tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19160051299450889702024-03-05T10:33:01.215-08:00That's Amore!~Paola~http://www.blogger.com/profile/05063945973545840208noreply@blogger.comBlogger240125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916005129945088970.post-67627459538341368312015-10-17T15:16:00.000-07:002015-10-18T10:57:29.499-07:00Falling Into New Friendships ~~ October Duel~~<h3 class="post-title entry-title">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">This month, four our duel challenge, the hostesses were Debbie (for us Dazzlers) and Judy (for the Divas). Debbie sent a wonderful kit full of great crafting items, sweet images and quotes and absolutly gorgeous fall themed designer papers.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">We are happy to celebrate new friendships as some great new ladies joined us recently, hence the title for this duel.♥</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SU! Always Artichoke Seam Binding; SU! Crushed Curry Ribbon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Celebrate It Jute Twin </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SU! Brushed Bronze button</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Studio 12 Adhesive Gems</span><br />
Amuse Creative Candy (chocolate)</div>
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I made the above card on time for the duel but only was able to photographe and blog today...</div>
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Today was the first Saturday in such a long time that felt totally 'carefree' ...such a great feeling :)</div>
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As I went to clear the table from my crafting of a few days ago (yeahh I left a mess!) I saw that a lot of good staff was leftover and decided to make another card (I was hoarding the leafy d/p Debbie sent!lol) :)</div>
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Here is the other card ...What d you think? Which one of the two you like better?</div>
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The vertical one or the horizontal? Both are so similar, yet different...♥</div>
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<b>Thanks for a GREAT kit Debbie!! </b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"> ♥ Blessing! ♥</span></i></div>
~Paola~http://www.blogger.com/profile/05063945973545840208noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916005129945088970.post-75394282616538081222015-10-10T22:29:00.001-07:002015-10-10T22:33:29.191-07:00Flying Witch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello Friends in blogland...<br />
today is the day to reveal the cards created using the UNidentified image of this month...<br />
She's sooo much fun...love this flying witch with a sense of humour!<br />
She was sent by Jeanette (Forest Ranger) and all the partecipant in this swap will show<br />
their own take for the same image <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">( <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i><b>Image as well as sentiment is from</b>: Starving Artistamps "Witch Trio")</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Close Up : Say *cheese!*</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I hope you like this *fun witch* as much as I do...(Txs Jeanette!!)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Time to say G'Night now as my eyes are way too tired and can hardly stay open...ZZZ...zzz.......zzzzzzzzzzzzzz</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Until next time.... :)</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Here we are...it is the 15th of the month and, as such, we are 'battling our duels' ! </span></span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">This month's hostess are Jeanette (for us Dazzlers) and Kelly (for the Divas). We Dazzlers received a beautiful kit which included adorable images from Penny Black. Aren't these hedgehogs cute? ♥</span></span></span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"> This picture to the right shows the inside of my card. I chose to leave it without a sentiment, for now....</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">perhaps at a later date I will include</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">a Birthday sentiment as one of my friend, who happens to be a teacher,</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">will celebrate her special day soon...</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">I think she would rather like this card....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>On my card, I rounded the edges on the right corner, as a tribute to Jeanette, from whom I learned this simple, yet lovely tecnique....Thanks Jeanette for being such an inspiration, and for the wonderful kit received!</i></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #741b47;">Hello Friends in Blogland!!</span></b><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;">Long time no see....Life has taken ahold of me with the busiest last few months I ever had...and it is continuing this crazyyy busy-ness over the summer as well...</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;">(and here I though Life could slow down!!)</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;">A lot has to do with health concerns over my Mom...as she is deteriorating and new arrangements need to be made sooner than soon...NOT what I was expecting to hear for sure!I never talked about this before as it pains me too much....and I am leaving it as such for now.</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;">I also had my grandaughters staying with us since last week of July, love them to pieces </span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;">but they like to be kept busy too...♥ </span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;">Anywho, on to the veryyyyyy late dueling projects I actually made a while back...</span><br />
<b><span style="color: magenta;">The first one is an ABAC project that April challenged us with last May. </span></b><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;">I chose an old oval lined box I had laying around my place and turned it into a frilly one (maybe a tad cheese too! :) ) I had my youngest grandaughter in mind when working on it. She is seven years old and love to collect little treasure...so this is her new box for that purpose.</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;">To April's kit I added the flowers plus the jewels and pearls at the center of each daisy, plus I colored the wooden birdie to fit in with the rest of the designer papers. Michela loved it...she actually took her new treasure box camping with us too!It is now almost filled with lil twigs, pine cones and small leaves...Have nooo idea what she'll do with that! ♥</span><br />
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<b>YUP! ♥ That's what the theme was for June, selected by Terry (Dazzlers) and Barb( Divas)</b><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">My card was made from a lovely kit that Terry sent us for the June's duel...</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">This card was actually buried under an undisclosed amount of crap....ooppsss I mean craft items </span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">from my overloaded dining table!! I even forgot I took a picture of it at the beginning of this month but too busy NOT being at home much....</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Anyways I am hoping that later is better than never....;) With my apologies Terry!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Image: Unity "Celebrate"<br />
DP: My Minds Eye "Pieced Pinwheels", Colorbok "Stars and Stripes"<br />
Solid Cardstock: Core'dinations "Deep Navy", "Burgandy" and "Snowcap"<br />
