I think this is one of the easiest sets to work with--the images look great plain or colored in--and they are just fun images.  I mixed the Feeling Sentiment set with the Hello from the Oh Hello set.  I cut the Oh and the Hello apart so I can use the Hello alone with out having to do anything special.  And the fun thing about that is that if you cut with just one cut you can always just put them right back together on the stamp blog and use it together without thinking twice about making them line up together.  They just fit like a puzzle.  This is one of my favorite layouts--an old sketch from my Monday sketch challenges (click here for this week's sketch).

First and foremost--I am having a bitter sweet day as I make the card below--even shed a few tears--my baby is turning 13 tomorrow.  How does that happen.  It feels like just yesterday we brought him home form the hospital.  He has been a constant joy in my life and I am so grateful to be his mom.  But a teenager--seriously!!!   With that this is his birthday card....

he is obsessed with all things military--even says he is going to be a Marine Force Recon when he is older--no wonder I stress so much!  The crazy kid.  I used the sketch challenge on SCS for the layout and it really came together quick!  Here is the inside...






I also want to share with you my second card for the LNS challenge this week--Feeling Blue--make a card with blue as your main color--I chose to go with Midnight Muse and Bashful Blue.  Need a few cards for the church ministry card tree--need to be flat and mailable--so here it is.





Card 1 details: 
Images--on done on my computer--I cut out two of the drill sergeant so I could make him 3d like--his hand and face are both popped up and add so much to the finished card. Retired Happy Birthday To You stamps.
Paper: Always Artichoke, Sahara Sand, Whisper White
Ink: Always Artichoke
other: markers, nestibility dies, stick on star and tiny circle punch

Card 2:  Oh Hello, Blessings From Heaven
Paper: Bashful Blue, Midnight Muse, Very Vanilla, DP
Ink: Bashful Blue, Midnight Muse
Other: framelits, sponges

Hope your have a wonderful Wednesday!
Mary Jo

It's Tuesday again so that we are working on a new sketch over on the Try Stamping On Tuesday Blog.  I hope you can play along. We are celebrating TSOT's  two year anniversary so it is a PRIZE week!  This week we have a pretty simple layout--I finally pulled out my Feeling Sentimental Stamp set to play.

I also pulled out a color I have not used in a while--Calypso Coral!  So pretty.  I even left the layout nice and simple.  The Hello comes from the Oh, Hello set--I cut the Oh and the Hello in two since I know there will be more times that I want to use the Hello. 

Here is the sketch.... as you can see I flipped it to make my bike image work.  The black frame is from the Labels Collection framelits--I used the same die in two different directions--Look here for a tutorial that I did a while ago on how to do that HERE. 

Stamps: Feeling Sentimental, Oh Hello
Paper: Calypso Coral, Basic Black, Whisper White and Tea for Two Designer Series Paper
Ink: Basic Black, Calypso Coral
Other: Labels Collection Framelits, marker, sponges, white gel pen

If you are looking for the Try Stamping on Tuesday post you can find it HERE.  I could not resist playing along with today's color challenge on Splitcoaststampers.  They are calling it--Lucky Island Delight.  I bet you can figure that we are using the colors Lucky Limade, Island Indigo and Daffodil Delight.  I just got a new deliver yesterday with lots of new stuff--even though I have not used all of the stuff from the last shipment yet, lol---shhhhhh don't tell my hubby!  So I wanted to play with the Oh Hello Bundle.