Friday, July 3, 2009

Enjoy Your Day!


For those of you who are not in retail like I am and can enjoy a four day holiday weekend, today's post is for you! Enjoy your day! I made this card for the My Favorite Things Challenge on Splitcoaststampers: "Paper Piecing". I paper pieced her skirt and top with the designer papers from DCWV 'The Pet Stack'. I just love how the skirt turned out....don't you? The centers dots are actually sparkly and raised in real life, the camera just doesn't show it. The rest of the designer papers in the background are also from the same stack, and the card stock colors are White, Chocolate Chip, Wild Wasabi, and Tempting Turquoise. The sentiment is retired Stampin Up! 'Riveting'. The image is from 'Gone to the Dogs'.

My next two cards were for the MFT sketch challenge but I didn't use MFT stamps, I used a $1.00 clear acrylic stamp purchased from JoAnne's Fabrics and Crafts. The paper is all from DCWV 'The Summer Stack'. Card stock colors are White, Night of Navy and Wild Wasabi for the first card, and White and So Saffron for the second card. I send birthday cards to everyone in my church and I got two calls yesterday from the church secretary who gave me the names of two little girls whose names weren't on my list so I missed their birthdays. So I whipped these cards up quick to send them to them so that they will know they were not forgotten.



Well have a Happy Fourth of July everyone. I work tomorrow, but I'm happy about it because I get paid time and half! Yippee! It will be interesting to see if were busy or not. I can't imagine many people wanting to shop in a fabric store on the 4th of July. Maybe we'll actually have time to straighten up the store for a change! We have a huge sale going on all weekend and yesterday was the first day of our sale, so we were VERY busy, and I was on the cash register all day....so you can just imagine how stressed I was. But I must admit, I'm getting better at it all the time.
Have a great day! I'm going outside to enjoy some sunshine for the first time in a week! Its been cold and cloudy for so long I thought I'd never see the sun again. Amy


12 comments:

  1. Great job on the paper piecing. Beautifully done!

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  2. Love your paper piecing and especially your color choices. Great cards!

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  3. What adorable cards, love the paper piecing...and I have the turtle stamp too, although haven't inked it up yet, it looks amazing! Very nice work!

    Pleasantly,

    Paula

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  4. I think the skirt and top are SO stylish. I really like the paper you chose.

    The turtles are cute and perfect for little girls. I still haven't figured out how I can use that large, bold, print from the summer stack that you used on the second card.

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  5. Your cards are adorable!! Love the paper piecing!! I remember the days of every other weekend and no holidays work when I was a nurse at the hospital!

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  6. GREAT cards!! I love the double ribbon and papers ont he first one!

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  7. OMGosh, Amy, fabulous paper piecing! All your cards are terrific!
    have a super weekend!
    Blessings, Maria

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  8. Amazing, cards Amy. The dp on the paper pieced card is worthy of the runway ! Fantastic job on all of them. - Tracy -

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  9. FANTASTIC job on the paper piecing!! LOVE how you did her skirt ... awesome creation!! The turtles are cute too! Hope you didn't have to work too hard today!!!

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  10. Wow what great cards Amy, I just LOVE how you paper pieced her and those colors are terrific!! Those turtles are just soooo cute!!! Wonderful cards!

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  11. Fabulous job with the paper piecing...I especially love the funky turtles!

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  12. Amy these are so cute. I love the first one. I bet you could buy fabric like that in your store. I love to sew. I wish we had a fabric store here. The little gals at church will love these cards. TFS

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