Lovely Embossed Vellum

The Flourishes blog has a Timeless Tuesday challenge each week. This week the challenge was to use vellum on your card. I had a card in my mind and went looking for my pink, blue, and yellow vellum. When I checked my drawer with the vellum in it I couldn’t believe all that I had. I had forgotten all the colors and patterns I had bought in the past. I will definitely need to visit…

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A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation

I am really going to date myself here, but the entire time I was making this card I kept singing this song. When I chose my flower die, the patterned paper, and the scrumptous ribbon all I could think of was Prom night. The challenge at Clear Dollar Stamps is to create any card or project and use pearls (pearls, pearlized paper, pearlized embossing powder, etc.). I had this vision of using die cuts to…

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Prairie No Time to Stamp black

Like that title? This card is another one for Sharon’s black challenge. I am definitely loving this challenge. I have to admit I am trying more color challenges lately as I like this challenge for a change of pace. Today’s card uses Amy’s/ sketch challenge. I did flip the sketch a little since my image as pretty large. Here is Amy’s sketch and my card. inside of card Stamps: Garden Silhouettes, Circle of Friendship (both…

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Another Black Ink Only Challenge

Second post, scroll down for first. Well this is my final card for this challenge. I really took off with this challenge and I hope you did not get bored looking at my cards. I will tell you if you this is a good way to create a simple card that really pops. I used the addition of patterned paper in a color to really add an extra eye catcher. Today’s card did not use…

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Planet No Time to Stamp Black

Second post, scroll down for first. Happy Hump Day Everyone! Sharon at No Time To Stamp issued a challenge to stamp using black ink only. I loved the cards she posted on her blog and decided to try it. I have always loved the look of black as an accent color and hadn’t used it recently so I had fun with this one. I decided to use patterned paper as an added color so the…

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Pink & Gray Cherish

I recently went through my individual stamps as I hadn’t inked them up lately. I had this stamp and thought it would interesting to cut the center out and line it with patterned paper. I think this was an interesting change from stamping a saying in the center. The challenge this week on Colour Create was to use pink and gray. I love these 2 colors together. I also knew I had some gray velvet…

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