Spring Summer Coffee Lovers blog hop | Brass & Bliss Craft Co

Have you checked out the 2026 Spring Summer Coffee Lovers blog hop yet? There are 16 stops with loads of inspiration and over $400 in prizes! Today I’m featuring Brass & Bliss Craft Co. One of the 15 Super Sponsors for this years hop! They have a couple new caffeinated products that just released. Let’s

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Coffee Date with Marisa + Giveaway!

I’m up on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters blog with a coffee date with Marisa! Marisa suggested we both use the Spellbinders Just Add Cake Birthday Cardmaking kit. I’m so glad that she did because I hadn’t dived into my kit yet. I’m going to share a sneak peek of my card but you’ll need to

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Bee Happy | Lawn Fawn

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Bumblebee I was inspired by the colors +theme. My card features the following Lawn Fawn products: My card was also inspired by the current Lawn Fawnatics: My Concord & 9th color palette is: I can’t wait to see how you’re

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Unique Twilight Birthday Cards: Cupcake and Shaker Designs

Challenge: Design a Twilight themed birthday card for a female in high school This is when I say that I haven’t read the books or watched the movies. I just know it is vampires. I decided to design two cards, let’s chat about the cupcake one first: I decided to use the book cover as

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Monochromatic Card Design with Coffee Inspiration

I had an idea that I playing with in my head after I designed THIS card. I challenged myself to create a more monochromatic design with a caffeinated spin. I’m featuring: *retired I didn’t achieve full monochromatic but that’s okay. I’ve really been on a blue kick and I love how peachy corals so with

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Have a Happy Day | Lawn Fawn

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Frogs I was inspired by the colors +theme. My card features the following Lawn Fawn products from Doodlebugswa: Evidently, I’m still in my blue era. My card was also inspired by the current Lawn Fawnatics: This is always such a

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Explore the Under the Sea Collection by Waffle Flower

I’m back with another card featuring the Waffle Flower – Under the Sea collection: This turned out a bit brighter than I’m used to but it’s growing on me. The sentiment was stamped on the stamp color panel as the stenciling. I’m featuring: In case you missed my earlier projects: Here are my other two:

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Explore Hero Arts’ May Collections

Hero Arts has a couple new May Collections: I’m featuring products from the You’ve Got a Friend Collection: Today’s card features: I also snuck in a sentiment from an earlier release: I used a bunch of Hero Arts inks: The stenciling was done on ColorWheel cardstock: Affiliate links at no extra cost to you.

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Creative Shibori Card Making with Handmade Paper

Did you catch my earlier post about my Shibori Weekend with my girl? This is one of the things we worked on: My girl brought handmade cotton paper that she found at ReCreative. I dipped it into the dye vats. I couldn’t wait to use one of the panels for a card. I combined these Hero

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Shibori Weekend | Pratt Fine Arts Center

Last weekend my girl treated me to Shibori classes on Saturday + Sunday via Pratt. A big thank you to Kentaro Kojima for such a great class. The definition of Shibori: Shibori is a traditional Japanese, manual “shaped-resist” dyeing technique that involves folding, twisting, stitching, or compressing fabric to create intricate patterns. Derived from the

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Hero Arts 2016 Catalog Blog Hop!

Click HERE for the Reverse Confetti February Blog Hop! Click HERE for my SugarPea Designs post. Click HERE for the Mint Owl Studio Share the Love Event! Thank you so much for joining us for the Hero Arts 2016 Catalog Blog Hop!  All the goodies are available in the Hero Arts shop NOW. Hero Arts is giving away four $25 shopping sprees,

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SugarPea Designs: Guest Designer – Latte Junkie

Click HERE for the Reverse Confetti February Blog Hop! Click HERE for the Mint Owl Studio Share the Love Event! I’m thrilled to be a Guest Designer for SugarPea Designs this month!  I’ve been having so much fun designing with their awesome stamps and dies! Check out this week’s card and coordinating envelope: I used

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Mint Owl Studio: Share the Love Event

Click HERE for the Reverse Confetti February Blog Hop! Click HERE for my SugarPea Designs post. Hello and welcome to the Share the Love Blog Hop!   You should have hopped here from Lisa’s awesome blog!  If not, the fun starts at the Mint Owl Studio Blog! The idea of this event is to make a card and send it

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Reverse Confetti: February New Release Blog Hop!

Click HERE for the Mint Owl Studio Share the Love Event! Click HERE for my SugarPea Designs post. Today is the day!  It is the Reverse Confetti February Release Blog Hop!  That means all the new release products that we’ve been sneak peekin’ are now available in the shop! Oh my, this release has been so much fun!  I managed to

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Countdown to Confetti Day Two: Happy Spring

Hey there ‘Fetti Fans, it’s the Countdown to Confetti Day 2!!!! On the 8th all the new Reverse Confetti stamps and confetti cuts AND the limited edition Quick Card Panels will be available for purchase. We will be counting down the fun until New Release Day!  Our February ‘Fetti Friend is:  Yana Smakula Today I’m featuring the new: Hippity

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Countdown to Confetti Day One: Hey Friend

post 2 of 2 for today…click HERE for my Impress Guest Blogger series. Hey there ‘Fetti Fans, it’s the Countdown to Confetti Day 1!!!! On the 8th all the new Reverse Confetti stamps and confetti cuts AND the limited edition Quick Card Panels will be available for purchase. We will be counting down the fun until New Release Day! 

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Guest Blogger: Valentine’s – Series Part 3

post 1 of 2 for today…click HERE for the Reverse Confetti – Countdown to Confetti – Day one! Hello and Happy Friday!  I’m back again and having fun with Impress!   The feminine and masculine styles have been a fun challenge for me so I’ve decided to keep that my theme.   Let’s get started!

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Hero Arts: sunny days & laughter

Click HERE for the Caring for the Cox Family Blog Hop Click HERE for the My Favorite Things special post! I’m up on the Hero Arts blog today! Here’s a sneak peek of my project: All the deets are over on the Hero Arts blog!

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Blog Hop for the Cox Family

Click HERE for my Hero Arts postClick HERE for the My Favorite Things special post! Ashley Nguyen Newell reached out to me about a hop that she was putting together for Ann Cox and her family.   Read THIS for more information.  I met Ann in bloggie land, I can’t remember where but I’m sure it was through a

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