Coloring Down the Lines Blog Hop

Good Morning Stampers! As you know I do a Morning Chat with a group of very nice ladies.  We were talking one day and they said they sometimes struggle with choosing colors for their cards – in fact they admitted it takes them longer to choose colors that it does to actually make the card.  I suggested we use the color coach and do a challenge each week.  We decided to post a card each…

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Hand Stamped Sentiments – Emboss Resist

Good Morning Stampers! Are you ready for a fun challenge?  This is one of my favorite techniques.  I love the look of the background when you are finished.  It is easy to do so give it a try and join us. Our challenge this week is Emboss Resist  I used some pretty soft colors for my ink.  I love these colors together.  I also used a Technique Junkie technique for the flower image.  It is…

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Late Night Stampers – using up ds paper

Happy Monday! Our challenge this week at Late Night Stampers    was to use some of our retiring designer series paper on your card.  I have lots of paper that will retire on June 1 so this was a fun challenge since I did not have to worry about hoarding my favorite paper – yes I hoard my favorite until I know I have no chance to run out.  🙂 I used a sketch challenge…

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Saying Goodbye and Hello

 Happy Mother’s Day! Well I had my post almost completed and hit a button and “poof” it was gone.  I hate when that happens!  Oh well enough venting on with the card. I hope you have some fun plans for today.  I will spending time in my craft room working on cards for upcoming events.  It will be a quiet fun day! My card today uses the sketch challenge at Try Stampin’ On Tuesday         I…

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Morning Chat Challenge – Mother’s Day

Good Morning Everyone! I had so much fun playing yesterday.  I started working on my convention swaps.  I also made 2 cards and I have 2 cards for my June workshop already done!  I was on a roll. My card today is for Donna’s Morning Chat Challenge.  This time she challenged us to do a Mother’s Day card.  I wasn’t sure what I was going to do but got my inspiration from a card I…

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Sketch Frenzy Friday using new goodies!

Happy Friday Everyone! Are you ready for the weekend?  I am.  I have my to do list and will work on crossing things off of it. Today is our Sketch Frenzy Friday sketch challenge.  This week our sketch was created by Maria Vanderform  When I saw this sketch I had an idea of what I wanted the card to look like.  Well I have to say as I worked on it I wasn’t sure about…

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