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Craftwork Cards Candi "Prince Charming", "Icing Sugar" and "Regal Ruby"<br />
Rhinestones: Red and Clear - The Paper Studio<br />
Blue Twine: Studio 112<br />
Buttons: Miscellaneous from JoAnn's</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">I created my card to reflect that I have Italian roots and that I als reside in this wonderfully amazing Country called Canada , hence the Italian flag's color showing up on the sail and via the green button that I added, along with the white and red candystripe floss. My Canadian proudness is showing by also adding a stamped maple leaf to the mix. A smaller leaf was also added on top of the sentiment, inside the card.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">I am actually quite pleased with the simple yet strong result.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">For me, there are many thoughts of feeling honored to partake in BOTH Countries' national holidays in my own ways, but mostly I feel this sense of total and immediate happiness every time I see either a Canadian Flag or an Italian one (mostly on my Italian channel!) being raised or just flowing freely in the breezy air! Sio proud of both my heritage and this adopted Country that is Canada, the true North strong and FREE! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Thank you Terry for such challenge....and a challenge it was tring to figure out how to make a card that would represent the colors of two countries ♥ Loved it!! ☻</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">It is now reveal time for the Unidentified Image Swap round # 20!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">This month our hostess was Jody and seh sent us all partecipants sweet cute images of Fluffy.</span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">For this swap, I added a funny Birthday Celebration sentiment on the inside of my card.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Hello Blogland Friends,</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Today is the day for the monthly duel between the Dazzlers (hosted by Melina) and the Divas (hosted by Tamy) </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Melina sent us Dazzlers an adorable kit...</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"> Ohhh I sooooooo fell in love with this adorable image sent to us! (so glad to have 3 spare ones too!!) Isn't she the cutest lil girl? ♥</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">I had so much fun coloring her! :)</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">As per hostess' requests we were told that we MUST use the green ribbon on our card.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">I decided to partially fold it and the other straight half I 'decorate it' with the buttons that were included as well...</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">I decided to fussy cut the image and prop her on top of </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">The inside of the card is finished up using a multi layer combo of leftover d/p and c/s</span> <span style="color: blue;">and the sentiment was encased in a sideway chevron.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thank YOU Melina for such a great kit to work with!</span> ♥</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I<span style="color: #a64d79;">mage - Whimsy Stamps "Fistful of Flowers"<br />
Sentiment - CTMH "Sweet & Lovely"<br />
Cardstock - Stampin' UP! Very Vanilla<br />
Designer Papers - DCWV<br />
Die Cut - Wonky Cloud - MFT, Spellbinders - Dalia<br />
Baker's Twine - CTMH<br />
Buttons - MFT<br />
Ribbon - Wal-Mart<br />
Metal Emellishment & Flower Bling - from her stash</span></span>~Paola~http://www.blogger.com/profile/05063945973545840208noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916005129945088970.post-18859116714720209532015-04-12T20:08:00.003-07:002015-04-12T20:08:19.217-07:00Unidentified Images Swap ~ *round #19*<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: blue;"> <b>Hello Peeps in Blogland....</b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>On the 10th of every other month we reveal the card we made using the new image that the selected hostess sends to all participants...This month is my turn and I chose this cute image from Stampabilities to send to all UI swap's gals. It is aptly called 'One size fits all'...</b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>It has a cute ring to it eh? :)</b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>It was a bit fussy to color but I thought it was worth the time ♥</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Yes I am late in blogging mine although it was done on time....I have a very good personal reasons for my delay, this time around as way too much has unexpectedly happened...</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: magenta;">For my card I chose to encase the image in a cute spring- pastel colored doiley, over a very bright colorful background.</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><u>Card Deets:</u></b></span></span><br />
<u><b><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Stamp : </span></span></span></b></u><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">One Size Fits All</span></span></span><u><b><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"></span> </span></span></b></u><b><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">-</span></span></span></b><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">by Stampabilities</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>I</b><u><b>nk :</b></u> Memento -Tuxedo Black , image colored with Copics </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><u><b>Card Stock :</b></u> Certainly Celery and White c/s</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><u><b>Designer Paper : </b></u>'Hello Sunshine' 4645 Pretty Plaid and 'Hello Sunshine' 4639 Thoughts of Spring - Both from Doodlebug Design.</span></span></span><br />
<u><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Accessories :</span></b></u> <span style="color: #6aa84f;">Colored paper doilies (Soft Spring Green) by S-E-I</span> <span style="color: #6aa84f;">*</span> <span style="color: #6aa84f;">Certainly Celery grosgrain ribbon by SU</span> <span style="color: #6aa84f;">* SU punch * Circle die * Sakura</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">pen * blue sparkly flowers</span> <span style="color: #6aa84f;">from my stash *</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">green lrg flower from a Dazzlers leftover kit </span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">(txs Darlene! ♥)</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">I hope you enjoyed this cute image!!</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Hugs to you all , and don't forget to hug a loved one today! xox </span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"> <span style="color: #783f04;"> Hello Darling Peeps...</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04;">It is STILL the 15th and am blogging in the nick of time, even though I had my main card ready earlier in the day (but I decided to also make a second one after supper....therefore a longer delay)</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04;">This month Kadie (Diva's hostess) and I (for the Dazzlers) were at the helm for the Duel and decided to go with either a coffee /or tea theme hence we name it ' What's YOUR Brew? '</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">This is what I sent to the Dazzlers :</span></b><i> </i><span style="color: #6aa84f;">"My new partner
Kadie and I got our heads together and decided it was time to put YOU
through an 'arduous task' in asking what's your favorite brew of all.
