The Stockings are Hung – SIP #24

I hope you had a wonderful and relaxing Thanksgiving weekend.  Mine was spent enjoying some uninterrupted time in my craft room.  I am participating in a color challenge at the Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge.  Here is the very seasonal color combination. I wasn’t completely sure how to incorporate black into this while still trying to make a holiday card.  But I think the little bit of black that I did use was just enough to really…

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Be Thankful

Hello…hope you are having a somewhat relaxing Sunday given that it is the weekend before Thanksgiving. I am playing along with the Stamp, Ink, Paper sketch challenge this week and getting this project in just under the wire! Here is the sketch and it is a good one…. I saw a card created by Windy Ellard, who is in a stamping group I belong to and absolutely loved it.  You can see Windy’s card here.…

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Clean & Simple Christmas

I’m playing along with two challenges today.  The Global Design Project has a color challenge and Stamp Ink Paper has a theme challenge.      I haven’t really mastered the art of making a card that fits multiple challenges mostly because I don’t check more than one challenge site at a time.  This time however, I simply got lucky.  I originally designed this card using the color challenge and noticed that it fit the bill…

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Joy In July

Hello, today I’m participating in the Stamp Ink Paper Challenge once again. This week’s challenge was theme based with Christmas as the theme.  Christmas in July has become such a common catch phrase now that this seems very fitting.  I am never this early with planning my Christmas cards because the Holiday catalog has not come out yet and who knows what wonderful stamps sets will be in it.  However, I really like the simplicity…

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