Merry Latte | Spellbinders

Thanks to my friends at Spellbinders for sending me the Out & About – Garden Buddies set to play with. I decided to design a Christmas in July project that combines the following products: The sentiment has been heat embossed in white on a black cardstock strip. The shaker window is backed by upcycled stamp

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Seas the Day | Hero Arts

This month the challenge is: Color My World. Here’s how I was inspired: Today I’m featuring the Hero Arts: My Hero Hues Reactive Ink combo The Jellyfish background was heat embossed in white and the sentiment in black. I used the Reactive inks on my glass mat and with acetate sheets along with a water

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Sweet Friend | Lawn Fawn + SALES

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: My project combines the following products by Lawn Fawn: I was also inspired by the current Lawn Fawnatics Challenge – Fun with Food. We can’t wait

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I Scream, You Scream | Doodlebugswa

I’m back with another project for Doodlebugs… Today’s project features the following products from Doodlebugswa: Who doesn’t love ice cream?! This set by Lawn Fawn is so sweet. I LOVE that they even list COFFEE as a flavor! I used a panel from the Summertime 6×6 and coordinated a solid yellow cardstock from my stash

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Lunar New Year Challenge | July 2024

We’re back with the July 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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Oh hey | Concord & 9th

I’m at that age where our friends are starting to have grandkids. Last night our friends became first time grandparents. My card features: The Concord & 9th colors I used: You might be wondering why the citrus theme on the card? Their daughter’s baby shower was a ‘Welcome Cutie’ theme as in clementine oranges. I

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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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