Flutter By Wednesday 196 Uplifting Butterfly Kisses,

We have a nice challenge this week at Flutter By Wednesday and it's to bring attention to a wonderful non-profit organization called Butterfly Kisses.  There's more information about this on the Flutter By Wednesday blog.  I had already made my card before knowing the full details behind Butterfly kisses.  

  I fell in love with this set from Verve Stamps, Blue Skies.  I love the sentiments that are with this set.  I know with my trials for my family the last two years, I found the words to be very truthful.  Sometimes life is hard to get up and dust yourself off.  You might not feel brave going about your struggles, but honestly, sometimes just getting out of bed is a very brave thing to do!  (Coarse, if you're really down in the dumps, you might look a little scary too!  LOL!)

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Other supplies"  SU cling Kindness Matters, butterfly die cutting folder, TAC Amberlee Paper pack,

Mojo Pumpkin!

My neighbor has been fussing at me because I've been blog-a-lacking! I've been reading the Harry Potter Books, and finished all 7 books in the last few weeks. All my free time has been spent with my nose in a book! I wanted to get them read before the last movie comes out. That and finishing up on Gabi's room, and cutting vinyl for school projects, I've been slacking on the paper crafting! But a fun card for today. Did the Mojo Monday Sketch for the week. Used their cute pumpkin set, and a fun pack of paper I found at JoAnn's last week, Tim Coffee's Halloween in the small pack.

I swear, his nose looks better in person. It's bothering me in the photo...oh well, what can ya do! I love how the sentiment nesties layered. They look perfect together.

Other supplies: nesties, copics, stickles, EK punch.

Bookmark Mojo

I've been making bookmarks this week. I recently did a Bible Study with a group of great ladies called Breaking Free By Beth Moore. I really enjoyed the Bible Study. Than when I found that Blue Skies set at Verve Stamps, I saw they had the main Bible Verse as a stamp too. I just had to grab it. I knew I wanted to make a bookmark with it. I decided to make one for each of the ladies who did the Bible Study with me. I've gotten three done, but have to make the other three still.

I wanted to make a bookmark for Gabi, using one of the sentiments from Blue Skies. So, I followed the Mojo Monday sketch for her bookmark. She's gonna love it. She loves bright and blingy things. I was gonna put her name for the sentiment for the sketch, but decided to use the Believe sentiment from a CTMH set that I had. I thought it went perfectly the sentiment I chose for her. The believe came from the single B set, which I think has been retired by CTMH. My sweet friend, Debbie, sent me this uber fun paper pack filled with fun summer colors. It was perfect papers for Gabi, and I also made the yellow bookmarker with the paper pack. Thanks for the fun papers, Debbie!

Supplies: Basic Grey paper, SU cardstocks and ink, SU punches, Verve stamps, Mariposa paper pack, primas, stickles, EK punch from Michael's, gems, Martha punch, nesties,

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Dancing Mojo

Been a wet day here in VA. The grass has been enjoying it, because we've been pretty hot and dry so far this summer. So, I took the kids to see Avitar, The Last Airbender. We really enjoyed it! Trey really liked all the action from the Airbender. Gabi thought it was okay, but I think she was being difficult because the brother wanted to see the movie. You know how it goes with siblings!

Anyhow, came home and did some stamping. I'm telling ya I really like this new set, Blue Skies, from Verve Stamps. I played along withe Mojo sketch today. I'm trying to use some paper lines that I've been collecting and not using up. So, this is Eva from Basic Grey. Such pretty rich tones. I went a little light with embellies, because the paper is so pretty. I edged the ends with Brilliance ink, to give it a soft shimmer in person. I thought Rain from The Greeting Farm was perfect for the sketch, and the sentiment I picked out to use. Don't they go wonderfully together?! I added Glaze to her boots, and stickles to her umbrella, and hair pins.

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Supplies: SU cardstock, brilliance ink, nesties, Verve stamp, Greeting Farm stamp, copics, Cuttlebug folder, Martha punch.

Uplifting Mojo

I've been enjoying the lazy summer days, and being able to create more often. Not having to get kids from school, to after school activities, and homework, has really opened up some free time! I made this card for someone who's been really sick a lot lately. He keeps landing in the hospital, and DR's are having a hard time figuring out what exactly is the problem. I figured it would be nice to send a little bit of encouragement to him. Being this is for a dude, so I went easy on the embellies. I paper pieced my tree, and hot air balloon. I'm trying to use up some of my stash of papers, so used my Basic Grey's June Bug pack.

I really fell in love with Verve Stamp set that they recently released called Blue Skies. It has some wonderful sentiments, and several grabbed me when I first saw this set. I purchased it right away! I want to cut one of the sentiments out with my cricut and vinyl and put it on my wall. I'm saying, I really love that set! I used the blue skies are coming your way sentiment because I thought it went perfectly with the hot air balloon from their Up, Up and Away set. I sponged the background to look like skies, but I guess I used too soft of blues, cuz ya can't tell in the photo! I played along with the sketch at Mojo Monday 149.

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Supplies: Verve stamps, Basic Grey paper, nesties,