hey there.

A late {live} posting for me.  I’ve been behind on feedly {had to do the ‘ole mark all as read}, feel like I’m racing around in circles but hope things calm down today. Here’s today’s card: So, the other day we made a road trip to Oregon.  We picked up our airplane seats…why yes, they

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have a nice day.

No crafting for me yesterday so I whipped up a card this morning: Originally, those Paper Smooches friendly flowers were part of a panel of blooms.  I colored them using: picked raspberry distress ink squeezed lemonade distress ink mister huey’s sherbet It took me awhile to color them because I used a paintbrush.  I love the

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paper smooches: go to your happy place

Where is your happy place? I have many but one of my more consistent one is in the early morning hours…when the rest of the household is asleep and I’m in front of the computer or is that the computer is in front of me?  It’s how I start my morning…with, of course, a cup

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stripes & blooms

Hi ya! I have a little giftie that I put together for a friend. I love the Whisker Graphic bags, this one is White Horizontal Stripe Middy Bag: These are such multi-purpose bags…you can use them for envelopes or for goodie bags…so many other options for them too! I decided to combine it to be

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nautical happiness

So many challenges, not enough time. I’m a huge fan of all things nautical.  I love the Authentique Anchored Collection.  I teamed it up with a We R Memories Journal card. I was inspired by the paper players and I’m playing along with The Challenge #8 Have you seen the new design team?  They’re FABulous!

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vintage hi

Hello & Happy Tuesday! I love glittery goodness, do you?  I love it even better when it is glitter is ‘ready made’ like American Crafts POW Glitter Paper: cardstock:  PTI paper:  american crafts pow glitter other:  top dog dies vintage alpha die What I love about American Crafts’ glitter paper is that it is smooth,

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Chickaniddy Crafts: Focus on Foil Pinspiration

this is post 1 of 2 for me today…click HERE for the New Poppy Sketches challenge! Today is my Chickaniddy Crafts Day!   The design team is doing a Pinspiration challenge and I picked this as my inspiration: I would totally wear that tee, gray is my favorite color and my closet is chock full

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Poppy Sketches #6: this is the life

this is post 2 of 2 for me today…click HERE for my Chickaniddy Crafts post! Hello! We’re back with a brand new Poppy Sketch with a Pop of Pattern: Our Super Sponsor is May Arts Ribbon May Arts so generously sent us product to play with and I worked with Diamond Chain Here’s how I

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let’s celebrate!

Hello and Happy Sunday! We’ve been experiencing some super fantastic weather here in the Pacific Northwest…it seems like it never extends into the weekend but it has this weekend! I have a fun layer-y card for today: papers:  fancy pants designs/memories captured  stamps:  reverse confetti label me/beautiful banners/whole lotta dots  ink:  hero arts hues/black, zing/white

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Curtain Call : Something Simple week 2

cardstock:  gmund savana, paper accents vellum  stamps:  unity  laughter, imagination, dreams ink:  hero arts hues, copic  other:  may arts twine There is still time to play with us at Curtain Call Inspiration challenge: Something Simple Our Super Sponsor is, Unity Stamp Company!  Unity provided each of us on the Curtain Call Design Team with an

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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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