retro sketches #165 with Treats of Friendship

I love tea and anything tea themed. In fact, I'm drinking some tea right now! So when I saw retro sketches #165 and the teacups were in the sketch, I was inspired to make a card. Of course, I knew I didn't have to use teacups but I just wanted to! So glad the deadline was extended! Here's the sketch:

Here's my card:

I paper pieced the teacups from Treats of Friendship with some leftover Taste of Summer papers and used the Blossom paper pack for the rest. Pacifica is the stamp pad I used for the sentiment and the black is Memento Tuxedo black. If you're looking for some great scissors for paper piecing or any fussy cutting, I highly recommend CTMH's Non-stick Micro-tip Scissors. They are wonderful!

It's been so long since I participated in a card or scrapbook challenge. I'm hoping now that school and work are winding down, I may have more time for them.

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You're Amazing: Retrosketch #22

My order of new CTMH stuff arrived yesterday and I got a little bit of time this morning to create! CTMH has come out with a wonderful new Cricut cartridge called Artiste (available August 1st). I sat for about half an hour just looking through all of the things in the accompanying handbook. Go to this link to see the handbook online: http://www.cricut.com/res/handbooks/artiste_handbook_web.pdf

I'll be showing the items I make with Artiste on my blog throughout the week but my first item is this quick little card for my nephew. In addition to the Artiste cartridge for cutting the notebook shaped paper, I used stamps from one of the sets that come with the cartridge bundle, two sheet from the new Avonlea paper pack (solid teal cardstock and patterned paper) and a sheet from the new Scholastic paper pack (graph paper...LOVE stationery themed papers!).

I used Retrosketches #22 for some inspiration.

I love this sketch...it's very elegant and well balanced! You can go many ways with it and I just kept things simple. I wasn't sure if my nephew would want anything too fussy. But I can see myself using this sketch again with a more gussied up card. :-)

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A Little Birdie - Retro Sketches #17

It seems that I am gravitating to sketch challenges lately! I made some more time for creating (don't worry, I did do some laundry too finally!) and based my card on Retro Sketch #17.

I pulled out my CTMH June Stamp of the Month, which I love but hadn't used yet! This is what I came up with.

The outside doesn't really make sense by itself  so here's a pic of the inside.

Supplies used (All CTMH except where noted): (S1206) A Little Birdies stamp set, (Z2105) Black stamp pad, (X7154B) Cruisin' Level 2 paper pack, (Z1701) Baker's Twine Neutral Assortment, (Z578) Corner Rounder, Spellbinders Lattice Rectangles Nestabilities, Crayola and Loew-Cornell Colored Pencils

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