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Happy World Card-Making Day! I hope everyone is able to sneak away to stamp for even a moment to celebrate this wonderful pasttime! I know there are several people that are celebrating with very worthwhile, charitable events today. My upline, Marilyn, is hosting a stamping workshop with several other demonstrators across Massachusetts to benefit the Making Strides Foundation, which is a Breast Cancer Awareness foundation (since it is also Breast Cancer Awareness Month!). If you wish to donate,...

I had a few moments today to participate in this week's Blogger's Challenge -- it's been a little while since I've shared anything so I thought it was time to show you the card I made!I used the Lovely as a Tree stamp set. With Black Staz-On ink, I stamped on some vellum paper, then colored the image with markers. I then flipped my image over to give it the softer, water-colored look. In order to give it a little more color, I mounted the vellum on a square of Pear Pizazz card stock, then...

I've been busy trying to get this cute little box of 3x3 cards finished this week! I love the Wicked Cool stamp set! Check it out! There's a tiny bit of room for a tiny little pen to the left of these little cards. I think I found the pen at a local office supply store. The box holds 4 3x3 cards and their envelopes. I used all the images from the Wicked Cool stamp set and embellished them with the new bat punch. (The card with the spider web was "embellished" with a 3-D spider -- ooh yuck! My...

I love Fridays! I should amend that to say that I love Fridays when I'm not working the weekends! LOL! But, today I love Fridays because it's time for the weekly Blogger's Challenge! Today's challenge was a color challenge: to use blue, green and brown. My go-to color combo is Stampin' Up's Marina Mist, Pear Pizazz, and Soft Suede, so you'd think that this would have been easy, right? Wrong ... I made 3 cards before I was finally satisfied with my card LOL!I have to say that I do indeed love...

My upline, Marilyn, and I have been working hard to design TWO new card kits for you all!Flight of the Butterfly Card Kit - $20 for 12 cardsThe first kit is made with the Tea party Designer paper which is retired, but we have a few sheets left (just call us hoarders) and are willing to share them. We have a limited number of kits since the paper is retired...you might want to hurry!!The kit is made with the stamp set - Flight of the Butterfly.This was one of the first stamp sets that I...