September Edition | Guest Designer – Woodblock Wednesday

Edited to Add Winner: I used random.org to pick the winner: Cynthia O Yay Congrats! I’ll send you an email! Please note the next Woodblock Wednesday is: Wednesday, October 28th. I’m back with another edition of Woodblock Wednesday! Although there’s no official sponsor, I wanted give away a prize. One lucky random project with a

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Autumn Tapestry | Brass & Bliss Craft Co

The Brass & Bliss Craft Co – Autumn Tapestry Release is now in the store! SAVE 20% on the new Release! We’re doing things a bit different, there is no instagram hop. You’ll want to pop over to the Brass & Bliss blog post HERE and leave a comment for a chance to win. Here’s

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Happy National Coffee Day

Happy National Coffee Day! There’s a blog hop that starts over on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters blog today. One of the Super Sponsors is Brass & Bliss Craft Co: Here are the Brass & Bliss Craft Co products I combined for today’s project: The wool felt is from my stash. I actually made the coffee

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Season’s Greetings | My Pretty Things

It’s been a bit since I’ve shared a project that featured My Pretty Things: I was inspired by the recent Freshly Made Sketches – sketch by my friend Donna Mikasa! I combined the following cardstocks: The sentiment was stamped in Concord & 9th – Honeysuckle. I did trim down the bow a bit. Affiliate links

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Pumpkin Spice | Brass & Bliss Craft Co

Hello and Happy Saturday! I’m excited to be up on the Brass & Bliss Craft Co blog. Check it out HERE for more pics and a tutorial. It’s a bit of a sneak peek for a new release that is dropping next week! These are the Brass & Bliss Craft Co products I’m featuring today:

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Fa La La | Mama Elephant

Today is the Mama Elephant Stamp Highlights: Long Holiday. Here’s how I was inspired: I combined the following Mama Elephant products: Here are my earlier cards: Holiday Calories Duo Holiday Joy Merry Little Cookie I can’t wait to see how the other designers were inspired! Some links are affiliate at no extra cost to you:

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Hocus Pocus | Inspired by Challenge

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Coffee Mugs For today’s card was inspired by the colors and coffee theme. I combined the following Pretty Pink Posh products: The sentiment is by Riley & Company – Hocus Pocus. I put a couple drops of Catherine Pooler –

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Merry Little Cookie | Mama Elephant

Today is the Mama Elephant Stamp Highlights: Holiday Calories. My card is a simple design using that sweet set along with Baking Spirits Bright. I’ve been smitten with this color combo and added washi again to my card. You might not readily tell but the cookie sheet has been stamped onto Concord & 9th’s Dove

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Happy Fall | Spellbinders

I managed to whip up two cards yesterday, here’s the first one. I’ll share the other one later this week. This one features: *from Spellbinders Event. The plaid paper is from my stash. I designed this as a ‘quick’ thank you for my bonus daughter. She embroidered a cardigan for me for my birthday and

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Hero Arts: Wishing you a lovely day

I played with the Hero Arts Coloring Layering Peacock set.    Check out all that purple I used💜 I’ve been steadily warming up to purple, have you noticed that?  One of my favorite ways to incorporate purple is with the use of the Ombre’ Hydrangea ink.  Here’s how I used the different inks: Solid body

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Waffle Flower + Essentials by Ellen

I’m still working on my NBUS pile, today’s card used the adorable Waffle Flower Crafts – Bear and Bird + Ellen Hutson – Essentials by Ellen – Wonky Backdrops by Julie Ebersole: Let’s start on the bottom and work our way up, shall we?!  Oh my, the Wonky Backdrops is perfect with the Hero Arts Hydrangea

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Sweet Stamp Shop: Graduation Day!

I’m so excited to help Sweet Stamp Shop celebrate their new release, Graduation Day!  This set will release on Wednesday and is adorable and comes at a great time for me as my oldest will be graduating from the University of Washington this June!  She was definitely my inspiration for my card today: Eep, how

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Coffee Loving Cardmakers – CASEing DT – Java Great Day!

Hello and Happy Sunday!  I’m pretty excited, I’m taking the girl and we’re going to my friends house to dye Easter Eggs, LOL…it’s my first time.  The kids always went over to their Grandmother’s house to do that when they were growing up. Who doesn’t know that I LOVE green?   Lotsa NBUS  (Never Before

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Reverse Confetti April Blog Hop!

Hello and Happy Saturday!  Today is the 8th which mean the Reverse Confetti Blog Hop!  Today is an extra special one, more on that in a smidge…first up is my hop project: The All About Ewe set is so ADORABLE!  The images have been stamped on Cloud White in Midnight Ink and colored with Zig

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The Ton’s Spring 2017 Release Blog Hop!

Hello and Welcome to The Ton’s Spring 2017 Release Blog Hop!  You should have arrived here from the awesome Tae Eun Yoo’s blog!  If not, you’ll want to start at The Ton’s blog so that you don’t miss any fun! The Ton has 18 new stamps, 13 dies and 14 Couture Mixes for their new

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Hero Arts: Friend

post 2 of 2 today…click HERE for The Ton’s Spring 2017 Release Blog Hop! Hello and Happy Friday!  Whew, we made it through the week!  I’m up on the Hero Arts blog today with my teamie, Clare.  We’re having fun featuring some fabulous April My Monthly Hero Optional Add-ons! Pop over to the Hero Arts

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The Heart Desires Challenge #11 – Somebunny

Hello and Happy Wednesday!  The Heart Desires is up to Challenge #11, check it out: Isn’t that awesome?  Love how SPRINGY it is!!! Here’s how I was inspired: I couldn’t resist inking up the SWEET My Favorite Things – Somebunny.  Oh, she’s so darling, isn’t she?  I added the little bow to her dress.  The

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Hero Arts April My Monthly Hero Blog Hop + Giveaway!

Today is the day!  The Hero Arts April My Monthly Hero is now AVAILABLE!!   You should have arrived here from the awesome Jessica Frost-Ballas’ blog!  If not, you’ll want to start at the beginning which is the Hero Arts blog! The Main Kit: Kit contents:  6″x8″ clear stamp set18 coordinating Frame Cuts dies1 bottle Tonic Studios Nuvo

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Coffee hangover

Whew!  I can’t believe that the Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop is over.  I’m SUPER excited to announce that we broke records, we had 67 Super Sponsors and a final count of 1,178 linkies!  CRAZY!  Can you believe that I’m back with another coffee card?!  I was chatting with my friend, Erin Thiem, who broke

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