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Upcoming Scraptober Event....

Julie, a Love To Ink  Team Member and cancer survivor, made these fabulous tiles for an upcoming Scraptober event.   She will be participating as the Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

Scraptober is a major fundraiser which benefits women with breast cancer.  Your donations are greatly appreciated.  Check out this wonderful event today.

Regional Swap Card....

I used this sample from a recent card buffet to create a swap for the Rhode Island Regional last Saturday.  I didn't take a photo of the swap card, but I did change out a few elements.  I used the Flowering Flourishes and I stamped the butterfly from Papillion Potpourri in Tangerine Tango.  I just might have to take another picture and post it. 

What a week.....and Sara's Wedding!

The last two weeks have been filled with vacation, preparing for classes and clubs, extracting frames of honey from the hives and bottling it, as well as, packaging and mailing out all the retired product for sale. Whew!   Sometimes, there are just not enough hours in the day to do all that is necessary.
Here is some of the honey that I bottled last week.

 Now, on to some stamping.  One of my team member's daughter got married over the weekend and she made her own wedding invitations using Pear Pizazz and Elements of Style.  I apologize for the black cross-outs, but, I don't like to post personal information of that nature.  However, they are quite beautiful!  I wanted to share them with you and give a congratulations to Sara and Joshua.

Bye Bye Mocha Morning.

I am going to miss Mocha Morning Specialty Designer Series Paper.

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Here Marina Mist pairs with Calypso Coral for a delightful combination.

More Woodsheet Die Cuts!

Finishing November up with Stampin' Up's! Spice Cake Designer Series Paper. I covered our 5x5 Art Journal.

It's A Mocha Morning!

The new Mocha Morning Designer Series Paper is absolutely beautiful. Pair it with Very Vanilla and Black and you have an elegant card.

Split Negative Elements of Style

This is Tangerine Tango and Black Embossing Powder to make the Split Negative Technique. That sentiment is Heard From The Heart. I haven't pulled that out in ages.

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I made two cards for my client to pick from. This was the one she picked!

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I was asked to make a card for an upcoming wedding. The colors of the invitation were Crumb Cake and Night of Navy. I thought this fit with the theme quite well.

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Not a new set, however, I liked the color combination of So Saffron and Soft Suede.

Got Spring?

Spring can't come soon enough around here in New England.

Technique Geeks Class-Black Magic

I wanted to share with you one of the techniques from last night's Technique Geeks Class. This technique is Black Magic.

Join us monthly as we make three technique samples along with three full sized cards using that technique. Technique Geek classes are the first Tuesday of each month. Check my calendar here for more information.

Distressed Inks

My Love To Ink Group met last night. We had a guest demonstrator, Sarah Mannello, come last night and share all her Convention goodies. Thank you, Sarah!

During the meeting, I did a product demonstration on the Distressing Essentials Kit. LOVE it!

Our make n take was this card, using the Distressing Essentials Kit (118762) page 194 of the Idea Book and Catalog.

Technique Geeks-Two Toned Embossing

While we are waiting for the new 2010-2011 Idea Book and Catalog to go LIVE, I wanted to share a technique that we did at our Technique Geek class in June.

It is called Two-Toned Embossing. The following card is made with Blush Blossom, however, our new In Color, Blushing Bride would be a wonderful color to work with.