Are you a tea person or a coffee person? (or, are you perhaps both?) </span></span><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Any particular kind of tea or coffee you prefer? </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Tell us all about your brew of choice, and let's have fun dueling" ♥</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"> <span style="color: #783f04;"> <span style="color: #660000;">I put together a few different images and sentiments for my kits, </span></span></span><span style="color: #660000;">including real coffee beans (the same ones I freshly grind daily for my espresso or cappuccino)..lol (Some of you may know that when I create coffee themed card I always use beans somewhere in my cards (my trademark *wink*)</span><br />
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<u><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">Dazzlers Kits Contents: </span></b></u><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><b>Stamped images</b> - 'Coffee and Friend's w/ sentiment (from
Inkadinkado 96576 P) , 'Java Jumpers' /House Mouse (from
Stampabilities),'I don't do Mornings' (from Stampabilities) , 'Chamomile
Tea' /House Mouse (from Stampabilities),<br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><b>Ink</b> - Images are stamped on Cougar white c/s w/ Memento Tuxedo Black</span>
<span style="color: #e69138;"><b>Designer Papers</b> - 'Honeycomb' by Time Spring (Fancy Pants) ,
'Madame Mariposa' by Butterfly Collection (Prima) ,'Summer Kincaid Ave'
by Scenic Route ,'Tip me Over' by Time Spring (Fancy Pants), Coffee
notes by Mead</span>
<span style="color: #e69138;"><b>Card Stock</b> - 'Spice Market' by Recollection , dry embossed with 'On The Go' embossing folder (by Tim Holtz)</span>
<span style="color: #e69138;"><b>Accessories</b> - Candy Floss in 4 different colors ,Grosgrain pink
double sided ribbon , Grosgrain deep red from SU , paper flowers from
Recollection , assorted large brads from Basic Grey , large and medium
half pearls , (real) coffee beans.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">I LOVEEE my daily espresso, I literally would have withdrawal symptoms if I could not have my brew, especially right after work...</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;">One thing that REALLY has me so excited is that, after 10 years (if not longer!) I recently regained my sense of smell!! Just.Like.That!</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;">Out.Of.The.Blue! Can you imagine how I truly feel these days? I am in cloud nine for sure! Someone pinch me please!!To me this is NOTHING short of a miracle...especially after two surgeries that didn't result in curing my anosmia.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;">A new, forgotten world of bursting aromas and wonderful smells around the house, outdoors in the fresh spring air....EVERYTHING is like new again...as well as the sense of taste...OHHHH the taste of food!!! Hard to describe for sure! A plethora of wonderful flavorfulness burst inside my mouth with the taking of each bite...Truly amazing....I feel I was given this new blessing for a reason....I just hope and pray that it will last!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"> <span style="color: #38761d;">Later today, I decided to also make a tea card ... tea is , after all, the main brew I take daily to work with me...I became a tea drinker just a few years back. Hubby makes my tea each working day as he filling my thermos usually with green tea.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">My favorite teas are the ones that contain lemon , orange or mint in them...although in the summer I love my refreshing peach tea on ice ♥</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"> For this card I chose 'Chamolile Tea' image from H/M (Stampabilities) I only used part of the image...I love the sleeping bunny inside the tea box. ♥</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">I used the sentiment from another stamped image as it seems perfect for this card.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">On the inside of the tea card I kept it simple, using only a strip of leaves d/p (which symbolize tea leaves - at least to me -) along with a small sample from other d/p from the kit.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">Et voila'... Both brews have my vote, but a good Espresso coffee is definatley my most favorite brew of them all!</span> <span style="color: #38761d;">♥</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">this time I don't have a card to show you, instead I am posting the latest birthday cake I made for my youngest grandaughter who recently turned 7. She asked me to make her a 'Frozen' themed cake. Aside, pulling my own hair...lol</span></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">...I checked on line for a few ideas and, ultimatley, proceeded to come out with my own, </span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">with the hope that it would turn somewhat decent enough to make my lil sweet grandaughter happy.</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"> I wanted to incorporate some unique snowflakes to Michela's birthday cake, using the biggest snowflakes stamp set I had :</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">'Snowflake Spot' (an old set from SU, year 2006 ) served this purpose well.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"> Then, on I went, experimenting with 'designing' with blue melted chocolate , right on kitchen's waxed paper lined over the previous stamped images...</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">voila'...slowlyyyyy, slowwwwlyyyy, I managed to somewhat 'design' some yummy snowflakes</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Not easy to do, for sure...</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">especially when no previous attempt was ever made to do this, on my part and I don;t have such a steady hand either....lol</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">In fact, I can almost guarantee this would most likely be my first AND last attempt at this! lol</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">white fondant. I wanted to use the oval shape, and decorate it with mini candy-balls and place the previously traced # 7 in blue chocolate, in the middle of the white oval, for a good contrast...</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Well, that didn't work too well as the #7 cracked...yikes! What to do now ? Plan two - well, of course, I used blue candy-balls in the to form a #7, iced each little ball at a time and put them in place....After all that was done, the white ones still shifted...thus some of them look crooked too...but at this point I really wasn't too concerned....lol</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Here's the final product...a total labour of love from a 'crazy' nonna!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">The most important thing for me was to see my grandaughter sweet face lighting up when she saw her cake for the first time....as well as the other lil girls present, all squealing with delightful joy ;)</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">I decided to make other treats that the kids would love,especially the birthday girl.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">I named these 'Sven's antlers'...and they were a hit :) They simply are pretzles sticks</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">These are the 'sparkly' cake pops I also made for Michela's 'Frozen' party....