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Another card using a stamp that has never seen ink.....this card actually used 2 different Close To My Heart sets....I've used the sets before, but never THESE stamps. This card is for the following challenges:
1. Dynamic Duos #77

2.  Unscripted Sketches #229 ( where my friend Kimberly is a new DT member....yay Kimberly!!)

( I just flipped the sketch!)

that's all for this post....more to come!
thanks for visiting my blog!
~tracey

'Tis the Season!

.....to make Christmas cards!!!

Last year, with all my life changes, I didn't get to make Christmas cards, and it was sad :(    This year, I want to mail handmade cards to everyone!!!  AND, I want them all to be different!
Seems like everytime it gets close to the holidays, I find myself buying Christmas stamps.....I have bought SO MANY over the years....and do you know how many are still UN-INKED!  Anyone else have this sickness like I do?   You see a stampset, think....'oh! that will be perfect for my christmas cards!'   and buy it. and it sits....
yep.
So I have vowed this year to do my BEST.....to put ink on all those poor sad un-inked Christmas stamps! 
Ready?
Because here is the first card.  It is for the current MUSE challenge I saw today and knew the PERFECT UNUSED stamp for it!   I got this stamp (the text on the bottom of the card) from Close to my Heart YEARS ago when I was a consultant. Never used until now!




Here is the MUSE card by Laurie Willison

I chose to use the layout of the card to the best of my abilities. 

So....if you are like me and have a million un-inked Christmas stamps.....use them! and blog about it! how fun eh?! let me know if you are up for the challenge ;)  I've got a bunch more cards to blog tonight, so hold on! more to come!
~tracey
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great CHEMISTRY!

Sooooo.....this card is way special to me.
Here's the story.....
I was at work, showing a friend of mine all the cards I like to look at on lunch and get inspired to work in my craft room when I get home. When I was on CASE this sketch blog, I saw THIS CARD by Sam Simpson

well.....
being that my profession is a CHEMIST.....
omg. i HAD to have this stamp set! THANK GOODNESS that Sam had the source of the stamp set listed on her blog!!!  I immediatly went to the papertrey ink site and ordered this set.....(along with a bunch of other stuff....wow they have great stamps!
So here is MY card I made right after I got my package (which was super FAST!!!!!!! great service papertrey! i'll for sure order again!)


I'm entering this in a few challenges.
 1. CASology: BLACK

2.  Seize the Sketch, # 7:

supplies i used for this card:

stamps: papertrey ink
ink : ranger, distress ink in picked raspberry, archival in black
ribbon: tim holtz crinkle ribbon
twine: waxy flax by close to my heart
dies: papertrey ink
cardstock: georgia pacific (white), black....unknow scrap from my drawer

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