Butterflies in field

Good Morning Stampers! Can you believe Easter is a few days away?  Time is flying by.  Before you know it the new catalog will be out and then Christmas.  I don’t know about you but I am getting excited about what could be in the new catalog. My card today uses the color challenge from Cards & Things   I used the sketch challenge from The Stamp-a-holics    I did modify it a little and did…

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Faux Mother of Pearl Technique

Oops, my scheduled post didn’t work.  Sorry it is late! Good Morning Ladies! I have my technique class tonight and we are going to be doing the faux mother of pearl.  I have loved the cards made with this and thought my ladies would like to do it also.  I tried several different ways to do this and got one that I was happy with.  I may play some more before class tonight to see…

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Hand Stamped Sentiments – Graduation

I am so excited about my project today.  When I started on this each time I completed one part it sparked an idea for another part.  Over at Hand Stamped Sentiments we have a graduation challenge this week.    I thought it would be fun to use the box I used last week for my Easter project and make a mortar board.  I tried to think of how I could do a tassle and my…

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Late Night Stampers – baby card

Good Monday Morning to you! When I saw our challenge at Late Night Stampers I knew I wanted to use an elephant.  Luckily I still had the Pun Fun set I had borrowed from Candice so I could use the elephant from that set. I went looking for a sketch challenge and saw the one at Stamping 411 that I thought would be good.  Since elephant’s are gray I had to find colors that would…

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Scrapbook Sunday – sunburst continued

Good Morning Stampers! I hope everyone survived the storms yesterday.  I was wondering if my house was going to blow away at times as the wind was so strong.  I survived and no issues with the wind. I don’t know if you remember my sunburst scrapbook I shared last weekend.  At the time I told you I was waiting for my chipboard to come in so I could finish the covers.  I got my chipboard…

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Sketch Frenzy Friday – Friends

Happy Friday! Boy this week took forever!  I don’t know about you but I could not wait for today. I really struggled with my card today.  Not sure why.  Not sure I like it.  I will leave it up to you. We had a really great sketch from Tammy Baldwin this week. When I saw it I knew I wanted to use the stamp “My dear, kind, and wonderful friend” for the diamond pattern in…

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