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May 25, 2009

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Christmas in July Blog Hop

It’s blog hop weekend with Scrap 'N Stamp and we are celebrating Christmas in July with a stellar lineup of makers! From elegant to whimsical, the variety of cards shared today are sure to inspire! As always, we welcome your comments along the way- and every comment earns you a chance to win a great prize, a $50 Gift certificate! The winner will be randomly chosen from comments left on the hop and announced on the SNS blog - July 25. You should have arrived here after visiting NANCY and your next stop is TRACEY . Here’s the full list of hop stops- if you get lost, visit the SNS blog to find your way again! Happy hopping! SNS Blog Allison Cope Ardyth Percy-Robb Deepa Robbins Dina Kowal Kia Gibson-Clapper Laurie Case Mari Clarke Meghan Kennihan Nancy Elrick Tara Nixon Cox Tracey Mehak McNeely I always have so much fun making Christmas cards out of non-Christmas stamps or dies, combining a 'regular' image with a Christmas sentiment is always a fun challenge for me!

Simple Summer Card Set

So I was browsing on Pinterest a bit ago, as I often do when I'm looking for inspiration, and I came across a pin of my card set that had been featured on the Ranger blog. I was pretty surprised to see the number of times it has been pinned... 3.3k!!! yikes- I'm totally flattered, but kinda bummed too since the tutorial is no longer up on Ranger's website for some reason. So, I'm sharing it with you again here today- perhaps if you see it with a link to Ranger on Pinterest sometime, you'll share this new link! I used a simple torn paper masking technique to create stripes of blended color. You can see from the card samples some colors that pair together nicely, I like using yellow as combines with so many colors beautifully! To start, pre-cut a white layer of cardstock and tape torn copy paper over it onto your craft sheet, leaving a space for your ink to be applied. Using an ink applicator tool, start with your lightest colors and layer

Canadian Blog Hop! (Celebrate World Card Making Day!)

Happy World Card Making Day! At Creative Accents we're celebrating the day with a Card Crop in our studio- it will be fun to see how many cards get completed today, but regardless of numbers it's sure to be a great day! We're excited to also be celebrating with a Canada-wide blog hop featuring over 30 Canadian bloggers & card makers! Whatever it is that brought you to our blog today, we hope you'll take some time to HOP along with us and see some great Canadian talent! We have so many stops along the way, that we've divided the hop into two parts. This is your first stop for this part of the hop, when you're done we hope you'll find some time to hop over and do the rest of the hop! Without getting too wordy, here's the card I made for you today: I've used a soon-to-be-released-as-rubber stamp from Graphicat Designs , a brand new Canadian stamp company located here in Williams Lake, BC! I'm proud to be part of their design team and to c

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