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Square Pegs

January 21st, 2010 · 6 Comments

I’m happy to be participating in Gina K.’s customer blog hop for Melanie Muenchinger’s newest stamp set, called Square Pegs. Start here if you want to hop along! Today’s Cut It Out challenge on SCS inspired me to cut apart the sentiments before adhering them to the squares. And I used Mercy Kerin’s latest sketch […]

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Muddy Brick Wall

January 20th, 2010 · 5 Comments

Even though I didn’t really feel like uploading this particular card, I have spent too much time building this brick wall not to post the results. I shouldn’t have stamped my main image with Soft Suede first (I wanted to create a shadow effect), before stamping it again with Ruby Red Craft ink and clear […]

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Herringbone Technique

January 8th, 2010 · 8 Comments

I finally got an opportunity to try this intriguing herringbone technique from the Technique Junkie Newsletter, and I was inspired by the quilt Kristina Werner mentioned in her latest color inspiration challenge (#57). So I used her colors, most of which were present in SU!’s retired Walk in the Park DSP: deep red, coral, baja […]

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Verve’s Winter Mittens Digi

December 30th, 2009 · 8 Comments

I combined today’s SCS sketch challenge (SC261) with a little contest Verve Stamps is having with their Winter Mittens digital stamp set. I had downloaded it back in October, but hadn’t created anything with it yet. I used SU!’s retired Ski Slope designer paper for the background panel. The images were printed on Gina K.’s […]

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Making Snow

December 16th, 2009 · 5 Comments

After seeing the Liquid Appliqué video on StampTV, I remembered I bought this product a long, long time ago but had hardly ever used it. I decided to make some snow for the house image from the To You & Yours set. I’m actually trying to sell this set (and several others), but the size […]

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