</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">The cake pop themselves are really easy to make...but to cover them w/ hot dipping</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">chocolate and decorate them is a nightmare...it took me forevahhh....lol</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Today is a DUEL day between the Dazzlers and the Divas. We are celebrating February's Umbrella Day. Our hostesses for this round are Darlene (Dazzlers) and LJ (Divas) </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;">We were requested to use the umbrella for this duel, the other images sent to us were optional, but I loved the gumboots so much that I could not leave them behind :)</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">Darlene sent us such an amazing kit full of wonderful papers and such. I decided to stick to two designer papers and use part of the accessories, including the beautiful big flower. I colored the other smaller white flowers to match my images, and clipped part of the petals in the front, to show the other...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Images from 'April Shower' (PB) ,</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Gemstones + flowers + brads from Paper Studio, Ribbons from local craft store, plus 4 beautiful sheets of assorted 6x6 Designer Papers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I colored both images w/ SU markers, fussy cut them and pop them up with dimentionals , </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Loved the theme, and wishing all those swap friends that continue to have a very concerning snowy winter, warm and sunny days, such as we are experiencing here....</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Today is wonderfully sunny and 15 out there!</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">♥ C'm on over!!! Mi casa es tu casa! ♥</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">today, being the 10th of the month, is time to reveal the 18th image of the Unidentified Image Swap that was sent to us by our lovely hostess Darlene (SCS:luvcardmaking)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is such a cute, sweet image : </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666;">'Bees and Honey' by </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Penny Black</span> </span>♥</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Smooth white c/s from Cougar, Bashful Blue c/s and designer paper from SU, round Spellbinder dies, faux pearls, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Sentiment : 'One of a Kind' from SU.</span></span><span style="color: #e06666;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-size: large;">♥ Thank YOU DARLENE for such an esquisite choice! ♥</span></span></div>
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<br />~Paola~http://www.blogger.com/profile/05063945973545840208noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916005129945088970.post-57578232061032677162015-01-14T23:44:00.000-08:002015-01-14T23:53:47.009-08:00Dueling Darling Jan. 2015<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">~*~ Hello wonderful Bloglanders Peeps :)</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">It's been like- 4ever - since I posted on my blog...</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">in fact this is my first post of the new year and what a great way to start it</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">with the FIRST duel between the Darlings! ♥ </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">For those of you that may be new and perusing my blog, the following is copied from the</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">'creator' of this group : Kelly ♥ It explains in a simple clear way ,what the Darlings are all about :</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>" The Dueling Darlings are a group of friends from
SCS that swap cards and beyond and formed a new group called the Dueling
Darlings! Divided into Group A and B, which wasn't a cool name so we
are now the Divas and the Dazzlers, have a monthly rotating hostess kit
that goes out to make cards! The Divas have one card kit to work with,
while the Dazzlers have another! It's <span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">fun</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span>to see what we "duel" up in
cardstock, papers and wonderful images! "</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">This year things have changed and switched up a bit, </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">as we all were assigned new partners recently.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Speaking of partners, this month is hosted by <b><span style="color: magenta;">Debbie (for us Dazzlers)</span></b> and <b>Judy (for the Divas) </b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Debbie sent us Dazzlers a wonderful kit full of crafty-yumminess.</span> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: magenta;"> </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: magenta;"> </span></b><i><span style="color: magenta;"> ♥ THANK YOU DEB! ♥</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">DP - American Crafts, Confetti - Banana Cream Brady and Peanut Butter Benny.<br />
Images - Whippersnappers "Little Girl and Dotted Present" and<br />
Stampin Up! "Birthday Whimsey" (cake)<br />
Sentiment - A Muse "Itty Bitty Birthday"<br />
mages and sentiment stamped in Memento Ink black and cocoa . Button - SU!<br />
Ribbons - SU! Rose, crushed curry, orange, bermuda bay</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: magenta;">Thanks for stopping by and checking our 'new year duel'!</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: magenta;"> ♥ Blessings to all! ♥</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;">it is the 10th of the month and ,as such, we can now reveal the image that Barb sent to us peeps </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;">in the Unidentified Image Swap (round 17th) on SCS , that she started a while back.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;">She sent us partecipant this ohhh soooo cuteee image from Whipper Snapper :</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;">"Bristol & Friends" </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;">Like Barb, I too love, love, loveeeee anything from WS stamping company , so it was not a total surprise to find adorable WS images for this round. ♥</span> <span style="color: blue;">:)</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i><b>either a winter theme sentiment, winter Birthday, Thank you from a group etc...</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"> Hello friends in blogland,</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">today I am posting a card with a THANK YOU theme as proposed for this month's duel. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">Yes, I am part of a 'dueling group' with two teams: " The Divas and The Dazzlers" ♥</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">Each team partners up with the opposite one, and each month the designated hostesses from each team send an individual kit to each partecipant in their groups.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">This month's hostess are <b><span style="color: magenta;">April</span></b> , for us Dazzlers, and<b><span style="color: magenta;"> Kadie</span></b> for the Divas.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">The wonderful kit received this month was full of so many items that I have plenty left to actually make several cards -eventually- when Life decides to slow down in my neck of the wood....lol </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">Amongst the kit there was a cute adorned circle (nestie?) which I cut up in half to add a more ornate</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">look around the Spellbinder shape I chose. Also the white flower and the white twine included,were colored (with Copic) in the same shade as the scroll in the sentiment...(although the lighting makes them look much more brighter in these pictures!) Both flowers and the scroll were sprinkled with Diamond glitter...too bad it doesn't show well how truly pretty sparkly it turned out in real life! :(</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">I gave all the layers a rough edge as well, sort of a shabby -chic look. ♥</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thanks for this months great theme April and Kadie!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><u><b>Dazzlers Kit Contents for November :</b></u></span><br />
