A Fall Pocket Silhouettes

This was a simple card to do once I got the image stamped. I like the simplicity of the card and the clean look. I used the color challenge from the Color Dare blog and the sketch from Tracy at the Eat Sleep Stamp blog. This would make a good card to mass produce for a fall mailing. Here is the sketch and my creation. inside of card Stamps: Pocket Silhouettes Paper: Bashful Blue, Chocolate…

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A Colorful Beautiful Thing

I got some time to play in my craft room yesterday and made several cards. I will post them over the next few days but if I get time to make others I may have 2 posts on some days. Today’s card uses the color challenge from the Color Throwdown blog. You were to use Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, and Positively Pink. Positively Pink is an old Stampin’ Up color and to show you how…

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Prayer Request

I have a special prayer request. My daughter’s brother-in-law was involved in a serious motorcycle accident. He is currently paralyzed from the nose down and his only form of communication is by blinking his eyes. They flew his brother (my daughter’s husband) home from Afghanistan for 10 days but he had to return. This boy is only 22 years old and is still not out of the woods. Please pray for him and his family.…

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Hoping for a new venture

Well I am going out on a limb and trying this again. I have applied for several design teams and have not been lucky enough to be chosen. I was checking out the forums on Splitcoast Stampers and just popped into the design team calls and saw there was one posted for The Pixie Cottage. I decided to check out their stamps as you have to like the company’s stamps or it will not be…

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Beautiful Cottage Wall Card

I created this card for the design team call but realized the requirement was to have stamps as the focal point of your card. Since I focused on using the pattern of the paper this card did not fit the requirement so I decided to post it on a separate posting. I love the Cottage Wall paper! The colors are just so rich and gorgeous. I thought this paper would look so pretty with punched…

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A Wagon Full of Flowers

Second post, scroll down for the first! I had the time to visit my craft room and do some stamping that was not for Halloween. I saw the color challenge on The Color Dare blog and decided to use it to create this card. I also used the sketch from Card Patterns for this card. When I saw the colors you were to use, I wasn’t sure how I was going to use them all.…

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