Peace on Earth | My Pretty Things IG Hop

My Pretty Things’ Handmade Holidays! Who’s ready for some holiday crafting? Hop along for some holiday inspiration featuring new & old goodies now available in the shop! Giveaway Info: My Pretty Things is giving away a $25 gift card to one lucky winner!! Here’s what to do for your chance to win as you hop

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Coffee Lovers Club | Inspired by Challenge

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Fall Mugs For today’s card was inspired by the theme and colors. THINK: Free Mug Library – Take a Mug – Leave a Mug. I combined the following products: *This is a subscription. The kit isn’t guaranteed to drop in

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Iconic Christmas | Simon Says Stamp – Sending Cheer

Simon Says Stamp has a NEW SENDING CHEER Release! There are so many amazing products! Today I’m playing with: I also added these Simon Says Stamp products: I also used Spellbinders ColorWheel Cardstock: The background pattern was stamped with Concord & 9th – Sea Glass. The images were stamped with Lawn Fawn Jet black and

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Merry Little Cookie | Mama Elephant

Today is my Mama Elephant Designer Series Day. Here’s how I was inspired: I combined the following Mama Elephant products: I snuck in some festive berries from the Twiddlers Nook – Elf Cookie Sprinkles Embellishment Mix. Here are my earlier cards: Holiday Calories Duo Holiday Joy Merry Little Cookie Fa La La Some links are

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Thankful for you | Brass & Bliss Craft Co

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Fall Leaves For today’s card was inspired by the theme and sketch. I combined the following Brass & Bliss Craft Co products: The sentiment was stamped in Pecan from the Color Fuse #3 set. The leaves have been cut from

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Mug Life | Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #58

New month means a brand new challenge over on the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge! Let’s get to this month’s challenge: Here’s how I was inspired: My project features these products by Spellbinders: Cardstock + Ink: I just love how this one turned out! I can’t wait to see how my teamies and the Guest designers

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September Edition | Guest Designer – Woodblock Wednesday

Edited to Add Winner: I used random.org to pick the winner: Cynthia O Yay Congrats! I’ll send you an email! Please note the next Woodblock Wednesday is: Wednesday, October 28th. 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

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Autumn Tapestry | Brass & Bliss Craft Co

The Brass & Bliss Craft Co – Autumn Tapestry Release is now in the store! SAVE 20% on the new Release! We’re doing things a bit different, there is no instagram hop. You’ll want to pop over to the Brass & Bliss blog post HERE and leave a comment for a chance to win. Here’s

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Happy National Coffee Day

Happy National Coffee Day! There’s a blog hop that starts over on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters blog today. One of the Super Sponsors is Brass & Bliss Craft Co: Here are the Brass & Bliss Craft Co products I combined for today’s project: The wool felt is from my stash. I actually made the coffee

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enjoy today.

I love fruit stamps and images…have you seen Reverse Confetti’s pineapples aplenty cardstock:  recollections/110/white, stampin’ up basic black  stamps:  reverse confetti/pineapples aplenty  ink:  fresh ink grass/fuschia  other  reverse confetti/triple chevies, your next stamp/gold/gum drops, sewing machine I teamed them up with the triple chevies pineapples aplenty pineapples aplenty confetti cuts I was inspired by the

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need to venti?

I’m trying to spread the latte love around in my craft room.  I have a couple of coffee sets and I’m trying to make the rounds with them. This is with the MFT:  Dienamics Coffee Perk Up stamp set Steel Grey card stock Yup, I upcycled a Starbucks Sleeve! I was inspired by MFT Sketch

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the power of two…

♡two lattes♡ cardstock:  stampin’ up blushing bride/rose red, papertrey ink vellum  stamps:  stampin’ up yippee skippee  ink:  gold embossing powder  other:  stampin’ up hearts mask, create a smila/coffee to go chippies, reverse confetti/tag me confetti cut, modeling paste, pebbles gold scallop tape I need to use my Stampin’ up Goodies more and decided to combine

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Curtain Call Bouquet: sponsored by Penny Black

post two of two for today…click HERE for the Neat and Tangled/The Cut Shoppe collaboration! It’s time for a new Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge! photo source:  designlovefest.com 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

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Neat & Tangled collaboration with The Cut Shoppe

post one of two for today…click HERE for the Curtain Call Challenge. It’s an exciting week….Neat & Tangled is collaborating with The Cut Shoppe! What?  You didn’t know that I had a Cameo?!  LOL…it has collected quite a bit of dust and the wonderful Ashley Horton of The Cut Shoppe totally held my hand a

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welcome, little one.

I whipped this card up last night for a friend of mine.  She recently adopted a new pug puppy! So I wanted to make her a ‘new baby’ card: cardstock:  stampin’ up basic black, papertrey ink vellum  paper:  mme/jubilee/tangerine  stamps:  reverse confetti/puppy love & fancy word coordinates ink:  memento tuxedo, various copics  other:  reverse confetti/puppy

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the essence…

One of my favorite paper collections is Basic Grey’s Persimmon.  I never tire of it and tend to hoard my paper.  I was inspired by a couple challenges: cardstock:  recollections/110/white  paper:  basic grey/persimmon stamps:  stampin’ up/love is kindness  ink:  memento tuxedo, various copics  other:  stampin’ up embossing folder, martha stewart wool yarn, cork, circle punch 

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lucky me.

I love a good challenge. I’ve been wanting to play over in  the classroom I picked up a ton of the new Essentials by Ellen before we left for Japan and I’m just now getting to play with them. I knew that I wanted to use the Laurel Wreath, in gold, but of course!  Then

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SFYTT: think happy thoughts

Hello Hello! It’s Saturday and I’m hopefully going to be crafting up a storm today because I should have cleaned and organized yesterday. I have a Happy card today: paper:  pebbles cottage living  stamps:  reverse confetti/color me happy  ink:  zing black, fresh ink peach  other:  beading hemp twine, papertrey ink vellum Don’t you love the

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just looking in on you…

When we were in Japan, the kids spotted a couple sticker sets and a post card that were Alpaca themed.  (Click HERE for the differences between Alpacas and Llamas)  We tend to gravitate towards them because my cousin and her husband own several Alpacas.  That is exactly the reason why I bought Stampin’ up’s From

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