Give me Coffee | Brass & Bliss Craft Co

Have you hopped along with us yet? The Brass & Bliss Craft Co Waves & Wins Release is now in the shop and 20% off. I have the direct links to each hop stop at the end of this post. There are two $50 Brass & Bliss Craft Co Gift Cards up for grabs. Leave

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Waves & Wins Release IG Hop | Brass & Bliss Craft Co

We’re celebrating the new Brass & Bliss Craft Co release with an instagram hop! Here’s a peek at my project: 20% off all New Release items until 5/26/2025!! INSTAGRAM HOP. It’s finally summer—and the Brass and Bliss “Waves & Wins” Release is live! This collection brings the perfect blend of beachy vibes (Waves) and sporty

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Oh Happy Day | Doodlebugswa

I’m back with another project for Doodlebugs… Today’s card combines: The Concord & 9th inks I used: These colors are so happy! In case you missed this: Here’s to a fantastic day! Doodlebugs offers $2 shipping for orders over $35 and FREE shipping over $65:

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Crafty + Happy Guest Blogger | Spellbinders

Hello and Happy Monday! I’m excited to be up on the Spellbinders blog. I have a bit of a sneak peek of one of my three projects that I designed especially for today: Make sure you check out the Spellbinders blog + Spellbinders Shop! I wanted to go ahead and also create a new project

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Spring in Kyoto Guest Blogger | Spellbinders

Hello and Happy Tuesday! I’m excited to be up on the Spellbinders blog. I have a bit of a sneak peek of one of my three projects that I designed especially for today: Make sure you check out the Spellbinders blog + Spellbinders Shop! I wanted to go ahead and also create a new project

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Have a great day | Altenew

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Lemons I was inspired by the colors. My card features the following products: For those that have been following me for a bit, know that I love all things citrus. I recently ordered the Blossoming Apple set. I knew that

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Apple-solutely Awesome | Doodlebugswa

I’m back with another project for Doodlebugs… Today’s card combines: I caught a color combo that I translated to this: I’ve been on a birthday card kick but this one could easily be a just because or even a birthday greeting too. Here’s to a fantastic day! Doodlebugs offers $2 shipping for orders over $35

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Take Note Collection | Spellbinders

Thank you to my friends at Spellbinders for sending me some products to play with. Here’s how I was inspired today: Today’s project features the following NEW Spellbinders products from the Take Note Collection: I also used these Spellbinder products: I absolutely LOVE this collection. I know that I’ve said this before but the BetterPress

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Dog Mom | Miss Ink Stamps

It’s Sunday and my day up on the Miss Ink Stamps blog. Here’s a bit of a sneak peek: Check out the Miss Ink Stamps blog for more photos! Some links may be affiliate at no extra cost to you:

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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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