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‘Wishing you happiness’

Here is another card I've made using my new Stampin' Up! set "Summer by the Sea"Here I used some promarkers to colour the images, I wasn't sure of the pens at first but the more I used them the more confident I felt.Card Stock: chocolate chip, bashful blueInk: Black stazon, chocolate chipNesties: labels 2, Stampin' Up! scallop edge punch, designer paper and buttons from the natural set.

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Stamp with Us Challange

Over at Stamp With Us they set us free with a reciepe to cook up a card for their challange this week. Players need to make sure they used :~ 2 x patterned paper, 1 x ribbon and 4 x brads.Here I used me newest stamp set "Summer by the Sea" I coloured the image in with prisma pencils and mounted her on old olive card stock. I layered this on always artichoke papers before layering i onto the mellow moss card I add some ribbon and attached the sentiment with 4 brads.

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another golden oldie

Here's another creation I made whilst I had my rubber necker stamps out. I used cardstock and paper from my stash and even aired my x~cut border punch.

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Sugar Nellie

Over at the Shack I am 1 of the 2 "Flood" victims for the month of May. However my friends have already started to shower me with Cards and images. I have been admiring the new Sugar nellies for a little while and was delighted to recieve some of them in the post. I still can't decide which one is my favourite.

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Sketch and Stash Challange# 9

I thought that I would double up on my challanges this week if possible with those over on the Shack. So for this weeks Sketch and Stash challange I dusted off a couple of old stamps I haven't used for a while and came up with this creation.

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Ink-a-palooza!!

Over at the stamp-shack we're having an Ink-a-palooza!! its been running for 5 days now and its got another 5 days to go...... The ladies over there have set 15 different challanges (with candy up for grabs) along with 2 door prizes... They certainly know how to get your creative juices flowing. Here are a couple of my creations that I have come up with so far. These are for the Alchol ink background challange, I've used a rubber necker flower stamp on them, cut image out and matted and layerd...

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Darling Daughters 18

Tomorrow is my middle daughters 18th birthday, I can't beleive that time has flown by so quickly!!Here is the card I made for her using my cricut to cut out letters and numbers, card stock is from Stampin' Up! along with the patterned paper (tea party), the image is from Penny black watercoloured using my Stampin'Up! markers. I then jazzed it up some more with flowers and bling from my stash.

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Choo Choo

After having a bad day at Ally Pally* yesterday I came home and had a play with the Choo Choo stamp set and the Right on track roller which can be found in the Stampin' Up! Mini Catalogue.My reciepe for this was: Whisper white, Tempting turquoise and Chocolate chip card stock, a piece of ribbon, brad and a tag. ( *I left a bag of shopping with about £70.00 of crafting goodies in it on the curtesy bus)

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