This one's for you Sue!

I'm very blessed. My sister Sue is my best friend. We enjoy spending time together, laughing and talking, and then, about a million years ago, I got her addicted to scrapbooking. We would spend hours on weekends when we could get together in her basement craft room, or in my craft room creating piles of pages. Very often, they were gifts for our dad, nieces and nephews, or other special people. Then as she saw my addiction change over to card making, she kinda sorta vowed not to switch over to that; nope, she was going to stick with scrapbooking...yeah, sure, uh-huh... Once again, I've gotten her going on a new craft addiction. heeeheeee! So in her honor, and because even though I've said she should start a blog, and she hasn't...yet, I'm posting three of her cards today. I've got some of my own, which will follow hers too. You'd like Sue. She's nice, helpful, funny, a great cook (oh for one of her German Chocolate bars right now...), an amazing crafter, and girl can sing. Put her soprano together with my alto, and we're not half bad! If you think that she's got something going on, please let us know in the comment section encouraging her to start a blog. Thanks, friends, for looking!

So, Sue....time to start your own blog????! Sa-wink!

My cards are rather different than Sue's. Well, one is going into CASology, with it's Stripes cue card, and that means clean and simple designs. The other is for Fusion. Check out the beach cottage photo...I could live with that, couldn't you?! 

So first up is my CASology card.

Lots of white space, or in this case, yellow! For this one, I used a Neenah white base, and a large scrap of yellow cardstock, source unknown. I split the cardstock, added a panel of hot pink (again a scrap!), and then a thin strip of stripes onto the pink. A PTI sentiment stamped with Studio G ink, and a boingy embelly I bought at Michaels. Done. 

Then there's my Fusion card...

I hope this qualifies as having both elements. I used the colors in the photo, and while I took a bit of liberty with the sketch, it's still there. Started with my Neenah white base, then added a panel of blue - it too, was a large scrap, as was the white, scored panel. I cut the white panel after scoring it with my ME fancy frame stitched die. (LOVE that one!), and then scrubbed some Colorbox buttery yellow ink over it. NBUS alert!!!! Some new PTI goodies came the other day...Note Niblets stamps and dies, and I've used the flowers and leaves here, stamped in a variety of inks. The sentiment is from Jillibean Soup. Love that font too! And I'm thinking, that's about it. If I want to get to commenting today, I'd better get a move on here. Have a great weekend! Happy dances everyone.