I got 2 sketch challenges done today, not bad for a Monday, eh?
The first card uses the sketch over at 2sketches4you, I love to “do” the sketches over there because it is a nice warm up to my other artistic endeavors and I can usually guarantee that I will get one thing made on a [...]
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Happy Friday folks! I got a chance to play with the sketches from 2sketches4you and here are the cards I came up with:
I used Laura’s Sketch 30 as well as the versatile bonus sketch. I printed the cupcake digital stamp on yellow cardstock and colored them with prismacolor pencils (see yesterdays post for a tutorial) [...]
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Here is another card that would be suitable for mother’s day (or anytime you want to give a fellow mom a laugh I used this weeks sketch from 2sketches4you, a Crafty Secrets stamp and an Erma Bombeck quote for this card. The best part is it only took a couple of minutes to [...]
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I LOVE double sided paper (esp. Bo Bunny, Cosmo Cricket and K&Co.) I like to use it on cards where you can see the opposite pattern peeking out from the inside. But sometimes the opposite side of the paper isn’t quite right, of course I could head down to the local scrapbook store to see [...]
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…I’m serious, the kids slept in so I had time to layout a bunch of cut fruit before they woke up so they could make fruit kabobs for breakfast (And I got a cup of “quiet coffee” yay!) When I picked up the girls from school we went to the natural food store to get [...]
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I am! Remember yesterday I was talking about not having the crafting mojo this week? Well, after I posted I was surfing the net and ended up at Becky Fleck’s Page maps site and typically I don’t “do” sketches but there was a contest to use her sketch and do a layout with the theme [...]
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OK, OK I promised a calendar tutorial today…well mine aren’t finished yet but the nitty gritty stuff is so here is what I have done so far:
I made my calender with a cool pdf program called PDF Calendar, you can download mine (an American/English version with the weeks starting on Sunday) here, or go make [...]
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I exchanged my first Christmas gift of the year last night! My friend Heather gave me a gorgeous thick red blanket and cookie making kit and I gave her this:
Yeah, she probably got the raw end of the deal LOL! But knowing her the tea will get drank, the stationary will be used and the [...]
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I bought this stationary box many years ago and knew one day I would alter it! Well that day came last week and I love the way it turned out:
To make the realistic looking montage on the top I masked my images. It’s easy, here’s what to do. First stamp the scissor, label (both Crafty [...]
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