Stories of Stamps, Paper and…

Post 1 of 2 for me today…click HERE for the new Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge. Hello! I’m super excited to announce that I’ve been asked to join  Stories of Stamps, Paper and… My first international Design Team! The designers on this team are wonderful and I hope that you’ll join in the monthly challenges!  

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keep it real

Hello! Keepin’ it real cardstock:  pti white, stampin’ up hello honey & bermuda bay  stamps:  stampin’ up dotty angles & hello love  ink:  fresh ink pool/harvest  misc:  freckled fawn arrow So Kimberly challenged Tonya and I to colour me! I really LOVE this color combo.  I substituted coastal cabana with bermuda bay. I used Stampin’

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love you

Happy Saturday! So Friday’s are really the start to my weekend.  Yesterday I may have rolled out of bed at 1:30 or 2:00 am…I know crazy!  I was super productive but this is when I also tell you that I have to take daily naps! Here’s one of the cards I made yesterday: cardstock:  pti

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Jingle Belles: September Sketch Challenge

Hello! I’m super excited to announce that I’m a guestie over at Jingle Belles I’ve had the pleasure of being long time bloggie friends with both Lauren & Stephanie….and I’ve had the utmost delight of being able to meet up with Lauren 3 times in the last year!  Call me lucky. So I was asked

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Fusion Challenge: good day sunshine

this is post 2 of 2 for me today…click HERE for my Whisker Graphics/Project Life post. Hello!   I’m thrilled to tell you that I’m back on the Fusion Design Team!  So happy to be surrounded by such talented designers! Check out the new challenge: I decided to go with the sketch: paper:  chickaniddy crafts/scrumptious/back

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Whisker Graphics: dream in color

Click HERE for my Fusion Challenge post. Hello!  Today, I’m up on the Whisker Graphics Blog! I gotta tell you, I really LOVE Whisker Graphics/Divine Twine products.  They are super versatile.  You’ve seen some of my altered Middy Bitty Bags that I use for Gift Card Sets…Here and Here. Here’s a Gold Horizontal Stripe Middy

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two for me, one for you

Blogging live and late this morning! On FB other day, I posted my recent haul from Ellen’s.   The beauty of this particular purchase is that I had a Gift Card from Taheerah that I used!  Bonus points that Ellen is about 10 minutes away from me! Jennifer Rzasa challenged me to use all those in

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you can never have too much happy.

Hello & Happy Monday! Here’s an almost all Stampin’ Up card: cardstock:  stampin’ up chocolate chip/crushed curry/bermuda bay & very vanilla  stamps:  stampin’ up I like you/yippee skippee  ink:  memento rich cocoa, fresh ink chamomile  other:  pebbles glitter washi, stampin’ up banners framelits, stampin’ up modern mosaic embossing folders One of my new favorite fall

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Curtain Call Lovely Leaves Reminder: Fall

post 2 of 2 today…click HERE for my Cure for the Monday Blues cardstock:  PTI kraft, misc ivory  stamps:  precious remembrance/fall colors  ink:  fresh ink honey/harvest/pumpkin/cocoa, delicata gold  other:  mt washi There is still time to join us for the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Lovely Leaves!  You have until September 10th at 8:00 AM CDT to be inspired

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whisker graphics: be happy

So, in the last several months I’ve managed to accumulate a bazillion project life cards…I love them but seem to hoard them {go figure}. Today’s project features some of those hoarded beauties in non-project life designs. First up, the ‘envelope’: whisker graphics middy glassine bag, we r memory keepers simply happy journal card, bo bunny

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Create a Smile Guestie: joy

I’m so excited to be the August Guestie over at create a smile Have you seen the new August Release?! Such FABulous new sets, Jungle Fever & Your View. Today I am featuring the Your View set: Switching gears on you and designing a winter theme card! How adorable is that snowman?!! I used my

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behr hello.

Home Depot anyone? I may have gathered a handful of behr paint chips.  One day I will paint in my ‘design studio’.  If you’ve been following me for awhile, you may remember that green is my favorite color. Lovin’ the Technique Tuesday Straight Talk dies. I was inspired by The Cutting Edge While it seemed

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hello neon pink.

I love working with neon, check it out paired up with kraft:  I used the Radiant Neon Electric Pink with a Memory Box Modern Pop Dots Stencil. The sentiment is from Avery Elle’s Brushed set. I’m linking up to the AEI♥U Challenge Kraft Thanks for stoppin’ by and have a SUPER week!

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sweet as can be.

Hello & Happy Sunday! This card has a bunch of goodness: The card base is this glorious woodgrain manufactured by Gmund.    The paper is all Chickaniddy Crafts!  BTW, have your seen Chickaniddy’s Craft Team Call?! The sentiment is Altenew and has been heat embossed in gold.  It brings out the gold foil banner and

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sunny mason jar.

Happy Saturday! I’m back with another shaped card, this one is a petite 3.25 inches tall: cardstock:  pti  paper:  simon says stamp august card kit  stamps:  jane’s doodles life is good, neat & tangled clouds  ink:  hero arts hues  other:  freckled fawn wood veneer, martha glitter, divine twine solid blue The jar is from Jane’s

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orla summer

So I picked up a We R Memory Keepers stamp at a local scrapbooking shop: cardstock:  pti  stamps:  we r memory keepers/72 & sunny  ink:  fresh ink teal/tomato red & birch hero arts hues Just a clean & simple card that actually took me several times until I just gave up and went with the

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Curtain Call Bow Tie Reminder: you’re wonderful

Click HERE for the Create a Smile August Blog Hop! cardstock:  stampin’ up so saffron  paper:  fancy pants designs as you wish  stamps:  waffle flower bowtiful  ink:  fresh ink navy  other:  waffle flower mailable bow, fancy pants designs button, divine twine solid white There is still time to join us for the Curtain Call Inspiration

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Create a Smile August Blog Hop: Hope your day is special

Click HERE for Curtain Call Challenge Create A Smile is a new stamp company in town – their first stamps were released in July 2014. The stamps are made of high quality photo-polymer and produced in Germany. They will for sure make you smile! These are the facts: Create A Smile is releasing two sets TOMORROW! You can find

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just waving hi.

So, I’m an impatient grasshopper. I took a bunch of pictures last night and when I was editing, I didn’t like any of them.  Today is a typical gloomy Seattle morning {Yay for the weather change, it was just too hot!} and I don’t have any natural sunlight so I went outside.  Think of it

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