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Entries from July 2008

Real-Life GSG Swap

July 31st, 2008 · 4 Comments

I am so excited to meet some of my on-line friends from the Great Swaps Girls group in real life at the SU! convention this week. This is the card I made to swap with them. Hope they’ll like it! It may be a little difficult to see in the picture, but I used the […]

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Tags: simply delicious

Together Forever Swap Card

July 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments

You may recognize this card as a CASE of one in an earlier post, created for Beate’s 49th Weekend Sketch challenge. This time I made the card a regular 5-1/2″ x 4-1/4″ size, and I used some of the new In Colors and patterned paper from my Fall-Winter 2008 Idea Book & Catalog pre-order. The […]

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Tags: truly elegant

Reflection of a Horse

July 27th, 2008 · 7 Comments

You may be surprised to learn how I created the reflection of the horse image on this card! After I used my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig tool to achieve perfect placement of the image on the Confetti White card stock, I simply turned over the imaging sheet, matched up the horse’s feet with the stamped image and rubbed […]

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Tags: clean & simple

Christmas Rose

July 24th, 2008 · 9 Comments

Kristina Werner’s 17th color inspiration challenge was just what I needed to finish off my 10 cards for the Holiday Card challenge this month. I wanted to create flat, very “mailable” cards, since many of my cards travel overseas during the holidays. The christmas rose stamp from the retired Christmas Cardinal set was stamped in […]

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Tags: clean & simple

Happy Waterfall Card

July 22nd, 2008 · 4 Comments

I promised I would post the waterfall card we made at my stamp class this past weekend, and here it is! Using four of the upcoming In Color colors, I stamped images from the Be Happy set on the four white squares that make up the “waterfall.” You can find an excellent Waterfall Card tutorial […]

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Tags: fun & frolicky