The Heart Desires Challenge #2 – Thanks Pineapple

post 2 of 2 for today…click HERE for The Neat and Tangled July Release Day Three! The participation for The Heart Desires challenge #1 was overwhelming!  WOW!  The gallery of projects is simply wonderful!  Thank you all that linked up!  We’re back with a new challenge for July! I was inspired by the sketch and

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Neat and Tangled July Release Day Three: I’m Here for You

post one of two for today…click HERE for The Heart Desires Challenge #2 Hello and Welcome to Day Three of the Neat & Tangled July Release! Today up on the Neat & Tangled blog is: Square Thoughts (stamps + coordinating Nice & Neat Dies) Falling Circles  Today I have a fun card that uses the Square Thoughts along with one

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Hero Arts July My Monthly Hero: World Wildlife Foundation

This month’s kit features a gorgeous ocean theme, with jellyfish, octopus and sea turtles, and lots of coral. Hero Arts is going to donate 10% of profits for our July 2016 MMH Kit to ocean preservation through the World Wildlife Foundation.  You should have arrived here from the fabulous Yana’s blog!  If not, you’ll want

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Neat and Tangled July Release Day Two: Mermazing!

post 2 of 2 for today…click here for the Right at Home July blog hop! Hello and Welcome to Day Two of the Neat & Tangled July Release! Today up on the Neat & Tangled blog is: Mermazing (stamps + coordinating Nice and Neat Dies) Making Waves Nice and Neat Dies Kitty’s Favorite Things (stamps + coordinating Nice and Neat Dies)

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Right at Home July Release Blog Hop!

post one of two…click HERE for the Neat & Tangled July Release Day Two. Hello and Welcome to the Right at Home July Release blog hop!  You should have arrived here from my newest teamie, Laurie Willison!!  If not, you’ll want to start at the beginning of the fun which is the Right at Home

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The Heart Desires – Hope anchors the soul

post 2 of 2 for today..click HERE for the Neat & Tangled July Release – Day One I’m up on The Heart Desires blog with a card using these products that are available in the shop: Pop on over to The Heart Desires blog to check it out!

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Neat and Tangled July Release Day One: Hello You

Hello and Welcome to Day One of the Neat & Tangled July Release! Today up on the Neat & Tangled blog is: Hello You Succulent Journal Card (stamps + coordinating Nice & Neat Dies) I have a packaging project that uses the Hello You stamp set: This little set is chock full of fun!  The possibilites are endless!  Love

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Happy Birthday Toni!

There’s a group of us that do Birthday Hops…today we’re celebrating Toni!   You should have arrived here from Kate’s blog!  Thanks to our Hop Hostess, Lenae!  If you get lost along the way, the full hop listing is on Lenae’s blog. I’m so lucky to have a group of crafty girls that I see on

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but first, coffee

Hello and Happy Saturday!  I’m looking forward to the long weekend, and have tons of Design Team work to do!  But first, a coffee card: I’m such a fan of premade card bases…I buy them all the time.  The one I used in for today’s card is from Impress.  It doesn’t look like they have

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Reverse Confetti July SFYTT: happy birthday bears!

post 1 of 2 for today..click HERE for Up The Happy! Happy July!  Today is the start of the Reverse Confetti July SFYTT!  Here’s a peek at my card: Check out the fun sketch: I haven’t inked up the adorable Bear Hugs set in a while so I combined them with Beautiful Banners and Edge

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July Release Teaser – Day Four | Clearly Besotted

I’m so excited to be helping out Clearly Besotted with their July Release.  This is Day 3 of the sneak peeks.  The new release will be available at Clearly Besotted tomorrow!  You’re not going to want to miss it, there is so much goodness! I’m featuring the following sets today: Pop Up Plushies   |   Pop

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July Release Teaser – Day Three | Clearly Besotted

It’s Day Two of the Clearly Besotted July Sneak Peeks.  I’m honored to be guesting and I’m having so much fun inking up all of these CUTE sets.  Today I’m featuring the very fabulous Birds of a Feather set: These guys are adorable, aren’t they?  I love the different sentiments that are included too! There

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July Release Teaser – Day Two | Clearly Besotted

I am guesting for the very awesome Clearly Besotted!  I’m super honored to be designing alongside their terrific team.  Sneak peeks start today and run through July 1st when the July Release will be available! Today I’m featuring the super cute Mischievous Mole set: Gah, aren’t those guys just too cute?!  Their goggles, they kill me. 

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Brighter Days | Trinity Stamps

Did you hear?  Trinity Stamps is celebrating their first Anniversary!  I couldn’t be happier for Taniesa and her team.  So exciting!   Check out their new Oracle Octopus set. How cute is that Octo?  I literally held my breath when I used that circle die for the shaker feature.  Of course I had already colored the

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keep smiling | reverse confetti

So it seems our pacific northwest weather has gone back to normal.  It hasn’t been as warm as it had been a couple weeks ago.  I decided to bring the sunshine to my blog with the Reverse Confetti Ice Cream Social set. This is such an adorable set.  Who doesn’t love an ice cream truck?

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Squeeze the Day | theletterlingo

I love this Citrus Crush stamp set by theletterlingo.  It’s so much fun and I’ve been on a citrus kick! So my original card had another pink lemon on it but as I was photo editing I came up with paper piecing the lemon to coordinate with the rainbow base panel.  I don’t paper piece

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Sending Smiles | Graciellie Design

I’ve been wanting to print up the Graciellie Design – Happiness digital set: Pop over to her shop, that set is currently on SALE!  It’s such a fun one, love that mason jar and the sweet sentiments. Did you see what I did? I designed the background panels to look like watermelon.  The pattern strip

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Pugs and Hugs | Funky Fossil Designs

Did you know that Funky Fossil Designs has started carrying stamps in addition to their stencils + MDF shapes?  I couldn’t resist picking up the Pugs and Hugs set! I’m super loving the size of the images!  Originally I was only going to share 2 of my cards, I don’t want to overwhelm you with

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Mahalo | Reverse Confetti

I’m up on the Reverse Confetti blog today sharing a project I made especially for today!  Here’s a bit of a sneak peek: Affiliate links at no extra cost to you:

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Merci | Impress + A Muse

I’m on a citrus kick, I spotted the Lemons stamp from Impress and wanted to color it up:  I decided to stamp up a plaid with their Thin Stripe Lines stamp.  Although I have the Sweet and Sour sentiment, it wasn’t hitting me with the design I had in mind.  I stepped away from the

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