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March Product Release Blog Hop- Day 1

Hello, Gemma here today to share a card featuring the beautiful new Happy Easter Shaker die along with the cute Bunny Friends stamp set. I wanted to create a layered look with the Happy Easter Shaker die, with different colours of cardstock and some jewels too.

To begin, I die cut the Happy Easter Shaker die from four colours of card stock – green, light pink, dark pink and lilac. I chose the green die cut as my base layer, so the leaves are set back the most when all the layers are put together.

Next, I fussy cut the flowers from both of the pink die cuts and adhered them over the green layer. Although these flowers will eventually be covered by jewels, where any of the card does show underneath, I want it to be the same colour as the jewels. I then trimmed away the leaves and flowers from the lilac die cut, leaving just the frame and the sentiment. I added this onto the green die cut.

Once all the layers of card are put together, I picked out some Pink Blush jewels and Watermelon jewels and adhered them over the top of the flowers with liquid glue. The jewels look so pretty as an accent on the card. I put the Happy Easter Shaker aside to work on the rest of the card. I die cut the largest of the Scallop Frame dies from white card, then blended on an ombré of lilac ink, to closely match the colour of the shaker frame.

I just had to add two of the cute bunnies from the Bunny Friends stamp set to my card. I stamped them out and coloured them with copic markers, then die cut them with the coordinating dies. I tucked one of the bunnies under the scallop frame at the bottom. I tucked the other bunny at the top of the Happy Easter Shaker die cut, trimming him a little to fit, then adhered everything to the card.

To finish, I added some foam squares just under the heads and ears of the bunnies, so they have some dimension.

Ready to hop along and see LOTS more fabulous inspiration with this new release?

PRIZES: be sure to leave comments on each stop. I’m giving away 4 $25 gift certificates to four random comments (2 winners each day) left before March 12, 2018 at 11:59 PM PST. I’ll be announcing the winners next week, so be sure to return and see if you are one of the winners!

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Yana Smakula
Gemma C.
Heather Meeson
Jeanne Jachna
Justine Hovey
Kathy Racoosin
Lexa Levana
Mindy Baxter
Rubeena Ianigro
Eloise Blue
Shannon McComb
Jeannie Lieu
Amy Yang

 

I hope you enjoyed today’s super fun post by Gemma. Be sure to stop by tomorrow for a whole new batch of inspiration and designers!

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Pretty Pink Posh Birthday Celebration- Day 3

If you missed Day 1 CLICK HERE //  If you missed Day 2 CLICK HERE

Hello and welcome to the last day of the birthday celebration!

Before I start with today’s post, I just have to say a truly heartfelt thank you to every single person who has ordered during this release, left comments on the blog hop/ social media and been supportive during the last four years of Pretty Pink Posh. As many of you know, I’m a one woman business, so I’m working as quickly as I can to get all of your orders sent off. Please be patient as the order volume is far greater than it usually is so I’m struggling to keep up but I’ll be working through the weekend to try to get caught up! 

This is Yana and today I am sharing video tutorial showing how to color petunias from the Pretty Petunias stamp set for a no-line look!

Since violet is the color of this year and because I happen to love this color quite a bit I decided to color my petunias violet. I started working on my card by stamping images I wanted to use in watermark ink onto light gray cardstock panel. I knew I wanted to use the large flower duo and also add additional flowers and leaves to make this cluster a bit fuller. I am very lazy when it comes to masking, I was planning to use masking for today’s stamping, but later ended up not making them and I simply stamped my images in watermark ink overlapping previously stamped layers.

Watch my video tutorial below to learn how I made this card.

Watch the video above  I  Watch the video in HD on YouTube

I picked embossing watermark ink, but any pale ink color will do for this technique – just make sure to pick the color of ink you’ll be able to color over with the pencils you plan to use – and you can always test this on the back side of your paper. Use it as your palette, I always do so.

As I was stamping I made notes in my head which flowers and leaves were going to be in the front and which would be in the back. If you struggle with this – you can either mask your images so that you don’t have confusing stamped lines on your panel or test stamp your cluster onto a piece of scrap paper and label everything – then when you go to color your image you can use that as a cheat sheet.

