tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4836795084276661732024-03-12T21:56:10.842-05:00Botanical CafeA stamping, card making, paper crafting blog with a botanical (mostly floral) themeChriss Blagravehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01459563714210954590noreply@blogger.comBlogger652125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483679508427666173.post-84897819758680717012018-08-08T08:00:00.000-05:002018-08-08T08:00:00.388-05:00Muse Christmas Visions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Welcome to the 107<span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span> installment of <span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://musechristmasvisions.blogspot.ca/"><b style="background-color: white;">Muse Christmas Visions</b></a></span>, a Christmas card challenge taking place every 2 weeks!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is the card I created this time around. Yes, another botanical themed card (: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I used Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks on Arches watercolour card to create several sheets that ended up looking like this.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I then used Flora & Fauna dies to cut out my parts...lots of parts while I was at it because I made half a dozen cards. here is what a sheet looked like after some of the cutting! I will probably play again with some different colours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My sentiment is from this Right at Home set...love, love, love the font!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Are you tempted to make your parts into borders and clusters, like I did? Or, are you going to try your hand at a wreath! So may possibilities! Of course, you may want to stamp your images, too!</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For my card this time around, I heat embossed this beautiful WPLUS9 Christmas Rose Bouquet in Gold onto a watercolour panel <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Arches cold pressed rough side) </span>and used my Polychromos pencils to fill in and shade. The Honey Bee sentiment was also heat embossed onto the bottom of the panel after the </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">colouring was finished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, what will inspire you? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the colours?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the floral?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the use of pencil colouring?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's up to you to create a card for your Christmas stash!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am using two sweet stamp sets from Flora & Fauna today, "Holiday Watercolor" and "Winter Aviary". I attempted some "random" stamping and here are the results. For the image stampings, I used distress oxide inks and the black is Memento Tuxedo black. The berries have a coating of Wink of Stella but a little difficult to see from the photo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Chriss Blagravehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01459563714210954590noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483679508427666173.post-69474281309082979502018-01-18T17:49:00.000-06:002018-01-18T17:49:10.839-06:00New Twofer challenge !<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There's a new challenge in bogland that I just had to give a go. The lovely Darnell of <a href="http://djkardcreations.com/"><span style="color: #0b5394;">DJ Card Kreations</span></a> is the hostess with the mostest and check out the incredibly talented design team! Go to the <a href="https://twofercardchallenge.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: magenta;"><b>Twofer challenge</b></span></a> to check out the guidelines and start making "twice" the amount of cards...here is my twofer using the pretty PTI stamp set Feather Finery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the sympathy card, I stamped the feather in Hickory Smoke Distress Ink and used a fine paintbrush to spread the color a little. The sentiment is an older one from a Stampin Up set.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chriss</span>Chriss Blagravehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01459563714210954590noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483679508427666173.post-55857192201507487772017-11-15T08:00:00.000-06:002017-11-15T08:00:05.488-06:00Cute Penguin Tag<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I used the Hero arts Stamp 'n Cut penguin set and he is covered with Wink of Stella. The back ground flakes are an older Spellbinders Impressabilities metal stencil, liberally coated in Versamark that I ran over my SSS Sea Glass card stock in my Big Shot. I then sprinkled on the Hero Arts PUFF embossing powder and heat set. The edges of the tag were edged with Versamark and dipped into black embossing powder and heat set. A narrow checkered ribbon and some jingle bells finish this tag off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am playing with my Distress Oxide inks today and dabbed onto an acrylic block, sprayed water over, dabbed my Arches w/c panel here and there a few times and repeated. I used Picked Raspberry, Abandoned Coral, Candied Apple & Worn Lipstick. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When completely dry, I then gold embossed <span style="font-size: x-small;">(WOW pale rich gold) </span>my new SSS Fractile Leaves onto the treated panel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am submitting to the current </span><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><a href="http://timeoutchallenges.blogspot.fi/2017/09/challenge-93-breast-cancer-awereness.html">Time Out challenge</a></i></b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> for breast cancer awareness/friendship. You really need to check out the fabulous cards that the team have shared! Casual Fridays stamps is offering up a prize if you use CF product...I did not use, but was so inspired by the DT cards, just had to create one, too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">those colors and the fun, whimsical elf really tugged at my heart! I don't have an elf image, but I thought this little tree from a Memory Box set was equally fun! Have you had time to play along yet? There is still lots of time, as it is a month long challenge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am really working diligently on Christmas cards this summer and this is one of 16 that I made. It was very easy with my MISTI and the adorable Plus 9 "Holiday Houses" stamp set. All stamping!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I first stamped all of my trees and houses onto fun foam and cut out to use for the "coloring" step in making my cards so that I could flip them over and press them into my various colors of ink pads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The way that I arranged my stamps on my MISTI was as seen on my card from the lavender house to the trio of trees <span style="font-size: x-small;">(covering half of the card front).