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Entries from October 2008

Featured Stamper: Emily (aka ink-e)

October 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I have been waiting for Beth to pick Emily as the Featured Stamper on SCS. She is extremely talented! I got to meet and hang out with her mom (my Great Swaps friend Cindy) at the Stampin’ Up! convention this past summer, which was a lot of fun. I chose to CASE this happy scallops […]

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Tags: clean & simple

Sending Warm Wishes

October 20th, 2008 · 4 Comments

I really like the technique shown by Natalie Travis on Stampin’ Up!’s Workshop Wow DVD, and I tried it out on this window card. First I stamped the dove from To You & Yours with White StazOn on white vellum card stock. This ink dries pretty fast on vellum, and when it was dry I […]

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Tags: clean & simple

Golden Anniversary Card

October 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments

My in-laws are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary today, and of course I had to make them a card! I wanted to use big chipboard numbers and luckily I still had a five and a zero in my stash of retired Simon Lower On Board chipboard. The numbers were first covered with Whisper White Craft […]

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Tags: truly elegant

Sweet Neglected Little Birdie

October 17th, 2008 · 9 Comments

T.G.I.F. and I got to do a little stamping today! I combined Kristina’s color inspiration challenge (#26) with Beate’s sketch challenge (#62), because they both worked well with the stamp set I wanted to use for this card, A Little Birdie Told Me. Since I was using a neglected stamp set, I thought I might […]

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Tags: fun & frolicky

Featured Stamper: Anne Ryan

October 12th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Today’s Featured Stamper on SCS, Anne Ryan, is just the sweetest person and leaves the most wonderful comments in the gallery for her fellow stampers. I CASEd a card she created for Inspiration Challenge #145. I kept Anne’s layout and colors, but changed the stamps and omitted the stitching. I stamped the rose and bee […]

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Tags: truly elegant