Pokey Peas Challenge for August 2021

I used this sketch 6 weeks ago because I loved it so much, and I figured I was getting "ahead" of the class that way. I will probably use this one again - it was fairly easy to put together with the 4 simple squares in the background.
It was this one:
layout alien entrance by kirstendrew, on Flickr

Hello Pokies
I'm off to a slow start this morning - didn't sleep well and woke up not feeling great. I've done some housework - still need to do dishes and vacuum and finish up laundry (so much laundry). But I hope to scrap some this afternoon. Haven't had a lot of creativity lately so I've been working backwards through the sketchy saturday sketches.

kellyr21 - enjoy your vacation

kitbop- I absolutely love that layout!

grammadee - I'm hoping for a crafty weekend also.

grammadee it's a paid sketch, so I won't be able to share it but I know I will be coming home with a few new free ones next month that I'll be able to share.

Linda I hope you're feeling better today!
kellyr21 enjoy that vacation!

kitbop I love that LO! The papers I want to use are pretty busy so I'm thinking I'll probably end up with a variation.

For anyone interested in these classes, she provides a ton of additional content as far as sketch and photo variations. It was definitely worth $17 for the sketches and extras. I feel like this go around she's added more than the first class she launched.

nylene Drew and Samantha LO's are so so pretty! That balloon arch is eye catching! And I'm thinking I might have to have those cute doodlebug embellishments now lol.

I'm going a quick clean up around here and I am going to scrap someway somehow today. But I'm really enjoying making up page kits so part of me wants to put some together for Sketchember. Avoiding the first page in months I do believe lol.

Hope you are all having a great weekend!

Requirement: 7 very special cards, 4 for graduating dancers I've known since they were 4, and 3 for special dance teachers
Deadline: 11AM grad party Saturday morning
Additional tasks: 1. make sushi for the potluck, required groceries not in the house 2. Drive to get the "special" gift cards (not available online) to put in the cards 3. write very thoughtful things in the cards
Start time: 5pm Friday evening.

I made a "new" design for the grads...I had the rainbows already die cut/pieced together from making extra when I did a previous project, so I designed the card to work around them. I ink blended/stenciled the background (need to work on that technique, but I was working so fast I thought "good enough"), splattered it, embossed it, die cut the sun/clouds, stamped on the sun and inside the card.

For the teacher cards, I copied previous cards I'd made that I really liked. I was making them this morning, and quickly realized that those dang triangles take FOREVER to cut out (I cut die cut hexagons into the triangles), colour and layer!!! Got Katie out of bed and sat her down to colour triangles while I did the rest of the work. Stamped some nice sayings inside the cards.

Overall, I was very happy with the cards...altho stressed and 30 minutes late to the grad party, I even got myself into a dress!
Not a great photo, as I took it just before running out the door.

Untitled by kirstendrew, on Flickr

Happy birthday, Linda!

gramma Congrats on your newest addition!

linda , Happy Birthday!!

kitbop Your cards are so pretty!

I have been working hard on getting my STAR clinical ladder done. I got it done last weekend and able to get it signed this week and turned in. I was looking forward to relaxing this weekend but had a bought with my BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo). I got off work Friday morning and was falling asleep sitting up. I went to go lay down and everything just spun and then nausea/vomiting started. Ugh!! I finally got about 3 hours of sleep and got up and I couldn’t get it to calm down enough to go back to bed. My Dad has these issues on occasion. I was finally able to lay down at 8pm and sleep all night. I woke up mildly dizzy on Saturday. Today, I feel like myself again. Thank goodness!!

My computer is still working good. I am just trying to get my backup files from Carbonite reloaded to my computer. It is a slow process. I have had it running for over a week and it is halfway done.

I do the Great Cycle Challenge and this will be my 4th year of participating. They raise money for kids with cancer. I qualified this year to be on the Times Square billboard!! I wish I could have been there but they sent me a photo of when it was on the billboard. I need to figure out how to print that off and scrapbook this.

I am still fighting with getting my garage door installed. I keep getting mixed messages from the installation center and what my project manager has been told from her manager. I had to call her yesterday and she apologized for all this and told me that at anytime I want my money back, that wouldn’t be a problem. She said she has went as high as she can and doesn’t know what else to do. She is still going to try to help me the best she can. I have used her for all my other big projects with Lowe’s. This is the first project that isn’t went as smooth as the others.

I am at the coffee shop but about to leave. I need to run by the grocery store and I need to prep my meals for work this week.

Good to hear from you knutschen. Have been thinking of you, msliz with all that crazy weather out east.

Not too smokey right now, nylene, but we have had lots of gloomy days due to smoke. Ds & family did not end up coming this weekend. The boys had ice times and it was just too much to schedule a 5 1/2 hour (one way) trip around. School starts Wednesday and now that hockey is starting, I don't see them getting away for several months.

I thought that if they didn't come that I would get lots of scrapping done, or at least some prepping for SKETCHtember. But I finished one page (My sample for Wednesday, and have one page kit *sort of* put together. I did manage to clean off my scrap counters so there is now space to scrap when I get back to it.

Oh, and I signed up for the Crushing on Cardstock class with Jennifer McQuire and friends. Spent some time watching the first class and have printed off the pdf's. Lots of cool tricks that make diecutting and paper piecing easier. One I want to try is to lay out all the pieces on Stretch n Seal, then using that to move the construction around.

I giggled when I read your adventures the morning of your dd's party, kitbop, because it sounds so much like something that I would find myself in the middle of. Can I make something for the pot luck? Of course. Make some cards? Definitely. Do them all at once AND get ready to go? This is the situation that SIT-coms are built on...

Happy Tuesday! Just popping in with some cards I made for my new video and August points. I love how they turned out. I need to catch up here.

Julie Nutting Dolls Stamp Cards by Kelly Roberts, on Flickr