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I made two of these butterfly cards. Nothing special, I just wanted to play with a new stamp that I think is beautiful! It deserves a nicer card than this! I made two copies of this butterfly card. The patterned paper in the background was a gift from my friend Sharain a few years ago (I'm trying to make it last lol).

Loved these cards, they are really sweet! I'm making something similar with orange instead of blue because this card lends itself to all sorts of card colours. A little harder is to co-ordinate is the colour below (in this case, the green was pretty easy). I made three of this design/colour scheme:

A sneak preview of one of my cards for this Christmas. Emma is currently making a bundle of these so I'm leaving it alone for a while and making non-Christmas cards.

Three robot cards. I don't love this card but then again, I'm not a little boy!

up to card 70

Playing around making cards, not hating and not loving any of these.

65 and 66 (except not, because I'm hiding all my Christmas cards from my blog lol)

Two cards I made today. Both ideas were not my own and came from Gina K at StampTV. I love her style of cards, its very similar to my preferred style. If I vary from it I dont like the cards I make. Most of the cards I have made lately have been an attempt at new techniques. It's only when I go back to what I love (and what Gina K is fantastic at) that my cards are how I like them.

Changes from Gina's...I only used one copic marker because I didnt have the oranges or reds (I have six other sets though). And thus I added spots to the orange rather than removing colour with the copic blender pen (I did that on the right tree). Everything else was from the stamptv kit I bought and my own inks. I loved creating that fake wood panel background-its gorgeous!

Another idea from stamptv. I didn't ink my versamark resist background as much as she did, I preferred it to be more subtle and I used my own cream card stock on this one (stampin' up)...the inkpads memento.