An experiment

 Good Morning Ladies! I am so excited.  My daughter is here to celebrate my birthday – yes today is my birthday.  We have plans to spend the day making Christmas cookies.  We both had not made ours so we decided to do a mass cookie baking!  Wish us luck as we have a lot to get done. My card today is for the blue, white, and silver challenge at Late Night Stampers.  I had an…

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Another nontraditional Christmas colors card

The challenge at Late Night Stampers is to make a card and not use red or green.  I had every intention of using blue or purple but this card is a result of supplies sitting on my table. I started with the sketch from Mary Jo at Techno Stamper.  It was a clean and simple sketch and when I saw it things just started clicking and my card came together very quickly.       …

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Paisley Christmas

Another quick post today as we are traveling back home. I used the color challenge at  Picture Perfect Creations   and the sketch challenge at  Hand Stamped Sentiments   I chose the top sketch.  I stamped my center tree with Artichoke and then made a mask.  I inked up the tree with Celery and then used the Razzleberry pad to rock and roll the edges.  I stamped this on one side and then cleaned the stamp and…

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Faux Plaid Technique with Paisley Prints

      Last week I tried to do the faux plaid technique with Paisley Prints and could not get it to work.  Those of you who know me that when something work like I think it should work, I will continue to work at it until I can get it.  I was also the one growing up when told I couldn’t do something would work at it to prove them wrong.  Well that was the case…

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