SugarPea Designs: May Sweet2Repeat Blog Hop!

Hello!  Hello!   It’s the Sweet2Repeat Blog Hop!  Now that so many of you have the SugarPea Designs Spring Product Release, we’re hopping to inspire you! Would you like to WIN a $20 gift certificate to spend on some SugarPea Designs of your own?  Please visit with each of our design team members and leave a comment for your chance

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Reverse Confetti: How old?

Snarky birthday card?  Yes, Please. I was chuckling as I designed this card.  More about the sentiment in a smidge.  I’ll start with the Reverse Confetti Lime Green panel.  It’s been stamped with Whole Lotta Dots in Parakeet.  The sweet scallop is Iced Aqua with the Double Edge Scallop Border Confetti Cuts. The cake from

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Hero Arts: Life

I’m so excited to be on the Hero Arts blog today!  Here’s a sneak peek of my project:  For all the details, please visit me over on the Hero Arts blog! Affiliate shopping links at no extra cost to you:

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Hero Arts Summer Release Blog Hop + Giveaway!

PLEASE note that my Hero Arts Season of Wonder Hop post can be found HERE. Hello and Welcome to the Hero Arts 2018 Summer Catalog Blog Hop!  The new products have been shipping to retailers for a few weeks now but today is the day that everything is available in the Hero Arts Online Store!  You should

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Hero Arts: Butterflies Two Ways

So this weekend, on my to-do list was to design a graduation card, that one card became two: While I was cleaning up I came across the Hero Arts DC134 Butterflies Stamp & Cut.  I thought that would be pretty to use for a female grad card and then teamed it up with DC149 Congrats

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Everyday Hero

Hello and Happy Mother’s Day.  I’ll chat more about that at the end of my post, let’s start with my project: I thought today was perfect to post a card that features the Ellen Hutson LLC – Essentials by Ellen – Leading Ladies – Everyday Hero Lady by Brandi.  She’s been stamped with Lawn Fawn

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Fancy Pants Designs: Friend

I’m so excited to be up on the Fancy Pants Designs blog sharing a couple of projects featuring the fun Poolside collection.  Here’s a sneak peek of one of my projects, you’ll want to pop over to my post to see the full reveal and get all the details. Affiliate shopping links at no extra

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Coffee Loving Cardmakers + Joy Clair Collaboration Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Collaboration and Blog Hop with Joy Clair and the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Design Teams!  We’re so happy that you’ve joined us for fun and there’s a prize too!  You should have arrived from the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog.  If not, you’ll want to start at the beginning which is the Joy Clair

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Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash : Life Happens

Have you seen the new monthly Reverse Confetti challenge, Stock Your Stash?! The new challenge is the STOCK YOUR STASH Challenge!  This is a chance to create a card to keep in your stash.  (Of course, you could send it off right away!).  Each month will bring a new theme and Reverse Confetti is kicking

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SugarPea Designs: Sending Birthday Wishes

I’m so excited to be up on the SugarPea Designs blog!  Here’s a sneak peek of my project that I’m sharing. My card was inspired by: Inspired by…All the little things Please pop over to the SugarPea Designs blog for all the details!

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Cooler than you were last year | MFT stamps

THIS made me laugh this morning.  I’m guilty of buying things and they sit…and sit…waiting for me to ink them up.  I picked up a bunch of MFT goodies during the holidays and decided to do some llama masking to design a birthday card: I did a smidge of masking on the Happy Llamadays set. 

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Love You More Preview | The Rabbit Hole Designs

I’m so excited to be part of the Love You More Previews for The Rabbit Hole Designs!  Products will be available in their store on Friday, January 18th at 4 am pacific. To celebrate Day 1 of Previews, The Rabbit Hole Designs is giving away one Love You More Stamp Set to one lucky winner. 

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Happy Birthday | Reverse Confetti

I’m changing gears from coffee to floral mode.  Check out Reverse Confetti’s Build a Bunch: I inked up all 20 images from the set and used THIS for my color inspiration.  I’m a huge fan of Rifle Paper Co designs.  I originally used a midnight panel with the Diagonal Stitches Cover Panel but thought it was

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You | SugarPea Designs

Hmmm…I promise I do design things other than caffeinated projects: I combined SugarPea Designs Mugs & Kisses with Knit Wit.  …Coffee + Knitting. I was inspired by the photo over on the SugarPea Designs January Mix It Up Challenge: I also incorporated the CAS(E) this sketch challenge: Affiliate links at no extra cost to you:

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I 💜 Winter | Lawn Fawn

So I woke up yesterday and knew that I wanted to design something for the current Lawn Fawnatics challenge.   Evidently I was pretty motivated: Before I get to the details of the card, I wanted to say that I inked up a total of: 12 Lawn Fawn Stamp Sets 2   Lawn Fawn Stand alone dies

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Coffee Break | My Favorite Things

It seems like I’m continuously trying to catch up with my purchases.  I finally had a chance to ink up the MFT BB Friends at First Sip set: Whew, this card took me FOREVER to color.  To think I was going to do a card duo…nope, not this time.   I did have fun putting together

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The Rabbit Hole Designs & Coffee Loving Cardmakers Preview for the 10th and 11th

I’m so excited that the Coffee Loving Cardmaker’s are collaborating with The Rabbit Hole Designs.  Did you catch yesterday’s previews?  Check it out HERE.   Today we’re featuring Caffeinated Octopus and Caffeinated Unicorn.  They’re available in The Rabbit Hole Designs shop now! I’m playing with the oh-so-fun Caffeinated Octopus and this is how I was inspired:

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more than coffee | Reverse Confetti

Have you seen the new monthly Reverse Confetti  challenge, Stock Your Stash?! This is a chance to create a card to keep in your stash.  (Of course, you could send it off right away!).  Each month will bring a new theme.   There will be a new Stock Your Stash challenge posted on the Reverse Confetti blog on

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Feeling Slothy | Newton’s Nook Designs

I’m using some of my holiday purchases today.  I picked up the Newton’s Nook Designs Slothy Coffee stamps + coordinating die and their new Plaid Stencil set.   You can’t readily tell but that circular piece is Hero Arts Woodgrain vellum.  Oh, it’s very cool.  I did have to back it with white cardstock so you

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