Unscripted Sketches #207

Quick post tonight - I LOVE the Sketch over at Unscripted Sketches this week and made a birthday card tonight with it - Very fun!!  Great Sketch to use up some of those scraps we all have...  I used a favorite image of mine from Mo Manning - love this girl with her birthday cake, she just makes me smile!!  I colored her up with my Copics and used some paper and ribbon scraps from my stash.

                                 

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Deuteronomy 6:5

Tonight I made a card for my son.  He is the Pastor of LifeSong New England.  I am so proud of him.  LifeSong is in it's third year.  It's beginnings were a dream of the Senior Pastor of Rockland Baptist and 6 of the Young Adults who had been in Youth Group together and had been singing Worship Music as "Steadfast"...  My son is 24, and I am seeing how God is blessing LifeSong through his willingness to serve.  We have been doing a sermon series based on the movie Courageous.  Last Sunday's sermon's key verse was Deuteronomy 6:5.  Well, I love how God has a sense of humor...  I was looking at some of the Challenges for this week and Word Art Wednesday had that very same verse for this week.  God is such a personal God!!

The DP is from My Mind's Eye Stella Rose - Mabel Papers.  The ribbon is from my stash.  The buttons are CtMH tied with embroidery floss.  I'm entering this card in the following Challenges:

Unscripted Sketches - Sketch
Word Art Wednesday - Sentiment
City Crafters - Hello Doily!!

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Unscripted Sketches #164

One more birthday card today...  The sketch is from Unscripted Sketches.  I flipped the sketch making the card 4.25" x 5.5".  The image is Saturated Canary.  I used papers from My Mind's Eye - So Sophie - Graceful.  LOVE the colors in the paper pad!!  The image is colored with Copics, fussy cut, and mounted with Pop Dots.   I added tan polka ribbon from my stash and tied it in a bow.

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Unscripted Sketch #163

Tonight I am posting a Birthday card I made for one of my nephews.  He is 38 but I loved this image...  he does play guitar and who doesn't love a cute image...?  I know his wife will love it!!  Guess I will find out tomorrow...  =)

I used the sketch from Unscripted Sketches.  Great sketch to show off some "manly" papers!!
The stamp is one I just got from Lili of the Valley.  It is stamped with Momento Black Tuxedo, colored in with Copics, fussy cut and mounted with Pop Dots.  The papers are My Mind's Eye Stella Rose - Hattie.  The ribbon is from Close to My Heart.

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Unscripted Sketches #162

Once again I am combining the Sketch from Unscripted Sketches with CSI Color... Stories... Inspiration.  I love the sketches at US - they lend themselves to a small layout or a card.  I am trying to take some of my favorite older pics and do 6 x 6 layouts.  I love to work on the smaller scale and these sketches and the CSI inspiration are perfect together!! 

Today I made a layout of two photos that I love taken on the 4th of July, 1992.  Scott had been "upset" about something and my husband just threw him over his shoulder to go have a talk.  The emotions were short lived and the day went on with smiles.  I love the back drop of the flag.  We had so many great pool parties on the 4th of July at my Aunt Grace's house.  Great memories!!

My DP is from CSI Coordinates.  The ribbon, brad and stars (colored with Copics) are CtMH.











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My Mom's Mom {heart}

One more card tonight - or actually - a 6 x 6 layout.  Patrice (The Old Back Porch) commented on one of my cards tonight and invited me to check out and join her 52 card pick up.  So of course I went right to her Blog to check it out and took a look at a couple of Challenges she had done that are new to me.  (I love to find "new to me" Challenges).  So this creation is a result of that =)

I have been going through some old photos and thought I should do something with them.  So, tonight a made a 6x6 layout of this photo of my Maternal Grandmother that was taken the Christmas Eve before I was born.  I chose to leave the date visible as it was written by my Mom.  I based the layout on the sketch from Unscripted Sketches and also the color and a few other details are taken from the Challenge at Color... Stories... Inspiration... CSI:  Case Study No. 21.  What a fun Blog that is =) 

I thoroughly enjoyed making this little layout.  The DP is from My Mind's Eye Lost & Found - Blush.  Once I got the layout done, I went to my stash and started embellishing.  The crocheted flowers, pearls, pearl pin and Love clip are all CtMH.  The paper flowers are Recollections and the crocheted trim is from my stash.