fresh & fun

That’s what you guys are! I am  floored by all your support. You guys are so sweet always checking out my blog. Well…it’s time to say thank you with Fresh and Fun Freebies!

I am close or over 300,000 hits by now. That is simply amazing! This time I am giving away a  new and unmounted Amazing to Zany along with the only Pick A Petal card I made so far. I tied it together with some extra long gorgeous orange striped May Arts ribbon.

To be able to win this set, please let me know what your favorite card sketch is. Add a link to your post. Check out SCS’s sketch challenge, make your own and upload it somewhere or check other blogs. I can’t wait to see all those sketches.

One post per person please!

The drawing will be open until Sunday, the 17th of June. I will draw a winner then. I won’t be able to send out the set until I am back from vacation!

I had to use my Baroque Motifs stamps one more time. This is the last post with new stamps for a while. I will get to play more once I am back from Germany. But don’t worry. I have a post lined up for every day that I am gone.

I started out with last weeks sketch from the blog: Sketch This.

Since the card sketch didn’t look like a regular size card, I made the card base 4 1/4″ x 10″ and folded it in half. Next I cut a 4″ x 4 3/4″ piece of the gorgeous new designer paper called Brocade Background and frayed the edges with the cutting tool kit from Stampin’ Up!

I stamped the edges of the paper with - you guessed it - the outline Argyle stamp from All in a Row. I can’t help myself. I am totally addicted to this stamp. If I don’t stamp my card with it, it looks nakked somehow. I really like how the frayed paper looks with that stamp. Almost like stitched frayed fabric.

Since I don’t have Purlely Pomegranate Print paper yet, I used the Rose Red paper from the POP pack and sponged it with Purely Pomegranate. Under it is a small layer of a patterned paper from the Brocade Background paper.

The flower is a triple flower. The first layer is the big non flower like image from Baroque Motifs. I stamped it in River Rock on Shimmery white cardstock. Next is the large flower in Purely Pomegranate followed by the small flower in Chocolate chip. The center is a brad from the vintage brad collection. Last I stamped cherish in chocolate chip on the horizontal strip.

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After a very bumpy ride through bad weather we arrived in Germany at 11 a.m. local time, 4 a.m. CST. We all had about three hours of sleep.  But we stayed up until 9 p.m. Then we crashed hard and didn’t wake again until 11 a.m. Wednesday morning. We had a trip planned for after lunch, but my uncle phoned and will come over in a little while.

Hopefully I get some cool shots to share with zou soon.

Got to go. Uncle Rudi just got here. Hugs and smiles