No Coffee – No Talkee

My little tag took a lot longer than it should have.  I’ve been battling a good (meaning bad) cold.  I’m guessing it was from traveling, I tend to get sick after commercial flights.  I’ve been averaging close to 18 hours of sleep a day….crazy, eh?  Especially for those of you that know that I generally

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Happy Birthday Kate: You Deserve to be Celebrated!

I consider myself super fortunate to be part of an awesome crafty group.  We try to get together monthly and we love to celebrate birthdays!  Today we are celebrating Kate!  This girl ROCKS the paper goodness, have you seen her work?!  It is consistently BEAUTIFUL.   You should have arrived here from the happy hostess,

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The Heart Desires Challenge #9: Hello Sunshine

Thanks to everyone that joined us for Challenge #8!  The gallery is full of beautiful projects!  We’re unveiling Challenge #9 today: Challenges will run from the first Wednesday to the last day of each month. Enter up to 3 times and combine with no more than 5 challenges, including ours. Include the inspiration pic as

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Reverse Confetti February SFYTT: xoxo

Happy February!  If you’ve been following me for any amount of time you know how much I adore green.  So with this month’s Reverse Confetti SFYTT I decided to use green as the dominant color palette for my card design.  I’m a big fan of using non-traditional colors for ‘holidays’. The All Heart Cover Panel

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Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® : Celebrations

I’m up on the Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® blog today!  I’m so excited to share a couple projects using Gilding Flakes.  Here’s a peek at my supplies: Pop on over to the Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® blog to check out the full reveal!

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Guest Designer: a2zscrapbooking monthly challenge

I’m so excited to be guesting for a2zscrapbooking today!  If you’ve been following me for awhile, you know that I’m continuing to build up my 2017 Holiday card collection so I decided to whip up another one: The Hero Arts Origami Happy Holidays set was what I decided to feature.  So many fun images to

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Coffee & Friends

I finally had time to play with my Simon Says Stamp – Coffee, Tea & Cocoa February (Sold Out) kit.  It literally had my name written all over it but it arrived when I was at CHA.  Those Doodlebug Shape Sprinkles are soooooo CUTE.  I want to hoard them but forced myself to use them.

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Friends keep your Heart Warm.

Happy Chinese New Year!  I wanted to design a card to celebrate the New Year but what I was thinking wasn’t working so here’s what I have instead!   I’m playing along with both the MFT Color Challenge: …and the Sketch Challenge: I combined the MFT LLD Hug in a Mug stamp set along with

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Hero Arts: Enjoy your day!

So, I’m still trying to get back into the groove of things after my whirlwind trip to Phoenix for the Winter CHA/Creativation Show.  I was super honored to be representing Hero Arts and Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L! More on the show in a smidge, let’s get to my project that I’m sharing today, here are

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Sending Warm Thoughts | Catherine Pooler

The Catherine Pooler – Stay Cozy Collection is now available in the shop! I decided to shake things up a bit today: My card features: *previously released I decided to make a bit of a shaker design with the gorgeous Whistler sequin mix. I stamped the Brrr! background in Aquatini onto a panel that I

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Sweater Weather | Simon Says Stamp

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Candy For today’s card was inspired by the sketch and colors. I’m featuring the following product: This new set was sitting on my desk and I couldn’t wait to ink it up. The Concord & 9th cardstocks I used: The

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Stay Cozy set | Catherine Pooler Release Day

The Catherine Pooler – Stay Cozy Collection is now available in the shop! I decided to put together a card set featuring some of the new products: My cards features: *previously released I started with a basic design and progressively added more. Let’s chat about the Winter Greetings card: A pretty basic design, really letting

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Sip Sip Hooray | Catherine Pooler

Coming soon Catherine Pooler – Stay Cozy Collection! Save the date, Wednesday, October 21 is the day it is available in the shop. Check out today’s card: My card features: *previously released The Catherine Pooler inks I used: Do you spy the smidge of glitter on the whip? The sentiment was stamped in Aquatini. The

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Mushroom Bouquet | Brass & Bliss Craft Co

Hello, I’m back with a card duo that I designed for my Mom. My daughter gave her two bags of matsutake – japanese mushrooms that she received from a coworker. I knew that I had to whip up some card using the following Brass & Bliss Craft Co products: This is the first one that

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Hey Pumpkin | Inspired by Challenge

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Pumpkins For today’s card was inspired by the theme. I combined the following products: Keeping things real, I actually started with a design that was based on pumpkins and the color palette. I started pulling things from my stash and

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Merry & Bright | Simon Says Stamp

Have you checked out Simon Says Stamp’s NEW SENDING CHEER Release?! There are so many amazing products! I’m back with another card featuring the fabulous: I also added these Simon Says Stamp products: I also used Spellbinders ColorWheel Cardstock: My overall design was inspired by the Freshly Made Sketches that expires in less than 2

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Fancy Scandi | My Pretty Things Blog Hop

My Pretty Things is celebrating the magic of the holiday season by sharing handmade papercrafts created with joy and love. From thoughtful cards to festive tags, each creation is a little reminder that the most meaningful gifts come straight from the heart. So cozy up with a cup of hot tea, hop along with us for

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A Note of Thanks | Brass & Bliss Craft Co

Hello and Happy Saturday! I’m excited to be up on the Brass & Bliss Craft Co blog. Check it out HERE for more pics and a tutorial. It’s a bit of a sneak peek for a new release that is dropping next week! These are the Brass & Bliss Craft Co products I’m featuring today:

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