Mojo 357 & More Pics!

I’m sad to report that yesterday was a typical Monday, busy, busy, busy! Work was treat! LOL! NOT! I came home and made some dinner for Taylor and I, rice and black beans with tomatoes, black olives, avocado and banana peppers. I put some Sriracha on mine too, yummy and simple! I needed to get into the Stampin’ Galley, I didn’t spend enough time in there over the weekend and I notice that I am little cranky when I don’t get enough creative time. I made four cards and felt much better after that! How was your Monday?!

Here are some more of the Manhattan pictures from Sunday. We went to a park by my friend Kim’s house called Carl Schurz Park. It’s where Gracie Mansion is. The park is long and narrow but it’s right on the East River and I got some good pictures of that!

This one is looking North and the one below is looking Southeast.

Here is my friend Kim and her friend Maggie’s dog Kirby. She is eight months old but such a good dog!

It’s also Tuesday and that means that it’s time for the weekly deals from Stampin’ Up! Don’t forget about the Big Shot Bundle promotion! You can scroll to the bottom to see a PDF flyer of all of the bundles available!

Now on to today’s post. One of the cards that I made last night is for this week’s Mojo Monday sketch challenge…

Do you think of playing cards when you see the sketch?! I did! We don’t have any playing card related stamps though so I went in a completely different direction. My card begins with a base of Sahara Sand Card Stock, my new favorite neutral! The background is a piece of Blackberry Bliss with a piece of Hello Honey that I embossed with the Honeycomb Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. The card on the left is a piece of paper from the Moonlight DSP Stack. On the right is a piece of Whisper White that I stamped my greeting from the Perfect Pennants Stamp Set, stamped in Blackberry Bliss. I rounded the corners on both the DSP and greeting with the Project Life Corner Rounder and adhered them to the background. A strip of So Saffron that I stamped with the Draw the Line Photopolymer Stamp Set in Hello Honey goes across the middle. My flag is a piece of Perfect Plum. I made another one of the epoxy embellishments using the face from the Ray of Sunshine Stamp Set stamped in Blackberry Bliss on Hello Honey. I really love those epoxy embellishments, so easy and fun! And that’s my card for this week’s Mojo Monday sketch challenge. I hope that you enjoyed it and I thank you for checking in! Have a great Tuesday my friends! 🙂

Stampin’ Up! products used:

Stamp Sets: Perfect Pennants and Ray of Sunshine Clear Mount and Draw the Line Photopolymer

Ink: Blackberry Bliss and Hello Honey Classic Stampin’ Ink

Card Stock: Sahara Sand, Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey, Whisper White, So Saffron and Perfect Plum

Designer Series Paper: Moonlight Stack

Specialty: Window Sheet

Embossing Folder: Honeycomb

Punches: 1 1/4″ Circle and Project Life Corner Rounder

Embellishments: Crystal Effects

Tools: Texture Boutique, Paper Snips, Stampin’ Dimensionals and SNAIL