Turquoise Snowflake

It’s Friday!!!!!!!!!!!  Do you have some plans for the weekend?  My daughter is coming to visit and I have my second session of my Christmas stamp-a-stack.  We will be having fun making Christmas cards on Saturday.  Why don’t you pull out your Christmas sets and make some too. For my card today I used the sketch challenge from Mary Jo’s Monday Lunchtime Sketch Challenge.  This was an interesting sketch but you know me, I modified…

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Paisley Christmas

Another quick post today as we are traveling back home. I used the color challenge at  Picture Perfect Creations   and the sketch challenge at  Hand Stamped Sentiments   I chose the top sketch.  I stamped my center tree with Artichoke and then made a mask.  I inked up the tree with Celery and then used the Razzleberry pad to rock and roll the edges.  I stamped this on one side and then cleaned the stamp and…

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Fall Luminary

Happy Wednesday! I usually try to do the Stamp-a-holics challenge each week and when I saw this one I thought I might be able to combine it with my project class for the month.  Their challenge is to create a 2-4-6-8 box.  There have been a lot of luminaries on blogs lately and I thought it would be fun to do a class this month and make a Thanksgiving one.  When I saw the challenge…

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Working on my Regional Swaps

Stampin’ Up has regionals scheduled throughout the country.  This year we are lucky that they are having a regional in Baltimore on October 1 and 2.  Regionals are only 1 day so I am going on October 1.  Regionals are very similar to convention so there is swapping involved.  Since it is 2 weeks away I knew I needed to get busy with my swaps.  I ran across some cards this week that were my…

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Using my color coach

Happy Wednesday! I can’t believe the week is half over.  Where do the days go?  We are watching Hurricane Earl closely as the track could have a big impact on us.  We have gotten some pretty bad hurricane in September in the past so it will be interesting to see what this one does. I have my monthly workshop tonight and we are making our first Halloween card.  I think the ladies will love it. …

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A great Teacher gift

Happy Friday Everyone! Wow I can’t believe how fast the week flew by.  It just seems like yesterday was Monday. Today’s project is for the Back to School challenge at Late Night Stampers.  If you are not a member of this group you are missing some awesome cards and projects.  Since this is not a card it also fits the Anything but a Card challenge at Hand Stamped Sentiments.  It also goes for the Back…

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