100% Tough Guy - SSD #117

I needed a card for my nephew's birthday so I chose one of the older masculine sets, Tough Guy to go with this cute sketch from Kazan Clark for the last sketch of the month at Skipping Stones Design.  It has been so much fun being a Guest Designer this month.  I hope you'll play along for SSD Sketch 117!

Skipping Stones Design #90-Happy 30th Birthday!

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For this weeks sketch I needed a '30th Birthday' card:

So I used the sentiment from Green Birthday and made my own little DSP..

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Skipping Stones Design #83 and CR84FN #33

This one is kind of funny, I was going to name it Green Birthday Donuts...I know, it's not green and there are no donuts...but I used the cute little cupcake from Green Birthday and the hilarious sentiment from Birthday Donuts...I just love that sentiment!  Probably because it's been a long time since I was 29 and a long time since I weighed 110 pounds!

I have trouble with CAS cards...I always feel like there is something missing...but here's the first of many great sketches this month from the very talented Kim Kesti:

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And here's the inspiration for the colors from the gang over at CR84FN:

Skipping Stones Design Sketch 79 - Rember when?

And inside:

I've wanted to pair this sentiment from Green Birthday with a 'hippie' theme since I first saw this set but hadn't had the right combination of sketch and timing...I think it goes pretty well with this cute sketch, what do you think?  Play along this week, and be sure to check out the other great creations at Skipping Stones Design.  This is sketch #79.

Masculine Mojo 186-Eat More Cake

I volunteered to make a Birthday Card for my boss at work and decided this combination of sets from Skipping Stones Design would work well with this week's sketch from Mojo Monday:

Supplies:
Stamps: Skipping Stones Design Green Birthday, Buns-N-Crunches, Pumpkin Seed Sentiments
CS: Stampin' Up (Kraft, Choc Chip, Sage Shadow
DSP: Stampin' Up (To The Nines-retired)
Ribbon and Twine: Stampin' Up

Mojo Monday - Designed by:

My baby boy turned 20 on Friday and I used this new 'Designed by' stamp from Technique Tuesday, along with a background stamp from Pumpkin Seed Sentiments and a sentiment from Green Birthday, both from Skipping Stones Design and combined them with the Mojo Monday 185 Sketch Challenge.  Also used some Grunge Board for the arrow and a star brad and twine from Stampin' Up.

Do you think it's close enough to the sketch challenge?

Sketch Tuesday-Fight Global Warming!

I got the inspiration for the layout from Skipping Stones Design April Guest Sketch Artist, Laurie Schmidlin.  This is challenge SSD 71.  We also have two new Guest DT members for April, Mona Pendleton and Diana Fisher.  Be sure to visit and play along with Sketch Tuesday at Skipping Stones Design.

I got the inspiration for the color from Play Date Cafe Challenge #75.

Thus the silver cake plate...I used the metal embossing technique I did several weeks ago for the Skipping Stones Design 'Tips and Tricks Thursday'.  It was quite simple really, I stamped the image from SSD set, Green Birthday on the back of a Spellbinders metal sheet, waited a couple minutes for the ink to dry, then used my stylus to emboss over the image, then flipped it to the front side and trimmed with my little pair of craft scissors.  I was pretty excited how the little cake stand turned out!  The original tutorial can be seen on my blog at this link: Tips and Tricks-Metal Embossing.

Green Birthday-Skipping Stones Design New Release Blog Hop

Welcome to the Skipping Stones Design Blog Hop to celebrate the release of Green Birthday! If you've just happened upon my blog today, make sure to start from the beginning at Skipping Stones Design. You should have arrived here from Note To Self, Lindsay Amrhein's blog.

Combined with the blog hop today, it's also Skipping Stones Sketch Tuesday which means we're showcasing another great creation from our Guest Sketch Artist this month, Heidi Blankenship. We'd love for you to play along with the sketch and link your card at the Skipping Stones Blog.  Also, remember to use SSD68 if you post to any on line sites.

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Here is our blog hop order:

Heidi ...http://embellished-dreams.blogspot.com/

Tammie...http://alwaysinking.blogspot.com/

Amy...http://tsurutadesigns.blogspot.com/

Jingle...http://justjingle.blogspot.com/

Vanessa...http://wingsofabutterfly-vanessa.blogspot.com/

Kandi...http://kraftykandikrafts.blogspot.com/

Wendy...http://papertherapy-wendy.blogspot.com/

Ann...http://stampwithme-ann.blogspot.com/

Lindsey...http://lindsayamrhein.blogspot.com/

Barb...http://barbsboys123.blogspot.com/

Brenda...http://sweetpapertreats.wordpress.com/

Gladys...http://gladyschia2010.wordpress.com/

Michelle...http://studiomsg.blogspot.com/

 Heather has done it again with her clever sentiments, my favorite is 'Remember when we used to laugh at old people?'  So many ideas floating around in my head for this one...so head on over to see what Brenda's done with this set at Sweet Paper Treats.