Not Thanksgiving nor Christmas

Good Morning! I wanted to do something that was not Thanksgiving or Christmas.  While I love those holidays I felt I needed a break. I saw the color challenge at The Color Dare      Color Dare #82 Daffodil Delight Night of Navy Old Olive and knew this was the perfect color combination for a change.  I combined it with the sketch challenge at Pal Paper Arts     I colored the stamp with markers and then stamped it…

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Ten Minute Tuesday

Hey, I am on a roll. Last Tuesday was Technique Tuesday and this week is Ten Minute Tuesday. Maybe I will have to make Tuesday “T” day and the post will deal with something that begins with “T”. What do you think of that idea? Today’s card is for Carole’Anne’s and Sandi’s Ten Minute Challenge. This week was a sketch challenge and you had 10 minutes to make your card. Well I took 16 minutes…

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Need your opinion

I am busy this morning working on my Easy Peasy card that I will post when I get it finished so check back later today to see it. I played with my shimmer paint last night. I had a demo friend I met on the yahoo group Late Night Stampers. She told me about mixing it with alcohol and spritzing your cards to give them some sparkle (you know I like my sparkle). So I…

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2 Great Color Combinations

Yeah, it’s hump day! I have 2 cards for you today. My first card was for the color challenge at Picture Perfect Creations. The colors were Chocolate Chip, Tempting Turquoise, and Very Vanilla. These are great colors together and I think you will really like them on my card. I used the sketch from Tracy’s Eat Sleep Stamp blog. For the small horizontal strip I used the Fine Flourish and did a second generation stamping…

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2 more challenge creations for you

I spent a little time on Monday in my craft room (still digging out in between also) and did 2 sketch challenges. I wanted to bring some sunshine and spring to everyone as we are in the middle of our 3rd major snow storm of the season. Those of you from up north may not think anything of this but here in my part of Maryland we rarely get over 5 inches all winter. We…

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It’s not as difficult as it seems

It’s Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I know you are going to think that this card was very difficult to make. But in reality it wasn’t as bad as you would think. I began with the sketch challenge from the Caardvarks blog. I then decided to use the color challenge from the Color Dare blog. I used a Barely Banana layer and punched the edge with the eyelet border punch. Then using the flower stamp from Boho Backgrounds, I used…

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