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Fresh and Fun Freebies!!!

May 292007

I just checked and saw that my blog counter past the 250,000 mark. It’s high time for more Fresh and Fun Freebies!!!

This time I am giving away:

one unmounted Rough Edge Alpha stamp set from Stampin’ Up!
various May Arts Ribbon
Medium and Small Vintage Prima Flowers
My Amy Westerman #16 sketch challenge card

To be eligible for this drawing, just add a comment to this post. One comment per person. Please let me know what tutorial I should write next, or what other feature you would like to see on my blog.

I will pick a winner with random org on Thursday morning at 9 a.m. Thanks so much to all my daily visitors. I am having a blast with this blog and it’s all because of you!

A Muse Challenge #5

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May 292007

The new challenge was posted today.:

Let’s see your scenes! A Muse images work so well together that creating scenes is simple and fun! So your challenge this week is to create a scene card. You may use your choice of ink, papers, colors, stamps (please use at least one A Muse stamp if possible), embellishments, etc.

This week, the winner will receive:
· A Muse Stitched Uppercase alpha clear set
· Clearsnap new pigment inks in Papaya Cream & Whisper Grey
· And an assortment of Strano ribbons

So what are you waiting for? Get those A Muse stamps out and start stamping!

Amy's Sketch Challenge #16

Challenge, Stampin' Up! 10 Responses »

May 292007

As you probably all know by know, Amy Westerman posts a sketch challenge on her blog every Sunday! This weeks was a tough one for me.

I have a hard time with the sentiment circle in the center. So I moved it just a little bit off to the side. I used a Hero Arts image Amy send me in a RAK.

Amy had stamped her birds in a soft kind of brown, so I kept the soft tones going. I colored the birds with Ciao Copic Markers from selection B and C. The image looked a bit too bare.That’s why I added paper piercing in two corners. I repeated the paper piercing on the Close to Cocoa strip that holds the ribbon and saying.

The saying is from a Stampin’ Up! set called Tiny Talk. I stamped it on Vanilla Cardstock, punched it out with 1 1/4″ circle punch and layered it on a 1 3/8″ Close to Cocoa Circle. The Card base is Close to Cocoa as well. The patterned paper is from the big Cosco My Mind’s Eye paper pack.

Ribbon and Vintage Prima Flowers from Starlitstudio.

Another gorgeous Cami Card

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May 292007

Cambria Turnbow simply rocks! That’s all there is to it. Look what she send me:

She wrote a great tutorial on how to make those medaillons with the square step corner punch. If you haven’t seen it, check it out over HERE. Thanks so much, Cami. You are wonderful!

Baby Boy Jacob's Ladder

3-D items, Artwork, Stampin' Up! 15 Responses »

May 282007

Here is the Jacob’s Ladder that matches the Bundle of Joy card yesterday.

I covered my medium sized coasters with My Mind’s Eye paper and sanded the edges. I then added a 3 1/2″ square of chocolate chip cardstock on each coaster. I used white organdy ribbon to hold the ladder together. I stamped the Bear from Bundle of Joy in brown palette ink on shimmery white cardstock and colored it with Close to Cocoa and Bordering Blue classic ink and aqua painter.

The winner of Sketch challenge #3 is Emily

Artwork, Challenge, Chitter Chatter, Stampin' Up! 9 Responses »

May 282007

Random Org picked #27. Congratulations Emily!!!

Emily Anderson Says: May 27th, 2007 at 8:18 am efinal entry! pick me, pick me
https://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/567135?cat=500&ppuser=78970

Entry #27

Thank you all so much for participating in the challenge. I had a great time checking out all your wonderful cards and browsing a few new blogs.

Downline RAK

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May 282007

Sheri Thomas, my newest downline member, send me this fresh and fun card!

I love the card, Sheri! Thanks a million!

Features Stamper Challenge: Kirsten DuBosque

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May 272007

I knew I had to participate in today’s challenge. I love Kirsten’s work. If you haven’t checked out her blog Confessions of a Naptime Stamper, run over there and drool over Kirsten’s amazing work. While looking through Kirsten’s gallery on SCS, I was drawn to this card. I picked it’s layout for my card case.

I started with a Chocolate Chip card base, no big surprise there. LOL I can’t help myself!!! I love Chocolate Chip. Next I got out some My Mind’s Eye paper from the big Costco pack. I made two baby boy Jacob’s ladders with the dotted paper and wanted to make a matching card. Kirsten’s layout was perfect of it.

I stamped the Teddy bear from Bundle of Joy on shimmery white cardstock with Brown Palette ink. I colored the bear in with Close to Cocoa classic ink and aqua painter. I added a shadow with Bordering Blue ink. I layered the shimmery white on Bordering blue and then on Chocolate chip cardstock. The Wecome is a stamp from the Warm Words stamp set. It’s stamped with Brown Palette ink.

The sweetheart is stamped also with brown Palette ink on shimmery white. The heart is colored with Bordering blue and aqua painter. I punched the saying out with the 1″ circle punch from Uchida. I then cut around it with my scallop scissors.

The photo corner is just a 1 1/4″ square cut in half diagonally, and then one of the triangles cut in half again. I added vintage brads on the inner corners.

To finish the card off I added a doodled border with chocolate chip Marker on the photo corner and the white strip. Then I added a bordering blue stripe next to it with the aqua painter.

I will post the matching Jacob’s Ladder tomorrow.

Fun at the beach

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May 272007

You know what we do at the weekends…..we go to the beach! Today we had red flags flying. That means strong currents….AND big waves. It was perfect for a little boogy boarding. We had a blast. I took my camera again and Rick took some shots of me this time.

Great insulation

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May 272007

When I first got the stamp set “Stampin’ Fun for everyone” I cracked up about the saying I used in this card. I wish that set wasn’t retiring. I might have to keep it after playing with it. It’s fun and it makes great cards for fellow stampers.