Happy Birthday Katie!

Hello!  There’s a group of us that celebrate each other’s birthday’s with a birthday blog hop!  Today we are celebrating Katie Brooks!  You should have arrived here from Kate’s blog which is the beginning of the hop! Katie and I have been friends for awhile.  We use to be walking buddies but then she changed

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Hero Arts: Sweet Birthday Wishes

Hello and Happy Hero Arts Monday—> I just thought that up! I have a sweet card to share with you that uses the Hero Arts Color Layering Ice Cream set. I did a light pink color wash on the oval panel to make the ice cream pop! Rather than do the ice cream in 2

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Two Paper Divas Guest Designer: June recap

Hello!  This is my final post as the June Guestie over at Two Paper Divas!  I’ve had such a fun time over there.  I’m going to show you my card for today plus the other previously posted ones that were up on the Two Paper Divas blog. Many of you know that we’ve been wrapping

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Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop – Final Day!

Friday, already?  I was able to post one card a day during the hop.  I wish I could have made more projects, but there just isn’t enough time in the day to get everything done!  I noticed there were several crafters that way exceeded daily postings —-> YAY! Okay, let’s get to it, eh?! I

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Right at Home: Happy Mail

Hello, I’m up on the Right at Home blog today!  I love the Happy Mail set! I used it in a clean + simple design.  The circular stamp with the layered bloom makes for a great focal point. I’m always a happy crafter when I can design a postal friendly design too.  Aren’t the colors

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Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop – Day 7

Can you believe that tomorrow is the final day for the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog hop?!  The week has flown by and I’m lovin’ the awesome gallery of inspiration! I have a pretty clean + crisp card that was inspired by my Reverse Confetti teamie, Leigh Penner.  I was inspired by her design and used

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Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop – Day 6

I’m popping in speedy quick as I should be preparing lunch.  I invited my Momma over and haven’t even started cooking it yet (thanks to Blue Apron for the help!).   Have you linked up to the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop?  Although this isn’t a blaring coffee card, I did manage to include a

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Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop – Day 5

I’m up on the Hero Arts blog today using Kelly’s Seattle set but I’m also featuring a different Seattle project using the Destination Seattle stamp, here on my blog: Even though the stamp has such modern images, I tend to go with minimal coloring and distress inking the edges.  This time I cropped the image

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Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop – Day 4

Hello!  We’re on Day 4 of the Summer Hop!  It’s been so much fun seeing all of the great projects in the inlinkz gallery!  We’re already on page 2…how many do you think the final count will be?  I’m trying to keep up with the commenting AND the linking and today I actually have 2

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June Guest: Two Paper Divas

Hello!  I’m up on the Two Paper Divas blog sharing a card that uses the following fun stamp sets: Coffee On the Go Keep Calm and Drink I was also inspired by their June Sketch challenge: My card is perfect for the Summer Coffee Lovers blog hop that is still going strong! Pop over to

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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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Happy BEE day + SALE | Reverse Confetti

Happy Sunday!  How is your weekend going?  Although I’m not in Phoenix this weekend, I’m keeping busy and have been living vicariously through all the Creativation posts on FB/IG.  I’m still working on building up my Birthday card stash and couldn’t wait to ink up the Reverse Confetti Happy Bee Day set. Although I did

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Love You More Blog Hop | The Rabbit Hole Designs

Welcome to the The Rabbit Hole Designs –  Love You More Blog Hop!  You should have arrived here from Lisa’s blog.  If not, you’ll want to start at the beginning which is The Rabbit Hole Designs blog. Giveaway:1 One winner will be chosen at random for a chance to win the complete release of Love

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