Sweet Sorbet and Delicate Doilies

If you are like me not all designs turn out as dazzling as you might have envisioned.  When I was creating my card for the PPA Sketch Challenge last week I actually created a different card than I submitted for the challenge and posted last Thursday. Let's take a look I had not used the Sale-a-bration DSP, Sweet Sorbet, very much and with Sale-a-bration coming to a close I wanted to show it off again.…

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Pomp & Circumstance

Today is a very big day in our household. Today we should learn the outcome of eight prominent schools that our son applied to for college. The stress on these kids (and their families) can be overwhelming.  It is all anyone talks about when they see him.  So when I thought of what kind of card to create for the Pals Paper Arts Sketch Challenge this week it seemed appropriate to create a congratulations card…

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Back to my Scrapbooking roots!

While I love making cards this crazy love for paper, ribbon, ink and stamps started with scrapbooking.  I usually go in chronological order when scrapbooking but I got behind in 2012 and then began jumping in out out of time frames.  I am trying to go back and fill-in the gaps.  I finally did a few pages this past weekend and wanted to share one. This is from the Senior Dinner for our oldest son,…

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You can Never have too much Happy!

I absolutely love, love, love how this card turned out.  The colors scream spring and I have this thing for textures and layers on a card – this has it ALL.     The design was inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest by Chat Wszelaki and this Tulip color palette… I used Sahara Sand card stock as the base followed by Crisp Cantaloupe andCalypso Coral.  The Calypso Coral layer was embossed with the…

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