Not Thanksgiving nor Christmas

Good Morning! I wanted to do something that was not Thanksgiving or Christmas.  While I love those holidays I felt I needed a break. I saw the color challenge at The Color Dare      Color Dare #82 Daffodil Delight Night of Navy Old Olive and knew this was the perfect color combination for a change.  I combined it with the sketch challenge at Pal Paper Arts     I colored the stamp with markers and then stamped it…

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Experimenting with stamps

I have my catalog workshop tonight. The ladies are going to make a mini cardstock ring with a sample of all the colors. The ladies love this as it is small and can fit in their purse. They will also get their new catalogs tonight. They have seen mine but are anxious to get their own so they can begin their wish lists. My card today uses a color challenge from the The Color Dare…

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It’s Wheel Week – Day 2

I have my card to share, but wanted to share a card I got. I joined a tagging group on my yahoo group. Basically all the members have their info in a database and you choose someone to send a card to. It is random so you never know when you are going to get a card. It is a lot of fun and I was so excited when I got my first card. I…

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It’s Wheel Week – Day 1

Happy Monday Morning to you! Did you have a good weekend? Tonight I begin teaching my graduate course so I spent time over the weekend preparing for that as well as making my cards to post this week as I will have no time to play. This week the challenge at Late Night Stampers is to pull out your wheels and make some cards. My cards this week will show you some ways to use…

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Pocket card and June ATC

The weekend is almost here. Are you excited? My youngest daughter is coming home before she moves to San Francisco. We will be spending lots of play time next week as I don’t know when I will see her again. My card today was inspired by some flowers I saw on Maria’s blog. She used designer paper but I decided to see if I could recreate it. She also made roses but I wanted mine…

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Circle Friendship

Another rainy day today, but we need the rain bad. My grass was crunchy like it gets in August. This will help a lot. I worked on a couple of cards yesterday. The card I am sharing today uses the color challenge at Colour Create. You were to use Khaki (I used Kraft), Aqua (I used Baja Breeze), Brown (I used Soft Suede) and Cream (I used Very Vanilla). There was also an additional challenge…

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