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We’re “cooking” up another challenge!

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Hi all,

Paper Garden Projects is sponsoring the “Catered Crop” challenge for the rest of this month.  How exciting!

Linda posts a simply delightful challenge every 2 weeks.  She creates a “recipe” from the entry of the winner of the previous week’s challenge.   You can use all or just part of the recipe – so it is very easy to find a bit of inspiration.

 Its so worth checking out the entries – so many just beautiful ones.  Linda and her design team are amazing too!

And for this challenge – the winner receives a $20 gift certificate to the Paper Garden Projects store – to buy any old thing your little heart desires!

Here is my sample:

I used the new Spring Blooms 2 digital stamp set (tulip and sentiment)  and the fabulous Tapasty 1 background stamp.  The paper is from the Basic Grey Koshi paper pad.

The Catered Crop recipe calls for:

  • Pattern Paper – Stripes and mini print
  • Colors – Blue, Green and Brown
  • Stamps – Children, Kittens
  • Color Mediums – Prismacolors
  • Embellishments – pearls, buttons, ribbon, flowers
  • Tools – Border punches, die cuts
  • Techniques – sewing, paper piecing, paper piercing, tissue box (or other paper boxes), coloring sky with Prismacolors, crochet flower
  • Theme – Spring, Childhood
  • Shapes – Circles, ovals, scallops
  • Miscellaneous – Tissues

I decided to include color (green), a mini flower print, the spring theme, diecuts and ovals.

So be sure to hop on over to the Catered Crop site and cook something up to enter the challenge!

I know I haven’t been posting much – but I’ve been very busy on something I’m so, so, so excited about!  Hee Hee!

I’ve also been working in the yard a lot whenever I can.  I’m trying to get the vegetable garden prepped (its big).  Yesterday, DH and I planted 3 apple trees, one pear tree, 3 blueberry bushes and 25 strawberry plants!  Wish me luck that the local wild life will let me have at least some of the harvest.  Actually – it will be be 4-5 years before we can hope to see much from the fruit trees.  But that’s OK – something to look forward to!

Hope everyone is wonderful!  Happy crafting!

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Can we have a cup of coffee and a chat?

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Well…. it has to be virtual coffee….

So here is my cup of  Joe, using the IO Latte Cup cling stamp and Basic Grey Koshi papers.  I love this stamp.  It was the one that introduced me to Leigh Hannan’s designs over at IO – and now I’m addicted (to the stamps and to coffee I think…)

And that chat….

If you are one of my 4 regular blog visitors (Hi Mom!!), you might have noticed a distinct lack of posting recently.

There are a mix of reasons.  I hurt my back and couldn’t sit for long – so blogging was tough (all better now though).  We have had a bunch of summer activities (like everyone I bet).  The garden has been keeping me busy (I’ve already canned beets, pickles and froze green beans).

But the main reason is it finally hit me how fast my kids are growing up.  J will be in 5th grade this year.   She is a great kid, but the tween attitude is creeping in.   I figure I better spend some time with her now before she wants nothing to do with me!   Ohhh…. those teen years are looming.

So I’m making a conscience effort to set aside other things to do activities with the kids this summer.  Its hard for me not to craft, blog, post tutorials, etc.  But I think its the right thing to do right now.

Oh, I’m sure I’ll still sneak in a project here and there. And I’m still adding new goodies to the store.  But I’ve given the DT the month of July off to have some summer fun too.  We’ll all be back in August with some nifty Fall and Back to School projects, challenges and contests.

(I made a digi scrap page! Another little project I’m working on this summer.  I’m taking web classes at the Jessica Sprague site.  Love her classes.  Totally not affiliated in any way.  I’m sure she has no idea who I am.  But really she does an excellent job teaching how to use photoshop for digi scrapping.)

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Fourth Friday Fun Challenge for June

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Hi all,

Its another 4th Friday – so time for another challenge!
(Sorry to be late – no internet connection all day!)

Its getting mighty hot in these here parts…. (OK – I’m here in Philadelphia, guess I better lose the western accent). But honestly, it is pretty hot, like 98 degrees.  And us without any air conditioning – we just might have to go to the mall!

So for this month, we want to see projects that make us feel cooler.   Whether that is cool colors (like blue and green), or cool images (like swimming, ice cream or even snowmen).  Anything you think is cool goes.

Just add a link to your card using the cute froggy face at the bottom of this post.  One random winner will be chosen to recieve this new, very cool Kraftin Kimmie stamp – Tubing Miles.  You have until midnight (EST) on Friday July 2 to link up your creation!

For my “cool” card, I chose a day at the beach.  This sassy girl is Florence from Kraftin Kimmie.  She makes me smile.  I paired her with Basic Grey Green At Heart paper and Prism cardstock.  She is colored with copics.

The sentiment is from my stash (River City I think).  The inside says “and most of it was your fault”.  Hee heee…  I used some paper scraps to pretty it up a bit…

Be sure to check out all the clever projects by the Design Team!

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