Pile It On: Summer Showers

Sorry folks, I'm a bit late with this one. Loads to do this past week and out all day yesterday didn't leave much time for card making :( 

This week's PIO challenge is Summer Showers. Interpret it anyway you'd like :) 
This week's sponsor is Simon Says Stamp!



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Simon Says Stamps has a huge selection of 
rubber Stamps, scrapbooking and paper crafting supplies. Also visit the Simon Says Stamp blog and they're now on Paper Crafts Planet HERE. 
The winners of these week's challenge will receive $20 of products from their store!!! How great is that?!?! You just gotta play along!


Now for my take on the Summer Showers challenge...



The image is from MelJen Designs; it was a freebie :) I colored it with copics and added glossy accents (which you can't really tell by the pictures). The clouds were cut with my Cricut and distressed. The raindrop hearts were colored with spicas.

This card qualifies for the following challenges;









That's all from here! Thanks so much for stopping by!

TTFN, 
 
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Ingredients (all Papertrey Ink unless otherwise stated):
Stamps: Shower of Love (MelJen Designs), Scattered Showers Additions (sentiment)
Ink: Raspberry fizz, aqua mist
Paper: Raspbery fizz, aqua mist, white, kraft
Other: copics, glossy accents (Ranger), Fiskars border punch, linen texture plate (PTI), Cricut (Playful pups cart), dew drops, corner chomper

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****ADDENDUM**** 
The winner of my blog candy is ....

Margaret!

I'll be in touch shortly (but in case you see this before I can contact you, just email me an address to which to ship your candy :) My email address can be found on the right hand side of my blog. Thanks so much to all who participated!
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Hello all!

Happy Saturday! We're off to spend the day with friends - I'm so excited:)

Are you ready to get digital?! Pam is our lovely hostess over at Just Us Girls this week and is challenging us to go digital! Digis can be so fun and versatile - you can make them any size and change colors in photo editing software. Don't have any digis? Lauren has a a freebie digi stamp and papers for you to try! See the JUGS site for the links :)

Lauren Meader from My Time Made Easy has generously provided the JUGS DT with a digital set to use :)  She is also giving a free digital stamp set AND digital paper package to one lucky participant!!! So make sure you head on over to the JUGS site and check out the details of the challenge.

I went digital with this project...


I made a gift set containing shower gel and body lotion (lavender scented). The tote is a template from Suzanne Dean - it's a download under tote/gift bag pdf HERE. It was SUPER easy to put together! The label on the tote and the circular sentiment and flower on the card are from the digital set I chose, Take Time for Petal Perfection from My Time Made Easy. I added color and combined the images in Photoshop - it was pretty easy. For any one unfamiliar with Photoshop and wishing to know how to use it to edit digis, Kristina Werner has an excellent video tutorial on her site (the tutorial is on making a digital card template but the same principles apply). The next two photos show the digital label and sentiment in detail...



The label was plain to start and I added the butterflies, sentiments and flowers separately so you can appreciate how customizable these sets are.

This final photo shows the side of the tote...


Pam has a great step-wise take on her project illustrating how she altered the image for her JUGS project with Photoshop - take a look HERE.

Sadly, we are bidding a fond farewell to the wonderful Mona as she steps down as a JUGS DT member :( :( :(.  This amazingly talented gal is pursuing other paper crafting opportunities and as much as we'd like to do it all sometimes, it just is not possible... Best wishes in your future endeavors, Mona!!!  We will surely miss you and your fabulous creations. Please take a moment and stop by her blog to wish her luck! I know I'll be checking in to see the all your gorgeous eye candy, my wonderful friend!

I didn't have time to select the blog candy winner today so I'll do it tomorrow evening - stay tuned!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!! Hope you enjoy!

TTFN,
 
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Ingredients (all Papertrey Ink unless otherwise stated): 
Stamps: Take Time for Petal Perfection Digital Set (My Time Made Easy)
Ink: Plum pudding (to highlight the dry embossing)
Paper: Plum pudding, spring rain, white (georgia pacific), Wisteria DP (Basic Grey)
Other: nesties, spring rain ribbon, vintage cream buttons, damask Cuttlebug embossing folder, sewing machine, EK Success Scalloped border punch

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A Play Date with Mojo

Evening all!
First off I want to thank everyone for the birthday wishes - you all made it extra special! I want to say a special thanks to my fellow Just Us Girls DT members and my very sweet friend Tanny P - you guys are the absolute best!!!

I had a great day - Tracy and I went out for brunch as it was a beautiful day and I wanted to sit outside. We had a great time - good food, great company, gorgeous weather, fun people watching - it was totally pleasant and relaxing. The afternoon we spent outside at home gardening and then I got to craft a little in the evening - after a really stressful week, it was so utterly relaxing! Just what I needed :) Thanks to my sweet, sweet husband for my awesome, relaxing birthday weekend! 
As part of my birthday gift, Tracy also gave me a long awaited gift - a photo tent! I've been playing with a few exposures tonight, getting the swing of things. I'll have to pick up a few props to showcase my card. Yay! another excuse to shop :)

Now, onto my project... Boy, it's been a while since I've played along with a Mojo Monday sketch. No better time than the present, right? I used the Play Date Cafe color challenge for inspiration.




I didn't have a really light peach color unfortunately, so my peaches are a little on the darker side. I also got my hands on some of that awesome seam binding!!!  Hope you like it :)

****Also, you may want to check out THIS POST - I'm giving away BLOG CANDY  for another few days!****

TTFN,
 
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Ingredients (all Papertrey Ink unless otherwise stated):
Stamps: Signature greetings, Background basics: Text style
Ink: Melon berry, Apricot pigment ink (Colorbox)
Paper: Melon berry, Vintage cream, My Minds Eye DP, Peach cardstock (from my stash)
Other: Sewing machine, nesties, seam binding dyed with coral glimmer mist, vanilla felt (Hobby Lobby), melon berry button, EK Success bracket border punch

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