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Entries from July 2009

Noel in July

July 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment

I started making my 10 Christmas cards for the month of July over the Independence Day weekend, but I didn’t get to finish them until today. This is a CASE of the Big on Christmas card on page 40 of the 2009-2010 Idea Book & Catalog. I changed the colors, used a different main image, […]

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Tags: clean & simple

Featured Stamper: Lori Barnett

July 26th, 2009 · 7 Comments

I love the dandelion card in Featured Stamper versamom‘s gallery and thought it would be perfect for an anniversary card. My husband and I are celebrating our 15th wedding anniversary this week and I still needed to come up with a card design. SCS challenge to the rescue! I made my version a 4-1/4″ x […]

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Tags: clean & simple

Dirty Sketch Challenge

July 25th, 2009 · 7 Comments

While I’m supposed to be working on my convention swaps, I couldn’t resist participating in at least one Dare to Get Dirty challenge on SCS. I picked rainy’s sketch challenge, and used a variety of new and old Stampin’ Up! supplies to create my card. The images from the Kind & Caring Thoughts hostess set […]

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Tags: truly elegant

Convention Swap Reject

July 24th, 2009 · 3 Comments

I finally started working on some cards to swap with other demonstrators at Stampin’ Up!’s convention in Utah next month. This peacock is staying home, though. The card just didn’t feel swap-worthy to me. No harm in posting it on my blog, I hope! Thanks for stopping by! All supplies by Stampin’ Up!® unless otherwise […]

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Tags: clean & simple

Pretty Rusty? Not Quite!

July 21st, 2009 · 6 Comments

Although… after a few days of no stamping I was starting to feel a little rusty! I wasn’t sure what to think of the color combination challenge on SCS today (CC228), but I’m pretty happy with the result. The sketch I used is Natasha’s Fall-To Layout 51. I ran a piece of retired Not Quite […]

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Tags: clean & simple