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	<title>The Observation Car</title>
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	<description>Jackie's observations on trends in papercrafting.</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>2011 calendar</title>
		<link>http://stampexpressstore.com/blog/2010/09/2011-calendar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>crftyjh</dc:creator>
		
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Since I have a class scheduled in September for a wall calendar, I started to make my sample.  Lo and behold!  Karen Foster doesn&#8217;t have the 12&#8243;x12&#8243; calendars anymore!  Another company has 9&#8243;x9&#8243;, but that isn&#8217;t a good size to use in your scrapbook at year&#8217;s end.  So, Ken developed a terrific 8&#8243;x8&#8243; wall calendar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Right Angle Punching</title>
		<link>http://stampexpressstore.com/blog/2010/08/right-angle-punching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>crftyjh</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Core'dinations cardstock]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lace Embellishments]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Right Angle Punching]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Corner Punches]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hero Arts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I watched a tutorial on Becca Feeken&#8217;s blog, amazingpapergrace.com, I got all inspired to try this technique with a corner punch.  Of course, I can&#8217;t follow directions very well, so I had Ken figure it out for me.  If you don&#8217;t know, Ken is my soulmate and husband.  He is also a lot more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zentangle</title>
		<link>http://stampexpressstore.com/blog/2010/08/zentangle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>crftyjh</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Black &amp; White Cards]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Butterflies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Copic Marker]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Zentangle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We all need to reduce the stress in our lives.  This art form is an ideal way to work on that, plus it lowers your blood pressure! (so I am told)  The repetitiveness of the doodling is the &#8220;zen&#8221; in the process, while the lines and doodles are the tangles.  Try it and I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Apple a Day!</title>
		<link>http://stampexpressstore.com/blog/2010/08/an-apple-a-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>crftyjh</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Apples]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[House Mouse]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Add new tag]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Copic Markers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Core'dinations Paper]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Scor-Pal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These stamps will be the &#8220;apple of your eye&#8221; for September cards and scrapbook pages.  The House Mouse of the month this time is really &#8220;a-peeling&#8221;, especially if you like coloring  and blending with the Copic markers.  Below are 2 samples of the same stamp.  We mounted one on a big apple and put the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ugly Button Contest</title>
		<link>http://stampexpressstore.com/blog/2010/07/ugly-button-contest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>crftyjh</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago, we gave out bags of our ugliest, most non-descript. awful buttons.  The participants were to use at least 2 on a card or tag and then submit them to be judged.  Our judges were owners and employees of other artsy type stores at our market.  Below are their 3 favorites.  Each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Look of Quilting</title>
		<link>http://stampexpressstore.com/blog/2010/07/the-look-of-quilting/</link>
		<comments>http://stampexpressstore.com/blog/2010/07/the-look-of-quilting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>crftyjh</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Faux Quilting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hero Arts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Magenta]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nestabilities]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Outlines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to make a card that looked like a quilt, but I didn&#8217;t want to really sew.  I noticed on several blogs that people were actually stitching on paper.  Since I gave my sewing machine to my daughter-in-law, I figured that I would never sew again.  I got one of those little cheapy jobs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Demos</title>
		<link>http://stampexpressstore.com/blog/2010/06/free-demos/</link>
		<comments>http://stampexpressstore.com/blog/2010/06/free-demos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>crftyjh</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Free Demo]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Copic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Core'dinations cardstock]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Embossing Folders]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Just Rite Stamps]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nestabilities]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Prismacolor Pencils]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sixxiz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the Stamp Express birthday celebration on Saturday, June 26, I will be doing 4 demos of various techniques for cards.  Below are two of the planned ideas.  They were cased from Gina K on her Stamp TV site.  The first is my version of cropped circles.  Use layered die cuts from circle Nesties and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick and Easy</title>
		<link>http://stampexpressstore.com/blog/2010/06/quick-and-easy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>crftyjh</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Easy Cards]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Copic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hero Arts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nestabilities]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So many cards, so little time.  If you have needed to make a multitude of cards recently, you know there just isn&#8217;t time to spend an hour on each creation.  Here are two uncomplicated cards I made for Father&#8217;s Day and our son and daughter-in-law&#8217;s anniversary.  The Dad&#8217;s Day card is simply strips of designer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musical Mice</title>
		<link>http://stampexpressstore.com/blog/2010/05/musical-mice/</link>
		<comments>http://stampexpressstore.com/blog/2010/05/musical-mice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 00:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>crftyjh</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Amanda is the House Mouse of the month for June.  Everyone in the Mouseketeer class loved these samples of cards using a varity of techniques.  First we used the Cuttlebug embossing folder to make a music background on ColorCore cardstock which was sanded to show the design.  The vintage music layer was sprayed with GlimmerMist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh my, butterflies!</title>
		<link>http://stampexpressstore.com/blog/2010/05/oh-my-butterflies/</link>
		<comments>http://stampexpressstore.com/blog/2010/05/oh-my-butterflies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 02:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>crftyjh</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Butterflies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[border punches]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mini books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nestabilities]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Teabag Folding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Right now butterflies are very popular.  Stickers, stamps, digis, die cuts, and papers are fluttering around at high speed.  Below are the winners in the Stamp Express butterfly challenge.  The Grand prize was awarded to Brenda Trimmer for her unusual butterfly shaped book. It features quotes about butterflies on one page with pictures and scientific [...]]]></description>
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