Penny Black Thanks a Bunch

I love Penny Black stamps!  She has such cute designs.  I love her hedgehogs and her silhouette stamps.  I check the Penny Black Blog each week and try to play along.  This week the challenge had a theme of “Thanks a Bunch”.  The first stamp that came to mind was the hedgehog carrying a huge bunch of flowers.  I love the stamp and thought it would make a cute card playing up on the “bunch”.  The…

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OCC Anything But Square

One of the blogs I read is a group of talented ladies who present weekly challenges. Our Creative Corner had the challenge this week to create a card that was anything but a square. I did a lot of thinking about what I wanted to do while I was walking this week. It finally hit me to do a butterfly. I pulled out a set that I bought and hadn’t used (I saw lots of…

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Another fun layout

There have been some fun sketches on the blogs this week.  I usually try to do Julee’s Poetic Artistry / Mojo Monday sketch.  She presented a challenge for us this week with a large circle on the card.  I wanted to use some more of my patterned paper and thought this paper fit the cauldron on the stamp.  Once I got the panels made and attached to the base it was missing something.  That’s when…

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A Quick Card

My friend Sandy (Hi Sandy!) is skeptical that anyone can create a card in short amount of time.  Today’s card took me all of 30 minutes.  It was a quick card to make and the layout is a great one from Natasha.  Her site is a good one for quick simple cards.  I like the simplicity of this card.  So what do you think, do you like this simple card?  Here is the sketch and my card.…

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Mixing my papers!

There was a fun sketch challenge on Amy’s Blog/ last Friday.  I decided to play along with this one.  I still need a few Halloween cards so I decided to use an Angel Company stamp from a set I really like.  I stamped the image first and then used markers to color it in.  I had picked up 2 papers that I thought would go together.  I went about putting this card together a little…

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The Wedding Card That Took Forever!

I hope everyone is having a great weekend.  We are having some great weather for this time of year.  I hope it continues for quite a while.  My best friend’s son got married yesterday and I needed a card.  I decided to CASE my self with this card.  I changed the colors (the colors of the wedding were burgundy, champagne, and ivory) and the image.  I thought this would be a quick beautiful card to make.  Little…

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