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Hello! It's Saturday and that means it's time for another Our Creative Corner challenge. As you can see from the image above, this week is a color challenge.My card is pretty straight forward, so I will spare you the details. I did create a frame around the flowers using a ruler and a marker. Such an easy technique, but it adds a bit of sophistication.You won't want to miss what the Our

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Hello! I'm back today with another card that uses Polar Expressions by Imaginisce. I didn't realize how simple this card was to make until I started writing the supply list. Easy peasy! The candy canes come from one sheet and the criss-cross pattern is on the flip side.Hope you all have a great weekend! I'll be back early tomorrow with another Our Creative Corner challenge!{Merry Christmas

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Hello! Well, my mojo is slowly coming back as I'm emerging from this sinus mess (although now it's moving downward to my chest). I pulled out my new Papertrey stamps today and made this cute holiday card.I stamped the kraft card base with chocolate chip ink using my new Text Style stamps. I love the little added interest. The patterned paper I used came from a pack called Polar Expressions

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Hello! It's Paper Maniac Wednesday here on my blog and I'm here to show you another ornament you can make yourself. We just had our family pictures taken, so I wanted to make an ornament with our family photo and the year. The paper I used for this ornament is Elan Metallics and is called Graphite. As you can hopefully see in the picture below, this paper has a gorgeous shimmer to it. I used

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Hello! I feel like it's been forever since I've posted anything. I've been pulled in many directions lately and on top of that, I'm sick. Anyway, I finally got a few moments of solitude to play around with some new stamps. This card uses Papertrey's Background Basics: Text Style stamps. I used the Mojo Monday Sketch, which I tweeked a tiny bit.I'm also participating in a new challenge at the

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Hello & welcome to another Our Creative Corner challenge. This week's challenge could not have come at a better time. The challenge is to use the format of a postcard as your inspiration. Well, one of my best friends wanted me to come up with some ideas for her son's birth announcement, and the only stipulations were that the base had to be navy and they had to be postcards. How perfect did

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Hello & Happy Friday!!! I'm posting another card today using the same sheet of patterned paper I created using Papertrey's Guidelines stamp set. See the other cards HERE and HERE. Today I made a fun girly card using olive green and hot pink. I love this color combo! For the sentiment panel, I used a labels 9 nestie for the shape as well as a stencil for the sponging inside. Thanks for

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Hello! I didn't set out to make a masculine card this morning, but like most of my card, it just evolved. Does that happen to you? Sometimes I don't know what I want to make, but I know what supplies I want to use. And then I just start playing. Anyway, the patterned paper is from a sheet I created using Papertrey's Guidelines set. I posted about it HERE. To me, what makes this card "

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Hello! I'm back again this Wednesday bringing you more holiday decor ideas for Paper Maniac. Today I'm showing you a sign I made using Paper Maniac supplies along with a frame I picked up at my local dollar store. Here's what the frame looked like before I altered the inside. It is made of plastic, but you wouldn't know the difference to see it sitting on your mantle. The frame opening is

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This morning I made a whole sheet of patterned paper using Papertrey's Guidelines stamp set. I used olive green and light green on the top part (seen in this card), hot pink and olive green on the middle, and olive and light brown on the bottom. I plan on making cards to show you later this week with the rest of the paper. It does take a small chunk of time to do this, but I will be reaping

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Hello and happy Monday to you! I'm starting off the week with an ultra simple card. I used my Martha Stewart snowflake punch to create a border along the bottom. I set the snowflakes aside to use for another project. I then took a strip of nave paper and adhered it behind the snowflake holes. Like Colin would say, easy peasy! I also used some more of those silver pearls. I love those!!!

