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Hi Everyone, Sorry I'm a little early but I won't be able to post tonite so you can all get a jump on the new sketches. I usually design my own sketches but I didn't have time so I'm picking some of my favorite sketches I have see on the internet from time to time. I will be playing along with you  as I don't have any finished cards to show you at this time so have fun no stressing. Everyone welcome to join just remember to post your pics for all to share. Well ENJOY! There's 3 sketches and 1 extra credit which I would like you all to make a fathers day card. I will attach the cards to this post as I do them. #1 sorry no cricut just a lot of bling bling bling  and the add colors to boot. #2 uses Cricut Phrases cart #3 no cricut on #4 used winter woodland for scalloped circle and circle. Extra credit card. Edited by user Friday, April 13, 2012 10:07:37 AM(UTC)
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cstanzione: Wow! You posted early and I might just be able to make one card before tomorrow morning! Woohoo! LOL! Great sketches and well you know... how can I say no to flowers! Thank you Edited by user Tuesday, April 10, 2012 12:03:10 PM(UTC)
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Cindy, thanks for hosting! I had to laugh, I was going to use the first sketch of yours when I host next, lol! I have had the second sketch for a long time now in photobucket, but had never used it yet either, lol! I made a card for sketch 3, but I have to wait for everything to dry before I can take a picture of it!
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Well I got one made pretty fast because I had most of the pieces already ready to go for another card to enter in the Jingle Belles challenge which happens to also fit sketch 2... I just had to assemble it!
Sketch 2 Details on my blog
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Raquel, that is a perfect card for the J B challenge! I just love that striped paper you used, and those holly leaves! Great card! Here is sketch 3 flipped! Edited by user Tuesday, April 10, 2012 2:21:01 PM(UTC)
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Thanks Cindy for the sketches! I will come back later and post comments for the cards that have already been made. Some of you have been really quick off the mark!
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Cindy....thanks for the great sketches and for posting early. Here are this weeks ad colors and they should prove easier than last week's. LOL. I was never able to come with anything and got so frustrated that I stopped right there. I then started a MAJOR sorting out of all my papers, stamps, cuts, and supplies. I've still got a long way to go! Raquel....Love the card. Your flowers always amaze me. Sandy....very nice card...love the coloring. Enjoy.....Dee [img=http://]  [/img]
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Wow nice sketches Shelby, and Dee wonderful colors.
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It felt good to spend some time in my craftroom! Here's my card for Sketch #1 - a 25th anniversary for dear friends. Not too much Cricut - the base silver and white frame is Elegant Edges and the flowers are from the Sweethearts cart (edges were lightly inked in silver and Glimmer Mist in Dazzling Diamonds). Flourish is Tim Holtz (used Versamark and clear embossing powder for shine and strength. The 2 strips are heavy duty aluminium foil on scraps then embossed. The glitter 25 was found in the clearance bin at Michaels. For embellishments - a few pearl hearts and a bit of silver ric rac. Edited by user Tuesday, April 10, 2012 5:41:44 PM(UTC)
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RAQ – Wonderful Sketch #2 – Lovely flower (as usual), great embossing and the contrasting paper with the flower and stripes is perfect! I better get back to making a few more Christmas cards this month!
Sandy – You always do such an amazing job with the coloured images! In looking at it closely, it’s interesting how the coloring extends to the edges of the cut-outs of the frame. It looks really good! Lovely choice of background paper! Great flowers and embellishments!
Dee – thanks for the colours!
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cstan....thanks so much for hosting.....ah i wish i were home today to have been able to get some done, these are inspiring sketches! :)
raq you were right it works great for both challenges!! love the papers, flower, leaves, ok everything! :) hehehe
sandy love the card swapped around! great job as always on the coloring!
gisele love all the white n greys great job on all the embellishments
dee thanks so much for the ad colors i still have to throw in ones for last week too along with the sketches
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i got one done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Been crazy busy lately. Will update you guys later... but here is the first sketch. I used art noveau 
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sunnieday love all about this card! the patterns of paper, colors, etc.... Edited by user Tuesday, April 10, 2012 8:52:04 PM(UTC)
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Cindy,
Thanks for the pretty sketches, can't really pick a favorite. I'm not good at all when it comes to making flowers, but I will give them a try! Like the Extra Credit Challenge, too!
