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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Our Creative Corner Sketch

Happy Hump Day Everyone! I used a sketch from the Our Creative Corner blog to make today’s card. I wanted to use something different than an oval on the card for a change. I thought it would be a great change to use a hexagon. I went looking through my patterned paper and decided to use some of my Cutie Pie paper. I chose the colors for my image from the paper. After I stamped…

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Black & White and Another Color

I created this card for a challenge I read yesterday. You were to use black, white, and one other color. When I was looking through the catalog I ran across the Fresh Cuts set and knew it would be good to use – and if you are like me you don’t use this set often as you are unsure of what to do with it. When I began the card I also remember reading on…

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Colour Create Blue and Green Elegance

I checked out the Colour Create blog for the colors this week. The colors to use were blue and green. In looking at my sets I ran across Simply Said and thought it would be fun to use this set. I began by inking up the stamp and wiping off the green from the flowers. Then using a marker I colored the flowers blue. I stamped the image and mounted it on Bashful Blue and…

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