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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April Showers Thinking of You Card

Welcome to the first Tic Tac Toe Challenge of April. I had the pleasure of designing today’s board and hope that you’ll find some of the elements spark your creativity and share a project with us. Here’s the board… …and here’s my card There were several ways that I could do a tic tac toe. First, left diagonal down: Slimline, Free, Border. Second, left column down: Slimline, Pastel Colors, Encouraging Sentiment. Third, middle row across:…

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Moody Masculine Slimline for #TTTC278

As the blog title indicates, I created a masculine slimline card for Tic Tac Toe Thursday. The patterned paper, from the Beautiful Gallery Designer Series Paper, was the perfect pattern for both a masculine card and the challenge. Although I don’t have too many men in my family to create cards for, this one will be perfect for my Son-in-Law, James’, upcoming birthday…win/win! The Basic Beige card base measures 8″ x 3 1/2″. I layered…

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So Much To Celebrate Kit

Good Monday Morning! I hope you had an enjoyable weekend. We dried out a bit here in SE Pennsylvania but after today it’s going to be soggy again! Do you purchase card kits? I was never really drawn to them much in the past, but oh my goodness, the kits Stampin’ Up! has been offering lately are positively wonderful. I’ve purchased a few lately and I have to tell you, they are really a lot…

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