Meet the Diva’s Challenge

The Verve Forum has been running a meet the Diva’s challenge for 12 weeks.  I have participated in a few of the challenges when I had the time.  I had time so I wanted to do this one.  The challenge was to use purple on your card.  I had this ribbon I got from an ATC swap I won that I wanted to use so that was my starting point.  I really like the way…

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Fair Entries – I won!

My sister encouraged me to enter some of my cards in the St. Mary’s County Fair. I thought it might be fun to see how I could do. Our Fair only had one category for rubber stamping so I chose a card I think was good and entered it. I won a first place ribbon! I was so excited I decided to try Calvert County Fair. They had 4 categories and I had projects for…

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Getting Krafty

There is a September challenge on Verve’s website where you create a card and have to use Kraft cardstock as part of your card.  In one of my orders from Julee she had used this pretty tissue paper to wrap my stamps in.  I thought it would be fun to use the tissue paper on the card.  I knew the faux silk technique used tissue paper so I decided to use that to create my card.  It…

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OCC Case Challenge

Our Creative Corner does a weekly challenge that I have done a few times. They had a mid-week challenge to case one of their designers. Their designers are awesome and it was very hard to find just one card to case. I chose Laurie Schmidlin because when I first saw her card I wanted to case it Here is the card I cased with a few changes. This is such a pretty card and very…

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What a week!

Wow I can’t believe it is Saturday already. Where did the week go? I have been so busy I haven’t even had a chance to stamp. I took some time yesterday and used Beate’s Weekend Sketch Challenge to do this card. I realized as I was posting it though that I modified the sketch a little. My panels should have been closer together with a wider space on the right side. Should have looked at…

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Patriotic Bee

This is another image I got from the image swap.  I must admit that I struggled with what to do with this image.  I began by coloring the image.  I remember I had some fireworks looking paper and thought it would be a good idea to use it on the background.  From there I just kept adding pieces until I was finished.  I must admit I am happy with how it turned out. What do…

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