4th of July table decoration

Well I didn’t get anything made early enough yesterday to post. I put my youngest on a place to San Francisco where she will live for a year. It will be a long year for me! I miss her already. I was in Target the other day picking up some things for her trip when I spotted a few things I thought I could use for a challenge. The Hand Stamped Sentiments blog has an…

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Got some new toys

The big brown truck came today and brought me some new goodies. I caved and bought some of the new Specialty Designer Series Paper. I saw so many beautiful cards made with this that I wanted to give it a try. I saw a new color challenge over at The Color Dare blog. You were to use Crushed Curry, Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry, and Soft Suede. These are very pretty colors together. I saw a…

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Perfect Ink Playing with Paper

Hello Ladies! You all know I love challenges. I found a new challenge blog the other day. Lesley is starting a new challenge blog at Always Playing with Paper. They are looking for a guest designer in June. I would love to have the chance to play with these talented ladies. You should check out the blog and see the talent there. The card I created for the challenge uses a color challenge from Picture…

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Didn’t make it again!

Well I was playing with Carole’Anne and Sandi’s 10 minute challenge and guess what. I didn’t make it again! It took me 18 minutes. 🙁 I thought I was going to do it but the center layer messed me up. The 10 minute challenge this week was a color challenge. It definitely was a challenge to work in the Soft Suede because when you combine it with Chocolate Chip the colors are similar and it…

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Pretty Simple Watercolor Trio

Good Sunday Morning to you! Quick post as I have a lot to do today. My daughter is moving to San Francisco at the end of the week and she needs some thank you cards so I have to get them done. My card today uses the clean & simple challenge at Ink Spots and Gum Drops blog. The challenge was to create a card that was simple and included tearing. I combined this with…

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Simple Black Apricot

Well the weatherman says we will be cloudy today and we will get rain later this afternoon. I am not complaining as we need it. I will be working on some cards for next week as well as preparing for my class that begins in the middle of June. Great way to spend a dreary Saturday! I received an invitation to a new group of stampers. On their page the moderator posted an inspiration challenge.…

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