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Throwback Thursday Day 4 Card

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Happy Thursday crafty friends,
Around the internet and on many social media sites, Thursday is known as throw back Thursday. A day in which you share photos, and other “things” from your past. So I have decided to start sharing projects that feature Stamps and or other products that are retired, no longer manufactured or have been around for quite some time. I will also share from time to time, pictures of past projects, etc.  So here is my first nod to Throwback Thursday.




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Here’s a look at my card. It is a mix of some fun new products as well as some retired stamps from Close To My Heart. The finished size of the card is 5 x 6.5 and in Kraft Cardstock. I then cut a black cardstock and white cardstock  mat and then one from the Chalk It Up Paper Pack. I used my lagoon ink from the Adventure Ink Pad to ink around the edges of the patterned paper mat.  I then cut a smaller black mat and then a white one.

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Closeup of the cute ribbon with some ribbon I had in my stash. I used a little star from the Chalk It Up Stickers set.

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Here you can see that I used a stamp from the retired School Is Here stamp set from CTMH.

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Here’s a closer look at the schoolhouse. This too is a retired stamp from the School Fun stamp set. I stamped it with my slate ink pad and then began coloring it with my Touch Twin Markers. I used a combination of the Carmine Marker and the Cherry Pink Marker. I then used the Mahogany Marker to color the doors. I then used the Golden Yellow Marker and the Marigold Marker  colored in the bell. For the bushes I used the Leaf Green Marker.

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Here’s a closer look at the clouds from the Lifting Spirits stamp set. I stamped them with my Lagoon Ink Pad and then lightly colored them in with my watercolor pencils and my blending pen. I also lightly colored the background with the same watercolor pencil.  You can’t really tell but I stamped the schoolhouse on a separate piece of paper and then cut it out and added it to the background mat. After that, I did stamp the sentiment from the same retired School Is Here stamp set.

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products used-375
Products Used For This Project

chalk it up paper pack-200
chalk it up stickers-200
chalk it up complements-200

lifting spirits-200
adventure ink pad-200
lagoon-200

black-200
slate-200

watercolor pencils-200
leaf green-200
carmine-200
cherry pink-200

marigold-200
golden yellow-200
mahogany-200

blending pen-200
ezdots-200
EZ Dots Runner
foam tape-200


Retired Stamps
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School Is Here Stamp Set
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School Fun Stamp Set


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FREE Stamp Set With A qualifying $30 Stamp set purchase.

Well that about covers it for today my friends. As always, thank you so much for sharing your crafty time with me. I am looking forward to sharing another fun project with you tomorrow so be sure to stop back by! Until then, 


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