Happy Birthday | Simon Says Stamp

I’m back with a birthday card. Did you catch my earlier Centenarian Birthday Card Request? You could be the lucky winner of a $20 Gift card: If you were following me last year, you might remember that I did a call out for Birthday cards for my former Mother-in-law’s 99th birthday. I’m doing it again

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Snowflake Soiree | Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #55

New month means a brand new challenge over on the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge! Let’s get to this month’s challenge: Here’s how I was inspired: My project features these products by The Greetery: These are the Catherine Pooler ink colors I used: *retired The Coaster and base are Bazzill – Marshmallow. My last card contains

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Seas & Greetings | My Pretty Things

Have you checked out the newest release from My Pretty Things – Life InDex?! There’s still time to comment over on instagram for a chance to win! I have the direct links to each hop stop HERE. I’m back with a new project, here’s how I was inspired: This card features: The colors were inspired

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My Pretty Things – Life InDex Release IG Hop

My Pretty Things’ Life InDex Release is now in-store, and it makes memory keeping easy with perfectly sized products for all papercrafters!! Forget those rolodex and boxes for specialized dies. MPT’s new line is sized to fit 4”x6” index cards for easy storage in pocket pages, index boxes, scrapbooking, albums, or even cards. There is

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Rebrand | Simon Says Stamp

Simon Says Stamp has a NEW SHINE ON Release! There are so many amazing products! Today I’m playing with: I also added these Simon Says Stamp products: I also used Spellbinders ColorWheel Cardstock: This sentiment is something that resonates with me. I went through a divorce back in 2006. I had 2 young children, was

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June Edition | Woodblock Wednesday

Edited to Add Winner: I used random.org to pick the winner: JB Yay Congrats! I’ll send you an email! Please note the next Woodblock Wednesday is: Wednesday, July 29. I’m back with another edition of Woodblock Wednesday! Although there’s no official sponsor, I wanted give away a prize. One lucky random project with a US

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you can never have too much happy.

Hello & Happy Monday! Here’s an almost all Stampin’ Up card: cardstock:  stampin’ up chocolate chip/crushed curry/bermuda bay & very vanilla  stamps:  stampin’ up I like you/yippee skippee  ink:  memento rich cocoa, fresh ink chamomile  other:  pebbles glitter washi, stampin’ up banners framelits, stampin’ up modern mosaic embossing folders One of my new favorite fall

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Curtain Call Lovely Leaves Reminder: Fall

post 2 of 2 today…click HERE for my Cure for the Monday Blues cardstock:  PTI kraft, misc ivory  stamps:  precious remembrance/fall colors  ink:  fresh ink honey/harvest/pumpkin/cocoa, delicata gold  other:  mt washi There is still time to join us for the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Lovely Leaves!  You have until September 10th at 8:00 AM CDT to be inspired

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you make life sweet

post 1 of 2 for today…click HERE for Curtain Call Reminder:  Lovely Leaves Hello! I’ve been crafting at a much slower pace these days.  It isn’t that my mojo is lacking, it’s that I have been overwhelmed with so much inspiration these days.  It’s overload on my poor crafty brain. Here’s a clean & simple

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smarty pants.

So, Project Life/Pocket Scrapbooking. Love the concept of scrapbooking on a smaller scale. A big shout out to Sherry for encouraging me to get something done yesterday…although I finished up on it this morning. pocket scrapbooking cards: mambi/memories  stamps:  sweet stamp shop/monogram alpha, studio calico/scrapbook add-on/july 2013, avocado arts/days & months, avery elle/hipster-potamos  other:  mme

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The SRM Sticker September Challenge: the colors of fall

I’m so excited to announce that I’m the Guest Designer for SRM Stickers September 2014 Challenges How can you not be inspired by all this fun?! I decided to concentrate on the sketch and a fall harvest theme: paper:  fancy pants design/everyday circus, paper accents/vellum  other:  little yellow bicycle cork, srm stickers sentiment/fall & sentiment/life

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carbs, schmarbs!

post 2 of 2 for me today…click HERE for my Sweet Stamp Shop card. In motivation for us to use our growing Stampin’ Up supplies, Kimberly, Tonya & I have been throwing out weekly challenges. In this card, I used: Life’s Adventure & Yippee-Skippee {seriously, you just gotta own this set for the name}  I

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home is where the anchor drops.

Post 1 of 2 for me today…click HERE for my carbs card. So many stamps, not enough time. I’m trying to catch up on my stamp purchases…what a problem to have, eh?  Obviously, I may or may not have a shopping issues (sigh), but I can’t resist cute stuff. Here’s a card using 2 new

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happy blooming birthday

Back to work…I’ve had the last 6 days off! Here’s a clean & graphic card: The bloom & sentiment are from the Stampin’ Up Flower Patch set.  It’s photopolymer and has coordinating dies.  Have I mentioned my new love for Stampin’ Up?   I stamped the bloom with Distress Ink/Crushed Olive and then used a

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Curtain Call Lovely Leaves: So Very Blessed

Please click HERE for my Virginia’s View Challenge post. Please click HERE for my Creative Blog Hop post. It’s time for a new Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge! I was inspired by: the colors leaves = fall = thankful Did you know that Neat & Tangled is now selling “Nice and Neat Dies“?!!! I used the A

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