A Beautiful Thing

It’s Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Today’s card uses the sketch from the Sketch Saturday blog. When I looked at this sketch my first thought was to do a snow card and use snowflakes for the 2 round elements at the top. I just couldn’t bring myself to do a winter card yet. So I went looking through the catalog. I ran across A Beautiful Thing and since I hadn’t used it in a while I pulled it off…

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Revisiting my Baroque Motifs

Second post scroll down for first. I was able to create another card. I used another sketch challenge and this one was another quick card. This is another one I will be mass producing to ship to our troops overseas. I used the sketch from the Card Positioning Systems blog. The sketch really lends itself to a quick card. I pulled out my Baroque Motifs and Matchbox Messages sets as I hadn’t used them in…

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A quick card for you

I spent some time in my craft room yesterday. I was able to use another sketch to create this card. I went for a quick and easy as it just fell into place for that type of card. I used the sketch from Our Creative Corner. This is another card I think I will copy to send to the Cards for Heros and my son-in-law. I colored the stamp with markers and then spritzed it…

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I think I went overboard with the flowers!

Yeah, it’s hump day! I have had so much fun playing with the challenges this week. I didn’t realize how much I had missed them over the past 2 weeks. I am so looking forward to playing in some of my new challenges next week also. Today’s card was fun to make. I started with the challenge from Stampin’ B’s Design Team which was to create a gate fold card with a flower. When I…

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One Bright Card

Second Post, scroll down for the first! I have to tell you my photographs do not do the bright colors on this card justice. This card is so cute that I think I am going to make some of these as gifts. I could see this card being done in a variety of colors. I wanted to do the color challenge at the Colour Create blog. You were to use red, yellow, black, and white.…

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I love Black Eyed Susan’s

I love black eyed susan’s! I seem to use them a lot this time of year. I had fun creating the large and small flowers with the punches. I began with selecting my color challenge. I decided to use the colors from the Color Throwdown blog. You were to use dark brown (Chocolate Chip), Kraft, Old Olive, dark yellow (Summer Sun). When I saw those colors I just knew I needed to make black eyed…

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