Monday, August 26, 2013

Color Me Happy

This is how I felt all day today. Happy, Happy, Happy (yes, we've been watching some Duck Dynasty).

 Kiddos are back at school, and I have three whole days to myself before I head back to work. I had a very productive day. I cleaned (even moved the couch to vacuum UNDER it-yuck!), did some laundry, ran 2 miles, did the dishes, watched an episode of Downton Abby (I'm in the middle of season 2 ♥), AND got a little crafty. Yep...jammed a lot in on my first day, and loved every minute of it. 

While this turned out to be a clean and simple card, I wasn't all that clean creating it. I got my fingers rather messy with some paints.  

I used the current Retro Sketch and right away I knew some colorful strips of paints would do  the trick for the paneled background. Plus I wanted to use another new-to-me Reverse Confetti stamp set, Dream in Color. 


A cute die-cut butterfly (MFT Die-namics), stamped with a whole lotta dots and this card was done. 

Keeping this short. I'm off to catch my boys getting off the bus. I hope I only see smiles, especially from my first grader after his first full day of school. I'm anxious to hear how lunch went. 

hugs to you all! 

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9 comments:

  1. Super cute! Love the paint swipes and darling butterfly. :)

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  2. Love this...awesome swipes of color.
    Can't wait to hear how your 1st grader's day at school was:)

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  3. Very pretty Lisa, love the bold artsy look with the butterfly :)

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  4. Gorgeous! I hope those smiles were huge when they saw Mama! *hugs*

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  5. WOW - very cool Lisa! Love the paint and that polka dot butterfly! Thank you so much for playing along with us at RetroSketches this week!

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  6. Looks fabulous Lisa - so bright and happy..it makes me smile just looking at it!

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  7. Love your card! it's so fun and free!
    TFS

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  8. Great use of the sketch - I'd love for you to link up at 52 Card Pickup again this week!

    http://www.oldbackporch.com/2013/08/52-card-pickup-235.html

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