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Halloween Garden Walk

Posted by Cathy on Sep 17, 2010 in Blog Hops, Eat Cake Graphics | 2 comments

Its garden tour time again, and we would like to “treat” you to a Halloween Garden Walk. Don’t worry, just treats – no tricks! Please note: I’m off to go camping with the Girl Scouts this weekend (wish me luck) so my post is going up early. The hop officially starts at 10:00 am EST on Saturday. Take a stroll through the blogs of all the Paper Gardeners and enjoy some not-so-spooky inspiration. This month we are focusing on Halloween – mostly...

Don’t be blue color challenge…

Posted by Cathy on Apr 30, 2010 in challenges, Eat Cake Graphics | 6 comments

Well, you can be “blue”, just don’t be sad. For this month’s Fourth Friday (shhh… don’t mention its the fifth Friday) challenge…. how about a color challenge? Our challenge to you is to create a project that includes includes these three happy colors. You can add other colors if you wish – but include at lease a smidgen of each of these 3. You have till midnight (EST) of Friday May 7 to link your project. You can use the link button at the...

A crisp autumn day…

Posted by Cathy on Nov 6, 2009 in Impression Obsession, Quick Tips and Techniqies | 11 comments

A post – finally, can you believe it. Its been a very busy week! I really liked this Fall Scene Cling Stamp by Impression Obsession the first time I saw it. It just looked like a place I’d love to visit. I bet there is homemade apple pie in that farm house! For this card, I decided to create even more of a background and a foreground by stamping twice and cutting out the foreground elements. Here are my 2 pieces colored with Copic markers. (not a great pic – sorry...

A June Bug Thank You

Posted by Cathy on Jul 27, 2009 in Eat Cake Graphics | 1 comment

I wanted to play with my new Basic Grey June Bug paper pad – so I made a little thank you card. I used the Princess for a Day cling stamp set. The set has 3 images and one sentiment from Eat Cake Graphics in it. I colored it with Copics and cut the image out using the Label 1 Nestibilities dies. Its matted in a larger cut from the same die set. Since there were so many diamonds on the patterned paper, I decided to do the image like a diamond also. I inked the image with Scattered...

Are you a history buff?

Posted by Cathy on May 28, 2009 in Impression Obsession, Uncategorized | 4 comments

I love history. Not so much the “who defeated who in the battle of what” kind of history – I’m more interested in how people actually lived day-to-day. When you start to learn some of that stuff, it boggles the mind. You can’t help but have enormous respect for people living then (especially – in my humble opinion – the women). And to think I gripe about doing laundry!! So I was excited to find these Colonial Williamsburg historical stamps from...