DeeScraps,
Thanks for the Ad Colors, perfect colors for the flowery sketches from Cindy.Edited by user Tuesday, April 10, 2012 11:34:18 PM(UTC)
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My Extra Credit Father's Day Card:
Shilhouette - A Child's Year Cartridge
Bat and Sentiment - Computer-generated
Stars and Baseball - Sticko stickers from Michael's
Embossing - CB Swiss Dots folder
DAD - Beyond Birthdays Cartridge
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Sunnieday – Wonderful card for Sketch #1 – everything works so well – the contrasting yellows and blues/green. Turtlebug – Great extra credit card! The background paper works well with the baseball theme! Great silhouettes! Here’s my card for Sketch #2! Cricut used Joys of the Season for Star banner, Wrap it Up for graduation cap tag and Blackletter for 2012. Gisele attached the following image(s):
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Cindy Great sketches this week Hope to be able to play
Sandy I love your card
Raq very pretty Christmas card.
Sunnieday great job on your card.
Turtlebug love your Father's day card.
Giselle love your card
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Gisele, I always love seeing your different style on cards! Your Anniversary card is wonderful! Love all the added pearls, and foil! Those white flowers are fabulous too! I love the way you did the graduation card too! I love the 2012 especially! Sunnieday, glad to see a card from you this week! Really neat looking card! Great job on all the inking! Turtlebug, great Dad card! Love the green grass background paper! It gives it a ballpark kind of feel to it! Love the bat and ball too! Sketch 1 SandyPalmer attached the following image(s):
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RAQ- love that christmas card especially the flower you do have a knack for flowers. Sandy- sketch #1 OMG I have to have that card  . it is just absolutely georgous where did that back ground paper come from love it. Dee- thanks for the add colors very pretty. Sunnieday- very pretty card love the color scheme. Turtlebug- a girl after my own heart you out did yourself this week love your fathers day card. Gisele-love the colors on this card ver elegant great card. I know there is more people will finish commenting tonite gotta go to work.Edited by user Wednesday, April 11, 2012 11:07:24 AM(UTC)
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Cindy wonderful cards, love the bows and the flowers and # 3 all the decor and the piano paper so nice.
Raguel, wow that is a pretty Xmas card.
Gisele, love the anniversary card, and the grat card nice, you gave me an idea to make some.
Turtlebug, one awesome card, I like the silhouettes and the little bat and ball.
I'm going to have to buy that cart with the silhouettes.
Sunnieday, nice to see you with your wonderful cards.
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Thanks Cindy for the great sketches, hope to have one done soon. I have to make
my granddaughter a birthday card and it fits right into sketch #4
Dee great colors
AND wow you ladies have been busy already lots of lovely cards already posted
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Here is my sketch #4, I didn't do it as a Fathers Day card.
Our granddaughter turned 17 yesterday and she has a Pug so this is the card
I made for her, we are going to take her to dinner tonight.
Label on the front is cut from Art Philosophy cartridge.
Plaid paper is from Jak Heath, not sure if any of your are familiar with her and her blog
but she has some awesome papers and things you can print out for free. I just printed this
plaid paper on cardstock.
