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Suzanne J Dean is celebrating the first birthday of her Color Me Creative Classroom this month, and this is a card I created for her birthday celebration sketch challenge. After taking a Copics class in Suzanne’s lovely home last year, I immediately signed up for several of her on-line classes. She also has lots of free video tutorials on her YouTube channel. Check it out!

I thought it would only be appropriate to create a birthday card for this challenge. I stamped the birthday cake and balloons with black Memento ink on white card stock and colored the images with the Copic markers listed below.

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I’m afraid it’s too late to send a Father’s Day card to my dad in Belgium (we celebrate on March 19th in Antwerp), but way too early to send one to my American father-in-law. At least I have another card ready to be used!

I turned Jen del Muro’s March Sketch For You to Try on its side and pulled colors from BasicGrey’s Marjolaine collection. The argyle pattern is what made me decide to create a masculine card. The Lovely Labels 3 image was a great match. I stamped it with Not Quite Navy ink on white card stock and colored it in with a light tan marker. The Tech Talk sentiment was stamped directly onto green patterned paper and cut out with a circle Nestabilities die.

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Last month I made this card for a sketch challenge on StampTV (gkdfeb11sd). It just dawned on me back then that these flowers from Gina K.’s Spring Mix stamp set go really well with Stampin’ Up!’s Thoroughly Modern Designer Series Paper. Don’t you agree?

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I’m so glad spring has finally arrived! Here’s a little card to celebrate my favorite season.

I followed sketch SC320 from splitcoaststampers.com and used the out-of-the-box technique with my daffodils. I stamped the image with black ink on white card stock, colored it with Copic markers, traced a rectangle around the image with a pencil (letting the leaf on the right-hand side extend beyond the drawn line), and cut it out. The patterned paper I matted the image with is the same as that on the left panel. The white organdy bow was attached to the card with Scor-Tape.

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I can’t believe this is my first blog post in almost three weeks! No wonder I had a hard time coming up with a design for the shoebox swap I’m attending in Laurel today. I really should finish organizing my new (basement) stamp room so that I can get creative again.

Thanks to Fall-To Layout 130 from the clean & simple stamping blog I ended up with a fast, easy-to-make card for my stamping buddies. It was nice to discover how perfectly the happy birthday sentiment from the Curly Cute set fit inside the Top Note die-cut.

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