You are Turtley Awesome | Waffle Flower Crafts

Happy World Turtle Day! I’m celebrating with this card that features the following Waffle Flower Crafts products: I’m still in my Blue Era and loving those blue turtles! Here are my earlier projects: Under the Sea Trio Hello Duo Explore the Under the Sea Collection Monochromatic Card Design with Coffee Inspiration Some links are affiliate

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The Ultimate Coffee Cup | Not 2 Shabby

I’m so excited to be guesting for the Not 2 Shabby Ultimate Coffee Cup Die Set release that has been designed by LV Handcrafted. Let’s chat about the shaped card first: I combined these Not 2 Shabby products: The Thanks so much was cut using the coordinating The Ultimate Sentiments Universal Die. I used the

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Spring Summer Coffee Lovers blog hop | Brass & Bliss Craft Co

Have you checked out the 2026 Spring Summer Coffee Lovers blog hop yet? There are 16 stops with loads of inspiration and over $400 in prizes! Today I’m featuring Brass & Bliss Craft Co. One of the 15 Super Sponsors for this years hop! They have a couple new caffeinated products that just released. Let’s

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Coffee Date with Marisa + Giveaway!

I’m up on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters blog with a coffee date with Marisa! Marisa suggested we both use the Spellbinders Just Add Cake Birthday Cardmaking kit. I’m so glad that she did because I hadn’t dived into my kit yet. I’m going to share a sneak peek of my card but you’ll need to

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Bee Happy | Lawn Fawn

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Bumblebee I was inspired by the colors +theme. My card features the following Lawn Fawn products: My card was also inspired by the current Lawn Fawnatics: My Concord & 9th color palette is: I can’t wait to see how you’re

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Unique Twilight Birthday Cards: Cupcake and Shaker Designs

Challenge: Design a Twilight themed birthday card for a female in high school This is when I say that I haven’t read the books or watched the movies. I just know it is vampires. I decided to design two cards, let’s chat about the cupcake one first: I decided to use the book cover as

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Monochromatic Card Design with Coffee Inspiration

I had an idea that I playing with in my head after I designed THIS card. I challenged myself to create a more monochromatic design with a caffeinated spin. I’m featuring: *retired I didn’t achieve full monochromatic but that’s okay. I’ve really been on a blue kick and I love how peachy corals so with

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Have a Happy Day | Lawn Fawn

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Frogs I was inspired by the colors +theme. My card features the following Lawn Fawn products from Doodlebugswa: Evidently, I’m still in my blue era. My card was also inspired by the current Lawn Fawnatics: This is always such a

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Explore the Under the Sea Collection by Waffle Flower

I’m back with another card featuring the Waffle Flower – Under the Sea collection: This turned out a bit brighter than I’m used to but it’s growing on me. The sentiment was stamped on the stamp color panel as the stenciling. I’m featuring: In case you missed my earlier projects: Here are my other two:

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Neat & Tangled September Release: My Plate is Full

…and I’m back with Day 3 of the Neat & Tangled September Release! Today’s stamp set and coordinating die is a ‘must have’. My Plate is Full My Plate is Full Nice & Neat Dies I had so much fun putting this together: I still adore the chalkboard technique and decided to go with a

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congratulations.

So, I recently found out that a friend of mine became engaged!   How exciting! I’ve been wanting to use my Avery Elle Petals & Stems so this was the perfect opportunity: apologizing for the poor photos…I snapped pics before I left to meet up with the happy engaged girl:) cardstock:  pti white, stampin’ up

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Neat & Tangled September Release: Be Full

Welcome to Day 2 of the Neat & Tangled September Release! How did you like Day 1?! I know, cute eh?!! Today we have another 3×4 Classic Danielle image! Be Full I absolutely ADORE this one!  Did you see Danielle’s freebie that she  posted last week HERE? So one of my favorite Fall Inspired paper

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Neat & Tangled September Release: Creepy Cute

Today starts the Neat & Tangled September Release previews! You are going to love this release for its fun packed images! Let’s get started with: Creepy Cute Um yeah, way cute, eh? Creepy Cute Shadow/Sentiments genius! Creepy Cute Nice and Neat Dies Yay for dies! …and the new Spooktacular Sequin Mix! Okay, I kinda went

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grow old along with me.

On Friday I had lunch with former co-workers.  I always realize how much I miss them when we get together…it’s often quite a span of time in between meetings but we catch up without any hesitations…that’s friendship.  As an added bonus to my day, I went shopping afterwards. There aren’t many local crafts stores around

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Chickaniddy Crafts: Happy Fall

Post 2 of 2 for me today…click HERE for my So Thankful for You post. Hello & Happy Saturday! I’m up on the Chickaniddy Crafts Blog today with a Fall Inspired card! Here’s a peek: It’s a card that I made especially for my girl!  She’s living on her own {with 2 roomies!} and starting

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so thankful for you & publications

post 1 of 2 for me…click HERE for my Chickaniddy Crafts project. By now, it shouldn’t be a surprise that I’m a Stampin’ Up Fan {again}.  We have this friendly challenge among a group of us, which includes Katie, Kimberly & Tonya.  This time Katie picked THIS as our challenge.  Here’s a quick peek at

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celebrate autumn

Autumn…it is my favorite season of the year. The Pacific Northwest has been having an unusually warm summer.  Definitely not what I signed up for…I love the PNW for the mild weather we typically have. Anyways, when I design with apples, I always think of Washington State. cardstock:  pti kraft  other:  impress felt, dcwv felt,

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you are the best

I love color. How about you? cardstock:  PTI white, stampin’ up crushed curry/pixie pink  stamps:  reverse confetti all about you/so stripey/whole lotta dots  ink:  impress fresh ink charcoal, zing white  other:  lawn fawn journal die, reverse confetti tag me too die I had fun with a whole lotta Reverse Confetti. I was inspired by the

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hippo birdie seattle style!

Hello! Blogging late & live! Wednesday’s…I Love Wednesday’s…it’s one of my days off.  I’ve been up since 3 am cranking out cards…Pssstttt…Neat & Tangled’s September Release starts this Monday and um, you’re going to LOVE it!!!! This little card was being quite squirrely…it wouldn’t keep rockin’ while I attempted to take a photo… cardstock:  PTI

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