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Entries from July 2008

Retiform Card

July 10th, 2008 · 11 Comments

I always imagined the Touch of Nature set would make a great retiform (or grid technique) card. Now that the set is retiring next month, I wanted to finally get it on paper. This was one of the first techniques I learned as a beginning stamper, but to refresh my memory I followed the directions […]

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Tags: fun & frolicky

Suspension Card

July 7th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Every Monday, a new Technique challenge is posted on splitcoaststampers.com, and today we were invited to make a suspension card. I thought it was a nice opportunity to use my new Wow Flowers stamp set again. The colors were chosen from the Bali Breeze Designer Series paper I used for the background. I tied the […]

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Tags: clean & simple

Featured Stamper: Teneale Williams

July 5th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Teneale is a very talented stamper in Australia. I was thrilled to see her as the Featured Stamper on SCS this week, as I have been admiring her work for quite some time. This is the card I chose to CASE, using the Happiness Always stamp set I got a few days ago. I started […]

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Tags: truly elegant

Bella Rose

July 4th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Isn’t this new Designer Series paper gorgeous? I used it to make this quick, 5-minute card, which follows the Fall-to Layout #2 from the clean & simple stamping blog. The coordinating colors for this double-sided patterned paper are: Pink Pirouette (which you can see in this sample), Riding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss, and Chocolate Chip. […]

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Tags: clean & simple

More New In Colors

July 4th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Here’s a quick card I made with four new Stampin’ Up! In Colors and a new stamp set (all available August 11). The card base is textured Baja Breeze card stock, and I used the new Scallop Edge Punch on the right edge. I used the same punch on a strip of textured Whisper White […]

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Tags: clean & simple