Hello there,

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This is for today's SCS Ways To Use It Challenge 206 where we were to incorporate stripes into our card.

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Ok, I know I am kinda cheating on this one and I know it is not Christmas, but I wanted everyone to see this. I am claiming my candy cane and straw as my stripes!! LOL

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I just got these incredibly cute stamps from High Hopes Stamps, and I couldn't resist inking them up!! Besides, I had a dream the other night to use them on a stair step fold card. So, of course, I had to make it.

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I colored the images with Prisma Color Pencils and Mineral Spirits. I then cut them and formed my scene. I had originally used River Rock for my beach, but thought it to dark. So, I made my beach with my pencils and mineral spirits, cut the top to make it look like a rolling sand beach, and then taped it to the River Rock. I like it better this way!!

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What do y'all think?