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Ok better late than never right?? I must again apologize for my tardiness. Things just got away from me. This weeks Broke Stampers Unite challenge is Theme...Father's Day/Masculine. I have flowers and butterflies......I don't, for some reason, do much in the Masculine sector. So I had to get a lil creative. Maybe a good card for a non family Father's Day wish? 

 I used Vintage Leaves, Crazy About You and Timeless Textures stamp sets. Stamping a boarder and adding a bit of Early Espresso cotton ribbon on Whisper White card stock layered with Wild Wasabi and Mossy Meadow. I stamped my sentiment in Mossy Meadow. 

I think I need to procure a more versatile and manly set to have around something to think about I guess as I get ready to plan my new catalog order. 

So Thank You for stopping by, be sure to hop on over to Terri's Blog HERE as well as Stace's Blog HERE 

Be sure to check out or Facebook Page HERE and play along with the challenges if you like.

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BROKE STAMPERS UNITE

Hello and welcome to this weeks Broke Stampers Unite post. This week the topic is Techniques, and for this technique we are doing masking tape/painters tape technique. It was a new thing for me. Hadn't heard of it and had to look it up. What I learned was that you take strips of masking/painters tape and gently apply sticky side down to your ink pad. Give it a light tap and then lift it up off the pad. Then you take that strip of tape and apply it to your desired spot on your card stock. You want to place it down lightly and only very gently give it a rub. You don't want to stick it down and press hard because it can lift or tear your card stock surface as you pull it back up. So work lightly lol. As shown in the picture below I did these steps a couple of times. I used Lost Lagoon, Tangerine Tango, and Hello Honey inks.  Once I got my background stripes done I then stamped my image over the top with Early Espresso. It's just a fun and easy way to create stunning background effects. 

In this card once I got my background stripes done I used a sponge dauber and added ink to the edges of my card stock.  I hope you've enjoyed learning about this technique, I know I did. Give it a try....go forth and stamp!!! You'll love the fun effects you can get and be able to step up your stamping.
I also want to say a big WELCOME to Stace who has joined Terri and I in our Broke Stampers Unite quest! Be sure to head over to both of these lovely ladies blogs and see what they came up with for this week.
Terri mystampvault.blogspot.com
Stace http://stampingwithstace.com/

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Believe

Hello and Happy Saturday

How's your weekend going?? Today's post is made with Vintage Leaves and Leaflits Framelits. On this card I stamped and heat embossed the leaves on Whisper White. I then used sponge daubers and randomly sponged Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, and Early Espresso ink. I then cut them out with the framelits. The black medallion was made by snipping out the inside of the spider web doilies from the holiday catalog. Made the background with Gorgeous Grunge stamp set in Pumpkin Pie. I arranged the leaves and snarled two down and one I used dimensionals on to pop it. Added some Mossy Meadow bakers twine and a jewel rhinestone as well as some dazzling details on the medallion.

Hope you have a wonderful rest of your weekend and Thank You so much for stopping by.

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Hello and Welcome to this weeks Sketch Frenzy Friday post. This weeks sketch comes from Jenny. It's a nice clean sketch. I like my cards nice I simple and clean so this was a good sketch for me. 

I chose to play with a set from the Annual catalog called Vintage Leaves. I started by using a square punch and punching out my Very Vanilla pieces I then layered them with some Tangerine Tango card stock. I laid the four squares of vanilla together and stamped the leaf in Tangerine Tango. I then seperated the squares layered the Tangerine Tango squares behind and then placed them on a layer of DSP from the Into The Woods pack from the Holiday Catalog. Set it all on a base of Tangerine Tango added a bow of Early Espresso cotton ribbon. Stamped my sentiment in Early Espresso and popped it up with Dimensionals. 

Hope you enjoy this weeks creation. Be sure to play along with us by creating your own version of this sketch and posting it to the Sketch Frenzy Friday blog Here

Have a great week. Thank You so much for stopping by. Please feel free to leave a comment and let me know how I'm doing or if you like the Card, or if you just want to say Hi

It's always nice to know if someone is really looking at these wonderful posts we put up every week.

Be sure to check back again you never know what  I could be up to! LOL 

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Grateful For You card

Another fun card using Vintage Leaves and the Leaflet Framelits. Really enjoying this stamp set. I love all the textures represented here.

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Vintage Leaves

Another card done with the Vintage Leaves stamp set and Thinlits. ( sentiment is from Lighthearted Leaves stamp set coming in September)

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LEAVES!!

Falling into Fall with these fun stamp sets. Vintage Leaves available now with framelits in a bundle from the annual catalog. And then the fun lighthearted leaves from the Holiday catalog using the same leaf framelits.

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Holiday Catalog Sneak Peek

Well I received my Holiday pre order on Monday and have had a chance to play a little with some of the new stamps... I'm pretty sure that lil bear is going to be my season fav. He's just so cute! The leaves are from vintage leave stamp set from the Annual Catalog. But I just got them. Really going to love these thought the fall season. I'm sure you'll get to see a lot from me of this set.

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