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  Happy Friday!  Today I am sharing with you my Fabulous Friday card for the Sisters in Stamping blog this week where we are featuring washi tape projects.  I love how easy it is to create a fun birthday card in just a few minutes with our fabulous designer washi tape!  I pulled my colors from the fun Gingham Garden designer washi tape for this quick and easy birthday card - island indigo, daffodil delight and melon mambo along with an image from the Bring on the Cake stamp set, some island indigo baker's twine and mini silver brads.  Add a little dazzling diamonds to the candles and voila... done!

  Check it out, I even added a strip of washi tape to the inside of the card to jazz it up a little.  Super-easy and so much more fun, right?!

  Karla also asked us to share with you some ideas for storing washi tape.  Since our designer washi tape comes in a coordinating pack of three designs, I clipped mine together on a binder ring and have hung it on my punch rack.

  Thanks so much for visiting with me today.  I hope you have found some inspiration and will hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog for even more washi tape ideas.  Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!  I hope you find some time to stamp and create.

Happy Fall, Y'All!!!

  Happy Friday and "Happy Fall, Y'all!" as we like to say in the South.  This week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are featuring fall-themed projects for Fabulous Friday...and here's mine:

   I love this time of year... the leaves are exploding with colors like crushed curry, cajun craze and cherry cobbler and there is a crisp freshness in the air as the warm temperatures of summer fade.  Fall is a time to sip hot apple cider and slip on a big comfy sweater while you jump in a pile of leaves.  Don't you love it?!  Last weekend my Mom, Kelsey and Brandon and I drove up to the Peaks of Otter which is along the Blue Ridge Parkway about half an hour from my house for a hike around the small lake in front of the Lodge and a picnic lunch.  The leaves had not quite begun to turn but the temperatures sure did feel like Fall. 

  The photos I took were perfect for the Fall scrapbook page I created with our My Digital Studio digital design software this week.  I used the "Day of Gratitude" brush stamp set and a color palette of crushed curry (with opacity set to 50% for the background page), cherry cobbler, cajun craze and always artichoke.  My only "embellishment" is the punch piece - I used the decorative label punch, extra large oval punch, circle punch and two brass brads.  I wanted to keep the page simple so the pictures would really stand out.. what do you think?  I'm really happy with the way it turned out!

  For more Fall-inspired projects, please be sure to hop on over to the Sisters in Stamping blog and check out what Karla and Rachel came up with this week.  Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Fabulous Photopolymer Stamps from Stampin' Up!

  Happy Friday!  I'm back!  Thanks for hanging in there with me and sorry for being away from my blog for so long.  I am still getting adjusted to working and finding time (and energy) to stamp.  On Wednesday night I found my long-lost mojo!!  I can't even tell you how good it felt to be down in my stamping studio creating my card candy swaps for my team get-together last night until 2 in the morning (yikes!).  I was exhausted all day at work yesterday but it was soooooo worth it!  Have you been away from your stamps for a while?  Please make time to sit down and stamp... it really is like therapy!!  Okay, enough about that and on to the reason for today's post - it's Friday and that means it's time to share a Fabulous Friday project for the Sisters in Stamping blog. 

  This week Rachel chose the new line of Photopolymer stamps by Stampin' Up! to feature in our projects and I chose to use the "Another Thank You" set.  I find myself making a lot of Thank You cards and absolutely LOVE this set!!  Priced at just $13.95, this set is a BARGAIN!!  I recently discovered this fun file folder card and used the new Envelope Punch Board to create it.  I created this card as the make-n-take at my team meeting last night and will share with you some of the different takes on it that some of my downline came up with at the end of this blog post.  

  My card today showcases not only the Another Thank you stamp set, but also the Magnificent Maple stamp from the Holiday catalog along with the Sweater Weather designer paper from which I pulled my color scheme of sahara sand, chocolate chip, crushed curry and tangerine tango.  I shared the thumping technique to color my leaf and finished with a knot of whisper white organza ribbon.

  So have you checked out the Photopolymer line of stamps now being offered?  You can find them all here... and the beauty of these stamps is that you can see where you're placing your image so they're perfect for sentiments!  For even more inspiration using these stamps, be sure to hop on over to the Sisters in Stamping blog to check out the Fabulous Friday projects submitted by Karla and Rachel.

  And to see some other spins on my card above, check out what Angie, Wendy and Jennifer made...

Angie Kinzie's card is rotated to open with the fold at the top so she could include the sentiment on the tab.  Love it!

Wendy Boothe's card features the sentiment in the tab of the folder - clever!

Jennifer Rawlings added texture to her stamped leaf panel along with the sentiment in the tab.  Great idea!

  As you can see, these file folder cards are a lot of fun and you can really change them up easily.  Thanks for stopping by today and have a wonderful weekend!  They're calling for more fall-like temperatures here in Virginia which makes me happy.  It's a great time to start thinking about and working on my Holiday projects.