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Bluebird Birthday

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Tonight I made a pretty little card for my wonderful mother-in-law's birthday.  I am truly blessed to have her in my life, and she always loves receiving cards I've made for her.  I combined this week's Get Sketchy Sketch with the Color Throwdown #78 (there are some awesome Doodle Factory stamps up for grabs).  Bluebirds from Artistic … Read more

Winter Cabbage Bloom

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When we traveled this fall, there were several planters in Savannah that used cabbage in with the flowers for wonderful bursts of texture and color.  When I saw this week's Tuesday Trigger was a gorgeous head of King Cabbage, I knew I had to play along.  Green and Purple is a favorite color combination of … Read more

Thinking of You

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My creative process has meandered today.  Nothing has ended up even remotely as planned, but that's the fun of just letting things happen and enjoying the journey.  This card is for the Just Us Girls Sketch challenge and features stamps from Artistic Outpost Bluebird plate. I cut a few flowers from the DP and punched some … Read more

Recycled Noel

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I found a stash of holiday cards that I rescued at the office last year, so I decided to try Sharon's Stamp Simply Challenge to alter a purchased card.  I started cutting out the different design elements from the cards and moving them around to see how I could combine them.  As I did, I realized … Read more

All know the Way

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I'm in love … seriously in love … with this week's CPS Sketch.  As soon as I saw it, I had to stop what I was doing and go create.  All of the fabulous layers just scream for a combination of designer paper scraps. My finished card is 4"x7".  Papers are Basic Grey Marrakech and … Read more

Holiday Door

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This card for the Gingersnap Winter Wonderland challenge uses Sketch 123 from CPS.  The wreath and garland from Artistic Outpost Snowy Woods were colored with Pebbles Shimmer Chalk with some Christmas Red Stickles added to the bow.  Supplies: Stamps: Artistic Outpost Cardstock: Hobby Lobby Patterned Paper: Webster’s Pages Ink: ColorBox Chalk: Pebbles Inc. Glitter Glue: Stickles … Read more

Bringing Light to the Season

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This week's Tuesday Trigger at the Moxie Fab World Blog is this picture of Thanksgiving Pumpkin Luminaries from Carolina Panache. I spent quite a while looking through all of my stamps trying to find inspiration … there were no pumpkins to be found other than a couple of jack-o-lanterns, so I tried thinking more broadly … Read more

Happy Christmas

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To celebrate the fact that I won the Artistic Outpost Birthday Sketch Challenge (okay .. it was a random drawing, but I'll take lucky any day), I decided to make another card with the Artistic Outpost Snowy Woods stamps and Basic Grey Fruitcake Papers.  Did you know that Artistic Outpost also gives away a complete set of … Read more