Lunar New Year Challenge | October 2024

We’re back with the October Lunar New Year Challenge! The Year of the Rabbit ended on February 9th. The Year of the Dragon started on February 10, 2024 and runs through January 28, 2025. Make sure you check the challenge blog for the prizes up for grabs this month! For today’s new challenge post, I

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Big Owl + Friends Wrap Up

Were you able to check out the Big Owl & Friends Instagram Hop? It was so much fun! I love the different styles of projects: You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter Thank you to my Guest Designers and to everyone that hopped along with us! I loved every project!

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Coffee Break | Doodlebugswa for National Coffee Day

I’m back with another project for Doodlebugs… This one is for National Coffee Day! Make sure you check out the hop, it starts over on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters blog. Today’s project features the following products from Doodlebugswa: I knew I wanted to design a shaker card and this one makes me a happy crafter!

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Coffee Saves Lives | Miss Ink Stamps for National Coffee Day

It’s Sunday and usually my day up on the Miss Ink Stamps blog. It’s National Coffee Day and Miss Ink Stamps is one of the many Sponsors for the National Coffee Day blog hop that starts over on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters blog! Here’s how I was inspired: I combined the following Miss Ink Stamps

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Cozy Congrats | Deborah’s 2K Celebration Hop

Welcome to Deborah’s @hellmad 2K Celebration Hop! Thank you to all of the wonderful crafters and sponsors for making this hop possible. This hop celebrates the amazing support within the crafting/cardmaking community. Think: Apple Crisp Oatmilk Macchiato My project features the following products from participating sponsors for today’s hop: Eligibility for prizes: $1230 in PRIZES:

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Peace Love & Coffee | National Coffee Week

I’m up on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters blog today. Here’s a bit of a sneak peek of my project that I’m sharing: For all the details, please hop over to the Coffee Loving Papercrafters blog. In case you didn’t know, Sunday is National Coffee Day and we’ll be celebrating with a blog hop over on

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Sending Sweetness | Mama Elephant Stamp Highlight

Today I’m joining in the Mama Elephant festivities – Stamp Highlight : Little Agenda Sweets I’m back with another shaker card! This project features: *previously released These pastel-y color palettes are so super sweet but boy, they are a challenge to photog! Do you spy the glitter? Thanks so much for stopping by! Some links

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Happy Fall | Lawn Fawn

…SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATED SALES… Happy Thursday, there is a new Inspired By…challenge! Here’s how I was inspired: I was inspired by the: I was also inspired by the current Lawn Fawnatics challenge – Awesome Autumn: My project combines the following Lawn Fawn products: The shaker bits are by Pretty Pink Posh. We can’t wait to

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Happy Hollydays | Mama Elephant Stamp Highlight

Today I’m joining in the Mama Elephant festivities – Stamp Highlight : Holly and Leaves I adore this set for the gorgeous foliage and super fun sentiments. Buy the coordinating dies to also have the coordinating sentiment dies. Yes, another traditional color palette. I can’t believe it but I just adore those mini poms I

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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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