Cool Treats for your birthday!

Here I go, mixing it up again!  I am tickled with how this Festive Birthday DSP goes with the Cool Treats stamps! It looks like a July birthday party, ready to happen! This is a very straight-forward card. The DSP measures 5-1/4″ x 4″. The Tempting Turquoise layer is 4″…

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Quick Note Card

Good Monday to you! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! I wanted a note card-sized card to send to my friend, but since she is a purple person, I knew it had to be something in the purple family.  Since our Note Cards and Envelopes (so handy and…

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Basket Bunch Thank You

Happy Friday!  It is a beautiful day here today – sunshine and flowers popping up all around! It is a tease of Spring, I’m sure, but I’m enjoying it!!! Today’s card is a CASE from Amy K ~ one of my favorite card maker/bloggers.  I’ve used some different DSP and…

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Blue Butterfly for GDP#075

This is my first-ever entry for the Global Design Project! The theme this week is Winged Creatures, so I thought I would make a bold blue butterfly for the challenge ~ And here is the banner that inspired my card: I started with a base card of Basic Black. Then…

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It’s All in the Details!

Paper Details: When I pulled out Falling in Love Designer Series Paper, I knew I wanted to pair these two prints together. And as I looked closely at tiny checked paper, I knew I had to back it with Basic Gray Cardstock. The fact that the check is on the…

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Wild About Flowers

When I was looking through the Annual Catalog for a card to CASE for our monthly Blog Hop last week, I came upon this one using Wild About Flowers~ I have that stamp!  But I don’t have all the elements on their card, so I set out to make my…

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Have a Peachy Birthday!

Peekaboo Peach, Tip Top Taupe, and Whisper White ~ such a warm weather combo, don’t you agree?  I CASEd this card right from the 2016-17 Annual Catalog. CASE means Copy And Share Everything, and this card was just too pretty not to try! The only change I made to the…

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

One more Valentine project for you.  If you like texture, this is for you! I kept the color palette very simple ~ black, white, red, and Crumb Cake. The Crumb Cake layer is embossed with the Seaside Textured Embossing Folder. The hearts are all cut using the Sweet & Sassy…

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Happy Birthday Bouquet

I have a lot of friends with birthdays coming up ~ I need to restock my birthday card stash! I hadn’t played with my Balloon Punch or Framelits in a while, so I thought it was time to get them out and dust them off! For this card, I used…

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Fun With Watercolor Pencils

If you haven’t tried these Watercolor Pencils yet, you need to — now! They are so smooth and easy, which makes them so much fun! I roughly colored this Tasty Truck, then smoothed the color around the spaces with my Blender Pen. They are my favorite coloring tools yet, because…

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It’s Blog Hop Day!

Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop for February 2017. We are thankful you stopped by to take a look at our 2017 Blog Hop monthly themes.  This month we are CASE’ing a project shown in a current Stampin’ Up! catalog. After all, with the Annual, Occasions and Sale-a-Bration catalogs available…

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Sealed with Love for CPC68

Happy Tuesday!  I’m sharing an extra post this week to show you my entry for a Sketch Challenge from Craft Project Central ~ And here is the sketch that I patterned my card after ~ This is Creating Pretty Cards Sketch Challenge #68, design by Monika. You can see her…

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Simple Floral Boutique Notecard

I needed a note card to give my friend and whipped this one up quickly.  The only thing “complicated” about it is that I used three different stamp sets!  I posted it on our Pals Facebook Page and asked my fellow stampers if they could guess which ones I used.…

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Love IS in the Air!

As you can see, I can’t get enough of this hot air balloon! Today, I’ve sent it soaring over a love-filled sky for a love-ly valentine! The Designer Series Paper is from the Sending Love DSP stack.  The balloon and clouds are from the Lift Me Up Bundle.  Here I…

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Lifting You Up

While I’ve primarily used this bundle for birthday cards and even Valentine’s Day cards, this sentiment included in the set is perfect for a sympathy card, and this is for a friend who recently lost a loved one. Lift Me Up Bundle ~ #144712 (Clear Mount) and #144711 (Wood Mount)…

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