Your Next Stamp August 2017 New Release! Hop to Win!

Welcome to the Your Next Stamp August 2017 New Release Blog Hop!  You’re going to love the new products!  Here’s how I was inspired for the hop: I combined the new Party Dress Die + Birdie Banner stamps with coordinating dies. That gingham!  It is part of the Birthday Girl Paper Pad…so sweet with those cute

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Hero Arts August My Monthly Hero: Countdown to Creativity!

Have you been following the Countdown to Creativity posts over on the Hero Arts blog?!  We’re counting down to the release of the August My Monthly Hero kit on Monday!  Leave a comment on any or all of the Countdown to Creativity posts on the Hero Arts blog for a chance to win! I’m up

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Your Next Stamp August Release: Carousel of Life

Hello!  I’m so excited to be an August Guest Designer for Your Next Stamp!   Here’s a sneak peek of one of the amazing sets that is being released on Saturday evening! The new Spin and Twirl stamps and coordinating dies are awesome, aren’t they?!  Love the coordinating sentiment, something that I always think of

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Hero Arts: You’re my pick!

Hello and Happy Friday!  I have DT assignments about a mile long but decided to whip this one up speedy quick.  I’ve had some ideas swirling around for the Hero Arts Shopping Bag Fancy Die. The shopping bag has been cut from packing material.  I combined it with the Fresh Herbs set with the sentiment from

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Reverse Confetti August SFYTT: Mahalo

Happy August!  Today is the start of a brand new month and a brand new Reverse Confetti SFYTT! I had so much fun with this sketch!  I’m featuring the Mahalo stamp set + coordinating confetti cuts! Isn’t the True Love Paper fun?  I stamped the umbrella and the straw in Coral.  I took a fine tip

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Ellen Hutson LLC – United We Flourish – You had me at G’day!

I was so excited to be a Guest Designer over on the Ellen Hutson LLC – The CLASSroom blog last week.  I did want to share my project here on my blog too.   Introducing the adorable, G’Day Mate: Here’s a bit more information about the United We Flourish collection: Last November we began celebrating our 10th anniversary

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Hero Arts: Greetings from Seattle

If you didn’t know it before, I live in the lovely Pacific Northwest.  This has been home to me for most of my life and I do truly love it.  Today I’m featuring the Hero Arts CL835 Stamp Your Own Fruit and Kelly’s Seattle: We love our apples here, my personal fav is the Fuji

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Lemonade

So, have you seen the SugarPea Designs Pucker Up set…Oh so CUTE: I teamed it up with the Zig Zag Stitched Rectangles + Circles.  Minimal copic coloring and I added a panel from the It’s a Celebration Pattern Paper Collection. My card was inspired by the SugarPea Designs Mix it Up Challenge:

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Essentials by Ellen – United We Flourish – G’Day Mate!

I’m super excited to be guesting for Ellen Hutson LLC!  This week they released a new set in collaboration of their United We Flourish collection.   Introducing the adorable, G’Day Mate: Here’s a bit more information about the United We Flourish collection: Last November we began celebrating our 10th anniversary with the theme United We Flourish.

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Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop Day Three: this girl runs on coffee

We’re on Day Three of the Spring Hop and it’s so much fun!  Have you hopped?  Have you linked up?  Remember, to be eligible for one of the many prizes from the 50 Super Sponsors, you must link up a newly created Spring Themed project that incorporates Coffee, Tea &/or Cocoa images/elements.  So super easy

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Spring Coffee Lover’s Blog Hop Day Two: the daily grind

We’re up to Day Two of the Spring Hop!  We hope that you’ve already linked + hopped along.  We have tons of link up’s daily so always check back to view the awesome inspiration!  Today, we also have our Spring Coffee Lover’s Blog Hop Guestie over on the Coffee Loving Cardmaker’s blog!  Make sure you

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It’s the Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop: you got this!

Post 3 of 3 for today…click HERE for the Reverse Confetti Spring Fling click HERE for the DeNami Designs Spring Fling Butterflies…Bears….Birds…Oh My!  It’s the start of the Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!   The hops happen 4 times a year, following each season.  This time around, we have a total of 50 Super Sponsors!

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DeNami Spring Fling Blog Hop!

Post 2 of 3 for today…click HERE for the Reverse Confetti Spring Fling Click HERE for the Spring Coffee Lover’s Blog Hop! Welcome to the DeNami Blog/Instagram Hop (#BIGDDHop) hosted by DeNami Design!  You should have come from Valerie’s blog.  I’m the end of the hop!  To make a complete loop your next stop is the DeNami

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Reverse Confetti: Spring Fling Hop

Click HERE for the Spring Coffee Lover’s Blog Hop! click HERE for the DeNami Designs Spring Fling Welcome to the Reverse Confetti Spring Fling Hop!  I knew that I wanted to design an Easter Basket!  What could be better than coffee + chocolate?! The Tagged Tote is so much fun and is such a great size to accommodate fun

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Coffee Loving Cardmaker’s Sponsor Solo Verve Stamps: Good Cheer

This week Melissa is featuring: Verve Stamps My newest goodies from Verve arrived recently and I couldn’t wait to ink up the Coffee Helps set: This new Verve Coffee Helps stamp set and Cup for All Seasons coordinating dies are FANtastic…a must have for any crafter 🙂  I used the fun Sequin Sprinkles that I picked up

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MFT Challenge & Inspiration: happy birthday

Hello!  So excited to tell you that I’m a March Guest for the MFT Challenge & Inspiration – sketch features!  If you’ve been following me for awhile, you know how much I love sketches! Check out this week’s sketch: Such an awesome sketch, here’s how I was inspired: I decided to combine the latest delish color

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Kindness matters…thank you

I’ve been gravitating to butterflies more and more.   I absolutely adore the Reverse Confetti Butterfly Dreams set: I’m always smitten with fancy/fun fonts and sentiments so who can resist this set?  I stamped it in Hero Arts Soft Pool and embossed the smaller solid ones with Hero Arts White.  Yup, check out that SWEET

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The Challenge Guest Designer: There’s Always time for tea!

I was super thrilled to be the winner over at The Challenge last week!  Lesley asked me to be a guest designer for this week’s challenge! Check out the gorgeous inspiration for The Challenge #64: I was thoroughly inspired by the delish colors so I decided to make them the focal point of my card

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Hero Arts: Hipster Animals

My kids will be traveling overseas for their Spring Break.  My girl will be celebrating her upcoming 21st birthday abroad.  I wanted to start designing a handful of Birthday gift thank you’s for the girl to send out: Have you seen the Hero Arts Hipster Animals set?!  So fun and perfect for my girl.  

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