I pulled out my October Afternoon goodies

I ventured over to the October Afternoon blog this week and guess what I found? Some sketches and a challenge! So, I'm not sure how it gets better, a sketch to use and it required pulling out my yummy October Afternoon supplies!

They offered three sketches to chose from and so I picked the second one. I also have quite a supply of their wonderful stamp sets so I knew I also needed to pull them out. The bird and the flower branch are stamped as is the word "smile". The little "notes" die cut is by October Afternoon too. I used a wonderful color of Vintage collection Core'dinations cardstock for the card base and you can see the sanded edges on that. The pink paper is punched with a border punch from a piece of pink Core Essentials cardstock.

While I had these wonderful prints out, I wanted to still use them so I went to 2 Sketches 4 You and decided to use Kazan's sketch #27 sketch. I already loved this houndstooth print and thought it would be fun to pair it up with these red and black and cream prints. The card base is a piece of Whitewash Core'dinations cardstock. Again, notice the sanded edges and the one border piece is punched from the inside color of this paper.

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Want to see what we did on Monday? Santa Barbara has the best, little zoo. It makes for a relaxing afternoon and believe me, we weren't the only ones with the idea that this would be a fun thing to do on a holiday!We took two of our grandkids and you can believe this little guy LOVED the day.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SMILE card
Materials:
Cardstock –Vintage Collection/Core’dinations
Patterned papers and punch out die cut – October Afternoon
Stamps – October Afternoon
Border punch – Martha Stewart
Stamp pads – Clearsnap
Versamark Black stamp pad
Copic Markers
Ribbon
Flower punch – Papershapers/EK Success
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Glitter brad - Doodlebug

HAPPY BIRTHDAY card
Materials:
Cardstock –Whitewash/Core’dinations
Patterned papers – October Afternoon
Circle punch- Marvy
Flower – Bazzill
Brad – Recollection
Sandpaper
Rub-on greeting – Making Memories
Border punch – Martha Stewart
Black stamp pad – Clearsnap