Getting Krafty

There is a September challenge on Verve’s website where you create a card and have to use Kraft cardstock as part of your card.  In one of my orders from Julee she had used this pretty tissue paper to wrap my stamps in.  I thought it would be fun to use the tissue paper on the card.  I knew the faux silk technique used tissue paper so I decided to use that to create my card.  It…

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OCC Case Challenge

Our Creative Corner does a weekly challenge that I have done a few times. They had a mid-week challenge to case one of their designers. Their designers are awesome and it was very hard to find just one card to case. I chose Laurie Schmidlin because when I first saw her card I wanted to case it Here is the card I cased with a few changes. This is such a pretty card and very…

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What a week!

Wow I can’t believe it is Saturday already. Where did the week go? I have been so busy I haven’t even had a chance to stamp. I took some time yesterday and used Beate’s Weekend Sketch Challenge to do this card. I realized as I was posting it though that I modified the sketch a little. My panels should have been closer together with a wider space on the right side. Should have looked at…

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Patriotic Bee

This is another image I got from the image swap.  I must admit that I struggled with what to do with this image.  I began by coloring the image.  I remember I had some fireworks looking paper and thought it would be a good idea to use it on the background.  From there I just kept adding pieces until I was finished.  I must admit I am happy with how it turned out. What do…

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Play Ball

I got this cute image in an image swap and just had to use it.  I thought my grass paper would go perfect.  Once I had my layout I wasn’t sure where to go from there.  All of a sudden it hit me that a row of balls down the side would be good.  I wasn’t sure if it needed something else or not so I added some brads.  It would be perfect if I…

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Another Birthday Bookmark

Well last week my youngest turned 21.  This week my oldest turns 25.  Wow it just seems like yesterday they were in grade school.  I think the older you get the faster time flies. My oldest has 2 cats and a dog.  She has had the cats since she was in college and adopted them from the vet she worked for.  They are both mischievous and always racing through the house.  One is gray and the…

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