A New Challenge Blog

Hello Ladies! I was checking out my challenge blogs the other day and found a new that was advertized on one of them.  It is an interesting challenge as they have a sketch challenge, or a color/inspiration challenge, or you can fuse them together and do the fusion challenge.  The challenge is called Fusion Card Challenge.  I decided to use the inspiration challenge for my card today.     I was also going to do another…

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Retirement Village cards

Happy Sunday Everyone! I hope you are not in the path of the latest storm and expecting snow later today.  This weather is supposed to be Spring-like not cold.  I am going to cross my fingers and hope we get rain. Each month I go to one of the retirement villages and help the ladies there make cards.  I have been doing it about 2 years now.  Things have changed since I first started.  The…

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Coloring Down the Lines – Pretty in Pink

Happy Wednesday! Well it is supposed to rain most of today.  We need the rain so I am not complaining.  Just means more time to devote to crafting. Wednesday is our day for our color coach blog hop.  This week we were to use Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue    OR     Pretty in Pink, Marina Mist, Daffodil Delight I decided to use the second set of colors.  I combined it with the sketch challenge…

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Thursday post

Hello ladies! Wow I have been swamped this week.  I started teaching my graduate class and it has me hopping.  I get a few days before the next class so I will spend it in my craft room. I saw a color challenge at Dynamic Duos that I wanted to try. I love pink and black together so I just had to do this one.  Here is what I created. inside of card and envelope…

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Sketch Frenzy Friday – Summer Solstice

Happy Friday Everyone! Well I am headed today to Virginia to test drive a car.  I am hoping this is the one so I can finally do something besides test drive cars.  🙂 I am excited about our sketch today.  I love our Sketch Frenzy Friday sketches.  Today’s sketch was created my me!!!!!!!!!!  I can’t wait to see what the other ladies do with it.  Here is the sketch.  I went for bright colors again. …

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Another new technique

Hello Stampers! Well I am not sure how much snow we are going to get.  It went from getting nothing to getting 1 – 3 inches back to getting nothing.  We will see what happens today. I played with another new technique the other day.  This one was an interesting one.  This one was called Crayon Shadows.  I have to admit with the stamp I chose I had to play with the technique a little…

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