When scarletter isn’t scarlett for a 2nd time

This is the second in the series of cards that I have made from Basic Grey papers from Scarlett’s Letter 6″ x 6″pad.  As you can see, there isn’t any scarlett in this card.  The flavor of the paper group fits well with the new Fantasy Floral Garden that we released at Flourishes,llc earlier this month. The stamp set and the papers [...]

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My Atelier at Caruso Manner has a new Address!

I have made a big move with the Atelier going to WordPress.com.   I hope you will enjoy the new added features that this will allow me to share with you.   This is a continuing learning experience so I hope you will make the move and stay with me in the Atelier…. it should be a fun  and expanding experience. 
This [...]

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Fantasy Floral Garden–More Beautiful Images

Last Friday NancyK and I had a chance to really play with our Fantasy Floral Garden set by Flourishes,llc. Nancy brought over her Zia mist inks which I had not played with before. These were great fun to play and create with…we both accomplished totally different results. We worked on [...]

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Hello world!

Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!

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Simply Peace

Hello from the Atelier,
This was easy work for such a beautiful card. I was inspired by Sharon Johnson, notimetostamp, one of our Design Team Members. I used a decorative paper called Holiday Swirl. The color matches SU Rose Red perfectly. The card base is a metallic paper called Carmel and is [...]

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OH Lookie At My Christmas Tree!

Oh my, have I had some fun! This was as much fun as doing the real thing…and I love that so much!
Creating stamps for this kind of fun has been almost uncharted territory. I wanted to give our stampers the greatest flexibility and not feel so tied to only the look of the [...]

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Than You -Simple, Elegant, Quick

I needed a really quick and easy thank you card, but I did not want to sacrifice any elegance. My mind was set to whirling and I settled on a punch from Impress, used a vellum tag and then the small two hole punch from SU!. The rest was simple. Place [...]

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Fantasy Floral Gets Water Colored!

Today is a banner ad day for Flourishes at SCS. So I hope you pop over there and see our ad. My choice to work, if you can call it that, was to Fantasy Floral again. I wanted a different look and had placed a few challenges for myself. I wanted [...]

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Fantasy Florals Sympathy

For today’s image I used the newly released Fantasy Floral Garden by Flourishes, llc. I also wanted to do the SCS challenge on limited supplies-Sympathy. This required the card to be a sympathy card and must include the use of a background stamp. The challenge further pushed the stampers as no [...]

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Peace on Vellum

This card is CASED from one of my favorites of last season on the SCS gallery. It was created in its original design by StamperSharon and featured the same papers and ribbon type I have used. She used SU’s Flourishes and I was taken by its beauty.
I thought this card required [...]

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