• Recollections and Prima flowers, misc sizes/shapes<br />
• Favorite Findings and Basic Grey buttons<br />
• Offray Twill ribbon (tan stitched)<br />
• Craftsmart sheer ribbon (from Germany) – mint blue<br />
• Kaiser mini pearls<br />
• Recollections paper rope – white<br />
• Recollections Fall Foliage paper doilies – beige<br />
• DSP from SU! ~ Le Jardin (in yellow, green, beige, blues)<br />
• Kraft cardstock, PTI<br />
• Images: Thank you (Flourish) from Inkadinkadoo and Thank you (cursive) from Michaels $1.50 bin<br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-size: large;">*** Please note: I also have a SECOND card today...</span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-size: large;"> my very late dueling one for last October!</span></span></span></b><br />
( I am still behind with September month....*sigh*...I will remedy that soon!)<br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">For the month of October Terry aka my WPS (wink) and LJ were the dueling hostess</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">and both decided on a Halloween theme...Terry sent a kit full of great designer papers and I had a hard time chosing....lol....however I decided to go a lil plainer than usual and, overall, I truly like </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">the simple approach and how this Halloween card turned out. I will save the leftovers for another card or two-for next year.</span> <b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: yellow;"> </span></span></span></b></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: yellow;">♥ THANK YOU TERRY! ♥</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">*Image - Haunted Forest (Stampin' Up!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">*Papers - Boo! (Flair Designs), Jeepers Creepers (Heidi Grace Designs),
Halloween Words (the Paper Studio), Sugar Rush (Heidi Grace Designs),
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">*Embellishments: Candi Dots (Craftworkcards), Ribbon (miscellaneous from Michaels), mini brads (Recollection)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: #990000;">**We are supposed to mention also which was/is our favorite candy....well for me anything with dark chocolate has my vote but I fondly remember the 'wars' my son and I used to have with each other by hiding the Peanut Butter Cups around each Halloween time... I was able to only win once...clearly he had better hiding spot than me...or a better nose to find MY treats....lol *grin*</span> </span></span><br />
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~Paola~http://www.blogger.com/profile/05063945973545840208noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916005129945088970.post-91672790552849949722014-10-10T00:00:00.000-07:002014-10-11T11:29:07.461-07:00Unidentified Image Swap - October 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Stampenduous called "Box of Fluffles".</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Designer papers are from my Christmas stash , the ribbon from SU and pearls from Michael's .</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I used circle Spellbinders and a couple punches from SU as well as a sentiment.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> Hello my friends in Blogland ♥</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">I am late (what else is new?) to post my August Calendar Girls' card ...actually, truth be known ,I hardly have been home as hubby and I (and usually one or two of our grandkids tagging along too) have been enjoying this amazing weather while camping not too far for home...</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">School is not in session here in British Columbia yet, as our Government and the BCTF </span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">(teacher's assc.) are still at an impass with barganing.We are now entering the third week of strike</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">into the new school year already *sigh*</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Anyways, it was nice to enjoy such gorgeous weather while in limbo...</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">I was actually the hostess for the month of August and this was my challenge for my peeps : </span></b><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;">~ " Hello Calendar Girls ♥<br />
for the month of August, I would like to challenge everyone to embrace the <b>PUNCH ART</b> tecnique...yup, dust off your punches Ladies!<br />
PLease feel free to use a stamped sentiment of your choice , but the main focus is being creative, using punches ."</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">The idea for my card came from this</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">awesome blog ...I had a hard time to chose amongst so many cute 'punched cards' :</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I totally LOVE the art of making cards using punches and I hope I was able to have other crafters embracing such tecnique without fear, even if for a day ♥</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">For my card , aside the punches, I used a foliage</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> <b><span style="font-size: small;"> ♥ Thanks for stopping by and BLESSINGS TO ALL!! ♥</span></b></span>~Paola~http://www.blogger.com/profile/05063945973545840208noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916005129945088970.post-55865285268147211832014-08-20T21:44:00.002-07:002014-08-20T21:58:41.482-07:00AUGUST duel<br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I am finally posting the dueling card for the month of August and yeahhh.....with this I am actually now all caught up! ( Posted my July's duel card right on the 15th of this month though! lol) </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">This month's hostesses are Carol (for the Divas) and Melina for us Dazzlers. They came up with a GREAT theme....</span></i></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> here it is in Melina's own words :</span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">"</span> Friends are the Family You Pick Yourself</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><u><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"></span></b></u><span style="color: #3d85c6;">We are so happy to call you all our friends. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">We've been dueling for 4 years now!<br />
My image, the mouse and turtle, just went right along with the theme I
thought. Friends of a different kind helping each other out! We
darlings are all different but it works! I'm so glad it does!</span></span><br />
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Paper: Recollections & Sassafras<br />
Ribbon: Michael's<br />
Buttons: My Favorite Things<br />
Pearls and Brads: from my stash<br />