</span> After stamping all of this part of my card fronts, I simply rotated my card fronts 180 degrees to stamp out the other half of the card front using black ink. I then adhered my cut out foam stamps to an acrylic block and individually stamped the color over the stamped image. Easy Peasy! The sentiment is an older one from Papertrey Ink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have a card for the <span style="color: #cc0000;">Muse: Christmas Visions</span> card challenge hosted by Kimberly this month! Here is Kimberly's card. Don't you love this color combo and arrangement!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How about joining this challenge and adding to your Christmas card stash! You can add your card over at the <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>MCV</b></span> page <a href="http://musechristmasvisions.blogspot.ca/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">here</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Aqua is my favorite color. I could not pass this challenge up and it was a very good reason to ink up my NBUS Mondo Poinsettia stamp set!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I stamped in Tumbled glass distress ink onto hot press watercolor paper and used a combo of the tumbled glass, bundled sage and evergreen bough to color in. I had in mind to try a no line watercolor, but stamping the tumbled glass directly and repeatedly onto the wc paper was the first mistake. I forgot to stamp off, and well, I just went with it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I also used a diluted mixture of hickory smoke to tuck in between the leaves and did a little dry brushing on the right hand side of the panel. The flower centers are my nod to mixed media...white pen, yellow and blue Sakura glaze pens and distress inks. I added the gorgeous sentiment from Julie's Holly and Mistletoe that I stamped in a charcoal grey ink. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Chriss Blagravehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01459563714210954590noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483679508427666173.post-37220961322494363612017-02-01T14:00:00.000-06:002017-02-01T14:00:00.178-06:00MCV<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hello! It"s time to make another card for the <a href="http://musechristmasvisions.blogspot.ca/"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>MCV</b></span></a> challenge. Our goal is to inspire and help motivate you to make Christmas cards throughout the year. Think about it...when December arrives, you will have no worries!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First of all, welcome to the new <span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><a href="http://musechristmasvisions.blogspot.ca/">Muse: Christmas Visions</a></b></span> </span>monthly format!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now we have time to really focus on the Muse for the month's musings :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is Kimberley's card</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is where Kimberley's cute card took me...see her mustached Santa...I think he really is stylish and mischievous looking. I focused on his mustache and have them and a snowflake as elements that Kimberley's card have. Loved the color combo, too! I blended distress inks Tumbled Glass and Evergreen Bough together for the background over my masked mustache shapes that I cut from post it pad paper (I stamped again after the color blending and heat embossed with Hero Arts Puffy White) I stamped my snowflakes with Versamark and heat embossed with a glittery EP, but they did NOT look good. I salvaged by stamping over them with Versamark and using the Puffy white over top.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I really like the inlaid Jolly that I die cut from a scrap of really glittery red card!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I hope you can play along too! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Please refer to the new format info on the MCV #76 posting of January 11th..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">See you again next week at the <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Muse: Christmas Visions</b></span> card club!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lil Inkers "Jolly" die cut, sentiment and snowflake stamp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for stopping in! Your visits are always appreciated!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, the time is really here! Cards have been sent and some already received...Yeah!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This week's card was created with a non Christmas stamp set. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is the Simon Says Stamp "Spring Flowers" set. The floral reminds me so much of a poinsettia and I just had to explore and play. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(you know I have about a dozen different poinsettia stamps...)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I used the dies and cut the above shapes from fun foam to use as solid stamps. I then stamped onto my dark grey card front with craft white ink and let all dry. Next step was to take the actual stamps from the set and stamped with Versamark ink, first just the foliage and embossed with fern green EP. Next was the floral stamp using the Versamark and embossed with the red EP. My sentiment is from SSS also and white heat embossed. I added white heat embossed circles from the Spring Flowers set too for a little something-something.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana", sans-serif;">I hope your cards, or most of them, are made and mailed! Sending my best wishes to you all for a beautiful Christmas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana", sans-serif;">Thanks for peeking in!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My twig and ornaments tag has a gold mirror card tag base, 3 vellum ornament die cuts that I gold heat embossed with a stamp from SSS Spring Flowers stamp set and I also added Versamark around the edges and dipped into the WOW sparkling gold embossing powder to create a gold rim around each of the ornaments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A length of gold edged white organza ribbon tied through the tad hole and 3 little white hearts finish it off. </span></div>
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<br />Chriss Blagravehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01459563714210954590noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483679508427666173.post-89320970786607400422016-11-09T08:00:00.001-06:002016-11-09T08:00:00.231-06:00Muse Christmas Visions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have a <strike>tower</strike> stack of patterned papers that were bought years ago, with the very best of intentions. Time to have a look and see what I could come up with!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">using my patterned paper as the background, I layered a die cut in white street scene that I partially cut onto the front, adhered vellum behind the window openings, glued to the patterned card front and tied an elegant, narrow gold edged ribbon. (<span style="font-size: x-small;">I had previously embossed the little trees with gold dots</span>) My sentiment is cut from watercolor card scraps and also with gold foil card, layered together.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am offering 6 of these patterned paper card fronts (just the patterned paper) to anyone that might be interested in using this same background. I will mail to you anywhere in the world. The first 3 people to request will receive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope that some of these elements inspire you to either look through your patterned papers and create a little scene, or, maybe the white/gold/grey colours speak to you? Let's see what you can create!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for peeking in! Chriss</span></div>
