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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Artisan Sketched Garden Get Well – CC2C

For our monthly cross country collaboration, Karen Hallam in CA and myself here in PA are creating with Stampin’ Up! products featured in the new May-August catalog. I didn’t purchase much from the catalog but Designer Series Paper is something I find hard to resist. The Artisan Sketched Garden DSP is one that caught me eye immediately, especially when I saw all the coloring opportunities! I haven’t been doing much coloring lately and it was…

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Looking Back and CC2C…

Karen Hallam (CA) and I (PA) are back with our monthly cross country stamping adventure. This month we’re traveling from California to Pennsylvania, so that means Karen chose our direction. Karen had a great idea and one we haven’t done before. She suggested we go back in the CC2C archives and choose one of the other’s cards that we really liked and CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) it. Karen and I have been doing this…

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Cheerful Get Well Card for the CC2C

Here we are again…Creating Coast to Coast. This month we’re beginning the journey here on the East Coast with me in PA and traveling West to Karen Hallam in CA. Our direction this month was to follow a sketch. Sketches are a great starting point when creating a card. The bones of the card are already there but there’s lots of room for creative interpretation. Let’s take a look at today’s sketch… Since Karen and…

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