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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September Edition | Woodblock Wednesday

Edited to Add Winner. I used random.org to pick the winner: Yay Congrats! Please note the next Woodblock Wednesday is: Announcing that I’ll be continuing Woodblock Wednesday into 2024. Every last Wednesday of the month will be Woodblock Wednesday. I’m back with another edition of Woodblock Wednesday! Although there’s no official sponsor, I wanted give

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Winter Banner Duo | Mama Elephant

I’ve been having so much being a Guest Designer for the Mama Elephant 12th Anniversary Release. I knew that I wanted to design shaker cards. I love how these banners look! For this Believe in Magic project, I went pretty traditional in the colors. This second shaker – Peace and Love has been stepped up

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Faboolous | Doodlebugswa

I’m back with another project for Doodlebugs… Today’s project features the following products from Doodlebugswa: The sentiment strip has been heat embossed in white. The cup lifts up from the bottom to add a message. Here’s to a fantastic day! Doodlebugs offers $2 shipping for orders over $35 and FREE shipping over $65:

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Tis the Season | Mama Elephant

Have you shopped the Mama Elephant’s 12th Anniversary Event: My card today features: The poms are from my stash and are the perfect size to make this berrylicious! Thanks so much for stopping by! Some links are affiliate at no extra cost to you:

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Crunchy Leaves | Miss Kate Designs

…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: A big shout out to my friends at Miss Kate Designs! They sent me a bunch of goodies from their Pumpkin Season Collection. Want to save 5%? Check out their shop and Use

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The SRM Sticker September Challenge: the colors of fall

I’m so excited to announce that I’m the Guest Designer for SRM Stickers September 2014 Challenges How can you not be inspired by all this fun?! I decided to concentrate on the sketch and a fall harvest theme: paper:  fancy pants design/everyday circus, paper accents/vellum  other:  little yellow bicycle cork, srm stickers sentiment/fall & sentiment/life

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carbs, schmarbs!

post 2 of 2 for me today…click HERE for my Sweet Stamp Shop card. In motivation for us to use our growing Stampin’ Up supplies, Kimberly, Tonya & I have been throwing out weekly challenges. In this card, I used: Life’s Adventure & Yippee-Skippee {seriously, you just gotta own this set for the name}  I

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home is where the anchor drops.

Post 1 of 2 for me today…click HERE for my carbs card. So many stamps, not enough time. I’m trying to catch up on my stamp purchases…what a problem to have, eh?  Obviously, I may or may not have a shopping issues (sigh), but I can’t resist cute stuff. Here’s a card using 2 new

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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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