Hand Stamped Sentiments – birds

Hello Stampers! Did you spend some time stamping yesterday?  I spent some time yesterday evening working on some cards for a design team post and a blog hop for the weekend.  It feels good to have cards made for upcoming posts.  Since I start teaching next week I need to work ahead as much as I can. We have a fun challenge at Hand Stamped Sentiments this week.  We are to use peacocks or birds.…

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Clean and Simple with Connie and Mary

Happy Sunday Everyone! Wow the weather got really hot the past few days!  Perfect for staying inside and stamping.  I had my monthly workshop in the morning then spent the afternoon  preparing for my banner class today.  In the evening I finished up one of my swaps for convention. I now have 2 finished and 2 planned that I can start to work on. My card today began with the sketch at Create with Connie…

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Playing with the blossom in Betsy’s Blossoms

Good Morning Stampers! I had some time the other day and decided I wanted to play with the blossom in the Betsy’s Blossoms set.  With the dahlia in Flower Fest retiring I am missing having a layered flower.  I decided to see if I could do the same thing with the lower in the new set. There is a challenge with this set as it does not have clearly defined layers.  I stamped the image…

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Hand Stamped Sentiments – Daffodil Gray color challenge

Good Morning Stampers! Well we have another color challenge.  This challenge is for the Hand Stamped Sentiments group.  I think this a very fun color combo and very in right now. Gray and yellow are the current hot colors for just about anything.  They really are striking as the color palette of a room.  I think these little flowers are so fun.  I will be sending this card to Jess as she loves this color…

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Coloring Down the Lines – Melon Mambo

Hello Ladies! Well our chat group has another color challenge from the Color Coach.  This week we had to use Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, and Tempting Turquoise OR Melon Mambo, Old Olive, and Elegant Eggplant. I needed a card for my catalog dinner tonight so I decided to use the color challenge and combine it with the sketch challenge at Stamping 411 I wanted to use one of the new sets in the new catty. …

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Sketch Frenzy Friday using new goodies!

Happy Friday Everyone! Are you ready for the weekend?  I am.  I have my to do list and will work on crossing things off of it. Today is our Sketch Frenzy Friday sketch challenge.  This week our sketch was created by Maria Vanderform  When I saw this sketch I had an idea of what I wanted the card to look like.  Well I have to say as I worked on it I wasn’t sure about…

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