PPA 219: "A Walk in the Wild"

Hi everyone!!!  This week we have a color challenge here for Team 2 with the Pals.  These colors are wonderful!!!  They remind me of Fall.  Oh how I wish it felt like Fall here in South Texas!!  We are still in the high 90's here.  We can tell the sun is changing, but it's still dog gone hot!  So in spirit of wishful thinking, I took these colors and made a Fall card with "Walk in the Wild" stamp set.  I just love the Moose in this set!  Here's my card below:

My card measures 4 1/4 by 5 1/2.  I sponged the edges and the wood grain to give it the rustic look.  The leaves are from "Lovely as a Tree."  I stamped them on Very Vanilla with Cajun Craze and then colored them with Crushed Curry.  Last I fussy cut each leaf to group together on the card.

Before you leave, I thought I might share with you a picture that gave me the inspiration for my card today.    This summer I took a trip to Jackson Hole, WY.  What an amazing experience this was hiking through the Great Tetons National Park and Yellow Stone.  Definitely a must on everyone's bucket list.  On a early morning hike with my husband, we were very fortunate to run across a Moose grazing in the marshes.  This was so cool!!!  Here's the picture I took below:

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PPA 217: Get Well Owl!!

Hi my fellow stampers!!!  This weeks sketch by Nicole offers such possibilities to the imagination.  Love it!!   Today's card is for a friend who's in the hospital.  I thought this adorable little doctor owl would put a smile on her face.
Here's my card below: 

I used the owl punch and then took the 1-3/4" Scallop Circle Punch and cut it in half for the wings.  Cuteness overload!!!   I used the masking technique to get the "hoo!! hoo!!" from "Just Sayin'."  Then I used the "Word Bubble Framelits" die to cut it out.

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PPA 215: Flower Frenzy

Hello there my friends!!  For this weeks fun color challenge I brought out my newest toy.  It's the awesome Flower Frenzy Bigz L Die.  Oh the possibilities!!!  Here's my card below:

These colors just begged for tropical flowers!!  Also, just for the record; I've been longing for a tropical escape.  Nothing sounds better than a seaside escape and drinks with an umbrella in them.  Sigh......  I'm sure this is because school is about to get back into session and my list of things is overwhelming.    I'll leave you today with a couple of beautiful pictures of the Great Teton Mountains from an earlier trip this summer.  I could definitely go back there too!!  Enjoy!!

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PPA 213: Beep, Beep..Scooter Power!!

Hello everyone!!!  I don't know about you, but this summer just seems to be flying by!!!  I feel like just yesterday it was June and now we're almost to August.  School will be back in session before we know it!! Whoa!!  Here's my card today:
 

 Anyway, for this weeks sketch I thought nothing screams summer like an adorable red scooter!!  The stamp set is Today & Everyday used with Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler and my favorite new DSP Back in Black.  Oh how I would have so much fun on one of these things..broom, broom!! 

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PPA 211: The Open Sea

Hi my fellow stampers!!!  I love this weeks color palate!!  I instantly thought nautical and jumped right with one of my favorite stamp sets,  The Open Sea.   I also decided to have a little fun with you with my cover on the card.  I found one last card from the Simply Sent Note Card set and decided that would make a fabulous design for the top.  Here's my card below:

Before I go, I would like to leave you with a picture from Nags Head, NC.  The picture is the sunrise just after Hurricane Arther hit the North Carolina Coast.

My sister and her family road out the storm.  Nags Head did not have mandatory evacuation.  However, the winds were still up to 101mph.  I told her I was too old for her to have her sister worry like this again.  Ughummm.... 

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PPA 209: A Sketch Challenge

Hi everyone!!!  Boy, I have to say these past few weeks have been a challenge!!  I've been a traveling fool from the East Coast to the West Coast!!!  I was in New York City for several days one week for business and then in Bellingham, WA the second week moving my daughter Amanda out of her dorm.  We then made our way back home to San Antonio.  In the meantime, we must keep things moving at the office.  Why don't we throw a computer problem in the mix while we are at it!!!  LOL!!!  All you can do is smile, square your shoulders and take it on!!  What is too difficult to handle, simply let Faith answer that door!!!  :C)

In the mean time, it's time for a sketch challenge with Team 2!!! This week in our demonstrators magazine, Stampin' Up was talking about casing.  You can take your card and copy another exactly or take the "idea" and modify your card to pattern the inspiration you saw. 
This is what I did:

Here's my inspiration from the catalog on page 139.

 
Here's my card below. 

What do you think?  It's the same, but yet very different.  The Stampin' Up catalog is there for all of us to use not only to shop for our magnificent products, but to use as a resource and tool.  What fun!!!  If you don't have a catalog, be sure to contact myself or your demonstrator and get one. 
These catalogs are for you!!! 

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PPA 207: My Card for Dad

Hi everyone!!!  Look at these fabulous colors!!  My first impulse was to do something in honor of the upcoming July 4th!!  Perfect colors right?  Then I decided Father's Day is this weekend and my Dad loves the sea.  So today's card is in honor of my Dad and the Pacific Northwest where I'm at now.  My daughter Amanda has finished her first year of college!!   Woot, woot!!  I'm here in Bellingham, WA getting her packed up and moved out of her dorm.  Wasn't it just yesterday I was there moving her into her dorm?  Wow!!  If you had told me then, what I know now, I don't think I would have believed you!!  LOL!!!  Anyway, Dad loves the water, seafood and sail boats.  He hasn't gotten a chance to come up to Washington, so I thought I would bring a little of it to him.  He's just going to have to come up and see the sail boats and the beautiful sun sets for himself.  

Here's my card below:

The lobster is stamped in Real Red using the "By the Tide" stamp set.  The background set is from "Truly Grateful."  Last I added some nautical touches from "The Open Sea."

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