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At SweetStamps blog today our theme is Microbeads.  Please join us for a chance to win $20.00 in FREE stamps by entering your Microbead creation in our challenge.  If you enter using a SweetStamps stamp you will be entered twice in the drawing.

For my card I started with the EF4017 Embossing Folder from Crafts-Too and embossed the front of the white A6 card making sure the embossing was indented not raised.  I colored in the indented areas using Distress Markers (Broken China, Vintage Photo, Shabby Shutters, Spiced Marigold and Black Soot).  I used a Quickie Glue Pen on the colored areas and applied Sugar Beads to the birds and Sugar Sand to the leaves.  The sentiment is 2 separate stamps 9083 To A Wonderful and 9090 Daughter both from SweetStamps.com.  I finished the card with some silver iridescent border and corner stickers.

Sugar Sand

Sugar Beads  

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I hope you enjoyed this weeks challenge.  Please join us next week for our Patriotic or Summer challenge.

Bingo

This week's challenge at SweetStamps is a BINGO card (see below). All you need to do is pick one line on the card, either horizontally, vertically or diagonally. You can even choose an X or + pattern. 

Here is the BINGO card:

and here is my card:

I couldn't make up my mind which Bingo line I wanted to do so I ended up making it all and laying it out like a Bingo card (I thought this would make a great example of design elements for the SweetStamps Michigan retail store)  

I started with BoBunny's Gabrielle 6x6 paper pad and used the brown dotted paper

as my base.  The solid colors of paper are Coordinations card stock cut using the XM-1 Little Stackers Squares from Cheery Lynn Designs. I used the EF3006 embossing folder for the butterflies and sanded the paper to highlight the butterflies.  The Butterfly DL112, Angel Wings DL112A and Cheery Blossoms B129 are Cheery Lynn Designs die cuts.  The stamp 843 Quilt Block Circle on the vellum piece was stamped with White Dye ink and embossed with Fine Detail White EP and colored from the back with Pitt Pens.  Then cut out using a 4-Split Perforating tool and a Piercing/Perforating mat.  For the distressed piece I layered the paper to a piece of chipboard, ran it through my Distrezz-it-All then applied Papaya Shades Dye ink to it using a sponge.  After stamping the larger design from the 875 Posey Design Silhouette DUO set on the lower left corner piece using Distress Embossing ink, both the image and the edges of the piece were heat embossed with Medieval Metals Fine Detail EB.  The paper piecing was done by cutting out squares with the Little Stacker Square die, cutting them in quarters and piecing them  together on the paper.

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You can use any stamp on your challenge entry, but if you use a SweetStamps image, you will get two entries into the giveaway. To enter the challenge, please add the URL to your actual blog post or online gallery to the InLinkz at the end of this post. Please do not link to your main blog; we want to be able to find your post to leave you comments. Also, please link back to our blog.

Remember, you can only enter the challenge one time, use a SweetStamps image to get an extra entry in the challenge. Please limit the amount of challenges to 10 (including ours).  You must link back to us in your blog post.

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Stop by the SweetStamps.com blog to see all the wonderful BINGO creations from the design team and join in on the fun!

Distressed Birthday

I needed a birthday card for my son and thought I would do some distressing and came up with these two cards. They turned out just the way I pictured them before I started.  I used Tim Holtz Distress inks (Black Soot, Forest Moss, Brushed Corduroy, Bundled Sage and Pumice Stone), grunge board, Tiny Attacher, Scrollwork die and Texture Fades embossing folders.  The Birthday Greetings stamp is from SweetStamps.com.  I started by inking the folders with the Distress inks and embossing the tan and green papers.  I tore the green paper, inked the edge and layered it to the brown layer.  I cut the grunge board and applied the ink directly to it before using the Tiny Attacher to layer it to the card.  The ribbon was 3/8" cream grosgrain that I applied the inks to than used the Tiny Attacher to layer it on the card. Birthday Greetings was stamped in Forest Moss on the tan paper, torn around the edges, inked with Forest Moss ink and attached using the Tiny Attacher.