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		<title>VSN &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Haman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[VSN is still in full swing. Here are a few more of my challenge cards. On the left is my &#8220;Fancy Nancy&#8221; card. I love those CTMH girl stamps! I paper pieced her jacket to match the pattern paper used along the bottom. I&#8217;ve done punch work on the bottom of a card before, but [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://carefreecreations.haman.us/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/kth_vsn082008_group2.jpg"><img src="http://carefreecreations.haman.us/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/kth_vsn082008_group2-300x167.jpg" alt="" title="kth_vsn082008_group2" width="300" height="167" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-67" /></a>VSN is still in full swing. Here are a few more of my challenge cards. On the left is my &#8220;Fancy Nancy&#8221; card. I love those CTMH girl stamps! I paper pieced her jacket to match the pattern paper used along the bottom. I&#8217;ve done punch work on the bottom of a card before, but never the top &#8211; I really love how that turned out.</p>
<p>The next card is &#8220;Purple&#8221;! The challenge was to use purple &#8211; even just a little bit &#8211; but I wanted the whole card to be purple. I love the SU Dots &#038; Daisies background because of how cute it looks when you color in the flowers.</p>
<p>The final card, &#8220;Find Beauty&#8221;, is for the watercolor challenge.  I&#8217;m not a big fan of watercolor crayons, but I wanted to try something different with them. I colored directly onto the rubber, spritzed with water, and stamped. The images aren&#8217;t as dark as I would prefer, but since the idea is watercolor, it works <img src='http://carefreecreations.haman.us/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<div class="kthSupplyList">Supplies:<br />
Fancy Nancy &#8211; Flower Girls (CTMH), Bits &#038; Pieces (TAC); Pretty in Pink Prints paper (SU); beads, bling, ribbon, Fiskars border punch<br />
Purple &#8211; Dots &#038; Daisies (SU), Borders &#038; Corners (PTI); ribbon, brads, scallop &#038; circle punches<br />
Find Beauty &#8211; Finding Beauty (CMTH); Close to Cocoa, Enchante (SU); scallop &#038; circle punches</div>
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		<title>Alphabet Comparison</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Haman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve owned CTMH&#8217;s Sans Alphabet for a year or two now. I love that small little alpha. When PTI came out with their own Simple Alphabet, I wondered if I needed both. I was told that the PTI font was smaller. So I splurged and bought it There are differences between the two sets that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve owned CTMH&#8217;s Sans Alphabet for a year or two now. I love that small little alpha. When <a href="http://papertreyink.com/" target="new">PTI</a> came out with their own <a href="http://papertreyink.com/stamps_simplealphabet.html" target="new">Simple Alphabet</a>, I wondered if I needed both.  I was told that the PTI font was smaller. So I splurged and bought it <img src='http://carefreecreations.haman.us/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>There are differences between the two sets that I thought I would enumerate for anyone else wondering.</p>
<p>1.  The size &#8211; PTI Simple Alpha is smaller.  I&#8217;ve attached an image below to compare. The CTMH Sans Alpha is on top, the PTI is below.  I like the size of the CTMH but many times I have wanted to squeeze something on a small tag and haven&#8217;t been able to fit it all, so the PTI set has come in handy more than once already!</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9" title="Alpha Comparison" src="http://carefreecreations.haman.us/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/alphacomparison_ctmhpti.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="109" /></p>
<p>2.  The actual blobs that the CTMH image sits on are form-fitting to the image, so you can get your letters closer.  PTI are all uniformly shaped squares, so you get a mono-spaced affect. However, I have trimmed many of my PTI letters close and have not had any problems.</p>
<p>3.  You get 2 of each letter with the CTMH set; upper case is sold separately from lower case as well as numbers. PTI gives you 1 of each letter &#8211; lower and upper &#8211; and number; however, you also receive extra letters &#8211; some as many as 3 extras.</p>
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