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I made this scrapbook page with last week’s sketch.

I took these pictures two years ago when I first got my camera.

The boys still didn’t mind to get short hair cuts and they looked sooo much younger. I love those shots.

This page has the most brads I have ever put on a scrapbook page. LOL

The scrapbook page is 12″ x 12″ piece of Bordering Blue. The strip on the left side is Going Gray and Basic Gray cardstock.

The going gray cardstock was stamped with Tres Bien Background and Basic Gray ink.

The medaillon stamp and the star stamp are from Wanted.

Our boys was stamped with Collage Alpha, the other words with Simply Serif Alpha.

Michelle Petermann sent me this fun card with her favorite penguin from Inky Antics.

Check out her gallery on SCS.

Her screen name is Milwaukeemommy.

Say WHAT? Oh my goodness….maybe my ticker is broken? I can’t believe I hit 700,000!!!!

Help me celebrate this milestone!!!

Add a comment to this post to be eligible for the freebies.

One comment per person.

Please add your entry number to your comment!

I will draw the lucky winner on Monday at 9:00 a.m. CST with the help from Random.org.

The winner will receive:

• One unmounted Headline Alpha stamp set
• Ribbon from the retired Prep School Ribbon originals (about 2 yards each)

I made this card first, before I came up with the second one for the tutorial.

I made the sample for the tutorial and the tutorial while waiting for Austin and Rick to come back from the hospital. I just noticed that on the sample card, the tab is on the wrong side. I was freaking out a bit until I saw that I did it right for the card I made while taking pictures for the tutorial. Thank goodness. I thought I just all showed you the wrong way.

For this one I started out with a 5 1/2″ x 7 1/4″ piece of sponged Chocolate Chip cardstock.

I tend to sponge everything lately. I makes the colors deeper and richer. I just like that look!

The inside of the back was lined with a cut down 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of sponged Always Artichoke.

On the front I added a 1/4″ smaller piece of Dashing Designer paper.

I used the All in a Row Argyle to Faux Stitch all around both inside and out.

The flower is and the Thank you are both from the In the Spotlight hostess set.

My insert measures 3 1/2″ x 4″ and has three layers.

Sorry my description is rather short.

I have been spending all day with Austin.

He was in a lot of pain, but he was awake all day and the swelling of his face was gone. Thank you all for the well wishes. I really appreciate those.

He just went to bed and I am pooped. I did want to get this post ready for tomorrow morning though.

I really love how this card came out. I like the Fun& Fast notes card too, but I LOVE darker, rich colors I used for this one.

Emily Anderson sent me this beautiful card.

Check out her blog 3 peas {in a pod} designs.

Thanks so much, Emily. It is beautiful!!!

This week I don’t have a sketch, but a tutorial for a library card. Check the previous post for the tutorial.

Again the prize is a one sheet each of the retired Litte Reminder sticker sheets, as well as one 6″ x 6″ sheet of each of the matching Notations designer paper .To participate in the challenge, make a library card and upload it either to your blog, or to an online gallery.

 If you upload your card on SCS, put WSC21  (NO SPACE INBETWEEN WSC AND 21)in the keyword section. That way we can look at all of them at once!

To see samples made with this sketch now, check out the blogs of

Charmaine Ikach

Laurie Schmidlin

Lori Craig and

Sharon Harnist

Have fun creating! I can’t wait to see what you come up with.

SCS submissions

Post a link to your card to THIS blog entry as a comment. Please add your entry# to it.

I will determine the winner of the goodies with Random.org on Wednesday at 9:00 a.m.

Today’s sketch challenge will be to make a file folder card.

For those of you that haven’t made one yet, I wrote a quick tutorial. 

Click on more to see step by step instructions.

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Random.org picked #34.

Maria J. Says: September 19th, 2007 at 8:19 pm eHere is the one I’m sending. I made 10 of these a long time ago and they just say “girl” to me. Glad I still have a couple. What a great cause - hope these cards cheer her up. I’m in Nevada.
Entry #34

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/139710?cat=500&ppuser=48127

Maria, please contact me so I can get the goodies out to you!

Thanks to everyone who sent a card to Victoria! Check Courtney’s blog for updates on Victoria, her mail days and how she is doing.

I will be offline most of today, sitting with Austin. He likes to play Video games with his Mom while he is not feeling well. Let’s just say he always wins. LOL

Chriss won one of the weekend sketch challenges and sent me this gorgeous thank you card.

You can see more of Chriss’ beautiful work in her splitcoast gallery.

Rick brought Austin home around 3:30 p.m.

They gave Austin Morphin after he woke up. Evidently his Adnoids were so big, they grew down into this throat. They had to cut a lot of stuff out. The doctor said he has never seen anything like it and he didn’t know how Austin was still breathing.

My poor baby is sitting on the couch now. He is so out of it and his face looks all swollen. But it’s done and the surgery went well. Now he just has to heal.

Thank you for your well wishes. I was a nervous wreck all morning. At least now see and check up on him!