autumn is a mosaic...

Welcome to 365 Cards Super Sketchy Sunday!

We are so excited to have Prickley Pear as our Sponsor this week!

Make sure you pop over to their STORE...they have hundreds of wonderful stamps and other goodies like coordinating dies!

Here's the fun sketch for this week!

I wanted to keep the overall design crisp to really bring out the wonderful Prickley Pear leaf image I got to play with...

...lots of stitching and distressing...with ink and my trusty Heidi Swapp distressor...

For those that know me, I tend to keep the interior CAS = non-embellished.  haha....but I have this wonderful quote that I wanted to incorporate into my card design...

The font is wonderfully whimsical...I inked the leaf image in PTI Orange Zest and stamped off once before stamping again on top of the quote which reads:

Winter is

an etching,

Spring

a watercolor,

Summer

an oil painting

& Autumn

a mosaic

of them all.

Stanley Horowitz

I framed the quote with some distressed scallop strips...all the paper is ala PTI {kraft/orange zest/new leaf} along with the buttons {fine linen} which makes my card eligible for the fabbie A Passion for Papertrey's current challenge, Awesomely Autumnal {insert me waving to Aimes!}...wishin' I could have joined them in their make & take this weekend but alas, the commute is a smidge too far:)

Thanks for poppin' by and make sure you check out the 365 Cards blog to be inspired by the other Sunday Sketchy Crew Gals!

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hip to be square...

I am hoping that Aimes smiled when she read the blog post title..more on that in a smidge...

I've been having fun making little gifties...trying to stock up for the holiday's and I really don't have fun mass producing so if I do a couple gifties a week, I should be good by the time Christmas rolls around...which by the way is in almost, gulp, 3 months?!!!!

I can't remember who's blog it was but the girl ran out of patterned paper and had to order more...dang, who was that? Anywho's, I probably have a small lifetime supply of the stuff and I'm trying to use what I have {notice I didn't say that I wasn't going to pick up anything new..sigh}

I do love MME...their papers are soo nice and fun:)

What's that? I KNOW...I inked up some Papertrey goodness...LOL...most of you know that I'm a coffee-a-holic but maybe what you all don't know is that I have tea while I'm at work..black tea...

Get it...wisdom = owls....haha..okay, okay, I just had to fit that sweet paper in somehow:)

Here's the little surprise giftie...

The Tea folder is wrapped up with some Stampin' Up twill...no sewing on this puppy as I created it while the kidlets were sleeping...{nice momma}...

The total icing on the cake, or Tea Folder is that it emcompasses many challenges...I'm trying to multi-task here:

First up is Paige's challenge of Cards with Pockets:

The next challenge is over on Yvonne Yam's blog....her Guest blogger is Julie Elak and her challenge is to create a non-card/layout:

Last but certainly not least....woot woot Aimes...I finally made it over to A Passion for Papertrey!!! The challenge is "Hip to be Square" :

Next up is another card:)

I used my Bo Bunny Peacock Lane papers...

The inspiration for the card is from a couple different sources...first up is the CardPatterns sketch:

Love the sketch and basically stitched almost every panel INCLUDING the scallop-ie peacock panel:)

The sentiment is from Schlosser Designs Furnishing Fun:


Did you know that Schlosser Designs is sponsoring the EtsyInspired Challenges??!!!!

This week's etsy shop is Pegasus Maiden...I picked out this headband:

aha...so now the Peacock Lane papers make perfect sense now, right?! LOL...thanks so much for stopping by and be on the look out for my other post for today...it is regarding the Skipping Stones Designs Blogs 4 Boobies fundraiser that ends today....and don't forget that today is the last day to enter the E.A.D Designs Farmer's Market Color Challenge!!!!

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