Living Up to my Goal!

If you remember in my post on Monday I said I would continue to make cards to send to our troops. I had wanted to make some holiday ones starting now so when the time came I would have a stash to send out. Today’s cards support my efforts. I used the Splitcoast Stampers Clean and Simple forum which posted a sketch challenge on May 4. I used the sketch to create a Halloween, Thanksgiving,…

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Nice Spring Card

Well how is everyone doing today? I hope you all had a great Memorial Day and had some fun over the weekend! I have to admit that today’s card had a rocky start but I like how it turned out. Stampin B’s Design Team blog had a “Follow The List” challenge. This type of challenge lists certain items you need to use on your card. I had to include Border Punch, Circle, Leaf/leaves/branch, and 2…

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Better Late Than Never

Well I finally got into my craft room today. Sorry the post is late but I was busy cutting grass, weeding, and taking my sister to the flower shop. When I got home I headed into my room and started creating. I used the sketch from the Eat Sleep Stamp blog and got my colors from the Color Throwdown blog. I had fun with the sketch and I love the fact that I got to…

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A New Venture

I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday. The weather was warm yesterday for the Air Show but with the clouds today it may be a little bit more cooler. I wanted to share an organization I ran across this weekend while I was blog hopping. On one of the blogs I visited they mentioned a Cards for Heroes organization that ships bank handmade cards to our troops overseas. The troops can then use these cards…

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Gift Set Sketch Set

Sorry for the late post but I had to wait for the right lighting this morning. Yesterday I gave you a sneak peek for a gift set I was working on. Today I am sharing with you the completed set. I used the same color scheme on all the cards. I also used a monogram on all of them since this is for a special person. All of the cards fit the Color Challenge on…

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A sneak peek at the sketch set

I mentioned in my post yesterday that I would give you a sneak peek at my sketch set for this weekend and here it is. I am making a gift set for a friend and this is one of the cards in the set. It actually fits into 2 challenges and I did not plan it that way. The first challenge I ran across was from a new blog that lists all the challenges they…

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