A Smiling Heart – GDP #053 & PPA #318

     It’s a lot of fun combining challenges, especially when you have a fun sketch and a super color combination to work with.  The Pals Paper Arts sketch challenge and the Global Design Project’s color challenge worked so well together on this card.  I hope you agree…. The star of this card is the POP of color from the Watermelon Wonder In Color Doilie (#141674).  The Layering Circles Framelits (#141705) helped create the medallion along…

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Fall Mums – PPA #317

Today’s card is my entry into the Pals Paper Arts Color Challenge… Even though it’s still technically summer and pretty hot, Fall is becoming very evident all around here.  One of my favorite things about Fall is Mums.  I love mums and that was the first thing that came to mind when I saw these colors. The Grateful Bunch stamp set(#140691) makes wonderful flowers so I turned them into mums by layering, layering and more layering.  The…

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A Christmouse Carol – GDP #052

Today I’m playing along with the Global Design Project #052 Case the Designer Challenge. Here is Teneale Williams’ fun sketch…. I decided to make my first Christmas card using the adorable Merry Mice stamp set.  The images in this set are super cute and fun to color. The sheet music DSP is from This Christmas Designer Series Paper Stack (#141628) which is in the Annual Catalog.  It is a lighter weight paper and so easy…

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Layering Love Shaker Card – PP311

Here’s a first for me….A Shaker Card!  I know I’m a little late to the shaker party and really don’t know why it’s taken so long for me to make one of these.  I think I just needed the perfect occasion and this card was for my daughter, Emily’s birthday…. Emily is one of my biggest fans when it comes to card making, so I always try to send her (and all my daughters) really…

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