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Hi, hi, hi!  Happy National Scrapbooking Day!  Happy Boy's/Children's Day!  and Happy Free Comic Book Day!  Wow, lots of special events going on today!  You know that if you go to a participating book/comic book store, you can get a free comic book?  Even our local library participates so we usually go there to get one for each of our kids.  Just Google it!

Okay, I'll try to talk more about my card today.  I haven't played with my SOG stamps in a really long time.  I really love the 2 new Nouveau Girls stamps, Renew and Royal.  I love their dresses and their hair!  So I kind of had to get them.  Hehe.  And I got them just in time to participate in SOG's May Sketch Challenge.

I decided to stamp up Renew first.  I love her dress so much!  I think I could've done her hair better but I still think she is pretty.  And my daughter actually thought she was pretty too and she rarely hands out those kinds of compliments.  I colored her in with Copics first then I looked around for some matching paper.  So I kind of lucked out that I found this pretty floral one.  Yeah, I don't know why but that's the way I've been doing cards lately.  Coloring first and then trying to find matching paper.  Kind of backwards.

The flowers and sentiments are also from the stamp set.  I cut out the flowers and added pearls in the center after I added some pink with my Copic.  There's a little bit of ribbon behind there.  I also love that these are clear stamps--you can easily see where you're stamping and can curve the sentiment to follow the circle.

I'm also entering this in Oozak's Challenge #2 -- Spring Colors.  Hope it's spring-y enough.

And at last I'm almost done with Catching Fire.  Just about 20 pages to go.  Only took me about a week though my daughter read it in 2 days.  Well, more like 4 hours!  Two hours a day and she was done!  Oh, I better end here so I can finish reading and I have an early day tomorrow even though it's Saturday.  No sleeping in.  Sad face.

Thanks for reading!

Butterfly Butterfly

Hi!  Wow, how often does Blogger change their "look?"  Trying to get used to the new one.  I'm feeling a lot better today.  Thanks, everyone!  I thought I'd play along in Flutter By Wednesday's Challenge #199 which is to case Danni's first card.  This is almost the last challenge as Danni will close the challenge blog after the 200th challenge.  I didn't get to play too long but it was fun. 

I followed the basic layout of Danni's card and the blue colors.  But I did add the bow and the circular die cuts. 

I used CC Designs Ima Butterfly.  She's such a cutie too!  I paper pieced her dress and colored the rest of her with Copics.  I added some highlights with a white gel pen.  I also masked in the clouds in the background using PTI's cloud die.  I really like the look of the clouds.

The sentiment is also from CC Designs which I heat embossed and cut out with a Spellbinders circle die.  The blue die cut is from PTI as is the ribbon.  The flower shaped button is from Stampin' Up!.   

I'll also be entering this into Paper Sundaes Challenge #117 -- Let's Get Cute and Oozak's Challenge #1 --Anything Goes.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!