I’m such an ‘earthy color’ kinda gal

Just a quick card using more of my new stuff.  Except for the Top Note die, everything on this card is used for the very first time.  I started with the Chocolate Chip striped grosgrain ribbon, and decided kraft works so well with it, and I do use it all the time, so I used [...]

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Talk about BLING!

At stamp club, I issue a challenge each month, in hopes that the gals will actually use their purchases, lol!  This month’s challenge was to “bling it up” in some way.  I loved everyone entries – they were all different and creative!  But Jean’s card really got a WOW from everyone, and I asked if [...]

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Some funky flowers…

…for my funky car!  I got this new Nissan Cube in July – I know it’s quite different, and to some, even hideous.  But I got it because it’s a Nissan (hubby works for a Nissan supplier so we get a deal) and they’re great, reliable cars, it fit in to our budget, and gets nearly [...]

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Christmas Jingle card class sneak peek

I’m holding my Christmas Jingle card class on Wednesday, and while I won’t be showing you all of the cards, here’s one of them I liked a lot.  There’s no stamping on this one – I only used the stickers on the textured card stock, then added a bit of red polka dot ribbon.  I did [...]

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Stamp Club, August ‘09

We had our first stamp club meeting of the new year on Thursday. I hope I didn’t scare the new gals away with our project, as it was a bit challenging. Not so much the stamping, but rather in the identifying of ALL of the colors of Stampin’ Up! card stock.  You’ll see what I [...]

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Moving and Shaping again

I just had to do another card with my Movers & Shapers Bigz die.  This time I used the star shape, from the additional set of 4 dies, called Punch Windows Movers & Shapers.  I have a whole package of the retired Sweet Slumber Specialy paper and was dying to use it.  Its thicker weight [...]

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A new card using some new toys

I bought the Movers & Shapers Curly Label Bigz die and finally used it yesterday.  For those of you unfamiliar with it, it’s easy to use, and makes a cute cut-out wherever you want it on the card.  It also cuts and scores your card.  I used the new Hallowe’en paper in the Holiday Mini [...]

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Card Club swap – “friend”

I know I haven’t been around a lot lately.  I’ll just blame it on summer, which we finally started having around here!
This month’s theme for our card club swap (a fun bunch of local friends) was either, “just because” or “friends”.  I saw almost the same card by Melissa Phillips (LOVE hers, but for the life of me [...]

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Sometimes you just have to improvise

For stamp club last month I needed a bunch of standard size cards, and would normally just cut my 8 1/2″ x 11″ sheets in half for that, but had accidentally ordered the 12″ x 12″ kraft paper.  So after cutting up what I had to make several cards, I ended up with these leftover 3 1/2″ x 11″ pieces.  I cut [...]

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Hope you’re checkin’ back in on me

I’ve been a bad blogger, and that’s because I’ve not been creating much lately.  I finally used my new Lattice Bigz Die and made a card, so here you go.  This was so hard to get the color right, and it still isn’t, but the Bermuda Bay lattice is on the Soft Suede square, both from the [...]

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Some gorgeous RAK’s

Here are 3 more RAK’s (Random Acts of Kindness) I’ve received of late.  I just love them all so much!  I’m so blessed to have made so many friends through blogging…and each of these gals I do consider friends.  So thank you all so much!  I hope you will visit their blogs to see more of [...]

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Just for kids…and the kid in you!

Happy August, everyone!  Two new promotions from Stampin’ Up! start today!  Check ‘em out on my right sidebar.  Also, the Country Living Summer Cookout Kit is ON SALE bigtime!
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