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Good morning!

I'm making valentines again this week!  Fun stuff :)

Again, I wanted to play along with the JustRite Friday Challenge, and I happen to own a set of French themed stamps from Justrite. I also happen to have a daughter who is in love with anything French LOL, so I thought it a good opportunity to make her valentine.

Justrite wants us to follow this sketch for this challenge,,,,

I love this sketch,,,,,,,,,and if you'll recall, I already made ONE card with it for the challenge,,,,,,but I wanted to have a bit more fun with it,,,,,,,

and here's my card!

I had a bit less room to work with on this card,,,,,,,,,but I just love the Spellbinders Fleur De Lis Squares I used for this little shaped card (and they are very French too!)

Another angle:

As you can tell from past cards, I'm normally a BIG BOW kinda gal,,,,,,,,,but this card is only about 4x4, so I knew I had to go with a smaller bow if I wasn't going to overwhelm it,,,,,,,hence this tiny 1 inch bow made on my peg bow maker.  I love that I can choose my size so easily!

Card Recipe:
Cardstock: scraps , Coordinations Fired Brick, and Recollections Kraft
Stamps: Justrite Bon Voyage cling set (eifel tower) and Justrite Be Strong clear stamp set
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Dies: Spellbinders Fleur De Lis Squares, Postage Stamps, Squares Large
Ribbon, Pearls, and Bling: Michaels Recollections
Embossing: Provocraft Polka Dots 5x7 folder

I hope you enjoyed the card,,,,,,,,you still have a day to join the fun at Justrite Stampers Friday Challenge so run right over and upload YOUR card using Justrite Stamps!

I'd also like to enter this card into the Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge to use ribbon, lace or trim on your Love/Valentines day card!  This looks like a fun challenge that I'd like to try more often!  They also have a great monthly ribbon club that I'm going to join this week! Check them out!

Thanks for your comments! I'd love to visit YOUR blog!

Good Morning!!!!!!!

It's Tuesday again, and time for our Party Time Tuesdays challenge,,,,,Anything Goes!

But before we Get to our fabulous sponsors this week, I'd like to remind you of the Blog Hop for our DT member Jen Scull tomorrow August 29th. There will be tons of fun and tons of prizes, so we hope to see you there!

On to this week!  Our fabulous sponsors this week are Digital Delights, The Stamping Boutique, Crafty Sentiments and Designs on Cloud 9!!!!!!  Thanks so much to our generous sponsors!

My oldest daughter went back to college recently to get her degree in Deaf Studies (Her oldest child is deaf and ultimately she wants to be a teacher for the Deaf).  She was very VERY worried about her first science in college. I am happy to report that she was thrilled to bring home an A+!  We are thrilled for her, she worked very hard,,,,,,,,,so I sent her this card using this DARLING and absolutely PERFECT for my needs image by the Stamping Boutique that just HAPPENED to fall in my lap at exactly the right time,,,,,,,,

Don't you just LOVE those bubbling flasks? How perfect is this for an A in science class? I was also able to use some of those fabulous Authentique stickers that were so nicely given to us earlier in the month by the Paper Parade!

I colored the image with copics, cut it out with spellbinders postage stamps and then inked through the die like a stencil,,,,,I did the same with the square with A+ on it and my sentiment "Way to go!"  I used Basic Grey paper and a bright butterfly bow to really accent this school themed card!

I hope you enjoyed the card, and thanks for looking! Your comments mean the world to me!  Hope to see you tomorrow for the blog hop!

Sugar Creek Hollow!!!

YAY, it's Saturday!!!! And I really can't wait to see what you all come up with this week, because we have a challenge at Sugar Creek Hollow that was TOUGH for me! BUT many of you like it, so I am hoping to see some wonderful examples of,,,,,,,,,,,



STEAMPUNK!!!!!!!!

Here's mine! And I want to KISS Pamela over at Freevintagedigistamps.blogspot.com (button to the right) because she saved my LIFE with these images that I used on my card! ALL of them were from her! THANKS PAMELA!

I used MME paper for this, simply because it seemed to match SO WELL. I printed the images on my computer, and cut them with squares large, postage stamps and labels 3,,,,,inked them all up well and matted the whole thing on a black base.  I cut the watch with an old spellbinders set, Heritage,,,,,,,,a black velvet ribbon and knot,,,,,,,and she's done! I am really happy with the way it turned out!!!

So let's see what you can come up with! Run right over to SCH and load up a Steampunk card!

Thanks for looking!!!!! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!