Playing with Punches

Good Monday Morning to you! The challenge at Late Night Stampers  this week is a fall theme.  I have seen all kinds of pumpkins made out of punches.  The ones I had liked used the wide oval punch which I don’t have.  I saw a video made by Gwen Mangelson’s husband (great video so check it out) where he used other punches besides the wide oval so I decided to give it a try.   …

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Faux Plaid Technique

I am planning for my technique class next week and thought it would be fun to use the faux plaid technique on some leaves.  I tried it first with the Paisley Prints set but did not like the look so I pulled out the Autumn Splendor set and love how they turned out. I used the color challenge from The Paper Players.  You were to use                  …

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Layers, Layers, Layers

Well Summer is officially over.  I am sad to see it go but we need a break from heat not to mention lots of rain.  Everyone else seems to be getting it but not us.  My lawn is crunchy again.  I won’t be cutting it any time soon. Today’s card has lots of layers.  It did not start out that way but with the limited colors from the color challenge I felt it needed it.…

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Sketch Saturday

Each week one of us will choose a sketch and create a card following the sketch (well as close as possible as I already changed mine up a little). This week I was the lucky one to do this – I think Candice wanted me to go first so she could have more time :). I used sketch challenge #11 from the Splitcoaststampers website to create this card (sorry I can’t copy it as I…

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