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Fun Edges

I was looking for inspiration today and pulled out the instructions from the January SEI kit. I decided to create this card from different scraps. I took a piece of neutral colored cardstock that was ready, scored it, and folded it. I then took nine different papers as recommended and cut them into 1″ by … Continue reading

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Altered Book

Today’s Handmade by Shay is really handmade by Rachel. I bought a comp book for my little sister-in-law and promised to help her make it over. We finally got some time to do that together. I had created an altered book at my first scrapbooking convention back in ’07 and still had the sketches for … Continue reading

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Happy…Day

Here’s a card for those of you who may not celebrate valentine’s day or want to celebrate every day. It’s pretty rough since I designed it on the fly. I made a Spirograph background in three shades of blue on blue cardstock. I used an American Girl stencil for the lettering and vellum for the … Continue reading

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Two For One Day

Feeling less than inspired today, I decided to go through some old folders of mine where I have stored magazine articles. The inspiration came from an old “Becky’s Sketch” from Creating Keepsakes Magazine. When I saw the recommendation to use scraps, I knew exactly which paper to pull out. The paper is Cosmo Crickit’s “Togetherness” … Continue reading

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Hearts On a String

It’s one week before Valentine’s day so your time to take up my free valentine offer is just about up. I couldn’t let this year pass without using the great quote stamp I found last year. My process is very organic, and I tried to show that in my photos. I start with an idea … Continue reading

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Be Mine

I made this valentine for myself to send this year. I copied the idea from this card: I started with a precut white and blue card, using the blue for the inside. I decided to duplicate the look by making a heart mask that covers most of the front of the card and stamping the … Continue reading

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Wishing you…

Today’s greeting card is one I made for my Aunt. I heard she was having foot surgery so I thought I’d wish her a speedy recovery. It was very easy to put together after freehand stamping the messages (no guidelines) and cutting out the butterflies by hand.

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Warm Fuzzies

Today was full of trial, error, and failure. I had this great idea for a pretty, simple card that didn’t turn out at all. Here are my tries: I ended up using stamps from the same collection with different colors, a cute message, and a grass sticker.

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Blue & Green Hello

When I started this card today the only thought I had was to weave some ribbon that I’ve had for a while. This led me to add some flower rub-ons using similar colors. I still had a lot of white space so I decided to stamp another flower and simple message using more blue and … Continue reading

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Love Ya

This is another design experiment. I wanted a more masculine valentine’s card but liked the design of this one. Here’s the example and step-by-step photos: And the final product:        

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