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Welcome to another challenge from Our Creative Corner. This week is an inspiration challenge and you can see the inspiration photo to the left. My first thought was Halloween, but that is over (thank goodness!). My next thought was Thanksgiving, but I usually don't send out cards for that holiday. I decided to make some Thanksgiving place cards. I've never made place cards before, but it

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Hello & TGIF! Like I said yesterday, I've been making holiday cards like crazy. This card came about when I was playing around with my Labels 9 Nesties and noticed that the shape kinda looked like an ornament. I already had some snowflakes punched out and they fit perfectly. This was such an easy card to make. I'm tempted to use this as my "official 2009 holiday card".I love red and white

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Hello! Since Halloween, I've been making holiday cards like crazy. This card uses a free digital image from Verve Stamps. They only offered it for a short time, so I'm lucky I got it. I love it! Especially the font used in the sentiment. I printed the sentiment on white paper and the mittens on Spring Rain. The image of the mittens had a string linking them together that I decided was too

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Hello! I'm here today to share with you a tutorial that I recently created for Paper Maniac and it was published in their weekly newsletter. Supplies:Spellbinders Nestabilities Label 9 (or your choice)Patterned paperAdhesiveStringBeads1. Select what size Spellbinder Die to use, depending on how large you want your ornament. I used the 3rd largest die of the Labels 9 pack. Then pick your

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Hello! This morning I decided to put in a DVD while I was working on a card. Since the movie was so long, I ended up making a trio of cards. I decided to use the same colors on all three cards and the same stamp. I've been trying to come up with my "official holiday card" for this year, so these are some of the contenders. I usually send out about 60-70 cards, so they definitely need to be

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Hello & Happy Halloween!!! Welcome to another challenge from Our Creative Corner. This week the challenge is to make a card or project with vintage style. Now, I'm more of a modern, clean lines sorta girl, so I thought this was going to be a difficult challenge. Well, it was surprisingly easy once I found the perfect papers to use, which are made by Graphic 45 and are called Domestic Goddess.

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Hello! I was browsing my usual blogs this morning and stumbled upon a plum crazy challenge at the Moxie Fab blog. The idea was to make a card using the color plum. This was a great excuse to break out my new Label Nine Nestabilities Dies.You can see in this close-up, that I sponged the inside of the sentiment panel with Pale Plum ink. It's very subtle. You can see it a lot clearer in person.

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Hello! Welcome to Paper Maniac Wednesday here on my blog! This week the design team is crafting with their kids. Making a pennant banner was the first thing I thought to make with my kids. I knew they would enjoy making something that could also be used as a decoration in our home. I wanted to make something with a Thanksgiving theme, so I settled on the word "grateful" since I had all the

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Hello! I have one last Halloween card to show you. The skull image is a Michaels $1 stamp that I stamped with Versamark and then embossed with black embossing powder. It's hard to see the shine in the picture. My favorite part of this card are the purple eyes, and they were an afterthought. Well, have a great day and thanks so much for stopping by today!{Spooky Night}Stamps: Skull & Cross

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Hello and Happy Monday! I made this cute little card (3" x 3") that is inspired by this great card by Teri Anderson. My little bird comes from a whole sheet of birds. I just punched out one and it's popped up on a foam dimensional. The orange paper is textured Bazzill paper. Cute and Simple. My favorite kind.Hope your week is getting started right. I'm chaperoning two field trips and have

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Hey there! It's Saturday which means another challenge from Our Creative Corner. This week is an inspiration challenge based on a scary movie. The movie I chose is Arachnophobia, which is a movie all about "a south American killer spider hitches a lift to the US in a coffin and starts to breed and kill". I obviously took the spider from the movie and made a Halloween card around it. What a

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Hello! I always make a little something special for my nieces, nephews, and neighborhood kids for Halloween. This year I made little treat packets filled with Hershey Kisses. You can find these little bags (2" x 3") at any store that sells jewelry supplies.For the tags, I used a scalloped rectangle nestabilities die and then folded them in half and stapled them into place. I personalized the

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Hello! Today I combines two challenges to make this card. This card uses a Raspberry Suite color challenge as well as a challenge from the Cards Magazine Blog. You'll have to scroll all the way down to the last card for the challenge. It was to make a card with a collage in one corner. This is a little out of my comfort zone, so definitely a good challenge.Kind of odd that a little simple

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Hello! It's Paper Maniac Wednesday! This week the DT girls are making cards with black, white and a pop of color. I was inspired to make this card after seeing the patterned paper I used on Monday's card. The petals are just squares with two rounded corners. Easy peasy, right? Well it will be for you since I took care of the measuring for you! I will apologize up front for the length of

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