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Reverse Nestabilities

May 27th, 2010 · 12 Comments

I knew I had to try this Reverse Nestabilities technique after watching the wonderful video tutorial Gina K. posted this week. Although it looks like a window card, the stamped image and sentiment are still on the front of the card. The Pacific Point panel is adhered with dimensionals to create the depth effect. The […]

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iTunes Gift Card Holder

May 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Wouldn’t this card make a nice iTunes gift card holder? Of course you can’t see the inside (I haven’t prettied that up yet), but I followed the instructions found in this old SCS Try a New Technique challenge: TLC165 – Gift Card Holder. I started out with a 5-1/2″ x 12″ piece of textured card […]

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Best of Luck!

May 22nd, 2010 · 6 Comments

Just having fun with my beloved Up, Up & Away stamp set and combining a few challenges: Verve’s Ready, SET, Stamp challenge and this week’s sketch challenge on SCS (SC281). This would make a nice graduation or retirement card, I think. I paper-pieced the hot air balloon and colored the basket with a Copic marker. […]

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Can You Hear the Ocean?

May 13th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Of course it’s just a myth that if you hold a conch shell to your ear, you can hear the sound of the ocean. My sister-in-law (who loves the ocean) is celebrating her birthday this week, and this Gifts from the Sea stamp set had the perfect images for her birthday card. I used the […]

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Seeing Stars

May 8th, 2010 · 3 Comments

When I saw Natasha’s latest Fall-to Layout (#89) on the clean & simple stamping blog, I couldn’t resist using my brand new Seeing Stars set from Verve Stamps. This set includes stars in three different sizes and was a perfect fit for the sketch. I chose the striped stars and added striped DSP in the […]

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