Pair of dry embossed clouds <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;">I thought that it goes so well with the sweet image </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;">that Melina sent. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> on my card</span></i></span><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><i>...</i></span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thank YOU Melina for such </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;">a fun kit to use...</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;">I hope I did it justice ;o) </span></span></b></div>
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Hello Everyone...<br />
well, I am finally posting my Dueling card for LAST month!!<br />
(will hopefully also post this month's card later on today....) <br />
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This fun kit was sent to us Darlings by Jeanette -aka Forest Ranger in SCS- <br />
( Kelly was the hostess for the Divas )<br />
This is Jeanette's suggested challenge, in her own words :<br />
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" <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Through
the years, through thick and thin, we've blessed each other in many ways and
all these years later, we're still together – like a flock!</span></span><br />
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here’s the challenge – Since we are celebrating 4 years together, you must have
4 of SOMETHING on your card - 4 flowers, 4 brads, 4 gems, 4 different designer
papers, etc! Those 4 things must be the same ELEMENT (in other words, 4
different gems are okay but not 1 paper, 1 ribbon, 1 brad, 1 button = 4)."</span></span></div>
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This above is the finished inside of my card... and below a close up of the fun image...<br />
Gotta love Penny Black feathered chicks....;o)<br />
All of what you see in the card was part of the great kit received, I only added the card base!<br />
Was able to use 4 flowers and the 4 blue brads that Jeanette sent in the kit...but kept the background<br />
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Poteeka Stripe</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Small Polka Dot –
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Hopefully Jeanette and all the Darlings like the card's end results! ♥</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #b45f06;">Here are a couple more birds' images, colored with Copics by my youngest GS while we were camping...he did such a great job! I should have made my card with his colored image!♥ </span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Hello Peeps ♥</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;">finally able to post another card...yeahh!!</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;">This one is for the Unidentified Image Swap and our hostess for this 15th round is Heather.</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;">She sent us all this adorable image from Whipper Snapper , one of my favorite stamping company.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Above the cute image I added a little sentiment from Pure Innocence (You're So Tweet, from MFT) </span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;">and a second one from same set , on the inside of the card.</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;">All of my card stock is from SU as well as the ribbon.</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Designer paper is from My Little Shoebox :' Keepsake - MusicTo My Ears' and the flower</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;">is from my stash. Image is colored with Copics and purposedly roughed up w/SU Tangerine </span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;">at the edge of the oval shape cut up w/ scalloped nesties.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">( I can't find my sheet deets that Heather sent...) ♥</span><b></b></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>Cardstock:</b> Xpress It Blending White</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><br /><b> </b><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>Ink:</b> Memento Tuxedo Black</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">this is the recent handcrafted project for the SOTC group. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">Gael was the hostess for May/June months and she specifically didn't want any </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">stereotypical man's card.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: teal;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: small;">~MAY/JUNE Theme hosted by Mamadwawa~</span><br />
Have you ever noticed that the majority of masculine-labeled cards are
either football/baseball, hunting/fishing, golf, tools, Nascar? Not one
of those themes would be appropriate for The Man in my house. Therefore,
your challenge is to create a man's card that has NONE of those
stereotypical things that first spring to mind. Also, you must use at
least one non-earth tone somewhere on your card. (In other words,
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<span style="color: teal;"> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #990000;">For these cards I used a Stampandous clear stamp : Cling Typewriter Note CRP158 ,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #990000;">embossing folder 'houndstooth'<span style="color: teal;">,</span> designer paper from Kaiser 'Devonshire Collections',</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #990000;">orange/white candyfloss and matching buttons. Cut out image <span style="color: teal;">is</span> prompted up w/dimentionals.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #990000;">Card stock <span style="color: teal;">,</span>sentiment and punch are from SU.</span></span></span><b><span style="color: #990000;"> Tecniques used here : dry embossing and fussy cutting.</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: teal;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #990000;"></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"> Hopefully the SOTC gals will like them.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"> Thank you for stopping by my friends! </span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"> ♥ Have a great and blessed day! ♥</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: #990000;">please allow me to catch up with April and May themes....(yes I am later than late but , hopefully,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: #990000;">you'll like these cards well enough to forgive me! ♥ *wink* )</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;"> <b> <u>APRIL CARD :</u></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #c27ba0;">This first card was made a couple wks ago (as well as the second card that folows) but,since I was already late for the CG posts, I wanted to wait and add it together with the latest upload, aka card # 3.</span><br />
<span style="color: #c27ba0;"> The hostess for last April was my <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span>good friend Carol and -in her words- this is what her theme was:<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #93c47d;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="color: purple;">using the color that would describe your mom...." </span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="background-color: #93c47d;"><span style="background-color: white;">My Mom's favorite color is pink and , with that in mind I had no problem deciding what I wanted to do for this challenge. Mom also LOVESSS roses...I mean she really likes them A LOT!</span><i><span style="background-color: white;"></span><br /></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Therefore I wanted to use an older SU stamp *Stipple Rose* (2002) It is sooo pretty and sooo</span><br />
