Cool Breeze Inspired

I had fun playing in the Splitcoaststampers Inspiration Challenge this week.  The inspiration site was A Cool Breeze Fashionable Hand Fan. I was inspired by a beautiful black fan with a picket fence scene full of colorful flowers. Here’s what I came up with. I attached the window and shutters on the black base.  I …

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Color Washed Flowers and Foliage

The Splitcoaststampers Color Challenge this week was to use Vanilla, Blushing Bride and Wild Wasabi.     I decided to try my color wash technique on  both the flowers and foliage.  I was very pleased with how soft and pretty both the pink and green looked on the washed vanilla cardstock. I wanted to create a …

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Cheerful Spring Thanks

I had so much fun creating my springy yellow birdhouse card over the weekend that I tried my hand again using the yellow theme.  This time I created a floral covered frame to highlight the Thanks sentiment. I punched the frame border and then cut the center out to create the frame.  I mounted it …

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Time Together Is Sweetest Of All

I have a fairly clean and simple project to share with you today that I made for the Splitcoaststampers Technique Lovers Challenge. We were to use an open style image stamped with one color and not colored in.  I love the butterflies in the Rubbernecker Butterflies Are Free  and Butterfly Inchies set and thought they were …

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Inspired Homespun

My project today was made for the Splitcoaststampers Inspiration Challenge. Superfine Bakery provided tons of gorgeous cakes to choose from and I was inspired by the hand painted birds and marzipan berries on the cake below. Here is what I came up with. I die cut the branch  and the leaves, distressed to give dimension …

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