The pretty Petunias stamp set from Pretty Pink Posh has very little detail to it and this is a good thing, because as you color, regardless of what coloring method you chose, you can add those details in yourself.

I used Polychromos colored pencils to color this images and I went with just a handful of pencils. I sharpened my pencils prior to starting an first used the blue violet color and outlined the base of the petal, added vines and slight details on the tip of the petal.

It is very helpful to look up the image you are coloring online. I simply go to Pinterest and type in Petunias. I look at photos, sometimes I search for illustrations, I can also add the name of the coloring medium I plan to use to look up examples. For instance petunias watercolor, or petunias pencils – it is very helpful to see how others have colored it – this will give you color combo ideas, detail ideas.

I added my pencil strokes going in one direction – I followed the imaginary vines of the petal. I don’t color in circles or horizontal and vertical lines. To blend out the violet color and color the rest of the petal I used a white pencil. I went over the violet coloring and extended it further into the petal. Next, I came in with the violet pencil again and added more details to the particular element.

I don’t use any blending solutions when I color, I only blend the using my pencils and as I get to the end of the blending I use a very heavy hand.

Once my coloring was complete I trimmed my panel to 4 x 5 1/4″. To create a sentiment I white heat embossed Hello Gorgeous from the Love Sentiment stamp set onto vellum. I trimmed it into a skinny strip, wrapped one end around the panel and cut the other end at and angle. I foam mounted the panel onto an A2 card base and added sequins from the Spring Blooms Mix to embellish this card.

No party would be complete without guests, gifts and a party favor, right? During the celebration, save 10% off your order using the coupon code provided below.

We have lots of amazing designers in today’s blog hop sharing new inspiration. Be sure to leave them lots of love- I’ll be giving away prizes to some comments left on their blogs!

Thank you for celebrating with me. I’m looking forward to the upcoming year and bringing you new products, inspiration and of course, some surprises along the way. Have a great weekend!
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Pretty Pink Posh Birthday Celebration- Day 2

Hello and welcome to Day 2 of the Pretty Pink Posh 2nd birthday celebration! If you missed Day 1, click here.

Have you seen the new Love Shaker die?  I think this die is so versatile.  It’s more than a shaker die – it’s a gorgeous frame too! I can envision lots of pretties (sparkling sequins) peeking through the open frame design – but I can see this pretty die layered over photographs on a layout too.

I created an ombre background with the scalloped border from the Stacked Edges 1 die set.  I wanted to repeat the scallops on the Love Shaker die. I love the colorful stripes of red and pink card stock peeking through!

To accent the heart I added Cupid Friends that were stamped with Memento ink and colored with Copic Markers. I’m smitten with these little guys! They’re easy to color, and the coordinating die cut makes them a breeze to cut too!

I love the stitching, scallop outline, and gorgeous hand written font on the Love Shaker die – the perfect details I expect from Pretty Pink Posh! Paulina never disappoints!

No party would be complete without guests, gifts and a party favor, right? During the celebration, save 10% off your order using the coupon code provided below.

We have lots of amazing designers in today’s blog hop sharing new inspiration. Be sure to leave them lots of love- I’ll be giving away prizes to some comments left on their blogs!

PRIZES: We’ll be giving away 2 $50 gift certificates to random comments left on the different stops every day! That’s right, we’re giving away a total of SIX $50 gift certificates! Comments must be left before January 15th at 11:59 PM PST. I’ll be announcing the winners next week, so be sure to return and see if you are one of the winners!

 

 

Thank you for celebrating with me today and for all the love! I’ll see you bright and early tomorrow for day #3 of the birthday celebration. I hope you have a fabulous day!

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Pretty Pink Posh Birthday Celebration- Day 1

Hello, everyone ! Marge here today with you. I’m so pleased to share my two cards using the New Release Products from Pretty Pink Posh. All the new release products are amazing as always, and I’m featuring Birthday Friends Stamp Set and Coordinating dies today.

