Linda's Summer House

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Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know! 

As I promised a while back when I shared the Linda's Lemon Tree card, here's the other main element from the plate, the beautiful summer house...  

Card: Unbranded white, Clarity clear parchment and Great Lakes DP

Groovi Plates: Nested Scallop Squares (base square), Border 2 (outer rope), Rope & Points Border (inner rope), Linda's Lemon Tree (all other elements

Tools and embellishments: Groovi and Pergamano embossing, perforating, and cutting tools, Pergamano brads and silver gel pen, and Nuvo Shimmer pen (on the windows)

Challenges... 

NBUS #15 at NBUS (summer house is NBUS)

#117 AG at ABMTTC

AG at TTCRD

I'll be back soon with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then,

#18 Pastel Rainbow at Rainbow Card Challenge

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Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

Can you believe that it's not only the first of the month, but that it's also June???  As such, every six months, we change things up a bit at Rainbow Card Challenge, and our theme this month is Pastel Rainbow, so, please use as many colors as you can, but keep them subtle! 

This month is also a DT Call, so if you'd like to join us... no prior DT experience is necessary... we'd love to have you!  Details can be found on the Rainbow Challenge blog post!

And here's my card...

Card: Unbranded white, Clarity's clear parchment and Rainbow River DP
Groovi plates: Linda's Cosmos and Lace, Tina's Butterfly Fun A6 baby, and Sprig Background
Tools and embellishments: Clarity and Pergamano embossing and perforating tools, Perga Color pens, Pergamano brads and rhinestones from my stash

Challenges...
#379 Use Snippets at Pixie's Snippets Playground
#115 AG at CARDZ TV 

#187 AG at Creative Fingers Challenge

I'll be back soon with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Hummingbird Frame

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Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

Before I get to today's card, I must say a HUGE THANK YOU to Mynn Kitchen of On A Stampage...  for the amazing makeover she's given my blog!  To quote her, "I was trying to make it look kind of like one of your beautiful cards."  Well, I think she's succeeded, do you?  Let me know in the comments, and if you'd be so kind, hop over to her blog to leave some love on her latest post, please.

As promised last week, here's the last card you'll see for a while with a scalloped edge.  To give the beautiful blooms from one of last year's NDC plates the space they deserve, I only used the scallops and not the inner squares...

Card: Unbranded white, Clarity clear parchment, and Toffee Apple DP
Groovi Plates: Nested Scallop Squares, Jayne's Hummingbird, NDC flower
Tools and embellishments: Groovi and Pergamano embossing, piercing, and cutting tools, Perga Color pens, and Pergamano Brads

Challenges...
AG at TTCRD
#116 AG at A Bit More Time To Craft
#207 For the ladies at Crafty Gals Corner

I'll be back soon with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then,

Three Bird Aperture

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Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

The card I'm sharing with you today is one I created, in bulk, for one of the sessions in my recent Virtual Groovi Retreat.  For each live I do, I send out 5 of the same card to group members, but because there were 4 demos in less than 24 hours, and one of them was a client's commission, I decided to make life easier for myself by only doing this card to send out... to TWENTY recipients!

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the Nested Scallop Squares, but after the card I'll share with you next week, you won't be seeing the scallops for a while!!!  Why?  Because those scallops alone meant there were over 10,000 picot cuts across the 20 cards... not counting those around the birds (from an NDC plate)!!!

It was all good fun though, and with the majority now received, I can confirm it was well worth the effort!

Card: Unbranded white, Clarity's clear parchment and Great Lakes DP
Groovi Plates: Nested Scallop Squares, Sprig Background, Tina's Daisy Flowers Parchlet (circles)
Tools and embellishments: Groovi and Pergamano embossing, perforating, and cutting tools, Perga Color pens, and Pergamano Brads

Challenges...
#233 AG at 613 Avenue Create
#207 For the Ladies at Crafty Gals Corner
AG at TTCRD

I'll be back soon with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Mid Challenge Reminder for TRCC - #17 Vivaciously Voilet

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Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

It's the middle of the month, so I'm back with a reminder of my card for The Rainbow Card Challenge.  This month our theme is Vivaciously Voilet, and here's the inspiration image...

And here's a reminder of my card, the details of which can be found on my original post...

I'll be back soon with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Ribbons and Butterfles With Love

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Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

The card I'm sharing today is the advanced version of the one I created for the first of two Facebook craft alongs last month.  Apart from the square frames, every element came from the NBUS February Groovi NDC plate...

As soon as I saw the plate, the ribbons I've used in the outer corners evoked thoughts of butterflies... I am butterfly crazy after all... hence why I colored the tails the way I did.  Grin.

Card: Unbranded white, Clarity clear parchment, and Toffee Apple designer paper
Groovi Plates: Nested Scallop Squares and NDC plate
Tools and embellishments: Clarity and Pergamano embossing, piercing and cutting tools, gold gel pen, Clarity brads, and brads from my stash (corner ones)

Challenges...
NBUS #14 at NBUS Challenge
#377 Use Snippets at Pixie's Snippets Playground
May AG at A Bit More Time To Craft Extra

I'll be back soon with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

#17 Vivaciously Violet at Rainbow Card Challenge

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

It's the first of the month, so it means it's time for a new challenge at Rainbow Card Challenge.  Our theme this month is Vivaciously Violet, and please, if you must, use only a hint of a preferably neutral color.  After all, we are a monochromatic challenge!

And here's my card...

Card: Unbranded white, Clarity's clear parchment and Great Lakes designer paper
Groovi plates: Nested Scallop Squares, Nested Arch Tags (rose border), and Special Day Sentiments
Tools and embellishments: Clarity and Pergamano embossing, piercing, and cutting tools, Perga Color pens, and Clarity brads

Challenges...
AG at TTCRD
#387 Make your mark at Addicted to Stamps and More!
#113 AG at CARDZ TV

I'll be back soon with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.