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True Thyme and Wintergreen

May 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments

I was feeling nostalgic and looked through my retired Christmas papers to find the wonderful Wintergreen Designer Series Paper. On this card, I combined it with Sage Shadow and True Thyme (which is a retired In Color). The layout is a slightly modified SFYTT by Jen del Muro (5/23/09). I stamped the house image and […]

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Card with Monogram

May 15th, 2009 · 4 Comments

When I got the Lovely Letters stamp set last year (for free thanks to Sale-A-Bration!), I fully intended to make loads of monogrammed cards with it. I’ve made a few, but I am hoping this set makes it into the next catalog, so that I can keep showing it off a while longer. We’ll know […]

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Triple Challenge

May 12th, 2009 · 10 Comments

This simple, sunny card was created for today’s color combination challenge (CC218), as well as this AND last week’s CAS challenges on SCS: a sketch (CAS13) and the rock ‘n’ roll technique (CAS14). If you’ve never tried this technique, you should give it a whirl. Make sure to use a bold stamp! Thanks for stopping […]

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Bright Pink for Dawn

May 9th, 2009 · 3 Comments

I really wanted to make a card for Dawn McVey’s color challenge last week (loved those colors!), but I ran out of time. This week, she picked dark grey, medium pink, bright pink and white. The bright pink is what threw me off; like I mentioned before, I am not a Bold Brights girl at […]

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Kraft is Kool

May 7th, 2009 · 3 Comments

I love making cards out of Kraft card stock (oh, and then slip them into those matching Kraft envelopes!). That’s why I just had to participate in today’s Ways to Use It challenge on SCS: Kool Kraft. The design is clean and simple, and uses Fall-to Layout #39 from the clean & simple stamping blog. […]

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