Dare to be a Dirty Girl

Oh, it's the "Dare to be a dirty girl" week of challenges over on Splitcoaststampers. I have completed about 23 cards so far in the challenges and hope to get going on today's six cards as soon as I get this posted. Oh, getting to experience the exhilarating life of a dirty girl is quite a thrill to say the least. I was at a meeting all day Saturday when the challenges started, so Sunday after church, it was catch up time for me. I got three done on Monday before I headed down south to visit a friend for the day and night. Tuesday I was playing catch up again. But, as of this moment, I have all completed except for the 6 that were just posted today.
If you are not a member of the the fan club at Splitcoaststampers, you are missing the excitement and the opportunity to win prizes. I love getting free stuff! Don't we all??? Think about joining, and the way I have always looked at it, Splitcoaststampers offers me cyberspace to store my cards. I have probably over 10,000 cards in my gallery over there, and it is worth it to me to have them there and then I don't have to keep the actual cards I make, but can mail them or share them with others. Check out my gallery if you like by just clicking on the splitcoaststampers  picture on the sidebar.

I really liked the way this one layered collage card turned out. I used such a variety of stamps. I guess that is what I love best about no .longer being a Stampin' Up demonstrator. I can combine any stamps I want and create with NO limitations. I love Stampin' Up but it did bar limits to things. The freedom is a big part of the creativity process.

So, I've been busy over at Splitcoaststampers this week, and have neglected my blog but will be back taking part in my usual challenges next week. Happy Stampin'!!

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I love this sentiment from Our Daily Bread Designs. The challenge was to be inspired by one of the cake photos. Here's the one I selected:

I was honored again this week over at Our Daily Bread Designs for this card I entered in this challenge.
I just love this company and their wonderfully, inspired stamps that have fabulous spiritual messages that glorify God and edifies others. Thank you, ODBD for all you do to keep us stamping for the Lord.

Casing Heather of the Flourishes' Design team

Heather  Jensen, the Focused Design Team member this week, has some beautiful cards featured on the Flourishes Blog . I did this card because of the inspiration I got from seeing her pretty strawberry card. Not much can make one think of summer more  than all those wonderful fresh, red strawberries that  can be fold in the fresh produce of the grocery stores or fruit stands. Mine are colored with copic markers.

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Here is my 10 minute birthday card for the FLLCBC #2 challenge. This is probably one of the first stamps I purchased from Flourishes almost 6 years ago, and now they are celebrating their 6th Birthday. This is a basket full of cards with best wishes and congratulations for a job well done! Your stamps have helped to bring birthday wishes to many folks who have received my creations using them.Thanks, Flourishes for the quality you put in your product. Even after 6 years, your stamps always keep their classic look that never goes out of style. You truly are timeless.

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One of my favorite stamp companies is celebrating their 6th birthday. Over on their blog they are having some celebration challenges, and the first one is to use black and white. I used the set called Love and Lace.
Congratulations, Flourishes on this great celebration. My collection just seems to be getting bigger and bigger.

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I used the beautiful scripture that was on the WAW site this week. I used melon mambo cardstock for the background that I embossed, I used my spellbinder edge to make the white panels and then I stamped them with some of my Rubber Tapestry Stamps. I sponged the melon mambo ink around the edges of the verse.

Let prayer keep you by the streams of blessings!

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Outside of card

                                                       Inside of card

The Creative Bellie Challenge this week is to do a Christmas card. This gave me the opportunity to use some of my newest stamps and tools. I used my Sizzix Flip It card diecut for this card. The image is from Itty Bitty from Unity. The paper is PTI sweet blush and Basic Grey design paper.