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My new favorite card

I tend to make my cards in sets of 10, with the intent to give them away as gifts (or sometimes sell them). Because I am thinking in bulk, and thinking that someone else is actually going to mail them, you will rarely see complicated embellishments or layers and layers of sticky-outy things. Most of my cards have rather clean lines without a lot of foo-foo, and that's okay with me. I'm not a very foo-foo girl.

This is my new favorite card, made with my very most favorite set from PTI, Out On a Limb. If you haven't seen it, it is a branch that can be layered with flowers, leaves or berries, and the sentiments are just divine. It is so versatile, and I always seem to have it out on my table. I do love these colors together, and even though the card is so simple, it works. I had some strips and scraps of paper already cut for some other layouts, and I was just playing and came up with it.

Paper: PTI white, Pure Poppy, Dark Chocolate
Ink: SU Chocolate Chip, Real Red, PTI Fresh Snow
Stamps: PTI Out On a Limb, Women of Life
Ribbon: PTI Spring Rain twill

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  1. TabithaJanuary 28, 2009 at 4:47 PM

    I really like your no "foo-foo" card as you call it!

    Love the colors and the use of the sentiment from Women of Life!

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