<span style="color: #c27ba0;">versatile too...*I really {{♥}}older style SU stamps!* I also used some pretty SU designer paper </span><br />
<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;">that, I thought goes very well with said stamp. A little lace and a trio of lil bows, some pearls and a hint of glittah! Mom really likes this card...it was a good 'pick-me up' of sort ,after what she's been through lately...yes I gave it to her after snapping pictures this afternoon while trying out my new camera just purchased via Bidding Wars -yes...another camera!...AND four diff. lenses came with it too! wooott I scored BIG! lol (some of ya may know how addicted I am to Bidding Wars....lol)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">I really like how this card turned out...and I am thrilled that Mom loves it just as much ♥</span><br />
<span style="color: #c27ba0;">I can tell from the way she 'petted' it ...lol :o) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><b></b></span><b><span style="color: #990000;"> <u> MAY CARD :</u></span></b><br />
<span style="color: #990000;">On to card number two: The second challenge was hosted by April, for the month of May.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;">This is what she asked us CG to do - in her own words : </span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">" </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I always like to honor my father this month.<br />
So, to celebrate him (and fathers every where) let us make a masculine
celebratory card with any SCS sketch that ends in 25 (the year he was
born).<br />
Please let us know which sketch you used and a memory of a special man in your life!"</span><br />
<u><b>Links: </b></u><br />
<span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/card-sketches-f41/sketch-challenge-425-%7B2-27-13%7D-t569460.html" target="_blank">Sketch Challenge 425 {2/27/13}</a><br />
<a href="http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/card-sketches-f41/sketch-challenge-325-a-t523666.html" target="_blank">Sketch Challenge 325</a><br />
<a href="http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/card-sketches-f41/sketch-challenge-225-a-t433416.html" target="_blank">Sketch Challenge 225</a><br />
<a href="http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/card-sketches-f41/sketch-challenge-125-a-t251360.html" target="_blank">Sketch Challenge 125</a><br />
<a href="http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/card-sketches-f41/sketch-challenge-25-a-t59791.html" target="_blank">Sketch Challenge 2</a></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">I chose <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Sketch 325</b></span>. Loved the cards I saw in the gallery using this sketch and I am sure I will be using it again and again. My Dad loves nature and anything outdoorsy...loved both hunting and</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;">gathering what nature had to offer naturally- such as wild asparagus (and yes there were snakes too!) ,</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;">hazelnuts , walnuts and chestnuts...(last time I went chestnut picking with my fathers, I noticed</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">With that in mind, I dusted off SU Noble Deer (2004) and wanted to try something different with the chosen image so I tried the *bleach tecnique* on a piece of craft c/s. Kind of liked the results but felt it needed something more...so I tried to use a light brown tip and casually contoured the washed out image. I like to see animals having at least eyes....lol </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">Anyways, not sure if this was worth doing or if I blotched it all together, but at least I gave it a try... Tomorrow I am going to visit my Dad and this card too will find it's place...♥</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">On the inside of this masculine card I added the exact sentiment I used on Mom's card...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">(mmm ... just notice that this pict is a tad blurry..sorry gals, this chick is not going </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">to take a new one..I am done for the day....lol) I really love the designer paper </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">I chose for Dad's card and truly enjoyed trying this sketch.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"> <u><b>JUNE CARD :</b></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><u><b> </b></u>Now off to the third and last card...if you are still with me, thanks for your endurance </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">in following this long post to the end...lol *smile*</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Debbie is this month's hostess and her challenge is as follow : </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Since we are the CALENDAR Girls I was thinking we should make cards that reflect the months </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">of the year or days of the week. I found these sayings about a few of the months:<br />
Slow as Molasses in January<br />
January Brings a New Year<br />
Beware the Ides of March (William Shakespeare "Julius Caesar")<br />
March, In Like a Lion Out Like a Lamb<br />
April Showers Bring May Flowers<br />
June is Bustin' Out All Over (Oscar Hammerstein)<br />
July Fireflies Bring August Skies<br />
September Leaves Gives Chance for October Scares<br />
And here are some yearly days of the week.:<br />
Fat Tuesday<br />
Black Friday<br />
Good Friday<br />
Palm Sunday<br />
So the challenge is to make a card that reflects your interpretation of
one </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">of the above sayings about the months or one of the four listed
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"> Ohh I wanted to ink this image for sooo longgggg as it sat forevah ,just waiting for me to ink it up!</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"> DID YOU GUESS WHICH DAY I PICKED? ...LOL....<b>YUP! *FAT TUESDAY* :)</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">After a couple of 'pensive' kind of cards , this morning I took a different approach for this fun challenge and went happily to 'work' at it... I used Art Impressions : Yoga Yolanda -set 4209-</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">This plump lady cracks me up..it sooooo reminds me of myself when I try to exercise!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">However I know I could NOT do that pose at all...yikes! lol</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">I just used paper from my stash and some leftover d/p from my friend Darlene's latest DDD kit.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">The image was colored with a combo of SU pastels and Copics while the main sentiment was stamped directly on the card's front panel.Yolanda was fussy cut and mounted without using dimentionals this time around. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">After reading the quote that you see below, I finished the inside to resemble an envelope, and added a second sentiment too .</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"> <span style="color: #073763;"> <i><b> " When you look outside you,you'll see the hope in the envelope of fear- but when you look inside you, you'll find hope in the envelope of faith." (Unknown)</b></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">No matter what size or look we may sport on the outside, our inside is what counts the most ,therefore.... * DO . APPRECIATE . WHAT . IS *</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">* Below, my trio of cards for APRIL, MAY and JUNE Calendar Girls challenges.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">THANK YOU to all the lovely hostesses: CAROL , APRIL , DEBBIE *</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">and THANK YOU ALL for you patience! Much much appreciated!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #990000;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">♥ BLESSINGS TO ALL ♥ </span></i></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Well, my dear Blogland