To begin, I stamped images from Birthday Friends Stamp Set and colored them using copic markers, then die cut them using Coordinating dies.

Then I cut a piece of A2 sized bristol paper, blended it using distress oxide inks (Picked Raspberry, Worn Lipstick, Fossilized Amber, Cracked Pistachio, and Peacock Feathers), then splattered water onto it.

Then I die cut it using Storybook 6 Die, which is also one of a new release products, to make four shaker windows. I used the negative cut pieces as background panel for each shaker. I put mixture of Spring Blooms Sequins Mix, Daffodil Seed Beads, and Lilac Seed Beads into each rectangles .

Then I adhered Birthday Friends Images on the front using foam tapes. I also put a small star tag on the left upper corner of the card using Stitched Stars Dies to give it more cuteness .
 

Final touch was adding some Sparkling Clear Snowflakes Sequins Mix with 3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins onto them.

Here goes my second card. To make it, I used Scallop Borders 2 Dies and some fun pattern papers to make festive look.

For the background color, I blended it using Distress oxide ink (Fossilized Amber).

I also stamped heart images from Love Sentiments Stamp Set, sentiment from Birthday Friends Stamp Set. Then I finished it off by putting Party Time Sequins Mix and Northwest Sequins Mix from the new release.

Now I finished two birthday cards.
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I’m also sharing some tips below :
1) For brown hair colors , my favorite copic color combination is : E13-E15-E18- any dark E (from light to dark shades)
2) When you put sequins to make shaker cards, try to mix the sequins with some seed beads like I did today. That will make your shakers look prettier.
3) Although this is not the Christmas season, I found that our snowflake sequins look so well on the soft color-distressed background.
No party would be complete without guests, gifts and a party favor, right? During the celebration, save 10% off your order using the coupon code provided below.

For the celebration, I brought along some very special guests to celebrate with me and I cannot wait for you to see what they made. Be sure to leave them lots of love- I’ll be giving away prizes to some comments left on their blogs!

PRIZES: We’ll be giving away 2 $50 gift certificates to random comments left on the different stops every day! That’s right, we’re giving away a total of SIX $50 gift certificates! Comments must be left before January 15th at 11:59 PM PST. I’ll be announcing the winners next week, so be sure to return and see if you are one of the winners!

Thank you for celebrating with me and being so incredibly supportive. Go hop on over to the other stops, be inspired by the design team and special guests and be sure to share this with your friends. I’ll see you bright and early tomorrow for day #2 of the birthday celebration.

November Blog Hop Winners

It’s time to announce the four lucky winners of the Product Release Blog Hop posts HERE and HERE. I’m so thrilled that you enjoyed the wonderful inspiration and this release. With it being the last one of 2017, I tried to make it a good one! Without further ado, here are the winners…

Ladies, email me within 7 days and I’ll send over the gift certificates so you can shop!

Thank you to everyone who left comments on the blog hop and the special guests and designers who shared their beautiful inspiration using our November release! I hope that those of you who have ordered the new products are enjoying them!

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November Product Release Blog Hop- Day 2

If you missed yesterday’s blog hop post, click here.

Hello everyone! It is Melody here sharing products from the new Pretty Pink Posh November release. Today I’m highlighting the Joy Shaker Die and a few of the new sequin mixes.

I started the card by cutting a piece of watercolor paper for my card front. Next I die cut the Joy Shaker Die from a gold foil and then again directly into the card front. This left a scalloped circle in the card front to form the shaker window.

I started the card by cutting a piece of watercolor paper for my card front. Next I die cut the Joy Shaker Die from a gold foil and then again directly into the card front. This left a scalloped circle in the card front to form the shaker window.

Behind the window I added a piece of acetate and then inlayed the gold Joy sentiment directly into the card front. On the back of the card front I added foam to create the shaker.

I dropped three of the new mixes into the shaker, Evergreen Sparkle Mix, Gold Shimmer Seed Beads, and Sparkling Clear Snowflake Mix. Then I covered the back of the shaker with cardstock and attached the card front to the card base.

