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Today I have been working on my monthly swap card I have to turn in in a couple of weeks and the challenge was to use one of the new Christmas sets out of either the big catty or one out of the holiday mini... well I haven't been able to order out of the holiday mini as of yet so I went with Sleigh bells Ring out of the fall and winter catty....



This swap group is supposed to be upscale so I through in two different techniques on my card. I used my faux metal tutorial and dazzling diamonds. The dazzling diamonds is hard to tell in this picture so I took one more inside and hope it would show up...



Supplies: Sleigh bells ring stamp set, party punch stamp set, buckaroo blue cardstock, soft sky textured cardstock, wintermint designer paper, whisper white cardstock, white taffeta ribbon, iridescent ice embossing powder, silver embossing powder.

Well I have to get to work and finish cranking out 12 of these babies... off I go to get this swap done. Have a great afternoon...

Copics and Butterflies

I suddenly got the urge to play tonight. What I wanted to breakout was my retired Stippled Butterfly stamp and see what I could come up with. I am rather pleased with it too.


Supplies: White cardstock, basic black inkpad, stippled butterfly stamp, Copic markers Y15, YR09, Y28, E29, white wide organdy ribbon(I so miss this stuff Stampin Up retired this and I will morn the day I run out), amuse twinkle stickers, iridescent ice embossing powder, versa mark pad, yellow stick post it note for masking technique

I had to break out my copics and play with them again... I love them and so want to get more but have to save the money up for em and I also want the airbrushing system they have for them... but for now I can play with the few I do own. Hope you think this card turn out as well as I do... I have to head off here seems we have a bunch of storms heading through here for the night... happy stampin everyone.

Good morning....

For todays post I decided to try out the Wednesday tutorial post this week on SCS. You can find the tutorial here. It was fun to make and I filled mine with some Prima flowers to give to my mom today. Before i post my pictures I want to let you know I play with both an inside and outside picture for this and will post both for you to see how different the colors are in real life....

Here is my picture of the project in the house...


This is a picture of it outside on my deck in full sun...

Supplies: I used white cardstock, petals and paisley designer paper, my butterfly of happiness retired set, iridescent ice embossing powder, versa mark ink pad, barely banana inkpad, pretty in pink inkpad, and bashful blue inkpad, and my retired wrought iron punch.