Peeps , I am finally posting my latest cards made a while back for the SOTC group.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">(Sisterhood Of the Travelling Cards)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">My good friend Carol was the hostess for the months of March-April and this is what she requested from us : </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>" <i><u>The theme for this round is going to be :: Unique :: Special :: You ! "</u></i></b></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i><u> </u></i></b></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<i>"God made us after His own image, however, we don't all think, </i></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">act or
look alike. Of course, we all love paper crafting though! </span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So that being
said, I would like to have you make cards unique to YOU! </span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I would love
you to use your favorite shape, color scheme, embellishment, layout
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I can't wait to
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">This months's lovely hostess are : Darlene ,for us Dazzlers ,and Terri for the Divas...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">The theme they both challenged us this month is : </span><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">GARDENING</span></b> </div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">The gardening gloves and the pink seed packet were fussy cut ,then propped with dimentionals </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #a64d79;">As an extra step, Darlene asks us to add some gardening tips : well, I used to save all egg shells (both fresh or boiled), plus the coffee grounds and add them to the dirt...it makes for good compost. Also if/when you have leftover milk to discard use it for the geraniums...for as long as I can remember I was told it's really good for those kind of plants...♥</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">~ Hello Peeps and blogland friends...</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Not much time to be creative or to even feel creative lately...but I am trying the best I can, to do what I can with the crumbs of time I seem to have lately....way too much has been happening, one thing after another...hopefully this 'madness' will end soon...I sure could use some 'don't worry time' both from the job (there may well be a full fledge strike going on starting next week!) and also in my personal life some 'stuff' ' is keeping me very concerned indeed...I could use a total escape from reality....LOL....or learn to bury my head in the sand...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Well, I am finally posting the card (s) I made for the 14th round of the Unidentified Image Swap. These were due to post 2 days ago...but here I am now...not too late, in comparison of another commitment or two, not yet even started! *sigh*</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">This round's lovely hostess was Kadie and she sent us all partecipants a very sweet, adorable stamped image to play with, from Pink Cat Studio * love it! * </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Stamped Image : </span><br />
Lily Stamp -by Pink Cat Studio<br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Card Stock :</span> by SU<br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Designer Paper :</span> Me and My Bright Idea Specialty D/P , plus others from my stash.<br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Ink:</span> Copics, SU Pastels <br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Accessories:</span> Inverted Scalloped circles nesties, orange buttons from my stash, blue and white floss by American Crafts , dimentionals, Crystal effect.<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">your comments are greatly appreciated...Thanks! ♥</span></span></span></i><br />
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<b><span style="color: #a64d79;">TAMI...THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PATIENCE!!! xox </span></b></div>
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I did two cards today (one for the Dueling Darlings and this one for the CG)</div>
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Truth is that my mind was confused and I thought I owed TWO -DDD cards' challenges...lol</div>
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noooooo...I owed TWO CG cards' challenges....at least I made this one so now I am still ONE behind for April....*sigh* </div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><u><b>March Challenge from Tami</b></u></span><br />
Did you know that March used to be the first month of the year on the
Roman calendar? It was changed to the third month by Julius Caesar. The
calendar we use today is refined from the Julius to the Gregorian.
Sadly, we only gained like the wee bit of a percentage of more time to
craft with the change! In theme of the original first month, <b><span style="color: purple;">let's use
one button on your card.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Let's make a card based on a sketch. I</span></b> saw <a href="http://deconstructingjen.com/deconstructed-sketch-136/" target="_blank">this sketch</a> and wanted to use it at some point. It's time! Please note, the sketch challenge is still open, so be sure to join!<br />
Speaking of Romans, purple is the color of the day. <b><span style="color: purple;">Please use the color
purple on your card somewhere.</span></b> Purple was worn by Roman Emperors and
magistrates. It is also the color worn by those cute little ladies you
see out lunching together, wearing purple and red and a bunch of hats!<br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;"> For my card I used the following:</span></b></div>
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<b>Ink :</b> Versafine Onix Black , Orchid Opulence (yup, dusted IT off too! lol)</div>
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<b>Stamps :</b> Artifacts (SU) and Warm Words -sentiment- (SU)</div>
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<b>Designer Paper</b> : Me and MY BiG Ideas plus C/S</div>
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<b>Accessories : </b>Clockworks Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug) , lavander button ,</div>
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punch from Martha Stewart , paper flowers from my stash.</div>
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<b>Tecnique :</b> sponging, dry embossing and embossed inking</div>
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<b>Below : inside of my card</b></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><b>Again, sorry for the delays....my life has been a delay after another lately in regards</b></span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><b>to my fun-time with crafting , and I don't forsee any changes too soon either....*sigh*</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><b> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"> ♥ C'est la vie!! Thanks for visiting!!! ♥</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: royalblue;"><b> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></span>~Paola~http://www.blogger.com/profile/05063945973545840208noreply@blogger.com7