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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 Faux [...]

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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 scalloped [...]

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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 Jet [...]

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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