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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Up the Happy!

Post 2 of 2 for today…click HERE for the Reverse Confetti July SFYTT I’m up on the Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® today! Here’s a peek at my supplies and my project! Pop on over to the blog and check it out!

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Paru’s Card Making Challenges: July Guest

Hello!  I’m excited to let you know that I’m a July Guest Designer for Paru’s Card Making Challenges: This challenge is calling my name because I have a 2016 self challenge to create more birthday projects!  Check out today’s duo: I wanted to ink up some super cute Waffle Flower stamps.  I combined Willy & Friends with Bowtiful.

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Maya Road – Follow Your Bliss Card Kit – Guest Designer

Have you seen Maya Road’s new Follow Your Bliss Card Kit?! So much goodness in one kit!!! Here is the supply list: Thrilled to be guesting for Maya Road!  I have 3 cards to share with you, so let’s get started!  You all know how much I love my coffee so that’s my first project!

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Reverse Confetti: tropical congrats!

We know a couple kids that recently graduated from high school….I’m super behind in making them cards but managed to make this one: Super clean + simple…perfect for a young man in Hawaii, eh?  I couldn’t resist using the Reverse Confetti Pineapples Aplenty stamps and coordinating confetti cuts!  The Bitty Banners set is perfect for

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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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