Coloring Down the Lines – Secret Garden

Happy Mid-Week Ladies! Well yesterday was a blur.  I had so much to do.  I got it all done but other than making this card I did not have any time to play.  🙁  Maybe today will be better. Today is our Coloring Down the Lines blog hop.  I am the start of the hop.  This week our picture was chosen by Laura. Here are the Stampin’ Up colors that I could match up as…

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Hand Stamped Sentiments Silhouettes

Hello Stampers! I have a dentist appointment today.  I am hoping that all goes well.  I hate going to the dentist and pray each time I do not have a cavity.  Wish me luck! My card today is for the color challenge at Hand Stamped Sentiments    I wasn’t certain what to do but decided it needed to be clean and simple.  I also wanted to keep with my theme of using retiring sets at least…

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Some new toys!

Hello Stampers! So did and of you watch the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics last night?  I could not believe that Bermuda had on Bermuda shorts.  I bet they were freezing!  There were definitely some interesting moments. I got some new toys the other day that I wanted to play with.  Karen Burniston has designed some new accordion dies and Lots of Pops dies.  I picked  up a few ad I love playing with…

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A New Challenge Blog

Good Morning Ladies! I was reading another lady’s blog and she mentioned a few new challenge sites I was not familiar with.  I went to check them out.  One of them that I checked out I really liked the challenge so I decided to play along. I don’t know if you have seen them on other blogs but the current rage is the card in a box.  I have been wanting to make one of…

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Inlaid embossing

Hello Everyone! There was a challenge on SUDSOL to do some inlaid embossing.  I have not done that for a while so I decided to play along.  When I had my card created, you then had to use an embossing folder to emboss the images into the paper.  I decided to use the Fancy Fan folder for something different.  Here is my creation. inside of card and envelope I hope you enjoyed my card today. …

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May Flowers Swap

Happy Rainy Saturday! Well we have had a ton of rain from the storm Andrea.  She is moving out of our area later today and then we need several days to dry out.  I hope if she came through your area you are doing fine. Today I am sharing the first set of cards from my monthly swap.  This month our theme was flowers.  We had to use flowers on our card. The first card…

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