Stamps R Us Challenge for OWH

Thank you, Stamps R Us, for joining the OWH Stars and Strips Birthday Bash! The challenge was to create a birthday card for a child. Got lots of great nieces and step grand-daughters so I love making them cards with the Magnolias...

Sketch Challenge 34: Thank you!

Okay, I know I'm over 60 and that's when the mind really starts to go but I was in denial until I searched high and low for Sketch Challenge 33 and realized that the brain cells necessary to see this have apparently died. Hence, we skip from Sketch 32 to Sketch 34!

The challenge was to make a thank you card from this sketch that incorporated the color yellow. I used some leftover paper from a pack I got a Target, Stampin' Up! "Just Believe" stamps and Stampin Up! Daffodil Delight and Early Expresso ink... and again my "less is more" mantra....

Sketch Challenge 32

Great sketch on the Stars and Stamps.org blog this week = so versatile, but really easy to use. I found Chef Turkey on Elizbeth Dulemba's blog (http://dulemba.blogspot.com). She is soo talented! I'm still working on the watercolor pencil technique...

Life's Lyrics: Do You Remember When?

I just love music - pop music mostly. Grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, Frankie Valli, Paul Anka; spent college years at "Carolina" (a/k/a UNC Chapel Hill) dancing the night away with my sorority sisters to Motown; and remember songs just because I love them and they mean something to me. Soooo, when I saw a "Life's Lyrics" class offered at a recent CKC scrapbook convention, it was intriguing. Megan Hoeppner, creative editor of Creating Keepsakes magazine, taught the class and it was wonderful! Finally finished the book yesterday. I love it! I just wish it hadn't been another 6x6 book -- keep telling myself and posting stickies all over the place not not not to do these small books where everything is cut down to the bone but somehow they just lure me in~~ Here are a few of my favorite songs.....