Baby Buggy Balloons

Baby cards are one of my favorite kind of cards to make.  They are just so sweet! I am entering this card into the Paper Players theme challenge. Balloons are so on trend in papercrafting these days and who doesn’t love balloons.  They are always associated with something happy and fun.  I wanted to create a non-birthday card using balloons.  So a new baby came to mind because what is happier than that?! The buggy…

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Hello (honey) Hexagons

Hello…I hope your week is starting out on a happy note and I hope my card will make it a little happier. I was determined to use the Six-Sided Sampler stamp set as I have had it for so long and it has never touched an ink pad.  The sketch needed a focal point so I clustered the hexagons into a wheel shape. Here is a close up of the hexagon layering. After I stamped each hexagon…

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It’s All About You

Happy Sunday to you.  We are finally getting a touch of spring weather in PA and it feels so nice. Today I am playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches challenge. It is such a simple and straightforward sketch that it was actually a little difficult for me.  What threw me was the large open space.  This sketch spoke clean and simple to me and that really is not my strong suit.  Here is what…

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Awesomely Artistic in Perfectly Purple

Happy Saturday!  There is something about a mild spring-like Saturday in late winter that is so uplifting and energizing.  Although I did use some of that energy on a few household chores, the uplift came from creating this card for the Stamp, Ink, Paper sketch challenge. I have been really loving the Awesomely Artistic stamp set lately.  I’m not sure what took me so long to give this set a work out but I can see…

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