Pretty Cottage Garden

Good Morning Ladies! Quick post as I have some errands to run before Jess gets here.  I am babysitting tonight while they go to their high school reunion.  My card today began with the color challenge at Create, Ink!         I then used the sketch challenge at Try Stampin’ On Tuesday    I liked working with these colors.  They really look nice together.  Here is my creation. inside of card Hope you liked my card today. …

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Sketch Frenzy Friday – Simply Soft

Good Morning, it’s Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!  And that means another Sketch Frenzy Friday challenge.  Our sketch this week was created by Kim Innis.  This was an interesting sketch to work with.  The sketch is a square and I do not do square cards unless I can fit it into a regular envelope.  So I changed the layout to make it a rectangle card.  For this one I began with the new patterned paper Pocketful of Posies that…

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Paisley Petals Again

Good Morning Stampers! Well the week is almost over.  Still lots to do so busy, busy, busy. My card today uses some more of the paper I used yesterday.  This time I combined it with Soft Suede and Crumb Cake.  I really like how it turned out. I used the sketch challenge at Stamping 411    I flipped the sketch to make it work for the stamp I wanted to use.  Here is what I…

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Catalog Dinner 3 x 3

Good Morning Ladies! I had my catalog dinner last night.  The ladies came for salad and bread and to get their new catalog.  This is my second year of doing a dinner (last year we had lasagne).  Last year we did new color swatches of all the cardstock colors since they changed the colors.  This year we did a 3 x 3.  I used a new stamp and new paper that we could actually order…

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Stars and Stripes

Good Morning Ladies! It is Tuesday and that means it is Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge day.  We have a great challenge today.  Our challenge is to create a 4th of July card and a 3D item. I have to admit I was stumped as to what to do for the 3D item.  Then I remembered doing stars using a SU pattern several years ago and thought I would created a star banner using it.  It…

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Late Night Stampers Animal Challenge

Good Morning Stampers! We have an animal challenge this week at Late Night Stampers.  You can use any animal image on your card.  I don’ t have many animal stamps and at the end of the month when this set retires I will have even fewer.  I used the cute bird from Fun and Fast Notes for my card. I started with the color challenge at Create, Ink. I combined it with the sketch challenge…

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