Happy Mother’s Day | Spellbinders

Thank you to my friends at Spellbinders for sending me some products to play with. Here’s how I was inspired today: Today’s project features the following NEW Spellbinders products from the Spring in Kyoto Collection by Alex Syberia Designs: I also used these Spellbinder products: I absolutely LOVE this collection. I know that I’ve said

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Spring in Kyoto | Spellbinders

Thank you to my friends at Spellbinders for sending me some products to play with. Here’s how I was inspired today: Today’s project features the following NEW Spellbinders products from the Spring in Kyoto Collection by Alex Syberia Designs: I also used these Spellbinder products: I absolutely LOVE this collection. I know that I’ve said

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Just a Note | Brass & Bliss Craft Co

Hello and Happy Saturday! I’m excited to be up on the Brass & Bliss Craft Co blog. These are the Brass & Bliss Craft Co products I’m featuring today: Make sure you check out Brass and Bliss Craft Co Shop! Affiliate links used at no extra cost to you:

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Honey | Catherine Pooler

Have you checked out the NEW Catherine Pooler – Hey There Honey? I’ve been inspired by so many of the projects that feature this new collection. I’m back with another card: I had so much fun with the new products! Here is what I combined for today’s card: Originally I had the honey sentiment with

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Flowers | Angie Blom Digital Designs

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Basket of Flowers I was inspired by the colors + flowers. My card features the following products: I used Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers. Can you tell that the peony on the right was colored with the Vanilla marker?

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Hey There Honey | Catherine Pooler Release Day

Today is the day…the Catherine Pooler – Hey There Honey is now available in the shop! I designed this especially for today: I had so much fun with the new products! Here is what I combined for today’s card: *previously released **Special Edition Boo Box 2024 I’m smitten with that cute bear! In case you

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Take Note Guest Designer | Spellbinders

Hello and Happy Tuesday! I’m excited to be up on the Spellbinders blog. I have a bit of a sneak peek of one of my three projects that I designed especially for today: Make sure you check out the Spellbinders blog + Spellbinders Shop! I wanted to go ahead and also create a new project

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Happy Birthday Cupcake and Coffee | Doodlebugswa

I’m back with another project for Doodlebugs… Today’s project features the following products from Doodlebugswa: These are the Distress Oxides I used: Here’s to a fantastic day! Doodlebugs offers $2 shipping for orders over $35 and FREE shipping over $65:

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Hey There, Honey – Sneak | Catherine Pooler

Have you heard the news? Catherine Pooler Designs is releasing Hey There, Honey this week! Here’s a sneak peek for today: Today’s project features: I used the new Amber on the honey pot and Honeycomb is on that sweet new bear. I did direct to paper coloring on the ruffled layered in Quartz. That is

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Sending Christmas Joy | Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #41

New month means a brand new challenge over on the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge! Just a reminder about the changes to the challenge: For all the details about the challenge, please visit the post HERE. Here’s how I was inspired: The team is featuring the coffee and/or cocoa projects. How does that inspire you? My

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happy blooming birthday

Back to work…I’ve had the last 6 days off! Here’s a clean & graphic card: The bloom & sentiment are from the Stampin’ Up Flower Patch set.  It’s photopolymer and has coordinating dies.  Have I mentioned my new love for Stampin’ Up?   I stamped the bloom with Distress Ink/Crushed Olive and then used a

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Curtain Call Lovely Leaves: So Very Blessed

Please click HERE for my Virginia’s View Challenge post. Please click HERE for my Creative Blog Hop post. It’s time for a new Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge! I was inspired by: the colors leaves = fall = thankful Did you know that Neat & Tangled is now selling “Nice and Neat Dies“?!!! I used the A

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The Creative Blog Hop

Please click HERE for my Virginia’s View Challenge post. Please click HERE for my Curtain Call Lovely Leaves post. By now you have likely heard of The Creative Blog Hop and today I am here to share my story with you. Michele Ferguson (I Card Everyone) tagged me last week in her blog post HERE. I

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Virginia’s View Challenge #7: …and away we go…

Please click HERE for my Creative Blog Hop post. Please click HERE for my Curtain Call Lovely Leaves post. So excited to be a Guest Designer for Virginia’s View Challenge #7 Pattern Paper I love pattern AND color….always have and always will. I wanted to feature 2 cards that use paper from the same collection,

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☀☀ walking on sunshine ☀☀

Following in the lovely Chrissy Larson’s footsteps, I had Walking on Sunshine on my mind while making this project: cardstock:  pti  stamps:  recollections ikat background, butterfly reflections ink/head in the clouds/over the rainbow  ink:  hero arts hues, a muse/blackberry, hero arts dauber/butter cup  other:  paper accents vellum, whisker graphics black horizontal stripe middy bag, pebbles

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so sweet of you.

Here’s today’s card: cardstock:  pti  stamps:  stampin’ up/hello there    ink:  hero arts hues  fresh ink refills/tangerine/pumpkin & lemonade  other:  label from stampin’ up calypso coral celebration add on kit, embossing paste, memory box stencil We have a friendly challenge toss, so to speak.  Kimberly, Tonya and I have been challenging each other to use our Stampin’

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Crafty News!

        I’m super thrilled to announce that I’m continuing on the   2014 -2015 Chickaniddy Crafts Team   I’m super grateful for the opportunity to play with Heidi’s new collections! Make sure you stop by the Chickaniddy Crafts blog to see the NEW Design Team!  I’m looking forward to working with the

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cool priority mail

Here’s a quick card I whipped together while crafting with Kate & Kimberly last weekend: I was smart to pack my neglected Simon Says Stamp kits…I didn’t have to spend time picking out cardstock and pattern paper! All supplies are from the July kit! This fits perfectly with CAS●ology Letter and this week over on the

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Create a Smile Guestie: sending sunshine

This is my last week of guesting at create a smile This card is up on the Create a Smile blog today! This is such a clean & simple card.  I love the mix of the card base, which is a Fabriano teamed up with silver glitter paper.  The contrast between the italian paper and

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sweet summer treats!

Here in the Pacific Northwest we have been having an usually warm summer.  Quite frankly, I’m spoiled by our milder temperatures and know that I could never survive the seasons that the east coast and the south has. If I was about 30 years younger, I’d have mass quantities of ice cream to help me

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