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Entries from June 2008

Triple Floral

June 25th, 2008 · 18 Comments

When I saw the picture Kristina Werner posted on her blog for her 13th Color Inspiration Challenge, I knew I wanted to incorporate flowers and a butterfly into my card. I used Fall-to Layout #4 from the clean & simple blog. I started by stamping the Floral background in Purely Pomegranate ink on the Regal […]

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Tags: clean & simple

‘Tis the Season (?)

June 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Well, it is if you’re doing the 2008 Holiday Card Challenge at splitcoaststampers.com. This is my card design for the month of June. I was inspired by today’s color challenge on SCS (Taken with Teal, Wild Wasabi, and Whisper White), but I chose a lighter green instead. I used two images from the Punch Pals […]

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Tags: clean & simple

Bleached Flowers

June 22nd, 2008 · 8 Comments

A tall and skinny card is what Beate’s sketch challenge called for this weekend. In Beate’s honor, I decided to use Chocolate Chip for my 3″ x 6″ card base and Afternoon Tea Designer Series paper for the background. I stamped the Fresh Cuts image in Craft ink on Soft Sky card stock and embossed […]

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Tags: simply delicious

Featured Swapper: Becky Carafa

June 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

There would be no Great Swaps Girls without Becky! She is the one who put this fabulous group of stampers and SU! demonstrators together, and we are having so much fun! I gladly CASEd one of her awesome cards for the Featured Swapper challenge this week: Celebrate. I followed a color combination suggestion from Stampin’ […]

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Tags: clean & simple

Imagine Summer by the Sea

June 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments

On this first day of summer, I thought it would be appropriate to use the Summer by the Sea stamp set for Kristina Werner’s 12th color inspiration challenge. Summer by the Sea is one of those sets that never seems to make it back into the SU! catalog, but it is still available for purchase, […]

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Tags: clean & simple