Flashback Birthday for PPA 225

It is Thursday and another Pals Paper Arts Challenge.  This week we have another sketch challenge.  Here is my card…

Flashback Birthday

And here is the sketch

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The base of the card is Real Red.  Then I layered Basic Black and a piece of Flashback DSP.  The diagonal pieces are Very Vanilla and Crushed Curry.  

I stamped the Very Vanilla piece with Real Red and Crushed Curry confetti from the Endless Wishes Stamp set.  Too much?  Perhaps yet I liked the whimsy.  Can you ever have too much confetti?  Whimsy? I know my life needs more Whimsy!

The sentiment and candle are from the Big News stamp set – I love all the sentiments in this stamp set.  the candle was stamped and snipped out.

Here is another look at the card…

 

 

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And here is the inside

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We would love to see you play along with the Pals Paper Arts Challenge this week.    

Thanks for stopping by.  Check back tomorrow!

Michelle

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Gratitude for Days

In today's world it is easy to fall into the habit of seeing what you don't have or what you wish you had rather than being grateful for what you do have.  I know I have been guilty of that and I am working to change my attitude to one of gratitude!  It is amazing how your entire outlook changes.

When I saw the Gratitude for Days Simply Created Kit in the Holiday catalog I knew it was for me.  I added it to my demonstrator order along with most of the rest of the catty (it just seemed that way).  I ended up making the kit as a gift for someone very dear to me who had a birthday this month.  She LOVED it.  

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This picture shows you a whole week of Gratitude cards and envelopes that hang on thick Baker's Twine.

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And this is a close up of the same group of cards.  I followed the photo in catalog closely in making this kit.  The Stampin' Up designers are so good at what they do why stray!  

I just ordered and received another Gratitude for Days Simply Created Kit which I will make for my family.  My dad is coming in from Phoenix for a week at Thanksgiving and our oldest will be home for Thanksgiving weekend.  I intend on getting them to particiate as well.

Don't you think it would be a great family project for the month of November – to focus on what we have to be grateful for?

This is a fun kit to put together and it looks great.  I will hang our project on our pantry door – then I will be sure to not miss a day!

I remember when our boys were young, I would pick them up from school or even over dinner they wanted to tell us about every wrong that happened that day.  We would tell them they could tell us all their woes after they told us three positive things.  An interesting thing happened.  Once they told us their three positives they forgot about the "bad" stuff that happened.  

Consider the Gratitude for Days Simply Created Kit as a way to begin celebrating the holiday season with your family.

Michelle

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Holiday Supplement is LIVE!

 

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Just a quick reminder to check out the Holiday Supplement and place your order TODAY.  The products in the supplement are available while supplies last.  While Stampin' Up! assures us there is plenty of inventory you know how fast some of the favorites will go.

I will be ordering more of the Many Merry Stars Kit!

Just click here to go straight to StampinMojo's 24/7 shopping site.

Have a wonderful day!

Michelle

Pretty Packages

Last weekend I attended a bridal shower.  I have not been to a bridal shower in quite sometime.  As I pondered ideas for the bride and groom to be I wanted something different.  I always think about some of my favorite gifts from our wedding.  John and I will be married 30 years next month (hard to believe) and each Christmas I look forward to finding a special ornament that was given to us as a wedding gift from one of my dad's co-workers.  It is a hand-painted egg with a scene of Chicago at Christmas.  Little did we know at the time that we would only have two Christmas' in Chicago before being transferred to Southwest Florida.  This is a treasured gift for so many reasons.  So I decided to give a handcrafted Christmas ornament, you can see it here.  I added gold inlay as well.  

While I did not have the ornament for the shower I did print the photo and mounted it on card stock.   So the gift would really be in the wrapping.

Pretty Packages

If you are like me I love to give and get beautifully wrapped gifts.  I am not a fan of gift bags unless the gift is such an unusual shape that the best solution is a gift bag to wrap it.  

I knew the bride's colors were pale pinks and corals so my color palette was Blushing Bride (how appropriate), Calypso Coral, and Very Vanilla.  I used a Tag A Bag Gift Box.   These are perfect because the Acetate sleeve can be decorated and then slide off to reveal the gift without needing to "undo" the wrapping.  I was inspired by a similar design by Kirsty Brown.

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The flowers were made with the Spiral Flower Originals Die.  I am still working on perfecting my spiral flowers.

So while the ornament is being hand-crafted the bride-to-be still had something pretty to open.  I thought it could hold some special notes or other trinkets from her day for years to come.

Thought to start the week:

"It's not happiness that brings us gratitude, it's gratitude that brings us happiness."  

I am grateful you stopped by today!  I hope I got YOUR StampinMojo going.

Michelle

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