I Love sketches!

And I just love the Fall-to-Layouts on the Clean and Simple Stamping Blog.  How did I not find these earlier??

I came across a card at my fellow  TCC DT Colleen’s blog the other day where she mentioned the CAS blog and it was just the right amount of inspiration for the birthday cards I needed to make to drop off at the hair salon.

I made 3 cards, but will share them with you one at a time…only because I don’t know how much stamping/blog time I’ll have this week.  My best customer  Mom called telling me that a very good friend of our family is turning 80 this year and there’s a surprise birthday party for him.  Unfortunately both my sister and I live out of town and won’t be able to attend.  My mom wants something flashy and I have just THE thing; so I’ll be working on that and some other projects this week.

Now to the card; I think I will use this layout over and over again.  I’m totally obsessed with the colour orange, and buttons, and distressing, so this is one of my favourite cards :)

I used the Fall-To-Layout (FTL)52 for this first card.  I NEED to go buy more Kraft paper, I just love this stuff! {yes, I know, I love a lot of things ;)}

I used Kraft for the card base, Chocolate Chip for the scalloped piece, with my SU scallop edge punch {anyone know how to sharpen that thing? I’ve only used it a few times, and it doesn’t always make a sharp cut}, Pumpkin Pie for the layering and ink, Very Vanilla for the image and sentiment panel and my fav Birthday Whimsy stamp set.  The button is from some blog candy I won a while back, and then some string I had in my stash.  I distressed with my Tim Holtz distressing tool, with some new Tim Holtz Tea Stain distressing ink {it’s very subtle, I’m still playing with it and applicators}.

I’m trying to remember to decorate the inside of the card, and I think I skip this step because I get stumped.  I do recall someone saying, just mimic the front and it will all fit.  So I layered the coloured cardstock over the Very Vanilla, used the scallop punch again and stamped another present in Pumpkin Pie.

I’m going to go back to relaxing on the couch.  I walked/ran a 2km course this morning in memory of my friend’s step mom who lost her battle to cancer in May.  We had a great turn out {79 people raised $12 000, which is incredible!} and I’m looking forward to doing it again next year.

Happy Sunday!

Ciao for now,

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