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April TSG Blog Hop Challenge Day 3

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Are you ready for another Torico-illustrated character set? I hope so, because we are in love with her latest release that showcases sweet little ladies enjoying the pleasures of spring along with some of their favorite spring creatures...

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TSG Blog Hop Challenge - Lighten Up

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If you've come here from Tammy's blog you're in the right place! Welcome to day two of our/your blog hop challenge. This week I have endeavored to make 4 TOTALLY different cards for each one of the new...

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April TSG Blog Hop Challenge Day 1

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Hi! Welcome to a week of previews of There She Goes new releases! You are in the right spot if you've arrived here from Tammy's blog!Once again Chris Dark has amazed us with a whimsical and spring-inspired stamp...

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Colour Blind

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You're not going colour-blind, I was just playing around with my new book:Shadows & Shading: A beginners guide to lighting placement and decided to stick with grays while I made my brain smoke with concentration!!Phew.. It's hard. This whole...

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The Rule of Three

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" Rule of Thirds and BalanceThe rule of thirds says that most designs can be made more interesting by visually dividing the page into thirds vertically and/or horizontally and placing our most important elements within those thirds." Also, using...

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Love Always Wins

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I played along with this month's Technique Tuesday challenge. You still have a few days to play! Your challenge, should you decide to accept, is to make a card that uses coloring in some way. Yep. That means,...

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Easter Boat - tutorial

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I'm having a nice, relaxing Easter weekend so far, how 'bout you?! As part of our Easter festivities we (Phoenix, Ian and I) visit with our families and friends and I love to bring along special little treats....

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TSG 103 - Monochromatic Magic

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This week’s challenge is brought to us by our Trendsetter of the Week, Karen. She wants us to create a monochromatic card. In order to do that you would choose one or more shades of one color along with ONE...

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Happy Bird-day

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Do you have pretty patterned papers that have large designs on them? Do you find it hard to use them on your cards? Why not incorporate the design of the paper into a "scene" together with your stamps? ...

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Was I the last person on the planet to buy one??

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A paper crimper. I've known about them of course, heck, I've even used them when teaching at my LSS, but did I buy one? No.. I don't even have a reason besides I didn't need it. I felt...

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A Quick Card...

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Has this ever happened to you?  My brother was over the other night and we ate dinner, played games and "the party" was winding down so I started to think about what crafty-things I had to do.. I...

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With My Deepest Sympathy

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I'm all out of sympathy cards so it's time to make more... Everyone always says they're the hardest ones to make, but I don't find them HARD to make, I just find it tedious unless I have an...

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CPS 212

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It's been a long time since I've played along with a CPS sketch... Too long considering I love sketches.. Anyway, this was the perfect sketch to use in conjunction with some new Nestabilities dies I purchased (Pennants and...

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just Bee cause

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This week’s challenge is brought to us by our Trendsetter of the Week, Ann! She wants us to create a card withoutt any angles…only circles and/or ovals! Remember that your card base must also be either round or...

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Best Wishes - Shabby Style

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Shabby wedding card! It works, right? I have to make a bunch of wedding cards for the flower shop, so I thought I would make a variety to keep everyone happy..  You know what? This is my first...

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New Release Day at Whimsie Doodles

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I am so excited about this release! Gnomes, circus, babies... It's all cute.  Check it out! I had a lot of fun with this card. I drew inspiration from the patterned paper (My Mind's Eye) and duplicated some...

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Hey You...

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I love silhouette images.  They say so much by saying nothing at all...  I used Copic markers and the airbrush system to create the background. Stamps used are new Technique Tuesday:Life is GoodTalking in Circles ...

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April Whimsie Sneak Peeks!

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It's the fourth of the month, and you know what that means....  new sneaky little snippets for your to feast your eyes on!  Join me back here tomorrow to see my cards featuring new designs from Whimsie Doodles! ...

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PTI's Make It Monday Challenge #8

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The challenge is to use an ink-blending tool to create a pretty background. To achieve this look I first die-cut the shape with Nestabilities. Then I stamped PTI's Background Basics: Sheet Music with Ranger's "old paper" ink with...

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TSG Challenge: Markers Down

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This week’s challenge is being issued by our Trendsetter of the Week, Kim! She wants us to create a card that uses NO MARKERS…no Copics, no Tombow Markers…NO MARKERS AT ALL! Can you believe it? So reach for those...

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