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Hello, crafting friends. Liz is here again with a new challenge this week. 

I found that gold was discovered in California on Jan. 24, 1848, so let's see some gold used on your creations this week. Glittery gold paper, gold chrome cardstock, or gold embossing and any other possibilities you can think to create, we would love seeing on your creation

i almost need to name this card "Too much gold to behold."  All of this metallic stuff does not photograph too well with my near midnight lighting. This is the best shot that I got. I used  a lot of my fancy gold papers from my stash, and embossing the sentiment in gold as well. My mom is going to be celebrating her 90th birthday in February so she has reached those "golden" years I suppose. 

 This card is making use of one of my stamping resolutions for this year: deplete the stash, use old stamps, and make use of the tools I have. 

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Well.....Happy Birthday to Joanne!!!!!!  In honor of her special day, this week's challenge is to make a feminine birthday card with flowers.  To celebrate the day with her,  she requests that we do a random act of kindness.  Call a friend who might need cheer, pay for someone's coffee, give a hug, .....try to make a difference.

You can join in on the fun by playing along and linking it over on the CCEEstampers Blog
HERE. While you are there check out all the floral birthday wishes all the others on the team have shared. 

For my card, I used a stamp set from Power Poppy. I fussy cut the roses and the cup of roses and then popped up the cup of roses. I used a Martha Stewart border punch and a Spellbinder tag die. 

Happy Birthday, sweet Joanne!

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I have done this card for the Unity Stamp challenge to use an Unity girl stamp, and also the 4 Crafty Chicks challenge to do a birthday card. I made use of Unity stamps, and my Distress Oxide inks on this

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Vicky is again our hostess and the challenge this week for the CCEE Stampers is to make a birthday card to add to our card stashes. I can always use a few of those around when I need them. 

I partially embossed this card front, stamped the top and middle and added punched flowers.

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It's Frances  back today with her last challenge for the month.

Who doesn't love chocolate cake! Did you know they even have a special day to celebrate this yummy treat! Chocolate Cake Day was the 27th January. Your cards this week should feature cake, bonus points if it is chocolate cake. 

We'd love to have you play along. All you have to do is create something using the above challenge, and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword CCEE1604. Don't forget to come back here and link it on Mr Linky so that everyone else can see your card too.

I decided that cupcakes would have to do as mini cakes for me!! I decided on a long card format, and using pink, brown, and lime as my color scheme. Cupcakes are always a reason to celebrate!! These stamps are some of those cute, cheap stamps that you can find at Michael's in their bargain bins. I can hardly resist any cute stamp and when it fits my budget as well as they do, I add them to the rubber stash!!

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It's been a while since I have had time to play in a few other challenges and today I chose to do the Color Throw Down challenge of using yellow, craft, and gray. I searched my paper stashes to find something with gray, not a color I use often. I found this old piece of Basic Grey dp and some yellow plaid dp and went with it. I stamped in London fog ink using an old retired Stampin' Up set for the sentiment. It doesn't show too tell, but Ileft it with that subtle look. I also used a Sizzix pie and some SU punches.