Embroidered Bloom Birthday – Paper Players #794

My card is a pretty birthday card inspired by this week’s color challenge by The Paper Players. Color challenges are always just that…a challenge for me. The colors in this challenge were just so pretty and summery that I had to give it a try. At first look, my first thought was that these colors reminded me of sherbert. That may be because it’s been so hot here and sherbert would be really refreshing. But…

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Some Summer Love

Boy, am I on a roll! I haven’t created this much in awhile and I’m really enjoying diving back in. Today, I’m bringing you a card inspired by yet another challenge, The Paper Players #793. Ann’s theme is Summer Love. It reminds me of the 60’s Summer of Love which I wasn’t yet old enough to understand the true meaning of that…IYKYK! …and here’s my interpretation of Summer Love and it’s a far cry from…

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Celebrating the 4th with CC2C

Welcome back to another cross country creating adventure with Karen Hallam in CA and myself here in PA. This month we’re traveling West to East, so Karen chose our direction. She chose to celebrate our country’s 250th birthday with a patriotic theme. Here’s Karen’s celebratory card…you can head over to Karen’s blog to get all the details HERE. And here’s what I came up with… To create this 8″x 3 1/2″ slimline card, I once…

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Mystery Fun Fold: Birthday Easel Card

Here’s this past week’s Mystery Fun Fold from Jeanie Stark , called a Fun Fold Easel card. I’m really please with how this one turned out and how Jeanie’s directions HERE made it easy to make. Since deciding to (mostly) stamp from stash this year, I’m having a blast pulling out products that I haven’t used in a while or at all. The Build a Gift dies from Pretty Pink Posh is a great example.…

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