Monthly Archives: May 2009

The Saturday Glitter Challenge

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The Saturday Challenge site has the theme of glitter this week, which was a bit difficult for me since I don’t have much glitter.  The only thing I could find was some pink paper with glitter pieces in it and a silver glitter glue pen.  I used those to create my card… Related Posts:Little Valentines [...] Continue reading »

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Daring Cardmakers The Sound of Music

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The current challenge at Daring Cardmakers is around the theme of music.  Basically you have to be musically inspired and create a card around that subject, which was perfect in my case as I recently found a fantastic vintage sheet music image for backgrounds.  I used that along with some scraps to create my card… [...] Continue reading »

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The Next Level

There is a new blog called The Next Level, The World of the Creative Card Designer.  As soon as I found out about it today, I had to post a shout out because it sounds so wonderful.  Besides the allure of blog candy and exciting challenges to come the whole point of view of this [...] Continue reading »

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More Marie Antoinette Inspiration

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Continuing to use the images in the Marie Antoinette theme from Ten Two Studios, May issue of The Monthly Muse – I decided to participate in the Stamp TV May monthly 3D challenge. This month the challenge is around reading and making a bookmark to keep your spot.  I used papers in the purple and [...] Continue reading »

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Digital Tuesday Challenge

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The latest Digital Tuesday challenge asks us to create a non-traditional shape or folded card.  I decided to create a mini thank you card in the form of a dome box, only flat.  It’s like the flaps on the top of a cardboard boxes woven together.  I used some of the papers I digital designed [...] Continue reading »

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Non Traditional Card

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The latest Just Magnolia challenge asks us to create around the theme of stitches.  Sewing on cards and with paper has become a huge fashion.  Unfortunately,  I don’t have a sewing machine here, so I decided to create a card and draw in faux stitching.  I turned out quite nicely and I tried to distress [...] Continue reading »

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Triple the Sketch…

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Happened upon another challenge blog called Triple the Sketch and decided to participate in their latest challenge.  The sketch inspired me to use scraps since there are so many elements on the card.  Was just playing around with pieces of paper, inking the edges and mixing it all up together.  Here’s my card: Related Posts:Little [...] Continue reading »

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Hello Handmade Card with Fairy Digital Stamp

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Taking the advice of Lindsay from The Frugal Crafter’s Weblog, I found a lot of digital stamps online by doing a search for coloring pages.  The images for coloring are perfect to use as digital stamps and opens up a whole new array of possibilities!  I followed a link to coloring pages on dulemba.com and [...] Continue reading »

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Stamp TV Challenges…

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I have recently been enamored with the community at Stamp TV and have been reviewing all the technique videos to learn more about stamping.  Then I realized they have a whole bunch of challenges to participate in and I quickly signed up!  Here are two I created for the sketch challenge and the color challenge…my [...] Continue reading »

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An All White Card…Almost!

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Italy on Sunday is a crafting blog I found after moving to Italy.  I’m always on the prowl for great blogs and inspiration from the Italian crafting community is something I really want to get into now that I live here.  I am happy to participate especially when there is a sketch or challenge and [...] Continue reading »

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