Wednesday, May 27, 2009

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

17 comments:

  1. How fun to go to the zoo... with the grandkids... love your little bird, he's adorable.

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  2. FAB cards Linda...gotta love October Afternoon goodies! Fun pics too...your little guy is a-dorable!

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  3. Beautiful cards Linda! I love that sweet little bird on the first and the bold graphic patterns on the second are fabulous!

    Darling pics! We just took our 2 yr old to the zoo...he had a blast!

    (-: Heidi

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  4. Your cards are, as always, wonderful! And that little grandson of yours...adorable! :o)

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  5. Neato cards Linda! Love the colors on the second...

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  6. Beautiful cards, Linda. I love the square card with the rounded corners - it's so well designed!

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  7. Love October Afternoon! Great cards and the zoo looks like lots of fun!

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  8. Hi Linda
    Both your cards are lovely - I am a huge fan of OA too ;) Your zoo pictures are fab - looks like EVERYONE had fun.
    Thanks for playing
    :) Kazan

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  9. I'm looking for a shamrock border stamp and I thought you might be able to point me in the right direction. I'm going to do our High School 35th Reunion announcements and since we were the "Shamrocks", I want to accent with shamrocks. Any suggestions?

    I'll come back and check for your reply.

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  10. How cute is your little guy! I am sure you had loads of fun with the grandkids!

    Love your take on Kazan's sketch. Such a gorgeous card. Love the mixture of the different pattens and texture.

    Thanks for playing along with us

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  11. What a cute birdie and details!! Lovely card!

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  12. Such wonderful cards, Linda. I love seeing your sweet grandson, too!

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  13. the zoo looks like so much fun! and you know i loooove your projects. they are gorgeous.

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  14. Love both your cards, Linda - but especially the second one. I'm partial to red, cream and black and all your patterns and layers coordinate and enhance each other so beautifully!

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  15. Gorgeousness!!! LOVE them both, esp. the first one. The outing seems fun too. We need to do some!!!

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  16. More gorgeous cards.I really like your color choices. and the detail. you have that touch! And your Grandson is just too cute!

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  17. OA papers are such fun and you made two beauitful cards with them! Looks like a fun trip to the zoo. :-)

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