Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Feeling A Little Rusty

It's been almost two weeks since I've made any cards or posted anything to my blog. I spent the week before vacation organzing my photos and papers to catch up on two years of scrapbooking for my kids. I worked on the scrapbooks all last week on vacation and am pretty happy with the results. I do need to go add some "somethings" to several pages and make sure I've got dates correct for certain events but for the most part, I feel like my scrapbooks are caught up (for now!) So...it's time to get back to cardmaking. It felt good to anticipate making cards yesterday. I summed up my challenges, printed a couple of images and looked forward to crafting. Until I got to my craft table and felt out of sorts and awkward! My mind was blank, I felt like my tools were all in the wrong places (they weren't), I couldn't remember what markers I liked to use for certain colors. UGH! Here's what I came up with, hopefully things will go better today:
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Challenges:
Rosie and Dee-all creatures great and small
Crazy challenge-birthdays
Crazy 4 Challenges-photo inspiration
Just Cute Bears-clean and simple with a bear
All sorts-something for a baby or child
Critter Sketch Challenge: sketch

13 comments:

  1. Don't you hate feeling that way?? Happens to me all the time - I just walk away and come back another day. Love the bright and fun colors on your card!

    Deanne :)

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  2. I know exactly what you mean! Cute birthday card, I like the tilted piece. thanks for playing the Critter Sketch Challenge.

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  3. Love the bright colors Lori and your take on the sketch!

    Thanks for playing along with The Critter Sketch challenge this week!

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  4. Lori-
    I hate that feeling! Except I dont realise that I have it until I am finished with a card and look at it and say, "yuck, where has my mojo gone?"

    I think your card is really cute. I love how you tilted one of the squares from the sketch! I really like how you added the buttons too! I had a difficult time with this card myself. My mojo and the sketch were not agreeing!

    Thanks for playing along with the Critter Sketch Challenge blog again! See you again next week.

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  5. This is very cute. Maybe you'll feel better when you've made a few more cards. Thanks for joining us at Just Cute Bears this week.

    Kat x

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  6. Lori, this is just darling! You just need to keep at it and get your mojo back, and your card looks fabulous! Thanks for playing along with us at the Critter Sketch Challenge Blog this week!

    Hugs, Marsha

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  7. Too cute! Love the fun bright colors and your take on the sketch. Hope your mojo finds it's way back. Thanks for playing along with us at the Critter Sketch Challenge.

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  8. Your card is so cute. Good luck with the mojo, sometimes it justs needs a holiday just like us :) Thanks for playing along with us at CSCB.

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  9. Very cute card and greatvtake on the sketch. Thanks for playing along with the Critter Sketch Challenge.

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  10. oh wow loving the pink and lime combo!!

    thanks for taking up my challenge this week at Allsorts

    lotsalove

    Amanda :o)

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  11. Awww...cute card!
    Thanks for joining us at Just Cute Bears!
    Helen x

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  12. Such a cute card!

    Thanks for joining us at Just Cute Bears!

    Sarah xx :0)

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  13. Glad you were able to take a break and do some scrapbooking! Welcome back to stamping. Love the colors you picked for this sketch challenge, it turned out wonderful. Thanks for joining us at CSCB.

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