It's been awhile

since I posted.  I was gone most of the last week in July to my brother's wedding in San Antonio.  My mom and I took the train from Okla. City to San Antonio.  It was a lot of fun and much less stressful than driving!  When I returned home I realized that I only had one week left before going back to school, and my classroom wasn't ready.  So this past week I spent most of my days at school.  However, this weekend, especially today, I'm staying home and scrapping while watching the Olympics.  Something you should know about me - I'm crazy about the Olympics.  I have been ever since I watched that Miracle moment happen in hockey when I was only about  7 or 8.  Anyway, I've spent most of the day glued to the TV, but I moved some of my scrap stuff into the living room since my family is at the lake again.  Here are the cards I made today.

I used an old Sketch-N-Scrap challenge to use groups of three as inspiration as well as a sketch I had saved on Pinterest.  I used three banners and three rhinestones.  The pattern paper was left over from a HOTP/Paper Wishes kit.  I used the Christmas Cheer cricut cartridge for the holly leaves.  The sentiment is a HOTP stamp.

My mom sells cards at her work, and she needed some sympathy cards.  For this card I used a card from my Pinterest board.  At first I was trying to find a pet in order to meet an old FCCB challenge, but I don't think an owl is actually a pet.  LOL  For the owl I used the Create a  Critter cartridge and more HOTP/Paper Wishes pattern paper.  The sentiment was stamped using a CTMH stamp set.

I used the same pattern paper and stamp set for this card.  I also used a sketch from Retro Sketches.  Even though I don't usually get a chance to make something for the challenges before the challenge is over, I still keep them so I have inspiration when I need it.  Hopefully I'll have even more to share tomorrow.