Friend Pack Card #3

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Today I have the third card from the Friends Pack of mission cards. 

Did you hear me yesterday when I said I LOVE this pack of cards?!  Here's another one that I just adore.  I know it has to be the papers and the colors and the fact that it looks so much like spring and I'm so ready for spring!!

The card base is Whisper White layered with Pretty In Pink that has been embossed with the Petals A Plenty Impressions folder that was in the Holiday Mini catalog.  It's supposed to be Poinsettias, but I think they also make great "regular" flowers too.  The flowers were stamped in Pretty In Pink, Cameo Coral, and Rose Red.  The green is Kiwi Kiss which is retired.  The butterfly is cut using the Beautiful Wings Embosslit folder from the Occasions Mini catalog.  LOVE that folder.  Again, it must be a spring thing.  The sentiment comes form the Teeny Tiny Wishes set.

EASTERN BLOOMS  #111626  $21.95

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Techniques and Sketches and Colors... Oh My!

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Well today I have a triple challenge card!  I love when I can play as many challenges as possible at one time.  My main inspiration this morning was to try out the Technique Challenge Tech29 over at Stampin' Addicts.  It was the Faux Silk technique that I have been avoiding, because it sounded too difficult to mess with.  When I read how easy it was, I wanted to try it out.  So I searched my favorite "challenge blogs" and came up with a color combo from Color Throwdown CTD63 and a sketch from Gretchen Barron at Inspiration in Action IA105.  Here's the challenges:

And here's my card:

Isn't it beautiful?!  I just love how this turned out!  Who knew that stamping on boring white tissue paper could turn out so gorgeous!  I used an Old Olive cardstock base, layered with Kraft and Razzleberry Lemonade DSP.  The blooms are stamped on white tissue paper and adhered to Very Vanilla and then layered on Soft Suede.  The image was stamped using Crushed Curry and Old Olive markers.  The only part I dislike is where I got a little over anxious with the sponging on the edges and added too much Soft Suede in parts.  But other than that, I'm so happy with this technique!  I can't wait to have my club girls try it out. 

Eastern Blooms  #111626  $21.95

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Punched Again!

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Here's another CASEd card using the Trio Flower Punch that is on sale this week at my Stampin' Up! website.  This is a combination of a bunch of different cards I saw over at SCS.

The vase is made using the Delightful Decorations set and Ornament punch out of the Holiday Mini.  The flower stamp is from the Eastern Blooms set.  The sentiment comes from Teeny Tiny Wishes.  The card base is Melon Mambo.  The "vase" is stamped using Melon Mambo Classic Ink.  The flowers are punched out with Rich Razzleberry and have So Saffron brads in the centers.

I'm hoping to get some stamping done today.  I want to play in the Sketch Challenge over at Stampin' Addicts.  And there's a few Color Challenges I want to get to.  'Course that all has to get done between laundry, housecleaning, and homeschooling!

Trio Flower Punch  #109183  reg. $15.95  SALE $10.99

Eastern Blooms  #111626  $21.95

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Tween Birthday Girl

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Just a quick post to share more cards for my mission fundraiser.  These come from the Tween Birthday Girl pack.

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A Sketch and An Inspiration

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On my trek to make some thank you cards, I decided to combine two challenges. The sketch challenge SSC116 comes from the Stamping 411 blog found HERE. Here's the sketch:










And the inspiration challenge comes from Makeesha Byl's blog Inkspirations found HERE. Here's the inspiration piece this week:









Make sure you check all the other challenge players on both blogs. It's one of the ways I've found some really awesome blogs. I love when I find a Stampin' Up! only blog. Especially if it includes a challenge!

So here's my card:


















As you can tell, the colors really inspired me! I used Yo-Yo Yellow and Brilliant Blue. It was fun to work with Bold Brights. This is such a summery combo. Bummer is there isn't much in the way of embellishements in these two colors. I could only find the brads. The ribbon is really Summer Sun and it doesn't match as much as I would like, but it works! I used the stamp set Eastern Blooms and Matchbox Messages for the sentiment. The impressions folder is a new one out of the Holiday Mini called Petals-A-Plenty.


I also have another Christmas Jingle card from my upcoming Christmas Stamp-A-Stack:

















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19 Christmas Jingle Cards Left!

Here's another card for the Christmas Jingle class I will be having on Nov. 14th and Nov. 15th. The cost is only $45 to create 20 unique Christmas cards. Be sure to send in your registration payment today!





For this card I used the SU! Scallop Envelope die to hide an extra little greeting in. Too fun!












And here's another card I did for a challenge over at Stampin' Addicts. This was for a sketch challenge. I used the Razzleberry Lemonade DSP AGAIN! I just love that stuff! So fun and juicy! I'm really lovin' the new in color Melon Mambo. But Rich Razzleberry is a strong second. I haven't had a chance to play with Bermuda Bay yet, but I'm sure I'm gonna love it!





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