To finish off the card I die cut holly leaves and berries with the new Festive Holly Dies from watercolor paper, sponged on the color, and attached die cuts to left side of the shaker. The final touch is to attach a few Sparkling Clear Snowflakes. Lastly, stamped the Merry Christmas sentiment from the Holiday Greetings stamp set.

Ready to hop along and see LOTS more fabulous inspiration with this release?

PRIZES: be sure to leave comments on each stop. I’m giving away 4 $25 gift certificates to four random comments (2 winners each day) left before November 7, 2017 at 11:59 PM PST. I’ll be announcing the winners next week, so be sure to return and see if you are one of the winners!

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Laura Bassen
Joy Taylor
Jeanne Jachna
Crystal Thompson
Keeway Tsao
Lexa Levana
Carly Tee Minner
Amy Kolling
Eloise Blue
Suzy Plantamura

We hope that you enjoyed the blog hop these last two days. Be sure to leave comments on all the stops- we’ll be randomly picking comments to win gift certificates. Also, join us next week as we have our Thanksgiving Theme Week here on the blog!

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November Product Release Blog Hop- Day 1

Hello there! It’s Marge here, one of the newer PPP social media designers. I hope you are enjoying our new November release.

Today I’m so excited to share my cards featuring Winter Woodland Stamp and coordinating dies set from our new November Release. The critters in this set are so adorable and they go very well with our previous release stamps sets such as Woodland Critters set. But today, I only used Winter Woodland sets.

To begin, I stamped Winter Woodland Stamp Set on a copic friendly cardstock, then colored them using copic markers, and then cut them using Winter Woodland Coordinating Dies. To make the snow on the log look dimensional, I applied snow marker on it, and added Diamond Stickles to it.

For the first card, I wanted to creat a warm winter scene, so I sponged a piece of A2-sized Bristol paper with some a peach colored dye ink and distress inks (Dried Marigold, Tattered Rose, and Squeezed Lemonade). I splatterd water onto it, and let it dry,

Then I cut another A2-sized panel using Window Frames Dies to make a round window frame.  To make a snowy hill, I picked out a wave-shaped die from our Stacked Edges 1 Dies, and cut a piece of white cardstock, then colored it using grey copic markers and Diamond Stickles on the top to give it some sparkling look.

To make a tag, I die cut Stitched Pieces Die from a red cardstock, stamped sentiment from our new Holiday Greetings Stamp Set, and tied a natural colored string.

After all the elements are done, I assembed them to build a whole card. First, I put the snowy hill onto the colored panel, adhered two mommy and baby critters, covered it with round window frame, and adhered a bough, rabbit and tag, all using foam tapes to give the card some dimensional look.

Finally I added our new Sparkling Clear Snowflake Sequins Mix, then put some 3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins onto the background as well as Snowflake Sequins to make the snowflakes look prettier, and Metallic Gold Confetti Mix.
 

For my second card, I sponged a piece of A2-sized Bristol paper with distress inks (Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers, Tumbled Glass, Twisted Citron, and Scattered Straw), splattered water onto it, and let it dry.

I then stamped small snowflakes, and heat embossed them using white embossing powder. I stamped the sentiment from Holiday Greetings Stamp Set, and also heat-set it using clear embossing powder. Then I adhered critters images here and there to make a warm winter scene. I adhered the panel onto a card base, and added some  Sparkling Clear Snowflake Sequins Mix and Sparkling Clear Sequins Mix as final embellishment.

Ready to hop along and see LOTS more fabulous inspiration with this release?

PRIZES: be sure to leave comments on each stop. I’m giving away 4 $25 gift certificates to four random comments (2 winners each day) left before November 7, 2017 at 11:59 PM PST. I’ll be announcing the winners next week, so be sure to return and see if you are one of the winners!

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Kay Miller
Amy Yang
Heather Hoffman
Joni Andaya
Nichol Spohr
Thi Lam
Lisa Elton
Shannon McComb
Cathy Zielske
Yoonsun Hur


I hope you enjoyed today’s super fun post by Marge. Be sure to stop by tomorrow for a whole new batch of inspiration and designers!

