Fairies and Butterflies

Happy Saturday…hope you are enjoying a lovely day.  I always look forward to a Saturday with nothing on the agenda except crafting.  However, that doesn’t happen very often.  But today I was able to get my weekend chores done a little early and headed to the craft room.  Here is what I came up with….. I had to go off the beaten path with this card.  The materials used are from my stash of miscellaneous…

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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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Just Bloomin’ Love-ly

It is another snowy day here today.  The perfect kind of day to continue creating Valentine cards.  I must admit that I have made quite a few this year and have run out of people to send them to thanks to all the challenges I’ve been participating in.  That really is not a problem as I am usually scrambling at the last minute…not this year! Today’s card is for the Pals Paper Arts Challenge #286…

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Gilded Valentine

Hello and happy Sunday or should I say Super Bowl Sunday.  We are not big football fans so besides just tuning in to the game (mostly for the commercials) nothing much is happening here…except cardmaking! I am entering this card into these two challenges: My colors are spot on for the Stamp, Ink, Paper challenge.  However, I did a loose interpretation of the Freshly Made Sketches sketch…hope that was OK.  I think that is what…

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