I’m back and a new post finally!

I guess you are wondering what happened to me. Well my daughters kept me really busy during the holidays. I put Jess on a plane back to Hawaii yesterday and Michaela and I headed to New York to get her an apartment. We looked at 3 yesterday and signed for a nice 2 bedroom townhome with a garage. It has just recently been renovated and includes a laundry room, 2 bedrooms, and 1 1/2 baths.…

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Card Sketch A Day

I recently found a great website that offers a different card sketch each day. Susan at Card Sketch A Day creates a new sketch every day and offers visitors a chance to create a card and post it on her blog. You then need to post it to your blog on the same day it is released. I loved her sketches and asked for a Christmas Tree sketch (she works a month in advance so…

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Check out what I have been doing

I bet you are wondering what I have been up to since I haven’t posted anything since Monday. I spent yesterday running errands and today I have been in my stamp room working on a Christmas present. Several months ago I ordered a stamp set from Papertrey Ink with the intentions of making this Christmas gift. Being the procrastinator that I am, I put it off and promptly forgot about it until this week. That…

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My last ATC for this swap

Sorry for the late post but I created this last night and had to wait for the sun to come out to get a good picture. Well I have created my last ATC (Artistic Trading Card) for the monthly swap I was in. The hostess has so much going on that she has decided not to continue the group next year. I understand how busy she is but I will miss participating as this was…

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2 more cased cards

After I posted yesterday I headed to my craft room as I had 2 more cards I wanted to case.  Both of these cards use the Lovely As A Tree set.  I am so glad they did not retire this set as I love using this set in the fall and winter.  You can create some beautiful cards with this set.  The first card I cased was created by Jenn D.  I loved how she…

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Sharing Some Cases

I love creating cards from sketches or using specified colors. Sometimes I want to use a specific set and I get a mental block. When that happens I go to Splitcoast Stampers and visit their gallery for ideas. They have the pictures categorized by companies and in Stampin’ Up’s case they have it broken down by stamp set (warning some sets can have quite a few pages – Lovely As A Tree had 67 pages).…

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