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Good Saturday morning!  Welcome back for some more cardmaking inspiration with Sketch Saturday #770. Today’s sketch is a landscape design with a couple of layers, a swirl and arrows or chevron.  Here is the sketch: My card is pretty true to the sketch with a patterned background paper then solid cardstock layer & finally a...

Welcome to the weekend!  It’s time for Sketch Saturday #769. Today’s sketch is fairly simple with the twist being to feature a flower. Here is my example: My starting point was the flower die cut, which I substituted for the hexagon layer. I chose the background cardstock from the darker buds and then added the...

It’s time for Sketch Saturday #768. Today’s sketch has four panels on the edge of the card and a small square.  The twist is to include a heart. So, first of all I decided to turn the sketch & make it portrait instead of landscape. The way the outside panels are placed suggested movement to...

Hello friends!  I have finally decided on my 2025 Word of the Year – Seasons.  I have felt very busy lately & didn’t even start thinking about a word until the beginning of January. Usually I start thinking about it around November or at least the early part of December, but it just slipped through...

Hello friends!  Today I have Sketch Saturday #764.  Wait – what?  What about Sketch #763?   Well, it seems that I missed the last sketch.  I do want to apologize for that.  Life has been busy around here & I just ran out of time. Side note:  My grandmother used to tell me time goes faster...

Hello my friends!  I am back with my 2024 Word of the Year – Progress.    First, let’s start with the definition:  forward movement, gradual betterment, to develop to a more advanced stage. There are so many quotes about progress, too.  I will try to share those monthly on my social media pages, but the...

Wow!  Hello friends!  I can’t believe another year is almost gone and Christmas is less than a week away.  I thought I would take time to review my 2023 Word of the Year – Value.  You can read why I chose that word in my January post. Now I know that I only had a...