Amy’s Embrace Life

Sorry for the late post but I have been playing and having fun in my stamp room today! I wanted to break out of my mold of using sketches to create cards and have noticed several sites with color challenges. I decided to combine some color challenges with some sketch challenges to create my cards. You will see my creations over the next few days. I have also had some fun using some of my…

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Apricot Pockets

Sorry for the late post today. I am running! Today’s card was the desire to use a punch I have had but hadn’t used. Once I figured out how to make the punched layer, the rest of the card came together fairly quickly. Not going to chat too much, got a lot to do. Here is my card and the details. inside of card Stamps: Pocket Silhouettes Paper: Night of Navy, white, Patterns Pack DS…

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Fun With Vellum

I saw this idea in Cardmaker Magazine and wanted to give it a try. The original card used transparency which I had started using on the card. The problem with transparency is that water based markers do not dry on it so when I cut my edges with my Fiskars cutting board the ink ended up on my hands. I decided to use the same idea but substitute the vellum for the transparency. While I…

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Valentine Workshop Card

Hello! Sorry for the late post today but I had to wait for the sun to get my pictures. Today’s card uses an idea that I hadn’t used in quite a while – a mini envelope on the front of a card. I was looking through an old stamping magazine and ran across a page with cards using mini envelopes. I hadn’t done one of these in a while and thought it would be fun…

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Embossed Valentine

I saw a card on a blog I read where they had used the Cuttlebug Stitched Circles embossing folder to form a panel along the bottom of the card. I wanted to give it a try and this is what I created. I decided to try the Martha Stewart heart border punch for the inside of the card at the bottom. I like the idea. I love the look of this and may have to…

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Please vote for me!

Second Post, scroll down for first. Do you remember this card and this card? I created this card for a contest that Page Plans is having. I would love it you would click on this link and vote for my cards. It will be fun to see who the winner is. Of course if you check out the entries and think someone else should win I would understand! lol Thanks and have a great afternoon!…

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