Time Flies

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My first post was on September 12, 2010. That means a whole year has gone by and I’m still blogging. Quite the accomplishment for me, let me tell you :o)

Simple and Bright

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This cute, simple, easy card is next Tuesday’s make-and-take at Memories Live On. 3 pieces of paper, 2 stamps, 1 distress ink pad, and 1 paint dabber are all you need to create it. I have an unnatural obsession with Christmas trees. Stamps, stickers, papers, I need all the trees I can get my hands on. I love this one …

Boo!

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The other day I took a break from Christmas cards to work on a little Halloween creation. Originally I’d planned to use the design for a make-and-take at MLO, but it turns out I used a stamp set we don’t carry. Oops. I still like the card, though. The background is Core’dinations with a Sizzix embossing folder, and the orange …

Glitter Glitter Glitter (Ritz!)

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I’m teaching a series of 4 (maybe 5) Glitter Ritz Christmas Card classes at MLO this fall. That’s a total of 12 (maybe 15) cards that I need to come up with in rather short order. Here’s one of them: I like working in non-traditional colors for Christmas. Not that there won’t be plenty of red and green represented in …

Authentique Christmas

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This card was made using scraps leftover from this card. Have I mentioned how gorgeous I think this paper is? I need to get me a corner rounder that works on really thin strips of paper. There are just too many corners on this. The flowers were sprayed with Glimmer Mist. I can’t remember the color, but I used a …

Project365

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So, uh, happy September. Can someone tell me where the summer went? I feel like I missed it. Apparently, kids are back in school already and everything. I’ve taken up a new hobby, of sorts, in hopes that it will help slow the passage of time a little bit. It’s called Project365, and I don’t actually expect it to slow …