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Chriss Blagravehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01459563714210954590noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483679508427666173.post-79656582473223751172016-11-01T14:37:00.002-05:002016-11-01T14:37:57.914-05:00Simon Says Stamp Grand Prize Winner!!!<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yes! It is true...I won the Super Duper Grand prize from Simon Says Stamp from the month long beloved Stamptember event! I have been in disbelief for a few weeks, but look what arrived last Friday!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Five large boxes and all of this inside!!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I still cannot believe it! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I will be re-designing my craft room, which entails pulling everything out, painting and placing contents back in the room. A part of this super duper prize were gift certificates from IKEA and Stamp-n-Storage. I have placed an order to spend my Stamp-n-Storage gift certificate (and more :) and that will arrive shortly. My craft room re-design will happen in December and I will have a post showing before and after photos.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is my birthday on Saturday but it feels like I have been celebrating a whole month in advance! Feeling so very blessed...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is almost that time to at least start thinking about sprucing up for the holiday season and we can't forget about our cards! This is my card for this week's MCV card offering and inspiration. I stamped the image with grey pigment ink and clear embossed. I stamped the image again onto a masking paper and placed over the embossed image. Some Tumbled Glass distress ink was lightly sponged over the focal image and then I took out my Copic markers and colored in the mouse and branch. For the ornament, I used a white gel pen and red soufflé pen to fill in the color. I also used a clear WOS pen to go over the white.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have you been busy with making some holiday cards? There is still time and I hope that this week's card gives you a little inspiration...a cute critter, center focal image, white space? How will you be inspired?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time for another <a href="http://musechristmasvisions.blogspot.ca/"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Muse: Christmas Visions</b></span></a> challenge card cue...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To start my cards, I used an Avery Elle die cut for my dotted frame that I cut from black card stock and white heat embossed my sentiment, Wishing you. I then placed my template over the black panel and proceeded to pierce the little holes with a piercing tool, creating my tree outline. Now comes the fun part. I used a large embroidery needle and threaded it with my yarn and went across from back to front repeatedly until I had my rainbow tree. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had such a blast creating a card for this challenge and using this new to me set that I had had my eye on. Thank, Michele for your generosity and all of your chats!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am playing around with Julie's <a href="http://www.ellenhutson.com/essentials-by-ellen-clear-stamps-mondo-hydrangea-by-julie-ebersole/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;">Mondo Hydrangea</span></a> and saw that there is a <a href="http://ellenhutson.typepad.com/the_classroom_new/pin-sights-challenge/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;"><b>challenge</b></span></a> going on for an opportunity to be a guest for Ellen's challenges...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am loving the size and organic beauty of this stamp set, so very pretty and easy to create with! I stamped the borders of my <a href="http://www.ellenhutson.com/canson-arches-french-bound-cold-press-watercolor-paper-pad-9x12/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Arches</span></a> card panel with the hydrangea bloom in Versamark ink and then heat embossed with <span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.ellenhutson.com/stampendous-fran-tage-embossing-enamel-ice-blue/" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-weight: bold;">Stampendous Fran-tage Ice Blue enamel</a>.<b> </b>This made for excellent wells in the petals to work with my <a href="http://www.ellenhutson.com/kuretake-gansai-tambi-36-color-set/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolour</span></a> paints. After filling in with a few colour mixtures, I stamped the single petals from Mondo Hydrangea onto a smaller panel from the same Arches w/c paper and painted in the same colours. I used my MISTI to stamp the Hero Arts sentiment a few times from <a href="http://www.ellenhutson.com/hero-arts-stamp-and-cuts-ribbon-messages/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Ribbon Messages</span></a> set in Versamark and then embossed with the same enamel. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Time for another </span><a href="http://musechristmasvisions.blogspot.ca/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Muse: Christmas Visions</b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> installment!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just 4 more months until these cards need to be in the mail! I can honestly say, that on today's date, I am behind! Way behind, so, let's get to crafting!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I ordered this new Memory Box stamp set from Ellen a few weeks ago and I am so VERY happy that I did! I love the style of this set to stamp. emboss or paint! It also has sentiments, a bird and single flowers and branches...really lovely!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I stamped in Shabby Shutters distress ink and then took out the Kuretake Gansai Tambi paints. I added WOS to my mistletoe berries and used a Lil' Inkers stitched die to cut out. The background uses the KGT paints also and the sentiments (from the same set) are stamped in PTI smokey shadow ink, 3 times with the help of MISTI.What inspires you? the water colour element, wreath, colours, sketch? Looking forward to seeing you in the gallery!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just a quick post before work for a card I made this weekend that was influenced from the current <a href="http://casethissketch.blogspot.com/2016/07/case-this-sketch-183.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><b>CTS challenge</b></span></a>. I used my new Neat & Tangled stencil, Geometric Blooms to layer some background colours with MFT Blue Raspberry and SU Bermuda Bay. I stamped the Happy from W&W (The Big, the Bold & the Happy) and added a Paper Smooches bird die cut and a Memory Box? layered petals flower. </span><br />
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