Happy Birthday to a friend

Here’s a quick birthday card I made for a friend of mine.  I followed the layout in the catalog on page 98, but used different colors and stamp sets.  It’s hard to see, but the flower image is done with Watercolor Wonder crayons colored directly on top of the stamp, then spritzed with water.  The [...]

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A Catalog CASE

I liked this card so much in the catalog so I decided to re-create it.  I think the catalog left out a couple of things, like Old Olive card stock and whatever white they used for the flower and “goodness” word.  But I think I figured it out.  I stamped the pears onto Naturals White in More [...]

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I’ve Been Tagged!

Tandra from A Little Inkalicious tagged me!  It’s my first time, so here goes:
1. Stamping Style: I guess I’d say clean and simple
2. Inspiration: Others’ awesome talent (see blogs on the right side!)
3. Color: I definitely lean towards the earthy colors.  I’ll miss River Rock the most of the new In Colors!
4. Work Space: Centrally located [...]

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February Stamp Club

Our first project was to make this card using the Brayered Sky technique.  Mine is almost an exact CASE of this card.  This is my favorite card using this technique that I’ve ever seen!  I did change the card size to 5 1/2″ square and used current SU! colors.  I did use the retired stamps for the [...]

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Mini Lunch Bag

I saw this bag on beate’s  blog and thought I’d give it a try.  I love this color combination – Chocolate Chip, Ruby Red & Groovy Guava!  I used a regular lunch sack (mine was 5″ wide) and cut it down to 5″ so that it came out 5″ x 5″.  My Chocolate Chip layers [...]

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Not the kind of card you get to make everyday!

I so enjoy making cards and sending them to people I love.  So when I saw on Splitcoast that someone did some cards for Leap Year using the Unfrogettable stamp set, and since I own and LOVE this set, it gave me the opportunity to get it out once again and use it to make my own version.  I [...]

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Same bird – different look

I thought I’d try to do the same basic layout as yesterday’s card but change it up a bit and use Stampin’ Up! paper.  I used the Le Jardin paper and kept with the French theme and used the “Mon Amie” sentiment.  I didn’t have the Always Artichoke craft ink so in order to emboss the [...]

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Little ol’ me?

I just received word that my blog was nominated by Michele Force, of The Stamp Link, for an “E” award! 
 
I’m thinking that probably there was no one left in the stamp-related blogging world to nominate, but I’ll take the honor just the same!  lol!  Thanks, Michele!  I would like to nominate all of those bloggers whose names you see [...]

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A quick Valentine’s Day card

I got some new papers yesterday and had to use them right away!  I thought this pattern would look good with my favorite bird stamp from the “Always” stamp set.  Because I let the paper dominate the design, this card took only about 10 minutes to make!  Super easy!  I stamped the bird in Creamy [...]

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A Little Birdie Told Me

Here’s a card we made at our Opportunity Night (a night where customers can come to learn about being a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator) last week.  This card is almost exactly the same as the one we made.  I added the scallop to the strip in the middle of the card, and used a different papers, [...]

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