I made these three cards using the By the Bay Suite.  The collection is gorgeous, but it is retiring.  If you love the ocean as much as I do, go to my store link and see if you can grab one before they're gone.  I used a sketch from Paper Craft Crew (#511) for my team challenge in April. It was a fun sketch to work with.  I made one and proceeded to make three or four more!  The Seashells 3D embossing folder is on clearance.  Grab one of those too.  It's so pretty!!

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Hues of Happiness!

I have been trying to focus on using up some designer series paper while waiting for my order to come in.  I pulled out the Hues of Happiness suite from the annual catalog.  It's such a gorgeous suite!  The designer series paper coordinates with the dies, so I cut a bunch of flowers and got to work.  Here is what I came up with.  I didn't realize how pretty the background die was!

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A sketch two ways

I recently participated in a mystery challenge and made two cards slightly different.  The intent was to put the strip of designer series paper down the middle, but I decided to put one off to the left a bit.  Let me know if you have a favorite!  I used the Whimsical Woodland 3D Embossing folder for my white panel on both cards.  It can be inked up for a fun look as well. 

On the first card, I used the Textured Chic dsp with a snowflake.  The Wonderful Snowflakes are on clearance for $2.40. Go and check it out if you don't want to miss them!  The base is Soft Succulent, and the sentiment label is cut from Harvest Dies in Evening Evergreen.

On my second card I used Painted Christmas, a beautiful set of dsp, and also the Christmas Season stamp set and Seasonal dies (low inventory as of this writing!!).  The banner was from Stylish Labels. I used Garden Green for the base, layer and ink.  

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More Fitting Florets!

I can't seem to stop using this beautiful designer series paper!  That, combined with the gorgeous font in the Fitting Florets stamp set, is a great combination.  I found an older sketch on Freshly Made Sketches (#291).  It's a simple but I like how you use both sides of the designer series paper.  This was used for my Team Mystery Stamping.

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