Birthday Celebration Release | Trinity Stamps

I’m super excited to be party of Trinity Stamps‘ Instagram Birthday Celebration Release Hop!  Join us for fun, inspiration and prizes!  The festivities starts on the Trinity Stamps Instagram! Here’s a peek at my projects, I had so much fun designing them especially for today! There are also TWO Freebies when you spend $50 +

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Friday with Amy | Doodlebugswa.com

I’m super excited to be up on the Doodlebugswa.com blog today.  Here’s a sneak peek of my project: Here’s my supply list, some links may be affiliate at no extra cost to you:

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Stay Cool | Inspired by Challenge – Cool Treats

Hello and Welcome to another new Inspired by Challenge!  There is also an optional sketch challenge: I just knew what I was going to use for this challenge, the Concord & 9th Cool Treats Turnabout Stamp Set.  They currently have it on sale through the end of the month! I was able to capture the

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Cup of Cheer | Newton’s Nook Designs

I’m super excited.  I just booked a trip home for my boy!  We haven’t seen him since Christmas and miss him terribly.  That’s what inspired the theme of my card this morning: Newton Dreams of New York is perfect for today.  My boy lives in Brooklyn.  I had to fit in the bagel and coffee

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Hey Honey! | SugarPea Designs

I’m popping in speedy quick to share this card that features SugarPea Designs. Their Hey Honey set is the absolutely cutest.  Who can resist that big ole bear?!  I teamed it up with their Honeycomb Stencil.  I did it lightly around the edges with Mustard Seed Distress Oxide and a blending brush. I love how

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Party | Catherine Pooler Designs

I managed to whip up three card yesterday before driving around doing errands and having the kids over for brunch.  I recently picked up more of Catherine Pooler’s latest release.  This time I’m playing with the Party Fans set: This set will get easier for me to use as the stamps get stained.  It’s a

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Big Grumpy | Taylored Expressions

My Coffee Loving Cardmaker teamie, Lisa Golzbein sent me an adorable card that featured the fun Big Grumpy set by Taylored Expressions.  I instantly ordered both versions that they carry.  Their newest, Hot Flash Grumplings, is on my wishlist!  Here’s how I was inspired: Good Grief these guys crack me up.  I love their ginormous

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Enjoy Your Day | The Card Concept

The other day I was moving things around in my craft room and spotted a couple sets that I haven’t inked up in awhile, Papertrey Ink Cozy Christmas and Stampin’ Up Badges & Banners.  Here’s how I was inspired: Oh I know, this isn’t my current color palette that I’ve been playing with.  I haven’t

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Quarantini | Trinity Stamps

Did you know that today is National Martini Day?  LOL, funny thing that I should know that.  Honestly, when I was looking at the National Day calendar I spotted it.  I’m actually allergic to alcohol.  I had to ink up the Trinity Stamps – Happy Hour set! I’m always on the lookout for a fun

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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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Fusion Card Challenge: a calm sea

This is post 1 of 3 for today…click HERE for my Neat & Tangled post and click HERE for my Whisker Graphics post! Hello! Welcome to the newest Fusion Card Challenge I took the month of March off from the Design Team and now I’m back!  Check out this fun challenge: I worked with the sketch this week: paper:

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Neat & Tangled: crafting is my jam

This is post 1 of 3 for today…click HERE for my Fusion Card Challenge post and click HERE for my Whisker Graphics post! Hello! Today is my day over on the Neat & Tangled Blog! Here’s a peek at my supplies: paris crafting is my jam I challenged myself to design a one-layer card….I don’t make many of those!

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Whisker Graphics: hello.

This is post 1 of 3 for today…click HERE for my Neat & Tangled post and click HERE for my Fusion Card Challenge post! Hello! Today is my day up on the Whisker Graphics Blog! I always have fun with Whisker Graphics and Divine Twine, you do know that their products aren’t just for packaging,

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Reverse Confetti: April New Release Blog Hop!

Post 2 of 2 for today…click HERE for my A Jillian Vance Design post! Today is the day!  It is the Reverse Confetti April Release Blog Hop!  That means all the new products that we’ve been sneak peekin’ to you are now available in the shop! You should have hopped here from the Awesome Kathy

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