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Altenew Crafty Friends Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hi and welcome to Day 2 of the Altenew Crafty Friends Blog Hop!  Pretty Pink Posh is a proud sponsor of this event!  We’re celebrating our love of crafting and how it’s drawn us closer together. Crafty friends are the BEST!!! If you’re hopping along you should have reached us through Sandra Dietrich’s blog. If you’d like to start from the beginning you can get all the details and start here at Altenew’s Scrapbook Blog!

I love to give flowers to friends and family.. lots of times they are from my garden, and more often they are on cards that I send so they know I’m thinking of them. My crafty friends are like family, they are so dear to my heart. We have the same things in common – we always want to make each other smile.

Altenew is my favorite place for flowers! They’re well  known for their multi stamp floral images, but more recently they have been releasing innovative stackable dies like these Fantasy Floral 3-d dies.  The flowers are three separate dies that you cut from colored paper and stack. They look great light to dark or dark to light. Flowers on my design today are arranged both ways.

The Altenew Crafty Friends stamp set is a must have for cards for your crafty friends.  The sentiments are a perfect way to celebrate your mutual love of friendship and crafting!

The perfect background for these gorgeous floral blooms is an ombre zig zag border from the Pretty Pink Posh Stacked Edges 1 die set.  The individual strips make a lovely accent when a single strip is added, but when you cut several and stack them together the result is breath taking. The stitched detail adds a crisp, rich detail to your design that looks expensive but is so easy to achieve.

My second card features the Altenew Floral Fantasy stamp set. It’s got two gorgeous multi stamped roses and assorted greenery. The flowers look amazing in any of the Altenew Die Ink colors that come in several shades and are designed to be layered.

The background was created with the Pretty Pink Posh Stacked Edges 1 die set.  This set is a real value because the set includes three dies that you can use individually or to create three background patterns.

Pink and yellow is my favorite floral combination.  I stamped the leaves in different shades of greens to give a more natural look.

This sentiment is also from the Altenew Crafty Friends stamp set. I know we can all relate to this sentiment!

A few Pretty Pink Posh Clear Droplets give the flowers a fresh picked look.

Ready for the next stop?  It’s Kymona Tracey! But before you go make sure you leave a comment! There’s lots of prizes up for grabs!

Altenew is giving away a $100 Altenew prize pack to FIVE lucky winners. There are also 13 awesome companies/magazines who are offering the following prizes:

Jennifer McGuire Ink: 1 prize pack of three Altenew stamp sets

Online Card Classes: 3 class spots

Create and Craft TV: £50 gift certificate

My Sweet Petunia: Mini MISTI

Ellen Hutson LLC: $30 gift certificate

Pretty Pink Posh: $30 gift certificate

Simon Says Stamp: $30 gift certificate

Chameleon Pens: 1 pack of 5 Chameleon pens

Tombow USA: 1 pack of 10 dual brush pens

WOW! Embossing Powder: $25 gift certificate

Butterfly Reflections Ink: $25 gift certificate

Freckled Fawn: $20 gift certificate

Papercraft Magazines: One copy of each of the latest issues of four magazines

Scrapbook & Cards Today Magazine: 1-year subscription

Be sure to leave comments by Friday, October 27th, 2017 at 11:59 PM EDT for a chance to win! 21 WINNERS will be chosen at random from the comments left on all of these blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog on October 28th, 2017

Here’s the complete blog hop list for today!

Altenew Scrapbook Blog

Sandy Allnock

Therese Calvird

Scrapbook & Cards Today

Ellen Hutson LLC

Kathy Racoosin

Yoonsun Hur

Create & Craft TV

Sandra Dietrich

Pretty Pink Posh << you are here

Kymona Tracey

Terhi Koskinen

Agnieszka Malyszek

My Sweet Petunia

Tracey McNeely

Butterfly Reflections Ink

Emily Leiphart

Freckled Fawn

Nichol Spohr

Anna Komenda

 

I hope you enjoyed today’s post. Enjoy the rest of the beautiful blog hop!

 

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Card Making Therapy Blog Hop

Hello, friends!

