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This week's sketch over at PPA seemed like it was made especially for showing off DSP.  My dear friend Carmelle is finishing her Masters degree next month so I wanted to make her a card to tell her how happy I am for her.  I was looking through my stash when I came across Timeless Portrait.  

I originally had the card set up for a River Rock base, but I love the pop that Island Indigo gives it.

The final touch on the inside was a little embossed strip of Vintage wall paper.  I don't really have any stamps that I wanted to pair with the DSP, but I needed something in there.  I used the de-bossed side for something a little different.

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This evening I've got a workshop booked with 16 ladies!  I usually plan my workshops for about 8, so when my hostess told me there would be 16 stampers coming to play, I knew I had to change my game plan.

The first card was a quick fix - I'm just going to make 2 samples using 2 different sets.  I'll post the pics of these tomorrow sometime.  My second card is a Valentine's day card.  Here's what I had planned on doing.

However lovely this set is, it's not a card to do with such a large group of ladies.  I did it with my stamper's club last month and even with only 5 of them it took a long time.  

While drinking my morning coffee and surfing, I found a perfect Valentine's Day challenge.  Pals Paper Arts this week is a colour challenge using any three reds.  I always like to showcase punches in my workshops and I have a TON of red & pink paper lying around so I came up with this little baby.  Not only it is a great way to use up little scraps that I've been hoarding, but you get the chance to play with the small heart stamp and the amazing new Framelits collection.  I love the combo of Riding Hood Red, Real Red, and the Red Glimmer paper.

It still needed a little something extra so I ran the matting piece through the Big Shot with the Vintage Wallpaper EF.  After that I took a pearl acrylic paint dauber and ran it over the cardstock to give it a nice shimmer.  I'm pretty please with the outcome.  Now I just need to get started cutting the paper for it!

Pals Paper Arts 126

Two sketches in one morning?  Oh my!  After making my first sketch, I decided to poke around a little more before I head off and be responsible and do my housework.  The challenge this week at Paper Pals Arts isn't a sketch actually, rather a colour challenge.  I used this combo (Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy, and Very Vanilla) for a few Christmas cards and loved how it turned out.  I've been wanting to do this tile technique again for a while and I am currently obsessed with this set (Creative Elements) so here's what came together!