Simple Saturday and a Give-Away Winner!

Hello there and Happy Saturday to you! Better late then never with this post today. Today was a very busy day. Whew! I thought I would share the card I didn't post last week for "Keep it Simple Saturday". I was doing really well posting a CAS (clean and simple) card every week...last week I broke the streak. *sigh*

My card was pretty simple in the fact that I simply pulled out a piece of Greenhouse Gala DSP that I had yet to use. I grabbed card stock in coordinating colors and used last weeks sketch from The Paper Players for the design. The colors have a very retro, "1970's-vibe", don't you think? The only stamping is the sentiment (from the Wow Flowers set). The whole card took about 15 minutes to create, including the finished inside:

Today is also the day to announce the winner of the April Subscription to Craft Project Central! Whoo hoo! Thank you to everyone who took the time to leave such nice comments! :) After entering the total number of comments that were left into random.org:

**The lucky winner is Patti C.!!**

Please stop by her blog, What are You Inking and check out her awesome creations! Congratulations, Patti! Please email me at: annemariehile (at) satx (dot) rr (dot) com so I can give you the deets about your subscription to CPC. 

Thanks for hopping by today! Please stop back again soon! 

Have a HAPPY rest of your day today! :) 

Keep it Simple Saturday Week 7

Hi there and welcome to week 7 of "Keep it Simple Saturday". This card hit a new record for me, as it was assembled in 6 minutes flat! Ha! It would have been 5 but I dropped a piece of bling on the floor and had to fight the cat for it! I also used the Pocket Silhouettes stamp set for the first time since I bought it. Sigh, I really need to get better at that. Overall, there is nothing uber-special about this card, but it was a perfect thank you card, in a pinch. 

The color combo came from the advice of the trusty Color Coach. The Color Coach never, ever lies and it is my "go-to" tool for picking a fabby combo in a snap:

That's all for today! I hope you like this one. Be sure to stop back tomorrow to see the fabulous new challenge at The Paper Players. I have a feeling you are going to have a LOT of fun with it! ;) I know I did! 

Have a great rest of your day! 

Keep it Simple Saturday with the Dapper Dogs

Hello there! It's the 6th week of "Keepin' it Simple"!  It's kind of fun to challenge myself to create a card in under 30 minutes. This past week I really didn't have a ton of time to create so it worked out perfectly. I did cheat a little and use a color combo I that I have used with this stamp set, in the past. I saw a piece of that DSP in my scrap pile and just went with it.

• The stamps are from the Season of Friendship set. I love this set and it has seen a LOT of ink, especially those little leaves. It's so easy to color them with markers to create fun pops of color with little effort.

• The color combo is More Mustard, Really Rust (ret.) and *deep sigh* Sage Shadow (also ret.). I still haven't come to terms with that color retiring. Good thing I stocked up on it. I only use it for special occasions...and special people! :)

• Using a die cut and punches made putting it all together a snap. A few little pieces of bling and a dressed up button finished it off. I meant to paper pierce the corner punches...whoops, I just remembered that. Oh look, my sentiment is a bit crooked, too. Ugh! 

Before I go, I wanted to share a photo with you from earlier today. When I picked my boys up from the groomers, this is what I was met with: 

Look at those little angelic faces!! They both got new "dapper 'do's" for the warmer weather. Ozzy is a little bit shorter then I planned, but like any haircut...it will grow back. I had to laugh at their little John Deere bandanna's, too. That is probably the closest either of them will ever get to a tractor. Haha! 


With that, I will sign off until tomorrow. Please come back then to see my card for the new challenge at The Paper Players! Thanks for stopping by. Have a great rest of your day! :)


PS: Did you notice the new look on my blog? I have to thank my fabulous friend, Lesley for the awesome design. Thank you again, Lesley! You rock and I LOVE it! :)