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Here is a very simple and quick card made with Boho Backgrounds.

I knew as soon as I saw that set that I NEEDED it.

 The flower background, the saying and the medaillon are just too pretty not to own.

On page 14 of the new catalog is a Simply Sent kit called Lifelong Notes.

My card layout is cased from those notes. I just thought they were so pretty.

I love simple cards, but have a hard time keeping mine that way.

The card base is 6 3/4″ x 6 1/2″ piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock, scored at 3 1/4″ and folded in half. This will fit great in a business size envelope.

I stamped the medaillon twice in Always Artichoke on Shimmery White cardstock. The first one I punched out with my scallop circle punch, the second one with my 1 1/4″ circle punch. In between I taped a 1 3/8″ Chocolate Chip circle. I added an Antique Brass brad in the center.

I stamped the flower background on the middle of the card, added a 7/8 strip of Always Artichoke Prints Designer paper and tied white Taffeta ribbon over that.

 The bottom right has the saying You make me happy from the same set.

I simply LOVE this medaillon!

That’s the name of Gina K.’s newest Stamps for a Cause Stamp set! Gina is such a kind, caring and giving person. Please check out her Stamps for a Cause page.

$7.00 of every stamp set will be divided equally between the American Diabetes Association and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, two organizations that are working on research to find better ways to treat diabetes and hopefully will some day find a cure.

This set is available in two styles. You can purchase either wood mounted or unmounted on cling cushion for use with acrylic blocks.

Here is my first card made with this set. It’s another sample for my weekend sketch.

The card base is a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Soft Sky cardstock folded in half.

The River Rock polka dotted designer paper is from the retired Apple Cider paper pack and measures 2 1/8″ x 4 1/4″.

Both long edges are paper pierced.

Underneath is a slighter bigger scalloped piece of Whisper White. Double Stitched Wild Wasabi Grosgrain ribbon was tied around the bottom.

The vertical strips are a 7/8″ wide piece of Wild Wasabi colored Apple Cider Designer paper and a 3/4″ wide piece of Whisper White.  I added three flowers with white brads centers over the strips. The flowers were punched out with the Three for you Punch.

The main image was stamped with Black Palette ink on Watercolor paper and colored in with Aqua Painter and classic inks (River Rock, Groovy Guava, Soft Sky and Wild Wasabi). I stamped the baby pouch on the polka dotted paper, cut it out and glued it to the main image.

I cut the image out and dry embossed the edge with my circle Nestabilities dies and added a black cardstock mat as well as a Groovy Guava scallop circle underneath.

After adding a double photo corner with black brads to the bottom right corner, I stamped my saying in Black Palette ink and was done.

Here is the sketch for this weekend’s sketch challenge:

To participate in the challenge and be entered in the  raffle, make a card with this layout and upload it either to your blog, or to an online gallery.

 If you upload your card on SCS, put WSC30  (NO SPACE INBETWEEN WSC AND 30) in the keyword section. That way we can look at all of them at once!

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

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

To see samples made with this sketch now, check out yesterday’s Leather and Felt post as well as the blogs of

Cambria Turnbow

Charmaine Ikach

Jenn Balcer 

Laurie Schmidlin 

Lori Craig

MaryJo Albright

Sharon Harnist

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

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