Hand Stamped Sentiments – Love is in the Air

Hello Ladies! I am so glad we are getting our warmer weather back.  I don’t mind cold but this past weekend was too cold.  My heat pump ran constantly.  It will be nice to have some sunshine also. We have a Love Challenge over at Hand Stamped Sentiments.  I was ready to move on to another holiday but we still have this one to do.      When I saw the title I thought of hearts…

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Late Night Stampers – sketch challenge

Good Morning Stampers! I spent this weekend working ahead on some of my design team samples.  I have a couple of weeks completed so now I can focus on other things. Over at Late Night Stampers we have a sketch challenge this week.     This was a fun sketch and I took the opportunity to play with the doily sizzlit die.  I also used the sketch to play with some flower punches.  I used some…

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Spring Challenge at Butternut Sage Designs

Hello Stampers! I decided to play with an idea I saw on Stampin’ Fun and Friends.  I modified mine as I was thinking of using the idea for my Spring card for my swap group.  It did not turn out like I had pictured in my mind  but I liked it so instead I am going to use it for the Spring challenge at Butternut Sage Designs.     I used a stencil from the Elegant…

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Playing with a new technique

Hello Ladies! I got the Technique Junkies SU Companion cd.  It has lots of techniques all using SU supplies.  I decided to play with one of them.  I saw the pdf for stencil stamped backgrounds and it looked like fun so I decided to try it. The hardest thing about this technique is deciding on the colors.  I also modified it a little as I only used the stencil 1 time rather than several.  Here…

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Sketch Frenzy Friday – Friendly Words

Happy Friday Stampers! Since it is Friday that means it is time for another Sketch challenge.  The Sketch Frenzy Friday team has some great sketches.  The one this week was designed by Jennifer Weide.  Here is what she gave us to work with.  I loved the simplicity of this sketch and decided to work with it.  I saw from another blogger how you can take a wheel of sayings and use only select sayings so…

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Red Hot Just Believe

Good Morning Ladies! Well no snow for us yesterday just rain.  I would really like to see the snow falling.  I do not care if it sticks but it would be nice to sit in my sunroom and watch it.  Oh well maybe next time.  I was attracted to the sketch challenge at Red Hot Stampers and wanted to play with something a little different for the different sized elements.   I decided to use…

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