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I am playing along with the Alphabet Soup challenge in the Papercrafter's Inner Circle Facebook group.  This is U is for U... I was really struggling with what to do for 'U', so finally decided to pull out my Art Impressions font dies and cut a bunch of U's from some old Basic Grey Lauderdale papers.

I kind of love the background!  Then just decided to do something simple with the 'You' Say it with Stamps set from Photoplay.  Thinking this is a perfect nephew card.

Craft Your Stash!

I am playing along with a couple of challenges today (haven't done that in a while!).  The Craft Your Stash challenge is a just for fun group on Facebook - that asks you to use something from your stash that you've never used.  I am also playing along with the Alphabet Soup challenge on the Papercrafter's Inner Circle group, with E is for Embossing Folder!

 

I have had this Carta Bella embossing folder for many years... and once I decided on using one for my card, I dug it out and pressed it with some soft green cardstock.  I pulled out the 5835 Mini Paper Pack from Art Impressions to die cut the Happy Birthday (Lawn Fawn), and matted it with the same green over a gingham oval.  

I wanted a simple colour palette, so I added a larger pale yellow oval, and used the Floral Spray dies from Spellbinders to cut the flowers and leaves.  I darkened the smaller flowers with some Scattered Straw ink, and added a few champagne pearls as their centers.

C is for Cozy Toes

I'm playing along with the Alphabet Soup challenge on the Papercrafter's Inner Circle Facebook group today... the Feb letters are C and D.  So this is C is for Cozy Toes and Concord & 9th.

I got this sweet Concord & 9th set a few months ago.  My kids, nieces and nephews are all at the age where they and their friends are having babies, so I think this will get a lot of use.

The set comes with a bunch of sweet stamped patterns to create the sock designs, and then the dies to cut them out.  I paired them with the Art Impressions Baby Boy paper pack.

You can find the stamp/die set at The Papercrafter's Workshop!

Avocado Toast

I am playing along with the Alphabet Soup challenge on the Papercrafter's Inner Circle group on Facebook.  This is Lawn Fawn's Let's Toast set which I adore...

On Tuesday's Learning Live, Sheri was giving suggestions on how to approach the challenge, and mentioned 'Avocadoes'... and I immediately knew what set I was going to use.  I even had some of the pieces already stamped and coloured.  I finished up the remaining bits that I needed, and pulled out my Farmer's Market paper from Doodlebug.

Now the best part of this set, is that there is an add on die that creates this very wonderful little pull tab that allows the toast to pop up out of the toaster - Lawn Fawn does this so well!  

I am playing along with the Lawn Fawnatics Challenge - Lots of Heart.

 

B is for Betterpress

I am playing along with the Alphabet Soup challenge on the Papercrafter's Inner Circle Facebook group.  Each month there will be 2 or 3 letters that you can feature in a project.  For January, I am doing B is for Blue, Best Wishes and Betterpress!

This is the Every Occasion Floral B and Sentiment press plate that came out a couple of years ago.  I have pressed it in Betterpress Black ink on watercolour paper, then used Distress Ink to paint in the florals.  I added some shimmery gold paint to the tiny leaves.

I die cut my image with Art Impressions Stitched Square die, and attached it to my base with 3D foam adhesive.  Before attaching, I had added both a dark blue and a shimmery ivory square mat, and wrapped some gold metallic thread around the entire card.

The finished card is 5 1/2" square.