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catching up...

hi there! so school started wednesday and we are back to crazy busy over here! picking up, dropping off, carpools, getting supplies, paperwork, the list goes on and on! where did my lazy summer days go? even crazier than that, the weather here in southern california has been *hot*. like reminds me of las vegas hot. and yesterday we got a little treat because just before 4pm, the power went out!!! it was out for about 8 hours! total craziness! the fun news is that they cancelled school for today for my kids because the power loss was so extensive, lol! so i am back in lazy summer mode again, if just for today! :) i've got a couple cards to share, these first 2 are for 2 challenges, this week's cas-ual friday challenge (paper piecing with a fall theme) and this week's free for all challenge on scs (also paper paper piecing). since paper piecing happens to be my favorite technique, i had to play along! the first one is for a tween starting school, i thought it would be cute to paper piece some lockers in a rainbow colors. the lockers are an old retired stamp from a muse, and i used the paper smooches alphadots set to create the sentiment.

the next card uses the new halloweenies set from paper smooches. i have been waiting for kim hughes to create a halloween set and i am so happy it is finally here! :)

 

this last card i created for this week's cas challenge over on scs. the challenge was to create a card using shoes. i scoured my stamps and finally found this retired stamp from a muse. just a super cas one layer card. i hope you are having an awesome day! thanks for visiting! :)

 

cas-ual friday

 
hi there! i am playing along today with this week's cas-ual friday challenge, called the long and short of it. the challenge is to create a 4x9 card with lots of white space. *love* this challenge because i *love* white space! :) i made tons of rainbow colored tags for the card i made last week using pti's tiny tags die, so i decided to use these cute little heart ones for a similar card for my dad. he is going through a really rough time health-wise right now so i thought i'd make him a card letting him know i am thinking of him. i do have an orange heart but i thought skipping it and adding the sentiment in orange would be a cute idea, especially since the sentiment was miss you. :) since these are tags, this works for this week's cas challenge on scs too, using tags. i hope you are having a wonderful day! thanks for visiting! :)

cupcakes and challenges

 
hi there! i've been playing along with some fun challenges! this week's cas-ual friday challenge is all about sweets and treats, and this week's less is more challenge is all about circles. i wanted to combine the challenges and this is what i came up with. i was inspired by this new sentiment from su, so i used my *favorite* tiny tags die from pti, a retired little cupcake from a muse, and some little red pearls. after i made this card, i checked out this week's featured stamper challenge on scs and it was teri anderson. she is on the paper smooches design team and i love her creations so i had to play along. i case'd this awesome one, and since i already had out the cupcakes, i went with them again! it was an easy choice to pick that card by teri, i love it! i actually bought that sentiment set from paper smooches and the circle set from pti because i loved that card so much, lol! speaking of paper smooches, i was seriously honored to be picked by the ps patrol to have my card on their blog on thursday! totally made my month!!! i hope you are having an awesome day! thanks for visiting! :) 

 

i love teacher gifts! :)

 

hi there! the last day of school was thursday and all i have to say is *woooooooo hoooooooooo*!!!!!!!! i *love* summer and everything it brings, no school, sleeping in, the beach, the sun, the pool, no schedules and lots of free time!!!! yay!!! :D another thing i really love is making teacher gifts. :) both of these cards are sets that i made for my kids' teachers and i wanted to share them here but i didn't take pictures of them, so i re-created them. i just noticed that this week's cas-ual friday challenge is all about getting edgy. these cards fit perfect with that, since i used su's spiral border punch on them. that little punch is so handy, and i love doing it on the edges of the cards for a little something different. they are super cas, but when you are making sets, sometimes cas is the way to go! the thanks is from papersmooches, the images are from kim hughes' retired chf sets, and the papers are from a muse. the teachers really liked them, so i was thrilled about that! also, since i make a good amount of teacher gifts, i created an album on the left side of my blog for them. and one more thing, speaking of classrooms, i was just chatting with one of my son's friend's mom, and she has a blog too. she creates tons of adorable things for the kids in their class, and posts them plus directions on how to make them. she is actually has a blogaversary giveway going on right now for a bakerella book, so go check her out and enter into the drawing! her blog is called roommom27. i hope you are having an awesome day, and thanks for visiting! :)