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Gee so many pretty cards already.... Here is my first one of sketch 2 i used ribbons and rosettes added a little extras... Going to try to do some more... Like i said nice work on all the cards so far.... joanneorbash attached the following image(s):
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All my kids are sick! I was hoping to get at least one more card done by now. They all had high temperatures on Tuesday night. Bouncing virus from one to another... says the doctor
SandyPalmer: cute and gorgeous at the same time... is that possible? LOL... love this card. Did you make the flowers yourself? That's really pretty. Oh my, another gorgeous card. I love the contrast of the black flourish among all the soft colors and of course, the flowers... melts my heart
DeeScraps: Love the colors... thanks for posting these. I'm sure the only problem I'll have with these colors is which paper to use
Gisele: lovely card... look at all the details! Wow, I see a new detail each time I look at this card. Love it! What a great graduation card. Love the papers and the colors really appeal to me. Have I mentioned I love blues? Navy blue is my favorite!
sunnieday: YAY! You're back and with a great card... those are great colors together and love the flowers
Turtlebug: awesome "dad" card... love that grass background and you did a great job with the silhouette
BingoLady: oooh great "dad" card... loving those flowers you used. Great use of your signature embossing here and love that gingham paper
*NanaDonna*: cute cute cute puppy! You did a great job coloring it and wonderful print job on the paper. Love the scrunch up ribbon... I'll have to try that sometime
joanneorbash: very pretty card... wonderful job with that rosette and very nice you used a fancy trim for it. I really like what you topped it with as well... very unique
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Yours cards are very beautifull,i had bought mine,those are nice Wedding Favors
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Also... I haven't asked in a long time, but if any of you (regular participants) who have never hosted before and would like to take a turn at it, please send me a PM and we can arrange something
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My #3 Sketch Card in the Ad Colors:
Sentiment - Rubber Stamp
Embossing - Stylized Flowers
Oval - Spellbinders
Flowers - Michael's $1.50 Bin.....NO MORE 99 cent bins!!
Sorry, no Cricut on this one! The flourish is actually a dark green I found in my Stash Box, but posted black!!?? Added blue flower ribbon and pearls. Flowers had pearl centers when bought.
TFL!!
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cstanzione: ooooh your cards weren't there when I saw the sketches the first time. Beautiful! Love all the sparkles on both. Love love love that piano paper and the blues and the flowers... and just everything! Turtlebug: ooooh my goodness... loving all the flowers on this card! Beautiful trims and such pretty flowers. Great job with the Ad colors Edited by user Thursday, April 12, 2012 1:17:46 AM(UTC)
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cstanzione
#3 - Love the colors, sheer black ribbon and all the glitz & glitter. Tiny flowers look so real, did you make them?
#2 - Great card, nice color combo, perfect piano keys paper for the sentiment. Love the blingy swirl.
Raquel
#2 - Very pretty, love the striped paper, flower and the verigated greenery. Very Christmasy!! Hope kids are all better and you managed to avoid getting sick, too!
SandyPalmer
#3 - Very cute, love all the deatils and the double frame. Like how you flipped it and the cute image.
#1 - WOW!!... very pretty and so elegant. Pretty BG paper, flowers and sentiment, like how the bold black flourish pops against the soft colors.
DeeScraps,
Thanks for the pretty color combo. I used it on my #3 sketch above and it wasn't as hard to bring all the colors together as I first thought it would be. But, it was still sort of challenging!
Gisele
#1 - Beautiful anniversary card! So much detail and all put together so well. Love everything about, especially the embossed foil. Your friends will love!!
#2 - Very nice Grad card, love the "subjects" paper and the tag. Like the font of the "2012".
Sunnieday
#1 - Nice, like the papers and card looks very 3-diminsional. Are those surfboards in the backgound? If they are, you picked the perfect colors for Surf "n Sand!
BingoLady
#1 - WOW! Really like this card, great color combo and embossing. The tiny flowers are so cute and like the dark colors against the soft yellow gingham pattern.
NanaDonna
Extra Credit Card - So cute! Love the BG paper colors and pattern. Like the little floral brads and the double frame. Puppy looks a little sad, is he missing Emma, too!?
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#2 - Very nice, love the pleated flower and butterfly. Like how you embossed half of the card and used matching pattern paper on the other half.
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