Thinking of You

Hello Watercolor

I love the colors in this week’s Paper Players challenge.

My stamping mentor, Mary Fish, challenged us to do something on a card that was out of our comfort zone. Well…water coloring is not in my comfort zone. It’s so far out in fact, that for my first watercolor “masterpiece” I decided I should start with a blob of water coloring. I fully intend to increase my watercolor skills from here! There’s no place to go but up!

I enjoyed making the first one so much, I made a second. I actually like the Pool Party background the best, however.

Hope you have fun weekend plans. I’m going on a date with my youngest son, Keegan, to 12 Angry Men at the Des Moines Playhouse. Keegan is an actor and singer and has been going to plays and musicals with me since he was about 5. He had his first voice lesson for his solo contest last night. The song he chose is in German. Although the singing sounds good, I have no idea what he is saying. LOL. Abby has her last Archery meet of the season this weekend too. It’s actually going to be warm in Iowa this weekend. Tomorrow we are supposed to get to 60 degrees which never happens in Iowa in February!

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

Pals Blog Hop

Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop for February 2016. We are thankful you stopped by to take a look at our new 2016 Blog Hop monthly themes. This month we are CASE-ing a project shown in a current Stampin’ Up! catalog. After all, with the Annual, Occasions and Sale-a-Bration catalogs available right now, there is much inspiration to choose from. We hope you enjoy our creations.

You may just be starting the Blog Hop or may have come from the previous link from the Line-up on the Pals Blog Hop listing shown below. The full lineup will help you move along from blog to blog so you may see all the projects.

Do you think there is too much “party” in the card above to the left? I toned it down in the card on the right. I’m curious which one you like better?

Above is the card I CASEd from the Occasions catalog on page 47. Do you see they marked it “Quick & Easy” in the catalog. Yep, that’s my kind of card. In fact I already CASEd this card back in December, please see that card Here.

I needed a Sympathy card so I CASEd it one more time. I love the new Timeless Textures I stamped behind the butterfly.

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Some of you have been asking about the kids results from the State Speech contest last weekend. Abby is a junior and her Television Newscast Performing group was selected for All State! Keegan’s One Act play did well, but was not selected for All State. He is now practicing for a vocal solo contest and will soon be trying out for Valley High School’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory musical. We’ve been teasing him that he probably shouldn’t try out to be a Oompa Loompa. Keegan is too tall at 6’3″!

Please leave me a question or comment. I’d love to hear from you!