"Tropical" Stampin' Up card from hot Arizona & scraps

Oh yes it still hot here in Arizona during monsoon season and we can't wait for it to cool down a little bit more!  Basically we plan to do as much as we can outside when it is "cooler," that is, mornings and later at night - "cooler" means under 100 degrees!  lol  When you walk your furbabies, you have to check the hotness of the sidewalks and streets too, look for shade if during the day, and walk on the grass - just sprinkled wet grass is nice for doggy paws!  So this card guts challenge with alligators fit right in with our hot tropical-like weather, and that is how I decided what other items to put on my card: 

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Right now Stampin' Up's reversible designer series paper, Tropical Escape, has a tropical theme on one side, and the various leaves were perfect to cut out and shape on my card.  Also strips of the alligator paper from the Animal Expedition papers fit right in - I love using up scraps of my paper so I don't have to throw them away!

Here are a couple closeups of my fun card:

You can get all of these Stampin' Up products from my online store: 

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fun Stampin' Blends Word Search for you

Gee I went to spend some time with my mother on the east coast, but didn't get a break from the hot, humid heat!  ugh....  I will be glad when the Arizona monsoon season is over next month.  Can't believe it has been quite a while since posting here lol.  Lately I have been getting into doing word searches and came upon a site where I could make one of my own.  So of course I had to do a Stampin' Up one!  Wanted to share my word search puzzle with you - my theme was the Stampin' blends:

The colors in the Blends come in both dark and light, so they make it easier to color with; but one new blend is the color lifter:  The Color Lifter pulls color from images you colored with Stampin' Blends markers to add highlights and dimension.  How cool is that!  Check it out in my online store:

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https://www.stampinup.com/ecweb/products/12004/stampin-blends

Here is my word search puzzle, and some pictures of the items featured in this puzzle (words to search for are at the bottom of the puzzle):

You can see more about the dual-tipped Stampin' Blends in my online store, and of course, you can purchase some for your own as well - you will love all the different things you can do with these awesome alcohol marker coloring tools!  

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BTW, if you complete this word search, it would be nice to see your solution, so feel free to share it with us!!