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Entries from August 2008

Beate’s Sketch

August 30th, 2008 · 8 Comments

I’m so happy Beate is back, posting new Weekend Sketch challenges, because I really needed some inspiration for my 10 Holiday Card Challenge cards this month. I used her Sketch #55 and created these 3″ x 6″ Bashful Blue cards with it. The tree and penguin were stamped with Night of Navy ink on Whisper […]

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Tags: clean & simple

Featured Stamper: Patricia Rose

August 25th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Sweet kokirose is this week’s Featured Stamper on splitcoaststampers.com. I love all the cards she made with Bloomin’ Beautiful, but since I don’t own the set, I tried using my Flores Suaves images instead while CASEing her Just For You card. The card base is a 11″ x 4-1/4″ piece of Confetti White card stock […]

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Tags: truly elegant

Thank You with Bling

August 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments

Love the new scallop square punch! You can see its little scallops peeking out from behind the 1-1/4″ square which holds the thank you sentiment. I made this card for a swap with a group of stampers in Michigan, and we were asked to use a stamp set from our new catalog pre-order (I chose […]

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Tags: clean & simple

More Pocket Silhouettes

August 22nd, 2008 · 12 Comments

When I saw Kristina’s latest color inspiration challenge (#19), I noticed that the card I had just designed for the Baltimore SCS shoebox swap this weekend came very close. I just needed to switch the Very Vanilla I had used to Whisper White, which I did on the card displayed here. The front of the […]

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Tags: clean & simple

Featured Stamper: Jessica Rone

August 21st, 2008 · 5 Comments

My awfully talented Great Swaps friend Jessie Rone was chosen as the Featured Stamper on SCS last Sunday (FS80), but I hadn’t had a chance yet to participate in the challenge. I found the card I wanted to CASE and turned mine into a birthday card for my aunt in Belgium. It was my first […]

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Tags: truly elegant