Season’s Greetings | My Pretty Things

It’s been a bit since I’ve shared a project that featured My Pretty Things: I was inspired by the recent Freshly Made Sketches – sketch by my friend Donna Mikasa! I combined the following cardstocks: The sentiment was stamped in Concord & 9th – Honeysuckle. I did trim down the bow a bit. Affiliate links

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Pumpkin Spice | Brass & Bliss Craft Co

Hello and Happy Saturday! I’m excited to be up on the Brass & Bliss Craft Co blog. Check it out HERE for more pics and a tutorial. It’s a bit of a sneak peek for a new release that is dropping next week! These are the Brass & Bliss Craft Co products I’m featuring today:

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Fa La La | Mama Elephant

Today is the Mama Elephant Stamp Highlights: Long Holiday. Here’s how I was inspired: I combined the following Mama Elephant products: Here are my earlier cards: Holiday Calories Duo Holiday Joy Merry Little Cookie I can’t wait to see how the other designers were inspired! Some links are affiliate at no extra cost to you:

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Hocus Pocus | Inspired by Challenge

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Coffee Mugs For today’s card was inspired by the colors and coffee theme. I combined the following Pretty Pink Posh products: The sentiment is by Riley & Company – Hocus Pocus. I put a couple drops of Catherine Pooler –

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Merry Little Cookie | Mama Elephant

Today is the Mama Elephant Stamp Highlights: Holiday Calories. My card is a simple design using that sweet set along with Baking Spirits Bright. I’ve been smitten with this color combo and added washi again to my card. You might not readily tell but the cookie sheet has been stamped onto Concord & 9th’s Dove

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Happy Fall | Spellbinders

I managed to whip up two cards yesterday, here’s the first one. I’ll share the other one later this week. This one features: *from Spellbinders Event. The plaid paper is from my stash. I designed this as a ‘quick’ thank you for my bonus daughter. She embroidered a cardigan for me for my birthday and

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Holiday Joy | Mama Elephant

Today is the Mama Elephant Stamp Highlights: Baking Spirits Bright. My card is a simple design using that sweet sentiment set along with the Placemat Set – Creative Cuts. The base panel is actually made with strips of washi tape. Here are my earlier cards that feature the Baking Spirits Bright set: I can’t wait

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Warm Wishes | Catherine Pooler

Have you checked out the Catherine Pooler – Frosty & Festive release yet? It’s packed with goodness. Here’s how I was inspired today: I’ve combined: *previously released I’m loving that cover plate! I combined these inks: The Light Up the Tree cover plate has been cut from gold glitter cardstock. The sentiment has been ink

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Afternoon Calm | Altenew

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Acorns For today’s card was inspired by the colors and fall theme. I combined the following Altenew products: The distress oxides I used: The cardstock I used: I can’t wait to see how you’re inspired! Thanks for stopping by! Some

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Frosty & Festive Collection Release Day | Catherine Pooler

It’s here, the Catherine Pooler – Frosty & Festive Collection is now available in the shop! Check out today’s card: Today’s card features: The trees have been stamped with the following Catherine Pooler inks: The sentiment has been heat embossed in gold. In case you missed my earlier card: It features: I masked the upper

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Season’s Givings Blog Hop

Click HERE for my Stories of stamps, paper and… Click HERE for my i {heart} papers post! Click HERE for the Fusion Card Challenge/One Year Anniversary Celebration post! Click HERE for Curtain Call/Winter Wonder! So thrilled to be part of Latisha’s Seasons Givings Blog Hop for the 3rd year!  You should have arrived from Lorena’s blog!  I’m

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Neat & Tangled News

I know that I’ve been kind of quiet on my blog….that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been busy!  I’m prepping for a couple new releases and enjoying my time off from work.  The girl is still home with us and we’ve been having fun like eating HERE. I did want to pop in here and

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warm thoughts

So, as the year wraps up, have you been pondering your New Years resolutions? One of mine is to work on Holiday cards throughout the year.  Although I had fun creating 80+ Christmas cards in November, it is something I just don’t want to do again in 2015. I actually don’t have a whole lot

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walking on sunshine.

Are you singing it?! What, really?  HERE you go. paper:  pebbles/home made  stamps:  butterfly reflections ink/head in the clouds  ink:  fresh ink/navy, clear embossing powder  other:  spellbinders, impress glitter washi Don’t you love the stamped sentiment? It’s a Butterfly Reflections Ink exclusive set designed by Shanna Noel called head in the clouds Yup, it’s a

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papertrey ink: december 2014 blog hop

Happy Boxing Day! Today’s the day for the papertrey ink December Blog Hop I was inspired by the gorgeous bar necklaces.  Who doesn’t love the look of gold and silver?   Combining them, that’s a challenge: cardstock:  papertrey ink, chickaniddy crafts/goldie lox  stamps:  papertrey ink phrase play #3/rosie posie  ink:  zing white, delicata silvery shimmer

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stories of stamps, paper and… : warm winter wishes

Merry Christmas Eve! Today is my day up on the Stories of stamps, paper and… For those that don’t know, it’s an italian based challenge blog that runs monthly themes.  The new challenges start on the 1st and run through the month.  The month the challenge is  Christmas with a Bow Throughout the remainder of

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peace love and happiness

Here’s a set of cards that will make good New Years cards: cardstock:  stampin’ up basic black/cherry cobbler  stamps:  paper smooches/pretty phrases  ink:  zing white, wplus9 white  other:  reverse confetti/double edge scallop border confetti cut, impress gold washi I’ve been seeing a lot of black base projects (check out the mambi blog) and love that

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sprinkled with lots of love

Happy Monday! It’s fun to gravitate away from holiday themed cards: cardstock:  recollections/white, stampin’ up/pirouette pink  paper:  teresa collins/nine & co  stamps:  reverse confetti/donut you know  ink:  fresh ink/chocolate & red currant  other:  cork, reverse confetti/donut you know confetti cuts The Reverse Confetti, Donut you Know set is filled with fun sentiments and I adore

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Holiday Coffee Lovers Blog Hop: listing of blog sponsored winners

So, this is the final follow up post for the  Holiday Coffee Lovers  Blog Hop All the blog sponsored prizes have been drawn and the winners have been contacted, if they left their contact information. HERE is a google doc that lists a majority of the blog sponsored give-a-ways. This might be a great time

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