Together | Hero Arts

This month the challenge is: Happy Anniversary – It’s all about Anniversaries and Birthdays! Here’s how I was inspired: Today I’m featuring the Hero Arts: The floral bouquet has been heat embossed in copper on vellum. After using the copper glitter paper for the tag detail, I decided to use the circle negative cuts as

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Cheers | Lawn Fawn

Happy Thursday, there is a new Inspired By…challenge! Every Thursday there will be a new inspiration photo and optional sketch! Here’s how I was inspired: I was inspired by the: I’m featuring the following products by Lawn Fawn: I also added the Waffle Flower Crafts – Subsentiments Hello | Diecut Sheet. I can’t wait to see

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You are the Coolest | Doodlebugswa

I’m back with another project for Doodlebugs… Today’s project features the following products from Doodlebugswa: A majority of the pieces for this card were floating around on my desk. I challenged myself to clean up and add some Lawn Fawn and Concord & 9th pieces. The sentiments have been heat embossed in white. The ‘you

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Peace, Love and Coffee | Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #28

New month means a brand new challenge and sponsor over on the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge! We’re excited to announce Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps as our sponsor for the month of April: For all the details about the challenge, please visit the post HERE. Here’s how I was inspired: I combined the following products available

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Lunar New Year Challenge | April 2024

We’re back with the April 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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Hello Friend | Woodblock Wednesday Reminder

I’m back with a reminder for this month’s Woodblock Wednesday! Check the link up post HERE. Today’s project features these stamps by Impress: I’ve been on a strawberry kick. Love them! Before I go, I did want to announce my next Woodblock Wednesday: My card was inspired by Freshly Made Sketches: Some links may be

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Be Pawsitive | Lawn Fawn

Happy Saturday! I’m linking up to the Lawn Fawnatics challenge – Inspired by book, movie or song: Any guesses? Perhaps I’m showing my age? I went pretty clean + simple on my overall design. I really wanted to pile stuff onto that circle panel but decided to keep it clean. The Lawn Fawn products I’m

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This is your Year | Lunar New Year Challenge + MFT Stamps

We’re so excited to be collaborating with MFT Stamps! Check out the Lunar New Year Challenge blog for all the details! Here’s how I was inspired: I had so much fun designing this project that features: I think that BB Magical Dragon was meant to be on that LLD All-Star High Top, how about you?

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Translation: Thank You | Lawn Fawn

Happy Thursday, there is a new Inspired By…challenge! Every Thursday there will be a new inspiration photo and optional sketch! Here’s how I was inspired: I was inspired by the: I’m featuring the following products by Lawn Fawn: The Concord & 9th cardstock colors: The sentiment has been heat embossed in white on a black cardstock

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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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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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