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Monday, April 20, 2009

New and All-time faves


Today's card was made for the monthly Dirty Dozen Alumni Challenge over on SCS. Here are the rules we were to follow:

Challenge Focus: Create a Mother's Day or Father's Day card or gift. (This could be for your Mom or Dad or a grandparent or aunt ot uncle or even just for a good friend you might want to acknowledge with a little favortism on one of these days.)

Required Element: Personal Favorites - incoporate your current FAVE (could be stamp set, technique, color combo or embellishment) and an all-time FAVE that you seem to always fall back on (stamp set or technique or color combo or embellishment) and tell us about them.

Restricted Element: No work involved. - meaning this should be for fun and not fullfill any DT requirements or promote any companies you might owe a little favor to or anything like that. YKWIM. Take some time to just stamp for joy!

My new favorite is the Octagon Nestabilities Shapes by Spellbinders. I gravitate to that shape more often. I also love the new fiskars border punches. LOVE punches!! My all-time fave, of course, is ink distressing. No surprise there. So I incorporated that technique also.

Now we were also to make sure that our card or project was not for any DT requirement. So, I used some new Stampin' UP! images and paper. So, here it is...my DDA Favorite Project.

Thanks so much for stopping by.
Have a wonderful week!
Happy Stamping!
Tosh

Supplies:

Stamps - Boho Backgrounds
Paper - Parisian Breeze Specialty (Stampin' UP!), Suede Brown Dark, Neenah Natural White (Prismatics)
Ink - Chocolate Chip, Buckaroo Blue
Accessories - Octagon and Circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Rhinestones (Kaisercraft), Kraft Taffeta Ribbon (Stampin' UP!), Border Punch (Fiskars), Butterfly Punch (Martha Stewart), Horizontal Slot Punch (Stampin' UP!), Piercing Tool, Mat Pack (Stampin' UP!), Dimensional Tape

8 comments:

  1. I just love the new octagon Nestabilities. I was unfamiliar withthem until I just saw them on this post. I can see why you like them so much. What a great card!

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  2. This is gorgeous!! I just ordered the octagon Nestibilities.....can't wait to get 'em!

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  3. Tosh - you used one of my favorite SU Set's!!! Love it!!! Gorgeous card!!! Love all the other elements you've added!!!

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  4. Gorgeous, Tosh! These must be your favorite things, because the finished product is so "you"!! Great job on the challenge!

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  5. well...I would say you hit all your favs and treated us to a beauty

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  6. Wow Tosh!! A lot of my faves on this card too! That Parisian Breeze DP is my absolute favorite. The octagon nesties are awesome!! This card is gorgeous!! Have a great day!
    Chris

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  7. Just stunning! I love your style!

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Thank you so much for stopping by! Your kind words of encouragement are so appreciated!! Happy Stamping!!