Turner Syndrome Awareness Blog Hop

Hello Blogging Friends!! Welcome to my project for the “It’s A Girl Thing” Turner Syndrome Awareness Inaugural Blog Hop!   Turner Syndrome is a genetic disorder where a female is born with only one X chromosome, instead of two, leaving her with life-long medical issues and learning disabilities. This condition occurs one in 2,500 female births worldwide, but

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Congrats, it’s your birthday | Mojo Monday

Masculine cards are tough for me, how about you?  I’m either designing cards with cute critters or coffee.  So this is as close as it gets: I work in an office with 17 employees.  We’ll be celebrating two February birthdays and I’m the official card maker.  I went through my stash and thought I might

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Best of Luck | My Favorite Things

Happy Monday!  I’m beyond grateful that I have self motivated kids.  I’ll always call them my kids, even when they’re in their 40’s, for now they are 21 + 23.  This month, the oldest, my girl, started a regular full time position with the Seattle biotech company that she was contracting with.  I literally whipped

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Love your mug duo | Craftin Desert Divas

I just received Craftin Desert Diva’s latest coffee set, Love Your Mug.  I couldn’t wait to ink it up so I ended up designing a card duo. I used the same sketch with both cards, more on that in a smidge.   My first card also features The Perfect Blend 6×6 by Your Next Stamp.  I

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January Flavor of the Month Blog Hop | Scrapping for Less

Have you been following all the fun on the Scrapping for Less blog?!  The new January Flavor of the Month Card Kit is now available and you’re going to go perky over it!   Here’s a bit about the kit from Teresa of Scrapping For Less: Let’s “Perk Up and Start the New Year” with our

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hello | Hello Bluebird

If you’re a crafter, you might know how it feels when you finish a card that makes you happy.  Not because it’s any special design but the images are just too stinkin’ cute, that’s this card: Inking up another highly neglected set, Hello Bluebird’s Pig Day.  Oh good grief, their facial expressions are killing me. 

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Love Ya A Latte | Lawn Fawn

So, I should have been organizing but I was whipping up a card.  The Lawn Fawn How You Bean set, I’ve had it (and the coordinating dies + add on shaker dies) for a while now and haven’t busted them out yet.  This organizing thing has me inking up sets that haven’t been used yet,

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Jolly Good Day! | Newton’s Nook Designs

I wanted to ink up the Newton’s Nook Designs – Newton Dreams of London.  I don’t know about you, but I love seeing all the news about the Royal Family.  Her Majesty the Queen is awesome and a Corgi Lover.  Bonus points that she keeps her holiday decor up until February 6th..I want to adopt

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Espressily for you | Your Next Stamp

Hey happy Tuesday!  I wanted to ink up some of my newest goodies from Your Next Stamp. I combined the Brew-tiful Day stamps with The Perfect Blend 6×6 paper pad.  I did buy the coordinating dies for the stamp set, they cut the interior of the mug handles (bonus!). I managed to upcycle a Starbucks

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Caffeinated Duo | The Rabbit Hole Designs

I wanted to ink up some of other The Rabbit Hole Designs stamps, check out Caffeinated Cat + Caffeinated Dino: The Caffeinated Cat has been teamed up with Your Next Stamp’s The Perfect Blend paper pad.  Isn’t that cat hilarious?!  Wait until her coffee kicks in —> Super MOM. The Caffeinated Dino, oh she’s cute

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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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