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Jul 08
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My Favorite Moments – Featuring Echo Park Simple Life Collection

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Hi all,

Happy Monday! Today was a fabulous day of warm weather and a nice spring breeze. After such a rainy week last week I was ready to get back into the swing of things in the craft room and create a new card for you.

Today’s card was created using papers and dies from the Simple Life Collection by Echo Park. I love the quality and colors of this collection. I wanted to create this type of card to show that card making and crafting doesn’t mean you need to have a TON of products, sometimes, things can come together quite easily if you find little collections or packs of paper that already coordinate for you. I found this pack at my local Tuesday Morning! I love that store!

For this card I used 2 sheets of 12×12 paper and a die-cut sticker.

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For some added interest I included a strip of green paisley washi tape across the back and tied some gold cord on top.

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Thanks for stopping by and see you again tomorrow for another idea on using collection packs to create cards!

Jun 01
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Sending Lots of Love – Heating Embossing

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Hi All,

For the next week I am participating in an awesome card class hosted by Online Card Classes. The class focuses on fun ways to create clean & simple cards for card makers.

I loved several of the techniques demonstrated today, and decided to give one a try. It was a technique in off-stamping. Meaning to stamp an image once in one color ink, and then stamp again slightly off to the side of the previously stamped image. I loved this technique because it makes images pop in almost a 3D way and gives lots of dimension.

Here’s my card demonstrating one of today’s techniques:

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I love the way this turned out! I used stamps and supplies from a Simon Says card kit I received a few months ago. I off stamped the envelope-stripe border around the edges and the sentiment and then gold embossed.

I can’t wait to see what they have in store for the participants tomorrow ~ but I’m sure I’ll be inspired to keep creating.

May 27
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Classroom Set Valentines – Punny Valentines

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Hi all,

I’m working on some classroom valentines. Here are some ‘punny’ ones I made featuring some cute dimensional critters, washi tape and a couple of my favorite cardstocks!

The sentiments read:

Will you bee mine? – to use with all bee images

You make my heart flutter! – great to use for any critter with wings

I pick you, Valentine! – to use on any flowers

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Thanks for stopping by and see you again real soon!

May 20
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Stronger Together – Border Cuts

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CS4_participantHi All,

Welcome back to another day of clean & simple cards. Once again I was blown away by the amazing talent of cardmakers out there. This class has been phenomenal in teaching me all sorts of new techniques.

Today I wanted to try my hands at using a border to break up an image. I had a bit of a hard time coming up with a sentiment that would work, but found one that was a bit fun.

I used Hero Arts shadow inks to create the hombre look on each panel & a Simon Says Stamp set called Paper Hug for my sentiment. I loved the little paperclip heart and wanted to incorporate some paperclips into the design. I happened to have some colored clips on hand and thought it pulled everything together perfectly.

Here’s my card for day 2:

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