Valentine Day of Gratitude

I can’t believe it is Christmas Eve!  The year has just flown by.  I hope you are all ready for tomorrow!  🙂 Friday means it is Sketch Frenzy Friday time!  We have another great sketch this week.  Deb Currier designed this one for us. I played again with the Day of Gratitude stamp set.  I have to admit that I wasn’t really thrilled with this set when I saw it in the mini catalog and…

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Sketch Frenzy Friday Sparkle

Happy Friday Ladies! The weather has been sooooooo cold here.  My heat pump has been running constantly.  Don’t want to see what my electric bill will be.  How has the weather been in your area? My card today began with the sketch at Sketch Frenzy Friday.  This week the sketch was created by Angela Walters.  I ran across a snowflake challenge on Hand Stamped Sentiments that I wanted to do so I thought I would…

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Winter Day of Gratitude

Hello Ladies! I decided to play some more with my Day of Gratitude stamp set.  This time I thought I would make a winter card.  I found a great sketch that would work with the medallion.  I found the one at Our Creative Corner and knew it would work. I began by inking the medallion with Bashful Blue, Baja Breeze, and Marina Mist markers.  I overstamped it with Versamark and applied Iridescent Ice embossing powder. â€¦

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Day of Gratitude Christmas

Good Morning Ladies! Well we got lots of cookies made yesterday.  Since it is just me and my daughter and her husband we only did 1 batch of each kind and then split them.  That will be enough cookies for each of us during the holidays. I visited some of my favorite challenge blogs and found a color challenge I wanted to do at Hand Stamped Sentiments.     I went looking for a sketch challenge…

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Fall Gratitude

I can’t believe it is only Wednesday.  I feel like I have been running for 5 days.  I still have 2 more hectic days to go.  My card today is for the Sketch Frenzy Friday sketch challenge.     I wanted to do some fall cards for my workshop this month so I used this sketch for one of them.  I was looking for a variety of fall colors since I am doing 4 cards and…

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Autumn Splendor Again

Hello Ladies! I was checking out my challenge blogs yesterday and it seems that everyone is doing color challenges and they seem to be almost the same.  There was a run on Poppy Parade, Chocolate Chip, and Very Vanilla this week.  lol I chose the color challenge at The Color Dare.  They added in Pear Pizzazz which I thought was fun.  I used the sketch challenge at Sketch Frenzy Friday.  I liked the diagonal element…

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