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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Close to My Heart – Bloom & Grow

Today wraps up my CTMH Online Party!  Thank you to all that placed an order!  I managed to whip up one last card using the March Stamp of the Month • Tea-rrific: I found some fun inspiration in the CTMH Seasonal Expressions Catalog.  Oh and btw, all thin cut dies (and stamp/die bundles like that cute

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winner of birthday blog hop!

Thanks to everyone that hopped with us for Kimberly’s Birthday! The winner of the Butterfly Reflections Ink $15 Gift Certificate is…. Shelly Kurth!!!!! Shelly, I’ve messaged you! So yesterday was {inter}National Scrapbook Day…did you play along in challenges, do some shopping or craft up a storm?  I had some crafty girls over and we made

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Curtain Call – Travel On: Smile

It’s time for a New Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: The LEAD of this challenge will be invited to be a guest designer in an upcoming challenge! I was inspired by the camera: cardstock:  recollections/black paper:  amy tangerine  other:  the cut shoppe/candid camera, lawn fawn/speech bubble border Although it’s an older sketch, I was also inspired

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happy birthday kimberly!!

source I consider myself a lucky girl.   I have had the wonderful opportunity to make some great in-real-life crafty friends.  One of them is Kimberly.  I can’t remember how I stumbled onto Kimberly’s blog but the minute I did, I was absolutely smitten with her style & work.  Today is Kimberly’s birthday and there

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coffee & a whole lot of love.

Hello and Happy Monday! I’m sharing some A Jillian Vance Design projects that posted in March. My first card uses the Coffee & Jesus stamp set which I combined with the  True Love stamp set I love the addition of the chunky wool yarn…it makes the card ‘cozy’, dontcha think? My next card uses the

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eat cake & more.

Hello and Happy Saturday! I haven’t posted my Chickaniddy Crafts cards over here in awhile so I’m doing a bit of catch up! The first 2 cards are March projects. This one was to focus on the chevron trend: It made things super fun (& easy) to use the Reverse Confetti Triple Chevies Confetti Cuts!

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Fusion Card Challenge: oh happy day!

Hello and welcome to Fusion Card Challenge! Check out the fun new inspiration photo and sketch: I was inspired by the photo: cardstock:  strathmore watercolor paper  stamps:  essentials by ellen/bold blooms  ink:  ranger/archival/black  other:  queen & co stars, stampin’ up label thinlets I’ve been inspired by all the watercolor stripes I have been spotting out

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A Jillian Vance Design: Sew Special

Hello! I’m up on the A Jillian Vance Design blog with a fun card! Here’s a peek at my supplies: grandma’s garden quilt block die sew special Pop on by the blog for a look at my card!

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curtain call bouquet reminder: woodland friends

There’s still time to join us over at Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge – Bouquet We have a new sponsor, Penny Black, for the Curtain Call Inspiration: Bouquet!  A randomly selected participant in the Bouquet challenge will have their choice of a Penny Black gift certificate, while the LEAD will be invited as a Guest Designer in a future challenge! I used the adorable 

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