Sending Encourage- MINT | Lawn Fawn

  Happy Monday.  It’s always tough to get back into the swing of things after a long weekend.  I decided to whip up a card this morning. I’ve been wanting to ink up the Lawn Fawn – How you Bean?  Mint Add-On.  I colored them like the Starlight Chocolate Mints.    I LOVE the Stitched

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Joy | Reverse Confetti

  How was your Thanksgiving?  Ours was great, all the kids under one roof!  We dropped my boy off at the airport this morning and he’s back to his place in New York.  I think I took a 3 hour nap and decided to finish up this card. Minimal stamping, do you see the J

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Happy Thanksgiving | Pigment Craft Co

affiliate links at no extra cost to you. My first non-caffeinated design in what seems like a long time.  We’ve almost wrapped up the Fall | Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.  The Designer Picks post tomorrow at 6 am pacific, make sure to check it out HERE. Today I’m sharing a card that features products

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Noel | Reverse Confetti

  Hello and Happy Monday!  I designed a holiday card using Reverse Confetti. This clean + crisp design features the Holiday Gnomes.  I was inspired by a card designed by my friend Kathy Schweinfurth. I added the following cardstock colors: Brick Lead Midnight Premier Polar White Did you hear about Reverse Confetti’s SALE: I was

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Let it Snow | Lawn Fawn

  As I’m finishing up the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop, I decided to take a break and make a cute critters card. I combined the following Lawn Fawn Sets: Believe in Yourself Furry and Bright Germ Free Bear Llama Tell You Meow You Doin’ Yeti or Not Winter Owl Giant Let It Snow Stitched Snowflake

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Happy Birthday to Ellen Hutson LLC!

  YAY!  Ellen Hutson LLC is celebrating 15 Years this month, how awesome is that?!  Save 20% through November 17th!  A super special gift is the HB2U set for qualifying purchases of $100+.   The set will automatically be added to your order! I whipped up a couple cards.  My overall color palette is: Concord &

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Consume Coffee | Coffee Lovers Blog Hop | Stampin’ Up

  Happy Sunday!  I’m back with my 4th Hop card!  In case you haven’t heard, the Fall | Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop started Friday!  Link up a coffee, tea, cocoa or hot apple cider project for a chance to win!   Today’s card features stamps from Super Sponsor, Shannon Fralish, Stampin’ Up Independent Demonstrator: This card features

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Pink Power Blog Hop: Never underestimate the power of a woman.

Chaitali has rounded up some of her crafty friends to help spread BC awareness. This is a cause close to her heart after her mom was diagnosed with BC earlier this year. She designed the Pink Power set for her mom with a lot of love. She is sponsoring this hop with the set for the hop guests. We

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bring on the merry!

…and I’m back with another holiday card. cardstock:  pti white/black, bazzill neon  stamps:  reverse confetti/bring on the merry  ink:  zing white, wplus9 white  other:  paper smooches poinsettia die, mme washi, yns gold nugget gum drop  So, I didn’t craft at all yesterday {gasp!}.  I played with Katie, we went to a pretty fun crafty garage

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you are one of a kind

Before we know it, it’ll be November.  I’m trying to get in a Holiday State of Mind: So I picked up the Teresa Collins’ Something Wonderful 6×6 at Impress for 40% off.  It’s an awesome collection of papers!  I combined it with Paper Smooches’ Fresh Snow.  Something that I always forget to do is heat

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give thanks.

This is post 2 of 2…click HERE for my Your Next Stamp Fun Friday Challenge If you know me, you know that I love a good challenge.  I don’t know what I would do without all the various challenge blogs out there.  It’s definitely overwhelming trying to keep up with everything.  Personally, I think challenges

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Your Next Stamp Fun Friday Challenge: coffee and a good book

this is post 1 of 2…click HERE for my give thanks post Howdy! I’m having fun with the Your Next Stamp Design Team this month! Today, we’re playing along in the Fun Friday Challenge! You can play along using the sketch: or the Inspirational Photo: For all the challenge details, please check the YNS Challenge

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Fusion: You are my sunshine

post 2 of 2 for me today…click HERE for my Grateful post. Hello! Today is the start of a new Fusion Card Challenge: Super fun, right?! Today, I used the photo as my inspiration: cardbase:  michael’s  journal cards:  simple stories/a charmed life  other:  doodlebug enamel dots, canvas corp clothespin I used pieces from the Simple

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grateful.

post 1 of 2 for me today…Click HERE for my Fusion post. So, on Tuesday night I went to my last High School Open house.  It’s kind of weird to think of it that way.  My boy is a Senior this year. Wow.  This is the boy that wrote on his face with marker, gave

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Chickaniddy Crafts: Thankful

Hello!   Today is my day up on the Chickaniddy Crafts Blog! My assignment was to create a thankful card, and I had a ton of fun! Here’s a sneak peek: I’d love for you to pop over to the Chickaniddy Blog and say Hi!

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Curtain Call Smooch: You’re Lovely.

There is still time to join us for the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Smooch!  You have until October 10th at 8:00 AM CDT to be inspired and share your project! Our Super Sponsor is Paper Smooches I was super lucky to be able to play with Paper Smooches’ Blossoming Buds: This is definitely my favorite Paper Smooches Floral set.

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holiday cheer

So on World Card Making Day I had some crafty girls come over to help me celebrate! Lisa shared Sam E. Snowman with us and I had a ball with him: cardstock:  pti, michael’s card base  other:  a jillian vance/sam e. snowman,  paper smooches sentiment, memory box texture disperse Gah, look at his sweet face!

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