Indiana Weather

I went out to the back porch today so I could capture a photo in some beautiful but fleeting Indiana sunlight. Pictures always look better in natural light, they say. unfortunately, I seemed to find the only piece of shade available on our porch. I thought of re taking the photo, then decided I didn't really care all that much. Oh, the lazy days of summer!

The challenge of the dayw as to use only the colors of sea or sky, blues, greys, browns and to use three items: paper piercing, brads, and ribbon. Score! I even used two different colors of ribbon. The stamp is from Hanna Stamps' newly released Dinosaur set. It's a must have if you have boys in the house. I am lovin' it for birthday cards.

I tried to get the boys to the pool earlier, but no luck. Now it is a little overcast and they are dying to go. They are wierdos, but they are my wierdos!

Saturday Sneak Peeks

The challenge at SCS is to make a card with reference to Inspiration found in a book cover. They supplies a link to a book site and I chose a book called Wonderful World that had a mix of dark colors on the cover and something that looked like an explosion in the cosmos. I thought I'd make a card with similar colors and a small explosion in the bottom left hand corner, courtesy of a nestability die cut.

I am using the new dinosaur set from Hanna Stamps that is available Monday night. This set will be so handy to have in my house. Tomorrow I will show you something with a different set, maybe a retro set that hanna is promoting this summer? We'll have to see what tomorrow brings. Hanna has a lot of new fun stuff coming, but unfortunately this is the only new release I have. I picked this set up when I saw Kristi a few months back and the new Riley Moose sets were not in her hands yet. Hanna Stamps also released a graduation set in both the Hanna line (images of people)and the Riley line (images of moose), so you should check her web site for samples of those. They are very handy this time of year!