Using More of My Gingham Patterned Paper

I am loving my gingham paper download. I used some on Saturday for my sketch set and when I saw the sketch that Natasha posted at Clean and Simple I knew it would be perfect for their sketch. Today’s card is not your usual invitation size card. It is actually 4 x 7 1/2. This will fit in a business size envelope and still take a regular stamp. It was fun to play with this…

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Playing with Ribbon

On the Mother’s and Daughter’s Creations blog they posted they were sponsoring a challenge on the Cafe Mojo Challenges blog. I decided to check it out and saw it was to use ribbon in a non-traditional way. As I was laying in bed the other night watching tv when I wondered if I could use this beautiful sheer ribbon I had gotten from Heidi. to make a butterfly. I wondered how I was going to…

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My Favorite Colors makes a Beautiful Card

Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a great weekend. The weather was gorgeous, I hope you got outside some. Today’s card actually fits in 5 different challenges. It didn’t start out that way but things just fell together beautifully. I used the sketch from Paper Craft Planet and combined it with my favorite colors which is the challenge for Our Creative Corner. When I began stamping Mellow Moss and Pretty in Pink were the colors…

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May Workshop Cards

I hadn’t planned on posting today, but I just finished my cards for my May workshop and I thought I would post them for you to see. First Card Paper: Always Artichoke, Baja Breeze, white, Sunshine Garden Simply Scrappin’ Kit Accessories: So Saffron ribbon (Pink Hedgehog), Filigree Designer Brads, sticky tape, dimensionals Second Card Stamps: Sweet Stems Paper: Basic Black, Rose Red, white, Raspberry Tart DS Ink: Basic Black, Kiwi Kiss Accessories: Cameo Coral –…

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A Different Sketch Set For You

Yesterday I mentioned I was playing with an idea for a sketch set. In the past when I did a sketch set I used the same colors but different stamp sets and sketches. I was wondering what it would look like to use the same colors, the same sketch, but different stamp sets. I decided to give it a try. The Color Throwdown blog posted a challenge to use Barely Banana, Basic Black, and Real…

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A Challenge

Sorry for the late post today. I have had a horrible headache as part of this cold and it has zapped me of my energy not to mention having to deal with the pain. Candice challenged me to do a card using the sketch at the Eat Sleep Stamp blog. This is a new blog she ran across. The sketch was an easy one compared to ones I have done so I took on the…

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