A sneak peek at the sketch set

I mentioned in my post yesterday that I would give you a sneak peek at my sketch set for this weekend and here it is. I am making a gift set for a friend and this is one of the cards in the set. It actually fits into 2 challenges and I did not plan it that way. The first challenge I ran across was from a new blog that lists all the challenges they…

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New Towne Village Cards for May

I spent yesterday morning at the retirement village making cards with the ladies. I had 3 cards but 2 of them were to be used for Father’s Day. These have to be simple cards as many of the ladies do not have the strength in their hands to do a lot of punching. I may have cased cards I saw in the gallery at Splitcoast but I made them over 2 weeks ago so I…

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Eat Sleep Stamp Time Well Spent

I fell in love with the Tea Party DS paper the minute I saw cards made with it. It is usually paired with the Sweet Stems stamp set. When I got the pack of paper and opened it up there was a sheet of paper that when I looked at it it reminded me of the retired stamp set Time Well Spent. When I pulled out the set it was almost the exact same flower.…

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Not My Usual Style

I hope everyone had a good weekend. I can’t believe the weather. It is the middle of May and it will not even hit 70 degrees. Highly unusual for our area. Speaking of unusual, today’s card is not my usual style. I wanted to combine 2 challenges today. The first is from Stampin’ B’s design team and you were to use rub ons. I have rub ons from several years ago when they were given…

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Bella Birds Sketch Set

Hello and happy Friday! Are you ready for some absolutely fabulous cards today? I wanted to use the beautiful Bella Birds Designer Series paper. I used the paper to create the cards for this sketch set. I chose to use black with 2 of the cards to make the paper pop. The other 2 cards I used Chocolate Chip as the accent color. I used 4 different sketches to create today’s cards. Here are my…

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Certainly Summer Red

Happy Thursday! Today card is for the color challenge on Paper Craft Planet. The challenge was to use Certainly Celery, Summer Sun, and Real Red. I saw on a couple of blogs cards that had ribbon roses on their cards. Christine posted some great directions but there is also a good tutorial here. I played with this and made a rose that I used on this card. Here is my creation. inside of card Stamps:…

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