The Crafty Elves Countdown to Christmas | Guest Designer

A big thank you to Debra Davison for the invite to join The Crafty Elves this month! I’m joining: Here’s how I was inspired: I spotted this sweet Flora & Fauna set – Bottle Brush Snowglobe set and used it for an earlier project this week and decided to keep inking it up for today’s

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Ho Ho Ho – Waffle Flower Giveaway

I’ve partnered with Waffle Flower Crafts on Instagram to give ONE lucky winner a Waffle Flower Shader Brush PLUS Sampler Pack! ** Please leave a comment on THIS Instagram post to be eligible** I wanted to also add the contents of the giveaway and project photos here on my blog. The Shader Brush PLUS Sampler

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Merry Little Christmas | Flora Fauna

Happy Thursday, there is a new Inspired By…challenge! Every Thursday there will be a new inspiration photo and optional sketch! Here’s how I was inspired: I was inspired by the: I’m featuring the following products by Flora & Fauna: My Concord & 9th ink that I used: I used Parsley cardstock as the base panel. I

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Holiday Joy | Doodlebugswa

I’m back with another project for Doodlebugs… Today’s project features the following products from Doodlebugswa: I’m a huge fan of pink + red combos. The Joy sentiment has been backed with vellum from my stash. Doodlebugs offers $2 shipping for orders over $35 and FREE shipping over $65.

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Make a Wish | The Greetery

I went to a birthday gathering yesterday and of course, had to make my card, yesterday morning. Yes, I do have a stash of cards but wanted to design something with The Greetery. These are The Greetery products I combined: These are the cardstocks I used: I was inspired by the Just Add Ink challenge:

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Plane Amazing | Concord & 9th

I wanted to design a belated birthday card for my hubby’s friend. This is when I tell you that masculine designs are my biggest challenge. Luckily he is a hobby pilot just like my hubby so I have a bit of airplane themed products. My project features the following items that are available at Doodlebugswa:

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Thanks for Sticking by my Side | Hero Arts

Happy Thursday, there is a new Inspired By…challenge! Every Thursday there will be a new inspiration photo and optional sketch! Here’s how I was inspired: I was inspired by the: I’m featuring the following products by Hero Arts: My cardstock that I used: I used Soft Granite ink on the base panel. I can’t wait to

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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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