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A Blog Named Hero Challenge – Using Small Stamps

10 Jan
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It's a new year, a new team, and a new challenge over at A Blog Named Hero!  Here's my card for the challenge: I enjoyed using my Hero Arts ink pads to get the fun ombre effect and it was nice to use a stamp that I'm fairly sure I've never touched before! So head on over, see what the rest of ... View Post

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Winnie & Walter Color Combo Challenge

8 Jan

Winnie & Walter was one of the first online stamp companies I found last year when I realized there was a whole world out there beyond Michael's and JoAnn's and they've got GREAT stamps.  I love the font of their sentiment stamps and I use them for lots of cards.  They're celebrating their first ... View Post

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PTI Make it Monday #196 and Virginia’s View Challenge #11

7 Jan

This week the Papertrey Ink: Make it Monday Challenge is to use a corner of the card instead of the middle as a focal point and January's Virginia's View Challenge is a Clean Slate.  Virginia gives several examples of what constitutes a clean slate card and I chose to create a card with a lot of ... View Post

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mama elephant, papertrey ink

A new (to me) technique: paper-piecing…

6 Jan

I was intrigued by this month's AEIHeartUChallenge: Paper Piecing.  It's not something I'd ever tried but it looked interesting.  By far, my favorite Avery Elle stamp sets are Storybook and More Stories and I knew I wanted to use them in some way.  I decided to try and give some of the animals the ... View Post

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Christmas Card Challenges #5 – Winter Wool

4 Jan

We have a fun color challenge for you this week at Christmas Card Challenges!   It's definitely a non-traditional holiday color scheme but one that lends itself nicely to warm and elegant cards! Aren't those sheep cute?!  Anyway, here's my card!  My camera went a little wonky so the colors appear ... View Post

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Christmas Card Challenges #4: Anything Goes

28 Dec

Well I'm back after a technical hiatus...I didn't get to post my card last week but I really enjoyed seeing all of your cards!  This week the Christmas Card Challenge was "Anything Goes" and I'm sharing the Christmas card I created for our local veterinarian.  We (and our pets) love the staff at ... View Post

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Christmas Card Challenges #2: CAS

14 Dec

I had a lot of fun with this week's Christmas Card Challenge.  CAS cards don't always come easily to me but this one just worked.  I tend to want to add more and more to a card...which sometimes works but sometimes (REALLY) doesn't.  Anyway, I love this card.  It was super easy to put together and ... View Post

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Christmas Card Challenges #1: Color Challenge

7 Dec

I'm excited to share my first card as a member of the Christmas Card Challenges design team!  We're starting a new year and here's the inspiration photo for the first challenge: For my card I used the new stamp set from Ellen Hutson, Bokeh Dots.  I love the versatility of this set!  I stamped the ... View Post

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