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Most cards that are made using Stampin’ Up! products include multiple layers of papers and/or card stock, artfully arranged with stamped images and embellishments to create a true work of art!  (Hey, I need to start doing more of that!!)

For one swap to take place at this year’s Stampin’ Up! convention, we were challenged to make a card with NO LAYERS!  But it was still supposed to be a work of art!  Well, we could use one embellishment, so that helped. 

This is the card I made for the swap. I used Very Vanilla card stock for the basic card, and stamped using Pumpkin Pie and Tempting Turquoise inks.  The stamp set that includes the fish, the boat and "Life’s A Breeze" is called, appropriately, "Life’s A Breeze"!  The turquoise fishies were stamped using the wheel, "Something Fishy." 

The tricky part was using a punch to make "portholes" in the front of the card through which you can see the 3 goldfish swimming happily among the turquoise fishies.  I’ve detailed how I made the portholes in one of my technique pages, "Yes, I Do Windows." 

I added some Pumpkin Pie and Tempting Turquoise 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon, and, Voila!  I met the challenge. 

You can make this card–and lots of other fun items–using the Life’s A Breeze Stamp Set.  It will be on the dormant list for the coming catalog, which means it will still be available, at least until January 2009.  Call or e-mail me if you’d like to order any of these materials–or, better still, if you’d like me to host a class or workshop for you and your friends!  My phone number and e-mail address are in the banner at the top of the page.

My first posts on my new blog will focus on scrapbook pages that I have made for our grandchildren.  Morgan has not yet been to visit us on the Big Island of Hawaii–and given her rapidly growing brood of siblings, may not be visiting for awhile.  Dear child would love to visit; however, her mother would probably lose her sanity quickly with three under the age of six traveling across the continent from east coast to west, Atlantic to Pacific (yes, really), then across the Pacific to Hawaii.  Can you say, "straight jacket"?  That would be for the mother, not the children.

Morgan, second oldest of our grandchildren, loves to SHOW OFF!  I have been learning from another Stampin’ Up! demonstrator how to use all those wonderful Stampin’ Up! punches that hang on my wall.  Now I’m ready to display some of my own creations.  And, by the way, I’d love to teach you how to use these punches to make pictures!  Once my blog is up and running completely, it will be easy to contact me to ask for a complimentary "how to" lesson.