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I absolutely love this week's {PIN}Spirational Challenge.

Take a look at the fun photo...

Isn't that just way too cool!!?!?!?

{PIN}Spirational Challenges

June 18 - 24

The sponsors for this challenge are

Fresh Brewed Designs

and

Fred She Said Designs

THANK YOU to both of our sponsors for providing prize packages as well as images for the design team's use!

Here's my card:

The image is from Fred She Said

Here's the inside of my card:

Thank you for stopping by my blog today! I hope you'll participate in the {PIN}Spirational Challenge this week!

Image: Fred She Said Designs
Ink: Copic Markers
Cardstock: Stampin' UP! Crumb Cake and scraps from my scrap file
Designer Paper: Paper House Pine Porch and Sonnets Sand
Embellishments: Stampin' UP! Grosgrain Ribbon and Brads

Flowers in Bloom

It's time for another fun challenge at ABC Challenges...

ABC Challenges

June 17 - 23

Theme: Summer Theme

For me, summer time means lots of beautiful flowers!

Here's the inside of my card:

Thanks for stopping by my blog today! I hope you will participate in the ABC Challenges Summer Themed Challenge this week!

Get Your Duel On

... and today that means FLIP FLOPS! ;)


If you hang around my blog any, you know that on the 15th of each month, we have a little friendly duel. Ther Dueling Darlings style!

This month Melina and Carol are the hostesses (Carol for the Divas and Melina for the Dazzlers). As hostesses they got their thoughts together and came up with a theme. Then they each sent card kits to there respective team members and today we get to show our stuff.

THANK YOU MELINA AND CAROL for being terrific hostesses!!!

Theme:

FLIP FLOPS AND SUNSHINE

Oh my goodness........... Melina sent us a wonderful kit!!! It was just full of fun embellishments, papers and images.

I've already apologized to her for slapping together my card way too quickly to do much in the way of style or creativity. The kit arrived just two days before my international trip........ so I had to rush. I'm also rushing as I put this post together, so unfortunately I'm not going to link it to the other Dueling Darling blogs... but you can find them easy enough - they are all listed in my left side bar.

Okay, enough chatter................

here's my card:

Here's the inside of my card:

Thanks for stopping by my blog today!

Identifying the Unidentified

I'm in a swap group on SCS called the Unidentified Image Swap. Each round (every other month) one of the swappers is the hostess and sends a set of identical images to the others in the group. We can't reveal our cards until the due date of the swap, so as not to influence one another on what we create. These were due on the 10th of June so I can now show you my card.

Paola (who we lovingly call Sweet P) is the hostess this round and she sent the most adorable Whipper Snapper images with coordinating sentiments from Papertrey Ink. THANK YOU, Sweet P! This was such a fun card to make!

Here's the card I made:

Here's the inside of my card:

Thanks for stopping by my blog today!

Image: Whipper Snapper
Sentiments: Papertrey Ink
Ink: Copic Markers
Cardstock: Recollections and Stampin' UP!
Designer Paper: from my scrap file
Embellishment: Ribbon from an unknown vendor

Challenges X 2

I have two more challenges to show you today.... {PIN}Spirational Challenges and Twisted Tuesday Challenge.

June 11 - 17

Here's the photo to {PIN}Spire us:

{PIN}Spirational Challenges has two sponsors - and we are so thankful to both of them! They provide a prize for a lucky participant as well as images for the design team to use for this challenge.

THANK YOU

to

and

Here's my card:

I love the cottage - isn't it pretty? It's a Rick St. Dennis image.

Here's the inside of my card:

Then there's the Twisted Tuesday Challenge...

Twisted Tuesday

June 11 - 24

Theme: Masculine

The Twist: Use clothes on your card

Here's my card:

This card is really special to me. I have a good friend (Jeri) whose son is in Boot Camp. I'm sending him this card to let him know he's in my thoughts.

Here's the inside of my card:

Thanks for stopping by my blog today! I hope you'll participate in these challenges!

Image: Rick St. Dennis
Ink: Copic Markers
Cardstock: Recollections Black and Stampin' UP! Sahara Sand
Designer Paper: Colorbok
Embellishments: Stampin' UP! Brads

Image/Sentiments: There She Goes Boot Camp
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa and Copic Markers
Cardstock: Stampin' UP! Crumb Cake and Early Espresso
Designer Paper: from my sscrap file
Embellishments: a piece of a camaflouge lanyard from Walmart

Animals and Die Cuts

Today I have two challenges to tell you about - ABC Challenges Animal Challenge and MelonHeadz Friends Die Cuts Challenge.

ABC Challenges

June 10 - 16

Theme: Animals

Here's my card:

I used a very old Stampin' UP! stamp set to make this card - Bow Wow.

Here's the inside of my card:

If you like using dies, you're going to love the new MelonHeadz Friends Challenge!

MelonHeadz Friends

June 10 - 23

Theme: Die Cuts (yes, we want you to use your dies!)

Here's my card:

I used a MelonHeadz Illustrating image bundle for this card - called Safari. I also used a lot of my circle dies (Nestabilities).

Here's the inside of my card:

Thank you for stopping by my blog today! I hope you'll participate in these two challenges!

Images/Sentiment: Stampin' UP! Bow Wow
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa and Copic Markers
Cardstock: Stampin' UP! Cajun Craze and Early Espresso
Designer Paper: Paper Studio Dog Words and scraps from my scrap file
Embellishments: Brads from an unknown vendor

Images: MelonHeadz Safari
Ink: Copic Markers
Cardstock: Stampin' UP! Early Espresso and Natural Ivory
Designer Paper: Reminisce Young at Heart and scraps from my scrap file
Embellishments: Stickles Glitter Glue and Ribbon from an unknown vendor