Best of Luck | My Favorite Things

Happy Monday!  I’m beyond grateful that I have self motivated kids.  I’ll always call them my kids, even when they’re in their 40’s, for now they are 21 + 23.  This month, the oldest, my girl, started a regular full time position with the Seattle biotech company that she was contracting with.  I literally whipped

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Love your mug duo | Craftin Desert Divas

I just received Craftin Desert Diva’s latest coffee set, Love Your Mug.  I couldn’t wait to ink it up so I ended up designing a card duo. I used the same sketch with both cards, more on that in a smidge.   My first card also features The Perfect Blend 6×6 by Your Next Stamp.  I

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January Flavor of the Month Blog Hop | Scrapping for Less

Have you been following all the fun on the Scrapping for Less blog?!  The new January Flavor of the Month Card Kit is now available and you’re going to go perky over it!   Here’s a bit about the kit from Teresa of Scrapping For Less: Let’s “Perk Up and Start the New Year” with our

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hello | Hello Bluebird

If you’re a crafter, you might know how it feels when you finish a card that makes you happy.  Not because it’s any special design but the images are just too stinkin’ cute, that’s this card: Inking up another highly neglected set, Hello Bluebird’s Pig Day.  Oh good grief, their facial expressions are killing me. 

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Love Ya A Latte | Lawn Fawn

So, I should have been organizing but I was whipping up a card.  The Lawn Fawn How You Bean set, I’ve had it (and the coordinating dies + add on shaker dies) for a while now and haven’t busted them out yet.  This organizing thing has me inking up sets that haven’t been used yet,

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Jolly Good Day! | Newton’s Nook Designs

I wanted to ink up the Newton’s Nook Designs – Newton Dreams of London.  I don’t know about you, but I love seeing all the news about the Royal Family.  Her Majesty the Queen is awesome and a Corgi Lover.  Bonus points that she keeps her holiday decor up until February 6th..I want to adopt

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Espressily for you | Your Next Stamp

Hey happy Tuesday!  I wanted to ink up some of my newest goodies from Your Next Stamp. I combined the Brew-tiful Day stamps with The Perfect Blend 6×6 paper pad.  I did buy the coordinating dies for the stamp set, they cut the interior of the mug handles (bonus!). I managed to upcycle a Starbucks

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Caffeinated Duo | The Rabbit Hole Designs

I wanted to ink up some of other The Rabbit Hole Designs stamps, check out Caffeinated Cat + Caffeinated Dino: The Caffeinated Cat has been teamed up with Your Next Stamp’s The Perfect Blend paper pad.  Isn’t that cat hilarious?!  Wait until her coffee kicks in —> Super MOM. The Caffeinated Dino, oh she’s cute

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Happy BEE day + SALE | Reverse Confetti

Happy Sunday!  How is your weekend going?  Although I’m not in Phoenix this weekend, I’m keeping busy and have been living vicariously through all the Creativation posts on FB/IG.  I’m still working on building up my Birthday card stash and couldn’t wait to ink up the Reverse Confetti Happy Bee Day set. Although I did

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Love You More Blog Hop | The Rabbit Hole Designs

Welcome to the The Rabbit Hole Designs –  Love You More Blog Hop!  You should have arrived here from Lisa’s blog.  If not, you’ll want to start at the beginning which is The Rabbit Hole Designs blog. Giveaway:1 One winner will be chosen at random for a chance to win the complete release of Love

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You are Magic | A Colorful Life Designs

I’m excited to be a guest designer for the month of October for A Colorful Life Designs. I’ll be sharing projects throughout the next couple of weeks. Here’s how I was inspired today: This is the A Colorful Life Designs product I used: This is how I did the stenciling: I used a shadow word

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Delightful Day | Doodlebugswa

I’m back with another project for Doodlebugs… My card for today features: The sentiment was stamped with Concord & 9th – Sweet Pea ink. Thanks for stopping by!

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Santa Fuel | Hero Arts

Two fantastic collections have just hit the Hero Arts store: Today I’m featuring a card that showcases the Yule Fuel Collection. These are the products I used: *Previously released I may have been chuckling when I was putting this together. I originally stenciled a background but it was too busy for me so I decided

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Hi | A Colorful Life Designs

Happy World Cardmaking Day! I’m excited to be a guest designer for the month of October for A Colorful Life Designs. I’ll be sharing projects throughout the next couple of weeks. Here’s how I was inspired today: These are the A Colorful Life Designs products I used: The definition of bauhaus? This is compliments of

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Yule Fuel | Hero Arts

Two fantastic collections have just hit the Hero Arts store: Today I’m featuring new projects that showcase the Yule Fuel Collection. Here’s my first card: These are the products I used: I decided to go clean and simple. The base is Spellbinders Poppy ColorWheel. The stamps have been stamped onto Blush ColorWheel with Cherry Hero

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Fall | Pretty Pink Posh

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: ice cream cones I was inspired by Fall theme… My card features the following products by Pretty Pink Posh: The cardstock and paper: I generally take the literal crafty translation of the inspiration photo but I didn’t have the elements

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Drink Coffee | Coffee Loving Papercrafters

I’m up on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters blog sharing this card that features JessicaLynnOriginal.com. Hop over to the Coffee Loving Papercrafters blog for all the details. Some links maybe affiliate at no extra cost to you:

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Joy Peace & Love | Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #46

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 Catherine Pooler Designs: * on SALE! The inks I used: I can’t

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Thank You | Doodlebugswa

I’m back with another project for Doodlebugs… My card for today features: Do you remember this photo? I share this design last week: This is what I came up for this week: I love to add gold glitter to my designs. I feel like it steps it up a smidge, makes it fancier. These butterflies are

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National Coffee Day | Brass & Bliss Craft Co

Happy National Coffee Day! We’re celebrating with an Insta-Hop that starts over on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters IG! This is how I was inspired for today’s festivities: Brass & Bliss Craft Co is one of 18 Super Sponsors that are joining in the fun! Each hop stop has a prize. My card features: The Coffee

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