Three Poinsettias

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Here is my Christmas card that is using non-traditional colors for the PTI November Blog Hop. I used the poinsettias from the PTI Bells and Boughs stamp set and stamped them in light teal. I used a stencil and some Bo Bunny glitter paste in the color "Sugar" for the snowy background. I wish the snow showed up better, as it is really stunning in real life.

I used the die from the PTI Sending You stamp set and used the same ink to sponge around the die cut. I stamped the evergreens from the Bells and Boughs stamp set and placed the die cut poinsettias on the arch. The rhinestones are from my stash of rhinestones, which I am trying to use up before I am tempted to buy any sequins.

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Girl With Snowball

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Here is a card I made using the snow background stamp from MFT stamps. I also used some blue and turquoise ink to create the background.

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Fall Birthday Card

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Here is a birthday card I made using the MFT Stamps Modern Blooms stamp set, along with their stitched circles stax. The second card shows the inside of the card. I think I got the Irish Blessing stamp at a stamp show. There's nothing on it to indicate where it's from. It always stamps crooked, but now with the pink tool, I can line it up much easier.

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Happy Birthday Aqua Florals

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This card is for the MFT Stamps Sketch Challenge. The florals are from MFT Stamps Modern Blooms.

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Playground Scene

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Over Memorial Day weekend I had my grandchildren here. Two of them, boy 5 and girl 3, made these playground scenes from the Lawn Fawn Let's Play stamp set and dies. The boy, you will notice, used mostly the objects that were already colored with patterned paper. His sister, however, liked to color a lot of the objects. You will notice that each of them has a little girl in the tree. I found out that their family went apple picking last fall, and their father was reaching them up into the trees to pick the apples. So that solved that mystery. However, the mystery of why the little girl has a purple face is still unsolved.

This is a really fun set to do with little kids. They can create a playground scene that looks nice and they can get excited about. I cut a piece of aqua cardstock in half so the scene is 4.5" x 11". I had everything cut ahead of time since I didn't think they would have the patience to wait until I cut everything. Besides, that took longer than I thought it would.

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Have a Happy Day

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Here are cards in two different color schemes using the Whipper Snapper Design stamp, Wishing you a Lovely Day. This is a fun stamp set to color, since you can use so many different colors. I really like the sentiment for sending to special people for no particular reason. The striped paper is from Lawn Fawn.

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Wedding Card

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Here is a card that I CASED from the MFT site. Everything on this card, sans the ink and rhinestones, is from the MFT site: the stamps, dies, cardstock, sentiments, and background stamp are all from the site. Also, I used the MFT Blueprint dies to cut out the card front, the stitched strips, and the inside layer. All together I counted 11 layers.

If you are planning on joining me on June 6 at Panera, you can scroll down and see other variations of this card using different color combinations.

So here is the card:

Here are a few more cards I made using these ideas while using other color combinations:

Enjoy!