Holiday Happy Mail | Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #44

New month means a brand new challenge over on the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge! This month is the start of a couple changes to the challenge: Let’s get to this month’s challenge: Here’s how I was inspired: My project features these products by Newton’s Nook: I did some heat embossing with the sentiments on black.

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Oceans of Love | Inspired by Challenge

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: lunch bags I was inspired by the fish patterns. My card features the following products: I used the following Distress Oxide inks: I can’t wait to see how my teamies were inspired! Thanks for stopping by! Affiliate links at no

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July Edition – throwback | Woodblock Wednesday

Edited to Add Winner. I used random.org to pick the winner: Yay Congrats! I’ll send you an email! Please note the next Woodblock Wednesday is: Wednesday, August 27th. 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 US mailing

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Spring in Kyoto – Kokeshi Happy Birthday | Spellbinders

Thank you to my friends at Spellbinders for sending me some products to play with. Here’s how I was inspired today: Today’s project features the following Spellbinders product from the Spring in Kyoto by Alex Syberia Designs: I also used these Spellbinder products: I couldn’t wait to use some of the papers in the Your

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Happy Hour | Doodlebugswa

I’m back with another project for Doodlebugs… My card for today features: I ended up with a twofer. Here’s the first one: This one is a bit skinnier than a standard A2 – 3.50 x 5.50. I wanted the drinks and fruit clustered closer. I remembered that there are general drink type sentiments in the Spellbinders

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Farm Fresh | Brass & Bliss Craft Co

Did you know that the new Boughs of Joy Release is 20% off and all past Christmas items are 20% – 70% off through July 31st! Just type in ‘Christmas’ in the search window! These are the Brass & Bliss Craft Co products I’m featuring today: I added some chunky glitter on the Evergreen trees.

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Believe | 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. Did you know that the new Boughs of Joy Release is 20% off and all past Christmas items are 20% – 70% off through July 31st! Just type

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July Release – Day Five + Guest Designer | Hero Arts

Four fantastic collections have hit the Hero Arts store: I’m sharing two new cards that I designed featuring the new Summer by the Shore: I’m shakin’ things up with my first card! This collection is gorgeous and a favorite of mine! This card features: The Scattered Shells uses a Bellini cardbase and Apricot BetterPress Ink.

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Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop – Final Day – Tea

I can’t believe that it is the final day of the Spring Hop!  Things have been crazy!  Have you heard the news?  We’re well over 1,000 linked up projects!  So very awesome!  Hard to believe that the first hop in September 2014 closed out with 271 projects.  Here’s a peek at my post from back

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SugarPea Designs Birthday Bash Blog Hop!

Hello and Happy Wednesday!  I’m so thrilled to be part of the SugarPea Designs Birthday Bash! Welcome to SugarPea Designs 3rd Birthday Bash Celebration!   We are so honored to have the opportunity to celebrate this incredible milestone that all of you helped make happen! Today’s festivities included some incredible inspiration from the SugarPea Design Team

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Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop Day Five – Flora & Fauna

We’re on Day Five of the Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!  We have an amazing 67 Sponsors for this hop!  Our newest record!  One of our newest Super Sponsors is Flora & Fauna.  My card was inspired by their sponsorship graphic: I inked up the You Me and Tea Set.  The blooms have been colored

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Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop – Day Day Four – Unity Stamp Company

I’m easily enabled by coffee stamp sets, I’m pretty sure everybody knows that.  Unity Stamp Co, a returning Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop – Super Sponsor, recently came out with a couple new sets.  I especially love Angie Blom’s “To Go” collection, so I happily bought Spring To Go and Kitty To Go. Let’s start

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Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop – Day Three – Born this way

We’re on Day Three of the Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!  The gallery is filling up with so many fun + inspirational projects…how is a girl to get anything done because she just wants to soak up all the fantastic projects?! Here’s my project for today that I whipped up last night!  Yes, I was chuckling

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Welcome Little Miss Croghan Blog Hop!

I’m thrilled to be a part of the Welcome Little Miss Croghan Blog Hop!  The fun starts at Lori Turner’s blog – Big Round of Applause to Lori for coordinating this Sweet Event!!!!!! I’ve had the pleasure to meet up with Lesley and her hubby, Corey, when they were in Seattle.  Such a treat for

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A Blog Named Hero 5th Anniversary: Let’s Celebrate

I’m so excited to be a part of the A Blog Named Hero 5th Anniversary Celebration!  I’m a former Guest Designer and also participating on behalf of Hero Arts, a Sponsor for this fun Hop!  You should have arrived here from the fabulous Melissa Chipperfield’s blog!  If not, you’ll want to start at the beginning

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Hero Arts: Just Because

Hello and Happy Thursday!  I’m up on the Hero Arts blog with a project!  I’d love for you to pop over there to check it out.   I wanted to also let you know that Hero Arts is one of our many Super Sponsors for the Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop that starts tomorrow, Friday,

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Best of Luck

So in between prepping for the upcoming Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop, I’m doing some serious Spring Cleaning and trying to squeak in crafty time. I bought the adorable BB Adventure is Calling because of THIS card by Donna💚 So, if you didn’t know, my boy goes to college in NYC.  We live in Washington

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