The Paper Players #713

The Paper Players team honored me with a 'Cut Above' award for my little tag card last week - thanks, team!  What better way to say thank you than with another card?  Ann has a fun Sketch for #713 and I knew just the set I wanted to play with again - it was 'singing my song' so to speak.

First off, here is Ann's sketch:

After looking at the wonderful cards the team has made, I'm quite

certain there should have been TWO panels on the card front.  Well,

by now you know I often forget these details - oy.

I found a way to 'indicate' them with embossed lines - two directions.

See if you can spot them...

PB's Sing Joy was the main ingredient I mentioned - a very sweet friend sent me

the coordinating dies for my birthday - aren't I the luckiest?  Among them were those cute little musical notes!  The treble clef and journal card are from another gift and the 'sheet music' I stamped on the panel is PB's Music Background.  

The sentiment is one of those I'd Betterpress-ed.

Thank you, Ann, for starting my week off on the sweetest notes!

=] Michele

Thank you, Paper Players team for this honor!

Inspired by Marcia!

On Monday my friend Bonnie inspired me to take another look at my embossing folders - thanks again my friend!  TODAY, I was inspired to make a few Christmas cards based on the incredibly cute cards created by my friend Marcia!  What in the world would I do without you girls?

I have had a self-imposed moratorium on buying for the last month, but when I found this Penny Black trio of carolers on sale it was time to hit the pause button - I've been searching for this Sing Joy set for a very long time, and it looks like I got the last one from Scrapbook.com's clearance section... see! I think it was serendipity!

Are you ready?  You'll see how Marcia influenced my card bases with her lovely, embossed panels... I pushed myself to explore some unusual Copic color combos:

Of course, I HAD TO sneak in a little grey for the guys!

This combo with lavender made my heart sing...

My sentiments were found in several sets - perfect lines from some 

of our favorite Christmas carols are perfect for these little elves!

Yes, you caught me - there is a NEW frame premiering here today:

Penny Black's Classy Frames to be exact.

I took a chance on creating some snowy twilight scenes on my cards today... I'm no Sandy Allnock believe me, but the simpler the better is best for me.

Okay, one more - the gang had to get together for one more song:

My friend Therese suggested we look over our stamp sets for little accents - I found just the right sized stars/snowflakes/musical notes for this little mini-slimline scene!

Thanks, Therese!

Thanks so much to my wonderful, talented friends - and YOU TOO for stopping by today!

=] Michele