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Melissa
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Blessings of Summer

Happy Labor Day!  It's been a long summer and it sure did end with a bang here in Ct!  Hurricane Irene knocked out our electricity for 2 1/2 days.  After getting it back we realized our internet, phone and cable wasn't working.  It then took until this past Saturday for At & T to get it fixed!  The kids and I have decided that we can live without electricity but not without TV!
Hope you all had a wonderful, blessed summer!  Here is a photo taken of my family at Timothy Hill Christian Camp in MA. this summer after my daughter Elena was baptized into Christ by her dad!  God is good!
Melissa

graduation owl (ppa98 sketch challenge)

I gave this card to my friends son who will be graduating high school this week!  It's funny how OLD you feel when a friends child reaches a milestone!  My kids have a ways to go as far as graduations and things like that, but it seems our close friends all have children who are either married, in college or just leaving high school.  My girls will be entering 8th and 5th grade this fall.  Maybe there's a method to our madness......we're the youngest of all our friends! (and there kids used to babysit for us)!!

have a great day, and thank you for stopping by,
blessings,
Melissa

what i used on this card:
stamps:  word play
paper:  naturals ivory, very vanilla, marina mist, night of navy, soft suede, newsprint dsp
ink:  not quite navy
extras:  owl punch, antique brad

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A challenge & A challenge!

This week I combined two challenges!  One is usually hard enough, but two!!  The PPA94 challenge was a sketch and the Splitcoast CC324 was using the color combo of Perfect Plum, Baja Breeze and Soft Suede.  

Thanks for stopping by

Have a blessed day,

Melissa

what i used:

paper:  naturals ivory, soft suede textured, perfect plum textured, baja breeze textured, greenhouse gala dsp

ink:  perfect plum, soft suede

extras:  1 1/4" circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, scallop circle punch and scallop trim border punch

Hydrangea Mother's Day Card

This week I decided to use the sketch challenge at Splitcoast to get me inspired.  I totally CASEd the card from someone,  here is the link to her site,  http://paperscaper.blogspot.com/ Stop by her site and you'll see how shamelessly I cased her!!  

I hope you like my card (and her's as well)!!

what i used:

stamps:  because i care (level 1 hostess set)

paper:  perfect plum textured, certainly celery, very vanilla, pink pirouette

ink:  none

extras:  versa mark, stampin' pastels, embossing plate, big shot, pearl accents

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