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Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Libby Fens offering original and creative paper crafting projects. I host monthly Card Buffets, specialty classes and weekly inspiration for card making.

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Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Beginning To Look like Christmas

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Welcome stampers!

Thank for joining us for our weekly Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop!

Our theme today is : It’s beginning to look like Christmas

A lot of people put up a Christmas tree during the Thanksgiving weekend. This card reminds me of that –

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This is the Decorated with Happiness Bundle. It is pretty cool how it cuts two usable die cuts at once! I used both here. I loved the two ‘santa suits’.

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The star made a nifty santa buckle.

I debated about what color to stamp the sentiment in, but I chose Real Red.

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The addition of the Sequins were just what the card needed.

Such a sweet Christmas card! Wouldn’t you agree?

Go forward to check out Debbie Henderson, and back to Cindy Elam. I know they’ll have some great ideas for us!

We will see you next week!

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Peace Love Joy

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Hello my stampin’ friends!

Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary challenge!

Here is our current color  challenge –

I was inspired to create a simple, elegant Christmas card. I think I succeeded –

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I started with the cutting these gifts from the Spruced Up Outlines Dies. Keeping the inside pieces, I rearranged the colors, then adhered them to a Rectangular Postage Stamp Punch.

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I added a cut apart sentiment from the Inspired Thought stamp set. I was perfect for these gifts. Especially when paired with the inside sentiment, Wishing you all the beautiful gifts of Christmas.

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Look closely at the background on the front of the card, it’s the Whimsical Woodland 3D embossing Folder. I love the look it gives the card.

What do you think? Nice combination?

Check out the other Design Team cards on our Create with Connie and Mary blog. You’ll see some fabulous ideas! Join us for the challenge too if you’d like!

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Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – CASEing Mary Brown

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Welcome stampers!

Thank for joining us for our weekly Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop!

For the next several weeks, we have a real treat for you. We will be CASEing (copy and share everything) each designer on the blog hop!

This week, we are all CASEing Mary Brown. We each get to choose a card we like, copy the layout and the colors, but add stamps and dies from the July – December Mini catalog.

I chose to CASE this simply gorgeous monochromatic card –

Mary Brown Stamper Camper

And, my take on it –

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Soo pretty! I love these colors for a non-traditional Christmas card!

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I chose nifty Spruced Up bundle as my stamp set and the Whimsical Woodland Embossing Folder for the three embossed pieces.

These Spruced Up Outlines Dies are cool that you can create an outline if you’d like, used the center portion stamped or plain. I chose the outline to mimic Mary’s card.

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The stamps are photopolymer making stamping the two words for the sentiment very easy. It turned out soo pretty!

This will be a fun several weeks CASEing each other!

Go forward to check out Debbie Henderson, and back to Cindy Elam. I know they’ll have some great ideas for us!

We will see you next week!

Shop any of the products for this fabulous card by clicking on any of the icons below. I appreciate your support of my small, home based business. Thank you in advance!


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