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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hello

Happy Thursday! I didn’t have a post scheduled for today…totally mismanaged my time over the weekend and thought that I had created a post for today and hadn’t.  Then I put together a Throwback Thursday post, highlighting June 5th posts from 2008-2013.  I got to thinking about that and didn’t like that idea anymore. Perfect

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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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