Coffee Date with Marisa + Giveaway!

I’m up on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters blog with a coffee date with Marisa! Marisa suggested we both use the Spellbinders Just Add Cake Birthday Cardmaking kit. I’m so glad that she did because I hadn’t dived into my kit yet. I’m going to share a sneak peek of my card but you’ll need to

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Bee Happy | Lawn Fawn

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Bumblebee I was inspired by the colors +theme. My card features the following Lawn Fawn products: My card was also inspired by the current Lawn Fawnatics: My Concord & 9th color palette is: I can’t wait to see how you’re

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Unique Twilight Birthday Cards: Cupcake and Shaker Designs

Challenge: Design a Twilight themed birthday card for a female in high school This is when I say that I haven’t read the books or watched the movies. I just know it is vampires. I decided to design two cards, let’s chat about the cupcake one first: I decided to use the book cover as

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Monochromatic Card Design with Coffee Inspiration

I had an idea that I playing with in my head after I designed THIS card. I challenged myself to create a more monochromatic design with a caffeinated spin. I’m featuring: *retired I didn’t achieve full monochromatic but that’s okay. I’ve really been on a blue kick and I love how peachy corals so with

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Have a Happy Day | Lawn Fawn

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Frogs I was inspired by the colors +theme. My card features the following Lawn Fawn products from Doodlebugswa: Evidently, I’m still in my blue era. My card was also inspired by the current Lawn Fawnatics: This is always such a

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Explore the Under the Sea Collection by Waffle Flower

I’m back with another card featuring the Waffle Flower – Under the Sea collection: This turned out a bit brighter than I’m used to but it’s growing on me. The sentiment was stamped on the stamp color panel as the stenciling. I’m featuring: In case you missed my earlier projects: Here are my other two:

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Explore Hero Arts’ May Collections

Hero Arts has a couple new May Collections: I’m featuring products from the You’ve Got a Friend Collection: Today’s card features: I also snuck in a sentiment from an earlier release: I used a bunch of Hero Arts inks: The stenciling was done on ColorWheel cardstock: Affiliate links at no extra cost to you.

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Creative Shibori Card Making with Handmade Paper

Did you catch my earlier post about my Shibori Weekend with my girl? This is one of the things we worked on: My girl brought handmade cotton paper that she found at ReCreative. I dipped it into the dye vats. I couldn’t wait to use one of the panels for a card. I combined these Hero

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Shibori Weekend | Pratt Fine Arts Center

Last weekend my girl treated me to Shibori classes on Saturday + Sunday via Pratt. A big thank you to Kentaro Kojima for such a great class. The definition of Shibori: Shibori is a traditional Japanese, manual “shaped-resist” dyeing technique that involves folding, twisting, stitching, or compressing fabric to create intricate patterns. Derived from the

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Hello Duo | Waffle Flower

I’m back with a card duo featuring the Waffle Flower – Under the Sea collection: There are so many amazing new products! Let’s chat about the submarine card first: This card features: I snuck in an earlier released sentiment from: I stenciled the background with these Distress Oxides: My other card mixes: *previously released I

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Reverse Confetti November Blog Hop!

Today is the day!  It is the Reverse Confetti  November Release Blog Hop!  That means all the new release products that we’ve been sneak peekin’ are now available in the shop! You should have arrived here from Heather Hoffman’s awesome blog!  If not, you’ll want to start at the beginning of the fun which is the Reverse Confetti

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Reverse Confetti November Countdown to Confetti Day Two – Brain Freeze

It’s Day Two of the Reverse Confetti Countdown to Confetti!   You are going to be amazed at all of the new products for this month!  Please note that product links will not be active until release day/time. This month we welcome Laurel Seabrook as our ‘Fetti Friend!   Today  we’re featuring: Kitchen Love stamps + coordinating confetti cuts Sno Awesome

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Reverse Confetti November Countdown to Confetti Day One – A warm hello

It’s the start of the Reverse Confetti Countdown to Confetti!   You are going to be amazed at all of the new products for this month! Please note that product links will not be active until release day/time. This month we welcome Laurel Seabrook as our ‘Fetti Friend!   Today  we’re featuring: Christmas Cheer stamps + coordinating confetti cuts Sweet Holiday

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Pinkfresh Studio: Merry & Bright

Hello!  I’m up on the Pinkfresh Studio blog with two projects!  Here’s a sneak peek of one of them but make sure you hop over to the Pinkfresh Studio blog for a full reveal and all the details!

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The Heart Desires Store & Challenge Announcement

The winners of Challenge #17 are up on The Heart Desires blog!  There is also an announcement you’ll want to read. I did want to share a couple of my favorite The Heart Desires projects that I’ve designed: A big shout out to Tonya…I’m so grateful to have been on the team.  A big high

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Reverse Confetti November SFYTT: Thanks so berry much!

Happy November!  Today is the start of a brand new month and a brand new Reverse Confetti SFYTT! So how do you generally start a card when you have a sketch?  This time around I picked the Warm Heart 6×6 paper pad first and then the stamps.  That was a bit more difficult for me….I

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Scrapbook.com + Spellbinders Collaboration: Joy & Cheer

I’m so excited to be a part of a collaboration between Scrapbook.com + Spellbinders!  Today I’m sharing a project that uses the Spellbinders – Platinum 6 – Die Cutting and Embossing Machine and Building a Snowman Shapeabilities Die by Spellbinders.  In case you missed my earlier post, check it out HERE. I gotta tell you that I love the Spellbinders –

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Hero Arts: thank you

Hello!  Happy Saturday!  Over the years I’ve definitely warmed up to purples/lavenders.  Check out this card that is filled with Hero Arts. The papers are Floral Mix Layering.  The lighter panel has been stamped with the Large Floral Background in Light Granite.  Don’t you love the look?  The Handwritten Thank You stamp is a great

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Reverse Confetti: Hello Friend

Pumpkins, love them.  Love anything pumpkin flavored too.  I have a Fall/Halloween inspired card to share for today: The Reverse Confetti Fright Night 6×6 paper pad is filled with fabulous designs.  It is one of my favorites.  For today’s card I worked with the Halloween themed papers.  Doesn’t the bat panel look fun in the

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