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You know I am all over today’s color challenge on SCS! Chocolate Chip, Blue Bayou and Sahara Sand. If it has Chocolate chip in it, I know I will like it!

My card base is a 5 1/2″ x 6″ piece of chocolate chip cardstock scored at 3″. 

The next layer is a 2 3/4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of Sahara Sand. On the bottom is a 2 1/4″ x 2 3/4″ piece of Blue Bayou Prints Designer paper.

Next I used my Argyle stamp from All in a Row  with Chocolate Chip ink to add the faux stitching. I wrapped Chocolate Taffeta Ribbon around it and taped it to my card base.

I stamped the big flower stamp from the level 2 hostess set In the Spotlight on whisper white cardstock and punched it out with the scallop circle punch. The thank you from that set was stamped in chocolate chip and punched out with the 3/4″ circle punch.

I added a Jumbo brass eyelet in the center of my punched out flower image and taped it down with dimensionals. I added a dimensional to the thank you as well, added a brass brad and taped it slightly under the flower image.

For the greeting I stamped the Thank you from Fundamental Phrases in Chocolate chip on Whisper White and punched it out with the Window Word punch. I layered it on 1/2″ wide piece of chocolate chip and rounded the corner freehand. I taped it on and added another Brass brad to finish it off!

Later added:

I needed some thank you cards to send out, but didn’t want to send girls such a “manly” card. Here is the same card more girly. I used Certainly Celery instead of Sahara Sand and Rose Red instead of Blue Bayou. Off I go to mass produce. Hugs and smiles!

I am close to 500,000 hits. Simply incredible. Thank you all for making me feel so special. To celebrate this milestone, I cleaned out my closed.

The winner of this raffle will get all the retired Stampin’ Up! designer paper that I could fit in a flat rate envelope box. Some of the papers are Treehouse, Playhouse, Notations, Spring Shower, Spring Flower, Four Seasons, Weathered, Relics, Recollections….

If you are a paper lover like me, you might like these Freebies.

To enter this raffle, please post a comment on this thread, telling me what your favorite Patterned Paper is.

Please only one post per person.

For me that’s hard to say with the new gorgeous paper Stampin’ Up! released. I really like Outlaw, Brocade Background, Fall Flowers, Linen Prints and Cutie Pie paper. I am sure that as soon as I play with the others though, they will be right there in that list.

I will close the raffle Thursday at noon CST and pick the winner with Random.org.

Here is the picture I promised of Mary Brown’s second notebook she sent me. I love how she altered it! Mary simply rocks!