I am excited to be joining you for today’s blog hop. Not only because I actually got to stamp (after a year of only testing stamps!) but also because I get to share how crafting/ blogging has been a tremendous source of therapy for me in the past.

If you are hopping along, you should have come from Yana Smakula’s blog. Goodness, I don’t know how I got put after her since she will blow me out of the water, but that’s the beauty of crafting, we all have different styles, strengths and gifts, right? If you get lost along the way, head over to Amanda’s blog for the complete listing of designers joining in the hop, along with the great prizes and the story behind this blog hop!

For today’s card I am showing off the Reindeer Friends set, along with the Stitched Photo Frames die set and Scallop Frames die set. It’s been a while since I’ve stamped, but I always love using blue on cards, especially for winter/ Christmas cards. Add in some silver glitter cardstock with a dash of Sparkling Clear Sequins and your card has a super festive look!

How crafting/ blogging has helped me….

As many of you know, I was in a car accident that has changed my life. During that time, crafting and blogging became a source of therapy for me. It was therapeutic for me to have something I COULD do, something that made me feel like I had to get up for and something that I also enjoyed. It was during that time I began to visit new blogs, become friends with bloggers and also start blogging regularly again. Between crafting and sharing my story of the accident and different life lessons/ struggles I was battling, I found blogging to be a wonderful outlet for me. Granted, it is not for everyone; especially since there’s the chance of getting negative comments or mean things being said to/ about you. For me personally, this platform was what I needed to feel a connection to the outside world when I needed one, a way to feel “normal” and I have also made so many wonderful friendships from this crazy thing we call blogging.

No blog hop is complete without some prizes and Amanda has lined up some great ones! Be sure to leave a comment on each stop since she’ll be picking comments left on all the stops to win some of these great prizes below! Comments must be left on all the posts on this blog hop by 11:59pm EST on October 17th and will be announced on Amanda’s blog on October 19th.

GIVEAWAYS
– Six $20 gift cards to the Simon Says Stamp store (one for each stop on the blog)
– A $25 gift card to Concord and 9th.
– A $30 gift card to Pretty Pink Posh.
– A $25 gift card to Waffle Flower.
– Two $20 vouchers to Kit and Clowder

 

Thank you for stopping by my blog. I hope you enjoyed my card and post. Your next stop is Debby Hughes’ blog!

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September Product Release Blog Hop- Day 2

If you missed yesterday’s blog hop post, click here.

Suzy here with you today and we have a brand new batch of inspiration. Today I am showing off the darling Trick or Treat Friends stamp and die set. There are so many cute images in this set allowing you to create adorable Halloween scenes. I added a couple of the new stand-alone dies to this card as well.

I started the card with a black card base and a white stitched rectangle that I painted with small black watercolor dots.  Next, I used the new Stacked Edges 1 Dies to create the “ground” on my card. I watercolored these pieces with black watercolor and then outlined them with a black gel pen. I attached two pieces to the bottom of the card to complete the background.

To create the scene on the front, I used the large pumpkin from the new Stitched Foliage Dies. I painted it with orange watercolors and added shading with a gel pen. I stamped all of the Trick or Treat Friends images on white cardstock with a light color ink and colored them in with Copic markers. I added details and shading with gel pens. I attached all of the images on the card background creating a cute little trick or treat scene.

I added a sentiment from the Everyday Greetings Stamp Set stamped in black ink. I used a speech bubble from the Stitched Speech Bubbles Dies for the sentiment. I outlined the stitches in the speech bubble with a black gel pen so it stood out more from the background. I added some 4mm Tangerine Sequins over the speech bubble to finish the card.

Ready to hop along and see LOTS more fabulous inspiration with this release?

PRIZES: be sure to leave comments on each stop. I’m giving away 4 $25 gift certificates to four random comments (2 winners each day) left before September 19, 2017 at 11:59 PM PST. I’ll be announcing the winners next week, so be sure to return and see if you are one of the winners!

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Happy Halloween friends! I hope you are enjoying the new fall weather (which is still rather hot here in California!). Thanks for visiting today!

Suzy