Cocoa & Jammies | Impression Obsession

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 available at Impression Obsession: Other products I added: My Concord & 9th color palette: I can’t wait to see how my

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Birthday Brew | Newton’s Nook Designs

Have you checked out Newton’s Nook Designs latest release? It is packed with caffeinated designs! My project today features: *previously released Do you see what I did? I punched small holes along the stitched border of the Heart Frame and used embroidery thread. I had quite the stash of thread and then found 2 full

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Happy Wishes | Doodlebugswa

I’m back with another project for Doodlebugs… Today’s project features the following products from Doodlebugswa: Are you a knitter or do you have some knitting friends/family? I really want to pick it up as a hobby but honestly, I have several cross stitch projects that I’ve purchased and have yet to start… Doodlebugs offers $2

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Happy New Year | Lawn Fawn

I’m sliding in on the final day to link up to the Lawn Fawnatics – Coffee, Tea and Treats challenge: I originally started this project with my Mom in mind. I was going to send it to her for New Years. I was really trying to make the Stitched Mug Frame look like a tea

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Ornament Greetings Duo | The Foiled Fox

Hello and Happy Saturday! I’m excited to be a Guest Designer for The Foiled Fox. I’m sharing two projects, here’s a peek at one of them. Read all about it over on The Foiled Fox blog. Affiliate links used at no extra cost to you:

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Happy Holidays | Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #24 – Reminder

We’re still going strong over on the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge! Frantic Stamper is our sponsor for the month of December: For the details about the challenge, please visit the challenge post HERE. Here’s how I was inspired: This month’s theme is: Snowman I’m featuring the following products from our sponsor Frantic Stamper: I love

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Magical Season | The Foiled Fox + Papertrey Ink

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 available at The Foiled Fox: The Concord & 9th colors that I used: I can’t wait to see how my teamies

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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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