PPA 253:

Hi my stamping friends!!!  This weeks sketch challenge is magnificent!!   What did you see when you first saw it?  An abstract?  Mountains or rolling hills?  See what I mean?  What fun!!  I invisioned rolling hills.  I decided to go outside the box and do a fun summer day.  We're desperately in need of sunshine in our state of Texas.  I live just outside of San Antonio near Blanco, Wimberly and on up to Austin.   Our area was tragically hit hard with floods that have resulted in the loss of lives and property.  Dallas and Houston have suffered even worse.  Today's card is in remembrance of our easy Texas summer days.

A couple of tricks you might find fun.  The clouds were made from the cup cake punch.  The tree leaves are from the stars border punch.  Who knew?  LOL!!

I hope you enjoyed my card today.

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Amy

PPA251: It's a Party!!!

Hello stamping friends!!  What fun colors we have this week!!  

These make me feel like we're ready for a party!!  Thinking of a party, I thought of using the Bow Builder punch with these fun colors. 

Here's my card below:

 

Isn't this card fun with all thee Bows and colors?

I hope you enjoyed my card today.

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Amy

PPA 249: Shades of Spring

Hi fellow stampers!!!  It's time for another fabulous sketch with the Pals!!  

This week I finally decided to use my "Butterfly Basics" and "Painted Petals" 

stamp sets for this fabulous sketch.  I just love them both!  

I'm already thinking about what I'm going to do next with them.  This card I used Old Olive for the fern stem.  It looks like I used three different shades, but I actually only stamped off the ink to get the different shades.     

Here's my card below:

Isn't that cool?

I hope you enjoyed my card today

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Amy

PPA 247: The Three Shades of Purple!!!

Hello stampers!!!  This week we have a color challenge which has proven to be a challenge for me!!!  I never use these colors!  Purple in three shades!!  YIKES!!!   If it wasn't for that the fact I'm a paper hoarder, I probably wouldn't even have these colors.  LOL!!  So after considerable thought and
contemplation; I decided flowers it must be.  Obvious, but hey, a girl's got to do what a girl's got to do!  LOL!!  Her's my card below:

The flower pot card is from a template I used off of Split Coast Stampers.  Isn't this fun?  I'm going to have to make a bunch more of these with all kinds of colors!!

I hope you enjoyed my card today

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Amy

PPA 245: Butterflies for Spring!

Hello friends!!  This week we have a clean and simple sketch that challenges your creative minds.  It's REALLY hard for me to do clean and simple.  I want to layer, fussy cut and bling out the card as much as I can!  LOL!!  I managed to just layer and bling a "little" this week.  My inspiration this week are our Mountain Laurels.  Here in South Texas their absolutely beautiful!!  The Mountain Laurels are in full bloom.  They're absolutely my favorite flowers here in Texas.  Their sweet smell is just intoxicating!!  The bees and butterflies just live on these sweet blooms while they last.   In looking at the trees I thought the butterflies would be perfect to have featured on my card. 
Here's my card below:

I hope you enjoyed my card today

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Amy

PPA 243: Sneek Peek of Spring!!

Hello friends!!!  Here in South Texas the first signs of Spring have finally started to show.  Today it's going to be 70 degrees!!  The rest of the week will be 75!!  Wow!!  The kids are loving it!!  This week is their Spring break so the weather could be more perfect.  Trust me though; we will be facing 100 degrees and higher before you know it.  For those of you up North, the dreaded winter is to you what our dreaded summer is to us.  Scorching sun, water shortages that lead to water rationing and dieing plants you've worked so hard to save without breaking the law.  However for now, we'll relish in the lovely sunshine and mild temperatures.  It's just beautiful!!

The card below I thought would be a nice reminder for us to start to look for the smallest signs of Spring.  You hear the birds sing more frequently, the green grass you notice peeking up or that flowering tree you have been waiting to bloom has finally sprung one little flower.  

Oh the anticipation!!   

I hope you enjoyed my card today showing you those small little touches of Spring.  I can't wait to do another card showing our trees in full bloom.  What fun!!

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Amy

PPA 241: Kick Up Yer Heels!!!

Hi everyone!!!  It's time for another fabulous sketch challenge with DT 2!!  Today's card is in honor of our Texas rodeo taking place for the month of February.  It's amazing what this city will do to host this event.  They even kick our amazing SPURS team right out on the road until this extravaganza is over.  Yep...Our basketball team is even named the SPURS!!  LOL!!  

Here's my card below:

What do you think?  I even had to added a little bling in honor of fellow team member Ann Schach!!  Ok, she's a pearl kind of gal, but Rhinestones I imagine would work too!!  LOL!!

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Have a fabulous weekend!!!

Amy