them back into blank cards.

Let me know if you rather not have your card being recycled.

If you have swap cards that could be recycled or you have extra cards laying around, consider sending them to Dawn so they can brighten someone else’s day!

Here are my birthday cards from yesterday! My headache is better, but not gone. Yesterday was nasty though. It’s not just the headache with Migraines. It’s the upset stomach, light and smell sensitivity and dare I say it….(diarrhea). At least it slims you down, right?

This gorgeous Roses in Winter card came fromAngela Robledo. Check out all those white accents on everything. That must have taken quite some time and like 1/2 a white gel pen. It’s beautiful!

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