Coffee Date with Marisa + Giveaway!

I’m up on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters blog with a coffee date with Marisa! Marisa suggested we both use the Spellbinders Just Add Cake Birthday Cardmaking kit. I’m so glad that she did because I hadn’t dived into my kit yet. I’m going to share a sneak peek of my card but you’ll need to

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Bee Happy | Lawn Fawn

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Bumblebee I was inspired by the colors +theme. My card features the following Lawn Fawn products: My card was also inspired by the current Lawn Fawnatics: My Concord & 9th color palette is: I can’t wait to see how you’re

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Unique Twilight Birthday Cards: Cupcake and Shaker Designs

Challenge: Design a Twilight themed birthday card for a female in high school This is when I say that I haven’t read the books or watched the movies. I just know it is vampires. I decided to design two cards, let’s chat about the cupcake one first: I decided to use the book cover as

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Monochromatic Card Design with Coffee Inspiration

I had an idea that I playing with in my head after I designed THIS card. I challenged myself to create a more monochromatic design with a caffeinated spin. I’m featuring: *retired I didn’t achieve full monochromatic but that’s okay. I’ve really been on a blue kick and I love how peachy corals so with

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Have a Happy Day | Lawn Fawn

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Frogs I was inspired by the colors +theme. My card features the following Lawn Fawn products from Doodlebugswa: Evidently, I’m still in my blue era. My card was also inspired by the current Lawn Fawnatics: This is always such a

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Explore the Under the Sea Collection by Waffle Flower

I’m back with another card featuring the Waffle Flower – Under the Sea collection: This turned out a bit brighter than I’m used to but it’s growing on me. The sentiment was stamped on the stamp color panel as the stenciling. I’m featuring: In case you missed my earlier projects: Here are my other two:

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Explore Hero Arts’ May Collections

Hero Arts has a couple new May Collections: I’m featuring products from the You’ve Got a Friend Collection: Today’s card features: I also snuck in a sentiment from an earlier release: I used a bunch of Hero Arts inks: The stenciling was done on ColorWheel cardstock: Affiliate links at no extra cost to you.

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Creative Shibori Card Making with Handmade Paper

Did you catch my earlier post about my Shibori Weekend with my girl? This is one of the things we worked on: My girl brought handmade cotton paper that she found at ReCreative. I dipped it into the dye vats. I couldn’t wait to use one of the panels for a card. I combined these Hero

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Shibori Weekend | Pratt Fine Arts Center

Last weekend my girl treated me to Shibori classes on Saturday + Sunday via Pratt. A big thank you to Kentaro Kojima for such a great class. The definition of Shibori: Shibori is a traditional Japanese, manual “shaped-resist” dyeing technique that involves folding, twisting, stitching, or compressing fabric to create intricate patterns. Derived from the

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Hello Duo | Waffle Flower

I’m back with a card duo featuring the Waffle Flower – Under the Sea collection: There are so many amazing new products! Let’s chat about the submarine card first: This card features: I snuck in an earlier released sentiment from: I stenciled the background with these Distress Oxides: My other card mixes: *previously released I

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Debut Day 1 | Evelin T Designs

Today is the start of the Debuts for the new June 2020 Release for Evelin T Designs.  You are going to LOVE all the new sets.  Today we’re featuring: Under The Sea:  Narwhal Floral Surprise Let’s start with the Under The Sea: Narwhal card: I love all things nautical so adore this sweet narwhal set. 

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June Creative Hop | Reverse Confetti

Today is the day!  The June 2020 Reverse Confetti Release is now available and we’re celebrating with a hop!  You should have arrived here from the fantastic Kay Miller’s blog.  If not, you’ll want to start at the beginning of the hop, which is the Reverse Confetti Blog. Let’s chat about the release for a

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May | June Countdown to Confetti Day Three | Reverse Confetti

It’s Day Three, the final day of the Reverse Confetti Countdown to Confetti!   You are going to be amazed at all of the new products for this month! Please note that new product links will not be active until release day/time. We’re so happy to have the following designers for our May | June ‘Fetti Friends: Anika

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May | June Countdown to Confetti Day Two | Reverse Confetti

It’s Day Two of the Reverse Confetti Countdown to Confetti!   You are going to be amazed at all of the new products for this month! Please note that new product links will not be active until release day/time. We’re so happy to have the following designers for our May | June ‘Fetti Friends: Anika Lerche Becky Roberts

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May | June Countdown to Confetti Day One | Reverse Confetti

It’s Day One of the Reverse Confetti Countdown to Confetti!   You are going to be amazed at all of the new products for this month! Please note that new product links will not be active until release day/time. We’re so happy to have the following designers for our May | June ‘Fetti Friends: Anika Lerche Becky Roberts

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Stand for Something | Inspired by Challenge – Colorful Kicks

Hello and Welcome to another new Inspired By Challenge!  There is also an optional sketch challenge: Here’s how I was inspired: Although you might not readily notice, I combined the photo inspiration with the sketch challenge.  This actually turned out quite differently from what I had originally planned. I was going to use the MFT

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Hello, dear Friend | Reverse Confetti

I’m so excited to be up on the Reverse Confetti blog with my teamie, Tricia Barber.  We’re playing along with the June Stock Your Stash Challenge:  Hello | Just Because Here’s a bit of a sneak peek of my project: Affiliate links at no extra cost to you:

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Friday with Amy | Doodlebugswa.com

Hey, Happy Friday!  Today is the final day of the 2020 Spring | Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.  I’m up on Doodlebugswa.com blog today and they are one of the 73 Super Sponsors that we have for this hop.  Here’s a sneak peek of my project: For the full reveal, check it out on the

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Coffee Capital | Inspired by Challenge – All the Details

Hello and Welcome to another new Inspired By Challenge!  There is also an optional sketch challenge: I’m also linking up to the 2020 Spring | Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop: Here’s how I was inspired, do you see how I interpreted each of the windows? I combined two different Super Sponsors from the Coffee Lovers

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