Seeds of Joy | Doodlebugswa

I’m back with another project for Doodlebugs… My card for today features: If you’ve been following me for a bit, you know that I don’t have a green thumb. Thankfully my kids so. This is my kind of gardening. Thanks for stopping by!

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Crime Scene | Miss Ink Stamps

Any other Crime Show fans? I had to get these sets from Miss Ink Stamps – affiliate links used in this post. A big THANK YOU to my crafty friend Kari. I love her mini file folder designs and had to do my own version of it. She uses the old school Envelope Punch which

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Coolest Day Ever | chance to win!

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Poolside I was inspired by the theme + colors. My card features the following Lawn Fawn products: I also squeezed in these products: I used the following Concord & 9th cardstock: The sentiment has been heat embossed in white on

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Happy Birthday | Simon Says Stamp

I’m back with a birthday card. Did you catch my earlier Centenarian Birthday Card Request? You could be the lucky winner of a $20 Gift card: If you were following me last year, you might remember that I did a call out for Birthday cards for my former Mother-in-law’s 99th birthday. I’m doing it again

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Snowflake Soiree | Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #55

New month means a brand new challenge over on the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge! Let’s get to this month’s challenge: Here’s how I was inspired: My project features these products by The Greetery: These are the Catherine Pooler ink colors I used: *retired The Coaster and base are Bazzill – Marshmallow. My last card contains

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Seas & Greetings | My Pretty Things

Have you checked out the newest release from My Pretty Things – Life InDex?! There’s still time to comment over on instagram for a chance to win! I have the direct links to each hop stop HERE. I’m back with a new project, here’s how I was inspired: This card features: The colors were inspired

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My Pretty Things – Life InDex Release IG Hop

My Pretty Things’ Life InDex Release is now in-store, and it makes memory keeping easy with perfectly sized products for all papercrafters!! Forget those rolodex and boxes for specialized dies. MPT’s new line is sized to fit 4”x6” index cards for easy storage in pocket pages, index boxes, scrapbooking, albums, or even cards. There is

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source of super powers.

Okay, I know that I’m not the only one but I tend to hoard cute crafting supplies like the Doodlebug Designs – Cream & Sugar.  So I hope to focus on that collection whenever I can over the next several weeks.  Here’s a super clean + crisp one: Isn’t that sentiment perfect?!  It’s by STAMPlorations,

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You’re Sweet!

Pineapples, I love them and can’t get enough of them.  My friend Kimberly Wiener gifted me a bunch of the Paper Smooches Pineapple collection…how sweet is she?!!!!!  Here’s how it inspired me: Those glasses are so much fun with that adorable pineapple!  The embossing folder is from Stampin’ Up but it doesn’t look like they

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Hero Arts: Mahalo!

I’m up on the Hero Arts blog today with a fun nautical card.  I’ve been having so much fun with the new Summer Collection! Here are just a few of my favorites: Hero Arts CM165 Color Layering Sea Turtle Hero Arts DI390 Color Layering Sea Turtle Frame Cuts Hero Arts CM162 Color Layering Blue Whale

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Francophile: Bonjour!

I’m a relatively new francophile: We’re excited to plan a trip to Paris because the boy will be over there this fall for a Study Abroad program.  How lucky am I that Donna Mikasa supports my addiction by sending me some sweet goodies.  Here’s how I was inspired by them: Eep!  The My Favorite Things

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2017 Hero Arts Summer Catalog Blog Hop

Hello!!!  The Hero Arts Summer Catalog Products are now in the Hero Arts online store!  We are celebrating with a hop!  You should have arrived here from my awesome teamie May Park’s blog.  If not, you’ll want to start at the beginning which is the Hero Arts  Blog! Hero Arts will be giving away three

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May Guest Designer: Color Throwdown – Just Because

I’m so excited to be a May Guest Designer for Color Throwdown!  I’m a huge fan of their challenge!  Check out this week’s inspiration: If you’ve been following me for any amount of time you’ll know that green is my favorite color!  I had so much fun with this one! I love to use non-traditional colors

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Reverse Confetti: enjoy the ride!

Have you seen the latest release by Reverse Confetti?!  There are soooo many great new stamps, confetti cuts and colors!  I managed to combine a couple new goodies on this card: I started off with a Mist card panel.  I cut the Hello & Thanks Label on a panel of Cloud White.  I adhered the

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Another Birthday?

You know, I’ve been working hard to build up a stash of Birthday cards so I’m not whipping one up at the last minute.  Well, I ended up whipping this one up yesterday morning: Llamas/Alpacas…LOVE them.  The MFT Llama Love is so fun with the cute llamas and great puns.  I love the MFT Subtle

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a • muse | studio May Guest Designer: Always believe in yourself

I’m back up on the a • muse | studio blog with 2 cards.  I’m sneak peekin’ one of them here: I teamed up the new You Are My Sunshine set with the previously released Be Yourself.  The sentiments/fonts in the You Are My Sunshine are absolutely perfect.  There are so many to pick from, gotta love that!

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