PPA #258 – Happy Hello

This week’s the Pals have a color challenge with a wonderful color combination that to me screams summertime.  Maybe it has to do with the fact that two of the colors are named after a summertime fruit and vegetable.  Here are the colors we had to “work” with.   This card came together very simply and easily.  While the polka dot DSP makes the card so cheerful,  the flower, stamped, punched and fussy cut from the Crazy…

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PPA #257 – A Cupcake for Your Birthday

The sketch for this week’s Pals Challenge was a lot of fun. Usually I think of card ideas at night while trying to get to sleep.  There were a few roaming around my head but I finally settled on this one primarily because it was the one I remembered the next day!     The card base is 5″ x 5″ which gave me enough space to center the doily and still have room for…

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PPA #256 – Butterfly Banner

The Pals challenge this week is a sketch challenge.  This was a great sketch to work with. This sketch just lended itself to so many variations, however, I used the sketch quite literally.  First I chose my card background and let that dictate the cardstock colors I would use.  For this card, the base is  5″ x 5″ black cardstock with the DSP pattern trimmed 1/4″ smaller all around.  This butterfly pattern is so sweet…

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PPA #255 Color Challenge – Triple Birthday Wishes

It’s another color challenge for the Pals Paper Arts.  The colors in this challenge create such a great effect and were surprisingly easy to work with.  Here they are….. This color combo lends itself to so many types of cards.  A feminine or masculine card would work as well as a gender neutral card, which is what my project is today. I used the triple stamping method for the style of this card.  I cannot…

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