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Good Greetings Stamp Set

5 Cheers for 5 Years

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Today is a personal share along with a couple of challenges.

My husband got great news yesterday on his five-year checkup! Yippee! So now, checkups every year. A very nice milestone! You might remember a couple of years ago I posted this card here. This is just a continuation, a few days late, but it’s official! So, happy dance!

On to my card and challenges. I have a Pinterest board (who doesn’t????) of nothing but Card Challenges. These are all for just this year, 2015. These two challenge stuck out for me this morning.

One is a color challenge from Nacho Average Challenge. I saw some nice manly colors here –

I paired it with a sketch from the Paper Players –

Nice and clean for a manly card. This is how I combined the two –

libbystamps, Good Greetings, Snuggles & Smooches Bigz Simple Numbers Die, Layers of Gratitude Paper Pumpkin,

Simple. Bold. Lots of Dimensionals.

I was itching to use this circle type image from the February Paper Pumpkin. That was my starting image. I built from there. The overlapped flower came from the set Snuggles & Smooches – it was perfect.

And, the whole point of my card was to celebrate the 5 year mark! So, I had to use a large number from the retired Bigz Simple Numbers die. The ‘cheers’ is from the limited edition set, Good Greetings, which was GREAT!

Together this came together perfectly!

Lots of love, health and happiness to my husband, Ed.

Drop me a comment and let me know what you think of my share today.

Happy Stampin’
Libby

Celebrate a Challenge

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I did it. I found a little ‘me time’.

Well, actually I was cleaning up my stampin’ ‘stuff’ that’s strewn about the house. I’ve still had this sketch on my mind. As I had a stack of scraps to put away, I had three colors together that caught my attention, Real Red, Blackberry Bliss and Crumb Cake.

I went back to this sketch from the Creative Challenge Club. See their great idea –

 

Nice. Simple. Clean. I just loved it.

This is what I came up with –

libbystamps, Decorative Dots Embossing Folder, Good Greetings Stamp Set, Noel paper Pumpkin, Scallop Oval Punch, Large Oval Punch, Hexagon Punch,

I am very literal when it comes to any sketches. I seem to want to follow them to the last detail. So, I think I did a pretty good job here.

The ‘DSP’ is a partial card front from a previous Paper Pumpkin kit, Noel. Bet you didn’t realize that, did you?

Next was the Decorative Dots embossed card stock. Something simple to add a little texture.

I was so excited because I used the new free stamp set, Good Greetings from Stampin’ Up. It has every greeting you can think of – and ones you wished you always had too! This added a nice balance to the whole card.

This could go either for a birthday, invitation, or Christmas card. You agree?

Love to hear what you think.

Happy Stampin’
Libby

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