Two Paper Divas Guest Designer: June recap

Hello!  This is my final post as the June Guestie over at Two Paper Divas!  I’ve had such a fun time over there.  I’m going to show you my card for today plus the other previously posted ones that were up on the Two Paper Divas blog. Many of you know that we’ve been wrapping

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Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop – Final Day!

Friday, already?  I was able to post one card a day during the hop.  I wish I could have made more projects, but there just isn’t enough time in the day to get everything done!  I noticed there were several crafters that way exceeded daily postings —-> YAY! Okay, let’s get to it, eh?! I

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Right at Home: Happy Mail

Hello, I’m up on the Right at Home blog today!  I love the Happy Mail set! I used it in a clean + simple design.  The circular stamp with the layered bloom makes for a great focal point. I’m always a happy crafter when I can design a postal friendly design too.  Aren’t the colors

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Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop – Day 7

Can you believe that tomorrow is the final day for the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog hop?!  The week has flown by and I’m lovin’ the awesome gallery of inspiration! I have a pretty clean + crisp card that was inspired by my Reverse Confetti teamie, Leigh Penner.  I was inspired by her design and used

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Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop – Day 6

I’m popping in speedy quick as I should be preparing lunch.  I invited my Momma over and haven’t even started cooking it yet (thanks to Blue Apron for the help!).   Have you linked up to the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop?  Although this isn’t a blaring coffee card, I did manage to include a

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Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop – Day 5

I’m up on the Hero Arts blog today using Kelly’s Seattle set but I’m also featuring a different Seattle project using the Destination Seattle stamp, here on my blog: Even though the stamp has such modern images, I tend to go with minimal coloring and distress inking the edges.  This time I cropped the image

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Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop – Day 4

Hello!  We’re on Day 4 of the Summer Hop!  It’s been so much fun seeing all of the great projects in the inlinkz gallery!  We’re already on page 2…how many do you think the final count will be?  I’m trying to keep up with the commenting AND the linking and today I actually have 2

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June Guest: Two Paper Divas

Hello!  I’m up on the Two Paper Divas blog sharing a card that uses the following fun stamp sets: Coffee On the Go Keep Calm and Drink I was also inspired by their June Sketch challenge: My card is perfect for the Summer Coffee Lovers blog hop that is still going strong! Pop over to

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Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop – Day 3!

Hello!  We’re on Day 3 of the Summer Coffee Lovers blog hop!  We’re also on page 2 of the linkies and at the time of this post, 208 linkies strong! Here’s a postal friend, one layer card: I’m so happy to see Clare Brennan now with Gina K Designs! Check out the We Go Together

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Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop – Day 2!

Happy Saturday!  Getting a late start but wanted to make sure that I posted a card for Day 2 of the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop! I used the Sweet Stamp Shop – Muggin’ I was inspired by Freshly Made Sketches: Did you see  the Sweet Stamp Shop sale code especially for Coffee Hoppers? For all

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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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oh yes, you did!

So, who has a card making hangover? LOL Lotsa fun yesterday, hope you were able to get crafty for World Card Making Day! Today, Darin & I are hoping to get out on a flight.  I always love to go to Friday Harbor, but we’ll see where we end up! It’s no secret that I

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sending you a latte thanks.

Happy World Card Making Day!!! So, today is my wrap up for my National Coffee Week.  I’ve had so much fun featuring some of my favorite coffee stamps.  Truthfully, the week barely made a dent in my coffee inventory.  I have several more coffee stamp sets on my wish list after the spectacular Coffee Lovers

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oh, hello.

Hello and Happy Friday! We’re up to day 6 of 7 here in coffee land. I have a card that I made speedy quick: cardstock:  pti  paper:  studio calico/brighton pier, paper accents vellum  stamps:  reverse confetti/be a barista/forever fall   ink:  hero arts hues, copics, zing white  other:  circle die Thanks to Lisa Henke for

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