Saturday and Unscripted Sketches & Core'dinations Notification.

Well another week and I need to spend some time scrapping. I am getting behind but got caught up in cleaning out my scraproom. Core'dination's sent me a huge box of goodies and it was the straw that broke the camel's back - made me say YEP time to clean up this room. I now have HUGE box of give away things in the middle of the room and still have a ton to go through. But tomorrow we are going to Round Rock and celebrate my mother's 85th birthday. My oldest daughter, Kim and her crew of five, Brandy and her friend, Liz, my sister and her daughter and family - so yes we will have a crowd - guessing about 20 and that's not even half of us.
But for today here's my card for Unscripted Sketches this week. Actually, I've already given this card away as my good friend lost her mother recently. This was for her.



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Thurday and For Your Inspiration

Happy Thursday! Start of my three days off and such a welcome time! Got my oldest and youngest daughters headed home this weekend. We are going to Round Rock to celebrate my mother's 85th birthday! Wow how time passes - doesn't seem possible! Today I have my card for the photo inspiration at For Your Inspiration. I used some Core'dination's Core Amour (one of my favorites!) and an Inkadinkado stamp.




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Saturday and Unscripted Sketches

Sorry to be late but we took off at the last minute to Corpus to spend a little time with our youngest daughter and sooo glad we did! We had a wonderful time with her and her friend's. Spend yesterday morning on a little shopping spree - forgot how much fun it is to shop with Brandy - she SOOOO loves getting new things! I got a little for myself as well. Then we had a nice lunch and spent the rest of the afternoon sitting in the sun chatting with her and her friend. Then a couple of evenings out with Brandy and her friends - course they left us in the dust about 10 pm every evening when we turned in to pumpkins and went home to bed! But a great time and great to get away - decided we have to do this at least once a month!
Sorry I'm posting late but we left in a hurry and forgot to post ahead. Here's my card for Unscripted Sketches this week.





Totally forgot to post about my page for CSI last week - did this page of my granddaughter, Makenna for the color and inspirational challenge.

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Saturday and Unscripted Sketches and some Core'dination's

Well it's Saturday and time for a new sketch over at Unscripted Sketches! First I have to tell you how my last couple of weeks went. To say I'm exhausted is putting it mild and I have to go back to work tomorrow for my regular schedule again which is Sun, Mon and Wed (those are 12 hour days and I live an hour away from work). I had switched my schedule around to try to get a few days at the beach and when that fell through the person I had switched with decided she would just like to keep the switch and not change back to my regular schedule. SO with that said I ended up working Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed AND then at 4 :50 am on Thurs got a call that I was called in for another 12!!! I had totally forgotten that was my "on call" day and sure enough someone had called in. Until about 10 am I would have just dropped and cried if anything had gone wrong - after about 10 I finally got in gear again and made it through the rest of the day just fine. BUT now I only had two days to recover and now I'll head back to my regular schedule tomorrow. Twelve hour days are hard as a young nurse - as the oldest nurse in my unit they can be a killer if I don't get time to recover in between. It's not that I don't love my job- I do and going back this time has been very rewarding - families really appreciate my experience and my age but it's when I get home that I realize how tired I get.
BUT on to more important things on a Saturday morning! I have a sketch and a couple of cards and a layout for you today. Got more on my desk that I hope to get to as well.
First off is my card for Unscripted Sketches. I used a cute Smooches stamp with some Echo Park (I am going to get through some of my stash as I have a trip to Archiever's planned in a couple of weeks).




Next up is the color challenge for March this month over at Core'dination's. I love the greens on this color pallet and it seems so appropriate for this month.
Then the question was brought up over on the Design Team blog as to whether or not any of us had printed on the Pearls cardstock so I gave it a try and it worked beautifully. The stamp is another of my Smooches stamps.Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day. OH the good part of last week was that while I was working my kitchen was getting done - new texture and paint. All I have left to do is the trim and then the back entry and pantry/laundry room! Looking good!

Wednesday and CSI

Oh wow - this last week has kicked my A!!! One more day and then I have three off - hope that's enough to recover! I don't get tired when I'm at work but when I'm headed home wow - knocks me out! BUT I had today off and dh said - don't think you are doing anything but chilling. So here I am in my scrap room looking for something to do. Oh yeah - no problem! Found this inspiration over at CSI where I have wanted to get started playing again - I totally love color challenges! I found a layout on Pinterest that inspired me with the layout and used the colors and the challenged at CSI to create this page of my adorable granddaughter, Makenna!


Used some Core'dinations together with some pp from a Noel Mignon kit. Note the new Core'dination's tags - aren't they awesome!


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Designed 2 Delight Blog Hop

Time for another reveal from the Designed to Delight Design Team. Here are a couple of cards I've done with some of Faith's newest images. They are all available now in the store at the Designed to Delight Blog.


This is the order for the hop:

1. Blog hop starts on designed2delight.com/blog

2. Debbie - you are HERE!

3. Pat - next stop!

4. Peggy

5. Kathy

6. Michelle H.

7. Michelle P.

8. Katie

If you get lost just head back to the D2D blog and catch up again. There will be free giveaways - I'll be giving away a free image for a winner from my blog as will each team member. There will also be a 20% discount on the new images for the next three days. As always thanks for stopping by!

Saturday and Unscripted Sketches

Saturday again and half way through my horrible schedule! I worked Mon, Wed and Fri - off today and back for Sun/Mon and Wed this week. I'm brain dead but functioning. Trying to enjoy a little time with Brandy while she's here and keeping up with my exercise. Pretty proud of myself - of the 5 1/2 miles I usually walk I'm running probably 3/4th of it. Brandy harps on me that I need to spend more time at the gym working out with weights and less time on the road but it's so easy to just put on my running shoes and head out.
But here's my card for Unscripted Sketches this week. I really like how it turned out. It was not the first card I made but when I went to post it I had missed the added challenge to use green so I went back and came up with this. This is some gorgeous May Arts Ribbon I got last year and would die to find more of - I just love how it looks. The papers are Basic Grey sentiment tag is a Spellbinders and the flower is Prima.




And here's my sketch for the Sketchabilities sketch this week.Hope you enjoy your day - thanks for stopping by!