SPECIAL GUEST SPOT!!!

My friend and fellow Design Team member from Scrapping Everyday Miracles, the very talented Alicia Redshaw happens to own a wonderful scrapbook store in Australia and online called Scrapbook Fantasies.  This month she is sponsoring the challenges over at CSI - Color...Stories...Inspiration.  She has asked me to be her guest and create some samples for her. 

The first challenge is -

And here is what I created for it -

All five colors from the scheme plus the sketch!

Evidence:

Map Print

Travel Element and Metal

Textured Paper

Chevrons

Transparent Item - Live Life is vellum!

Decorative Border (felt ribbon)

Testimony:

Journal about a trip - This is my Mom's trip to Italy in 1982.

Journal in three spots!

Inspiration word - purpose

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So happy you stopped by to see my creations.  I hope you will check out both CSI and Scrapbook Fantasies!  Please leave a comment letting me know you stopped by!

MORE SADNESS

Today I have two cards to share with you.  Sadly, they are both Sympathy cards. And I created them after attending a funeral. I am grateful the month of March has ended which brought with it the deaths of 9 friends and family under 60 years old.

The first card uses the sketch #391 from Mojo Monday.

Keeping tall and skinny in mind I went into my stash of card bases.  There I found some tall and skinny gatefold cards which I had never tried before.  So here is my first ever gatefold card.  I turned the sketch on it's side.

and I even did a complimentary inside

My next card used Feeling Sketchy #117 which I now see has already closed.  Apparently the problem is that my phone does not update the page so when I looked last night there were still several more days for it to be open.  Now I know NOT to trust the phone.

Here is the sketch -

and here is the card I created using it.

I am also going to share my cards with Word Art Wednesday for challenge #177.

Thank you for stopping by to see my creations.  I am looking towards this month being one of life.  Starting with Sunday - Easter - The Resurrection - the ultimate in NEW life, and I have a friend in Uganda expecting to have a baby boy any time now.

Happy Easter!