Baja Pirouette Bees

A couple of weeks ago a card I did for the Twisted Thursday challenge. My card was chosen as the “Ladies with Attitude” winner. As the winner, I was allowed to choose a stamp. My card today uses the stamp I chose. Since my stamp reminded me of summer, I combined it with the All That Scraps challenge to create anything summery. Since I got the stamp from Shirley’s 2 Girls I thought I would…

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Pink Kiss Appeal Sketch

Surprise a card on Sunday! I spent some time on Friday in my craft room. I was able to make several cards that I will be sharing with you over the next few days. The first one uses a sketch from the Eat Sleep Stamp blog and the color challenge from the Color Dare blog. The sketch was a simple one and the colors were Pink Passion, Kiwi Kiss, and Apricot Appeal. These colors are…

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Still Loving Soft Suede

I decided to use Soft Suede again with some other colors. I had the bird image from the Asian Artistry set. When I looked at this image I saw bamboo. I have a retired background stamp that was perfect for this. I paired this with a sketch from the Mojo Monday blog. I had to flip the sketch in order to use the image I had chosen. I also added a layer of vellum to…

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A Beautiful In Color Combination

It’s Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so glad you stopped by today. I have a pretty card to share with you today that uses 2 more In Colors. I wanted to play with the Soft Suede and try pairing it with another one of the new colors. I didn’t want to use the typical colors you would match with it so I opted to try Bermuda Bay. I think the color combination was gorgeous. I found a…

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A Watercolored Rose

I got one of the new Level 2 hostess sets. I love this set. It has some great images for watercoloring. I saw a watercoloring challenge on the Stampin B’s Design Team blog. So I chose the carnation looking flower image. I decided to try using my watercolor crayons on the image. I colored the stamp leaves with Always Artichoke and the stamp petals on the flower were Rose Red on the outside petals and…

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Another In Color Card

Late last night I posted a card that used some of the new In Colors. Today’s card uses some new colors as well as a new hostess set. I used the color challenge on the Colour Create blog. The challenge was to use any three of the following colors – Strawberry, Raspberry, Kiwi, Tangerine and Blackberry. This translated into red, pink, green, orange, and black. I chose to use pink (Melon Mambo), green (Gable Green),…

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