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A few new cards

I have been getting so many images in the mail from the SCS wish and express image swap, that I finally was able to color them up and put together some cards. Since I've been busy with that I have not got to do Christmas cards in a few weeks but, I hope to get back to them this week. Some of these cards are based on sketches, some are just me throwing them together. The "thinking of You" card is a cute duck that I colored with Prismacolor pencils and gamsol. It is the first image I have colored with this technique. I think it came out pretty good, but want to practice some more on other images.

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Dirty Little Secret- Shhhhhh!

I recently told a dirty little secret over at the Stampingbella blog.
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If you see this and would like to help me out, please visit stampingbella and throw me a vote.
Here is my secret:


My secret may not seem like much to some of you, but if my kids or friends ever found out, I'd never here the end of it!
here is my secret:
Gena Says:
July 24th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Ok, so I am a huge rock person, love Led Zeppelin, black Sabbath, Metallica, etc……Was never really into pop music or dance music and I could not believe it but I balled my eyes out when Michael jackson died. I’ve never really liked his music or cared for him all that much, but cried so much when he died and then again watching the memorial. I even have a secret playlist on my Ipod with all his songs now….. Go figure!

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Fishes Come True

Okay, so I tried something very different for this Christmas card. The colors are not traditional by any means. Golden rod, purple and green. Anyway I tried to follow the challenge that Sparkle gave us this week.

"This week is going to be a double challenge. The first part is the sketch. The second part is to use 1 colored cardstock (I don't count your image if it's on white), 2 stamps, 2 embellishments, and 5 pieces of paper. "

I think I did it, with actually 3 embellishments instead of 2. Not sure if you can consider the corner a piece of paper or not, but I call it an embellishment. And I had to move things around a bit in order to make it fit. You can't see it in the the photo but I even added some glossy accents to the cats eyes to make them POP.

A few new stamps

Got a few new stamps/images this week so finally got some tie to just play!
First Showerbuggs, we've had so much rain here lately that I thought this stamp would be appropriate.
I did not put a sentiment on it yet I will wait until I send it to someone.

The other is another image I just bought Gardenia Greenthumb from Stampingbella. I used some pink shimmerz on the wings.
Again no sentiments until I decide send it postal!! Enjoy!