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Continue reading →: HopeHello everyone,Do you ever have those times in your crafting where you just can’t seem to produce anything that you like? This is where my crafting has been lately. It’s one of the reasons I haven’t been posting much. When the February theme challenge for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown came…
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Continue reading →: Christmas CraftingHello everyone,The making of this card was inspired by the mess on my desk and by Michelle’s latest sketch from Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge. I had been playing around with some ideas using a paper pad that I am not too fond of. Then this sketch came up for my…
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Continue reading →: AHSC no.667Hello everyone,It is time for me to share my creation using sketch 667 from the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge. For my card, I followed the sketch closely, only adjusting the fishtail banner to suit the paper that I had. These papers are from Stampin’ Up; the collection is Wildflower Birthday.…
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Continue reading →: Birthday WhiskeyHello everyone,Having fun playing with digital images, scraps, and a sketch. I have changed elements from the sketch, but you can see where my inspiration came from. The image of the whiskey bottle and glass is from Wonder Artist on Etsy. I had some of these images printed and cut…
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Continue reading →: Old and New EasterHello everyone,I am combining 2 current challenges and 1 old challenge to create this card. Starting with the old challenge. It happens to be a sketch from Try a Sketch on Tuesday no.686. This is where the inspiration started but life interferred and I didn’t get it up in time…
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Continue reading →: Winter SportsHello everyone,It is time for me to share with you my make using the theme challenge from 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. I was lucky enough to have some adorable animal digi stamps in my collection that are participating in winter sports. These are adorable images from the Wonder Artist Etsy…
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Continue reading →: Pot of GreeneryHello everyone,The beginning of the year seems to make schedules go haywire. When I get to be in my craft space, it is sporadic. My time in my space is precious, but this time I didn’t know what style of card I wanted to create. So I looked at a…
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Continue reading →: Merry Christmas TreeHello everyone,The card that I am sharing with you today was created using the January colour combination from Andreja on the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown Challenge. To make my card, I printed the music paper on craft paper, then used a blending sponge and a darker brown ink to give…
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Continue reading →: Patterned Paper Saves DayHello everyone,I am here this morning to share my creation using sketch #663 by Michelle from the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge. I have to admit that this sketch was giving me trouble. The placement of the flower, for some reason, threw me. I could have used either a digital image…
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Continue reading →: Trying a New ChallengeHello everyone,During the coming year, I hope to enter more card challenges and not just do design team work. So I have decided to join the Christmas (or not) Bingo Challenge. For this challenge, they have given us a bingo card, and we have to choose one column under each…
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