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Another Garden From the Heart…

This is a gorgeous card that my friend Deb Valder made for a swap I hosted. As you can tell, she is much better at watercoloring than me! LOL! This was one of my favorite cards from that swap. This was another card that I found while cleaning out some stuff. It is amazing what happens when you do that. Maybe I should try it more often! Ha ha…

Garden from the Heart

I had forgotten about this card and I just found it while cleaning out some stuff so I thought I would post it. I made this one with the Garden From the Heart set on pg 9 of the Stampin Up Occasions mini catalog. I stamped the background with the Sanded stamp in chocolate chip. I used the watercolor crayons to color in the hat. Pretty easy card if you like to color. I am not that great at watercoloring so I don't do it very often.

Featured Demonstrator of the month part 2

Last week I showcased one of my downline as a featured demonstrator of the month. I showed several of the projects she made and this week is part 2 of that post. Here are some more awesome samples created by Sandy Alexander, one of my very talented downline.  I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

This is a beautiful framed art project she made. I had to put a piece of cardstock behind it so you wouldn't see the mess on my stamp table.

This piece was made from our new Stampin Up chipboard albums. I love how she made this look so shabby chic.

This card uses the Abundant Hope set from the Stampin Up Occasions mini. It is such a gorgeous stamp set and Sandy did an awesome job on this card. I love the Pretties kit hat pin and pearl accent.

This card idea is so creative. I love how she wove the ribbon in and out of the scallop border.

Here is an adorable Easter bucket Sandy made using the Eggcoutrements set from the Occasions mini and the Chocolate Bunny also in the Occasions mini. I am so impressed with all of Sandy's projects. I think she did an awesome job being my first featured demo of the month. Please leave a comment and let her know what you think.

Here is a close up of the chocolate bunny (it looks so real in person) and the Easter tag with the silver hodgepodge hardware piece. What a great gift this would be for someone.

Tote-ally Tess

I hosted a swap a while back with some of my good friends and just realized that I forgot to post a bunch of them. This card was made by my friend Christie Daugherty. I just love what she did with Tess. I bought this set and still haven't gotten around to using it. I haven't been in a coloring mood lately I guess, This is such a cute set though. I love how she wrapped the striped ribbon with the polka dot ribbon too. This stamp set is available in the Stampin Up occasions mini catalog.

Mojo Monday sketch!

I needed to get my mojo going this week so I gave a try at doing the Mojo Monday sketch here. I was a little worried about the curved part but I found a great solution sitting right on my stamp table….a CD. I laid that down and traced part of the curve and it worked great. I hope you like my card.

I used the Vintage Vogue stamp set (big surprise there since it is my favorite set!)

I also used the Thoroughly Modern designer paper, our gorgeous Stampin Up polka dot ribbon, and several Stampin Up punches. The colors used are bermuda bay, soft suede and whisper white. Why don't you try the mojo sketch and see what you can come up with!

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Always

My friend Debbie did this card for our shoebox swap the other day. I just love it. It uses the Always set from the big catalog and the Sending Love designer paper. I don't know why I don't use this set more. It is one of my favorites.

With All My Heart

Here is a cute card one of my fabulous downline, ( Sue Bjorgaard) made. She used the With All My Heart stamp set in the Occasions mini and the gorgeous Sending Love designer paper and the Pinking hearts border punch. Love it.

Well Scripted note cards

Check out these adorable little notecards I made with the Guest Book Scrappin kit and the Well Scripted stamp set from the Occasions mini. These took about 3 seconds to make but are great little cards to tuck into a wedding gift. I love this scrappin kit and we are making these 2 cards plus a bunch more in a couple of weeks at my stamp camps. Both Sunday classes are full and there is only one spot left in each of the Tuesday classes. I might have to open another class if enough people sign up. You do not want to miss this one.

Just can’t get enough of Vintage Vogue

This gorgeous card was made by my upline Faith for one of my swaps. I love the red and the kraft together. You could use this one as a Valentine card or an "anytime you want to say I love you" card.  I just love it.

Sweet Pea Stitched Flowers…oh so soft

My good friend Mary Anne Grimmer made this card for a swap I hosted.  I just love these sweet little flowers. You can find them in our New Occasions mini on pg 32. She also braided the new satin ribbon from pg 27. The background paper is the new Shades of Spring on pg 25 and the pink is done with our new Polka Dot embossing folder found on pg 35. All of these items are in the new Occasions mini! If you did not get one in the mail from me, please stop by and pick one up. I have plenty available and I would love to see you. I hope you are having a great day!

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