Merry Monday/ColourQ Fly By!

Beyond quick post today but I didn't want to miss out on the fun!

Sketch from Merry Monday and colour theme from ColourQ.

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Not your typical Christmas colours but what fun!

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Sweet Summer Flowers

Happy Friday All! Hope you are all looking forward to the week ahead.
As per usual we have a very busy one. I am in the process of wrapping up work now before we head home for our vacation and so with that and other commitements the next few weeks are going to be a wee bit insane. I am doing my best to keep up with my blogging but daily posts are just not going to be possible for a little while :)

Here is a card I made combining three lovely challenges. The sketch comes from Freshly Made, the colour theme comes from The Colour Throwdown and Summer theme comes from The Paper Players.

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I am loving this Easy Events stamp set! So many options for lovely cards all from the one simple set.

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My Very 1st Scrapling!

Hope you are all having a great week! This will be a quick entry as nap time if coming to an end :)

This is the project I worked on using the design idea from the Friday Mashup challenge and the colour theme from Dynamic Duos. At FM we were asked to make a project using scraps of patterned paper or ribbon, made a scrapling (which is a little card, notecard or tag used from scraps left over from making a square card), or mash them up – which I did!

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I have to say a had a wee bit of trouble coming up with an idea for this card. I have LOADS of scraps and would love to use them up someday but making it all fit into one project can sometimes he a little difficult :)

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Kindess Matters...

What a wonderful day!!! We have 4 bottles of homemade spaghetti sauce,
3 homemade chicken pot pies, 3 jars of chicken stew & 2 dozen banana chocolate chip muffins for the freezer. It has been a wonderfully productive day here at The Kew residence!!!

This is the second card that I had the chance to make at nap time today. I used the sketch from Retrosketches and the colour theme from The Play Date Cafe.

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I love this sentiment, it is truly one of my favs {heart}.

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Dimensional Galore!

A quiet Sunday with my boys & bump is just what this mama needed. I got up with the little man this morning to let my hubby sleep in (mind you Ethan slept until 8:15am YAHOOO) so I was totally fine with that! We had breakfast and then took off to the grocery store. Made it home just in time for lunch and then a nap for the wee man while daddy played his game and mama crafted (made 2 cards today!). Ethan is just waking up, him and I are going to make muffins while daddy works on his homemade spaghetti sauce for supper and to freeze. How did you all spend your Sunday? :)

For this card I used the sketch from Try Stampin' on a Tuesday and the colour theme from The Colour Throwdown (which oddly enough almost matched the colours in the sketch!).

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As my vacation draws closer only 43 days before we leave to head home I am starting to think... How will I live without my craft room??? lol I have a feeling the beaches and berry picking and bbq's and time with family and friends will help me cope!

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the sky's the limit...

Another close call with his post but better almost late than not at all, right? :)Sometimes I take on a weee bit more than I should and thus my personal craft time takes a back seat!

This card was created with the sketch from Mojo Monday and the colour theme from ColourQ. I saw a fabulous card that a fellow stamper had made this week and it inspired me to use this stamp set.

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I was quite a fan of this colour pairing! What about you?

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Season of Giving!

Wow I am cutting this one close! We have had a few busy days and thus I have not been spending much time crafting. But if there is one of the challenges I am currently taking part in THIS one I cannot miss!!!

For my Merry Monday card I chose to break into the vault of holiday dsp that I have. For some reason I have no trouble parting with regular dsp as it retires but I hold on to ALL of the holidays papers! Deep down I believe Christmas cards are my favourite to make.

So I went with The Merry Holiday dsp and colour theme: Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Old Olive, Garden Green and Very Vanilla. Hope you like!

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I decided not to colour in the pressies the little elf was holding onto as a personal stab at commercialism at Christmas time lol We are trying to make sure Ethan & Baby Kew grow up with a healthy understanding that Christmas is not about receieving but about giving to others! Last year Ethan and I made 24 cupcakes for a local homeless shelter and he picked two Angel's (children in the comminuty in need) to buy a Christmas present for and this year we plan to make 36 cupcakes and pick three Angel's!

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