Elegant Blue Vase

I did the reverse stamping technique to create a full bouquet of leaves for this elegant blue vase. You’ll find the vase in the Basket of Blooms Stamp Set. I colored it with Night of Navy and Dark Smoky Slate Blends, then heat embossed the very bottom with white embossing…

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A Gnome in the Pines

Here’s a card that is sure to put a smile on someone’s face! I’ve combined Gnome For The Holidays with In The Pines. It’s a Gnome in the Pines Christmas card! Looks like Mr. Gnome is about to finish decorating the tree. He wants you to see the rest of…

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Magic in this Night

I’m working with part of the Magic in this Night Suite today, bringing you a Halloween card. I don’t make a lot of Halloween cards, so I didn’t purchase the stamp set or dies that come in this suite. Instead, I used a stamp set that I purchased last year…

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Gilded Autumn

The Pals’ Blog Hop put me into a Fall mood! See it HERE if you missed it! I’m continuing my fall-ish theme with DSP from Gilded Autumn and the Gathered Leaves Dies. It’s another super simple design that let’s the DSP shine (literally, as it is embossed with gold and…

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Playing With (birthday) Patterns

Have you gathered that I love Playing With Patterns? Today I’m playing with (birthday) patterns, and this particular print with the different colored lines just begged for randomly repeated stamping! I took the Happy Birthday stamp from Itty Bitty Greetings and started stamping, randomly, with the different colors of ink…

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Playing With (coral) Patterns

Today I’m playing with coral patterns! So far I’ve stuck with the blues/purple side of Playing With Patterns, but I branched out to the wild side (ha!) I cropped two strips of Bumble Bee Cardstock with the long, stitched strip die in All Dressed Up Dies. Don’t recognize that Whisper…

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Life is Beautiful

There is a stamp set in the new Fall Mini Catalog 2020 that is a #simplestamping kind of set. You don’t need any special tools or embellishments to create a very sweet card (although you could use those things and dress it up, too!) It’s called Life is Beautiful and…

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