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…went to a Party! In fact, all 5 little piggies went to the party! Today’s Clean & Simple (CAS420) Challenge asks up to use some string or an image w/ a string. Every little piggy has a balloon w/ a string, so there you go.

My easy card is pretty self explanatory 🙂 Party Hat Pig was die cut w/ an oval & all his little piggy friends were stamped, masking as I went & their balloons are from a little balloon punch. The balloons were punched out of white & I colored them & drew the little strings w/ a fine black pen. I will mention a little trick I use when I need more than one mask of an image. Stamp the image several (or more) times onto your thin paper. Hold them up to the light to line them up, then cut them out all at once. When they’re stacked like this, you only have to cut one to have multiple masks. I also save them in a baggy for future use.

Here are the Copics I used. Whoda thunk it took so many?

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Supplies:

Party Pig 354G	Leonard Pig 718D	1 line Happy Birthday 250B	Memento Inks
Staples 110# White Card Stock	Recollections Cardstock	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132
Copic Sketch Markers	Spellbinders Lg. Petite Ovals S4-138	Spellbinders Sm. Petite Ovals dies S4-140	MISTI
Balloon Punch sm.

Today’s Free For All (F4A363) Challenge asks us to make a Valentine. My Valentine  greeting & Love Maze images are wonderful all by themselves…but I couldn’t resist putting a pink pig into the mix. Especially when it’s Cupig! I colored him a little more pinky so his colors wouldn’t clash w/ the very pinky reds I’d already used to color the other images. I’ll admit…there was a lot of fussy cutting going on here, but I really liked having a black bg & it was the only way to have the lighter images show up. 
After I die cut the black panel, I added all the fussy cut images. It’s a toss up which was harder..the teeny tiny arrow or the teeny tiny hearts. The inside of the O was tough, too. Inside curves are always hard but a little trick I figured out. If you’re going to attach it to black, just use a black marker around the inside (& outside edges) to cover any white that’s showing & it will disguise any imperfections in the cutting. By the way..there is a way thru the Love maze. I found it pretty easily but when I drew it w/ a red pen, it wasn’t very visible so I colored everything below the line. There may even be more than one way, but this is mine.

Here’s a look at the inside & below it are the Copics I used.

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Supplies:

Amazing Love Puzzle 1130L	Small Hanging Hearts 905A	Amazing Valentine’s Day 002D	Cupig 607G
Valentine’s Full of Love 273F	Sm Silhouette Heart 666A	Memento Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock
Recollections Cardstock	Gina Marie Up/Down In/Out rectangles	Copic Sketch Markers	MISTI	MFT Stitched Arch dies

 
Today’s Clean & Simple Challenge (CAS385) on Splitcoast is Hit the Beach! I’m also borrowing an idea I used last week (polaroid frame) which happens to coincide w/ last week’s tutorial, Stamped Selfies. So…I have these cute pigs on vacay taking a selfie. 

I die cut my “polaroid” frame, then cut a larger square out of white to go behind the frame. I figured by having the square already cut, I wouldn’t have to mask the frame. The vacationing pigs were stamped & I did mask them…but here’s a little tip..I’ve used these pigs before so I already had masks for them. When I cut a mask, I usually stamp the image a few times, line them up stacked on top of each other & cut them all at once. Then I save the masks in a little baggie w/ the images, so I can pull them out & use them when needed. Saves a lot of time in the long run. After masking them, I stamped the flamingo scene behind them & colored everything. The little glasses were die cut & I colored the white lenses w/ Copics to look like sunglasses.

Here are the Copics I used and below it is the inside.

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I’m also adding this to the Simon Says Monday Challenge – Flora &/or Fauna

Supplies:

Flamingo Scene 878L	Summer Story 881C	Hula Pig 879E	Sending You a Smile 289D	Leonard Pig 718D
Staples 110# white card stock	MISTI	Memento Inks	Recollections Cardstock	X-Press It Blending Card
TE Eyeglasses die	Stitched Rectangles Die Set	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132	Spellbinders Squares Lg S4-126	Poppystamps Greeting Tag 1164 dies
Copic Sketch Markers	Baker’s Twine