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Entries from March 2008

Christmas in March

March 28th, 2008 · 5 Comments

I started working on my holiday cards back in January, thanks to the 2008 Holiday Card Challenge on SCS. Every month, you make 10 cards so that when the holiday season rolls around, you have lots of cards ready to be mailed. When I saw Beate’s Weekend Sketch Challenge today, I knew I wanted to […]

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Tags: clean & simple

All the Best

March 26th, 2008 · 12 Comments

I combined today’s SCS Sketch Challenge with Kristina Werner’s Color Inspiration Challenge #3. When I went looking for an image for the long skinny panel, my eye fell on this retired SU stamp set, Haute Couture. I stamped the dress in black StazOn on Whisper White paper and colored it in with Watercolor Wonder Crayons […]

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Tags: simply delicious

Featured Stamper: Amy Sheffer

March 23rd, 2008 · 10 Comments

Woohoo! My GreatSwaps friend Amy Sheffer was selected as today’s Featured Stamper on SCS. I was drawn to one of her older cards, Birthday Soup, because of the Alphabet Soup stamp she used and the lovely orange (Pumpkin Pie) color! I hope I did Amy’s card justice! Alana, my next-door neighbors’ daughter, is celebrating her […]

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Tags: fun & frolicky

That’s Nice

March 19th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Kristina Werner posted a second color inspiration challenge on her blog, and I wanted to make a card with the colors she suggested: Blush Blossom, So Saffron, Groovy Guava, and Wild Wasabi. I knew I had the Prints DS paper in three of these colors, so I ended up with the same patterns side by […]

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Tags: clean & simple

Featured Stamper: BeckyTE

March 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I love doing the Featured Stamper challenge on SCS. This week we’re allowed to CASE a card from BeckyTE’s gallery, and I picked her Baroque Birthday card. I chose to use the colors from the Afternoon Tea DS paper on my version, and instead of a jumbo eyelet I embellished with a Build-A-Brad (those are […]

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Tags: simply delicious