Fusion: Give Thanks

Click HERE for Day Four of the Neat & Tangled October Release Week! The new Fusion starts today! Check out the awesome inspiration/sketch: My card design is a combo of both, but I simplified the sketch: paper collection:  carta bella/a perfect autumn  trim:  wool yarn This card is an epic fail on the postal friendly

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Neat & Tangled October New Release Day Three: Warm Wishes

click HERE for the Your Next Stamp After Party! We are up to Day Three of the Neat & Tangled October New Release Week! I’m on a kick to design postal friendly cards: I managed to crank out 12 cards of a similar design for today’s post!  They are all postal friendly!  The other day

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Your Next Stamp October After Party: I ♡ U

Click HERE for the Neat & Tangled October Release:  Day Three Whew, wasn’t the Your Next Stamp Blog Hop amazing?!  There was so much inspiration!!!! Today is the After-Party Festivities! I’m featuring the new Scribbled Alpha set on this card…both on my background panel and in the Mason jar: Can you believe that I was

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Neat & Tangled October New Release Day Two: Little Santa Girl

Hello and Welcome to Day Two of the Neat & Tangled Release Week! Today we are featuring Little Santa Girl In my first project, I teamed her up with yesterday’s Falling Flakes: cardstock:  pti bag:  whisker graphics  stamps:  neat & tangled little santa girl/falling flakes  ink:  various copics, hero arts hues, zing white Isn’t she

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thanks a latte

click HERE for the Neat & Tangled October Release:  Day one So, in case you didn’t know…I love all things coffee.  I gravitate to all the fun coffee themed crafty stuff and love anything coffee oriented on Pinterest.  I WISH I had the luxury of spending oodles of time on Pinterest, but honestly, there just

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crafty fun.

This is what yesterday morning looked like: There are several of us that get together on a monthly basis and yesterday these girls came to play: Kate●Katie●Kimberly●Laura●Lisa●Tonya Katie’s sweet girl joined in the fun too! Last time the girls were over, they went left with homework.  Each girl took a Martha Stewart test tube to

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Your Next Stamp October New Release Preview: hello coffee

Hello!  I’m back with a couple Your Next Stamp projects! I’m super excited to sneak peek a fun new Scribbled Alpha set! In my first project, I’ve teamed it up with the Large Ink Splatter set: cardstock:  stampin’ up night of navy  stamps:  your next stamp/large ink splatter/scribble alpha  ink:  fresh ink navy, a muse

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be you{tiful}

Evidently I’m quite smitten with neon these days. cardstock:  pti white/bazzill neon  stamps:  neat & tangled/on the edge, stampin’ up flower patch  ink:  radiant neons other: stampin’ up flower fair dies, reverse confetti tag me too confetti cut, freckled fawn enamel dots I had so much combining Neat & Tangled On the Edge with Stampin’

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Special Birthday

Playing with some new goodies: I’m using a couple of my new Reverse Confetti purchases, the sentiment is from the So Very Special set and the scallop is from the Circles ‘n Scallops Confetti Cuts set.  The circle is from Spellbinders. All that glorious patterned paper {excluding the graph paper which is vintage A Muse}

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coffee = sunny smiles.

Happy Sunday! So I’ve had this Stamps of Life set, coffee4two, with the coordinating dies for, well, awhile.  I bought it from the fabulous Niki Garcia. I had so much fun playing with them yesterday.  It always makes me feel productive when I use something highly neglected for the first time Why yes, the cup

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hello pocket.

So when I saw THIS card of Larissa’s, I was so very inspired: cardstock:  PTI  paper:  basic grey highline  stamps:  paper smooches denim & daisies/chit chat  ink:  hero art hues, gold embossing  other: italian wool, freckled fawn enamel dots I have a TRUE appreciation for her die cutting…it took me awhile to die cut that

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Curtain Call Bow Tie: hello cutie!

Happy August! paper:  fancy pants burlap & bouquets  stamps:  waffle flower bowtiful  ink:  hero arts hues  other:  fancy fants burlap & bouquets flair, waffle flower bowtiful die set, reverse confetti circles ‘n scallops  (loosely cased from SU 2014-2015 catalog pg 10 lower left hand card) It’s time for a new Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge! We have

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Case Study 202: friends.

…and I’m back with my final week of Guesting over at CASE Study! In case you missed it, I’m guesting along with Awesome Tenia Nelson!  This month’s muse is the FABulous  Shari Carroll! Here’s this week’s inspiration: Seriously, what’s not to love? Here’s how I was inspired: stamps:  stampendous friends cup, stampers anonymous background text, a muse

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neon happy birthday

Hello! This card posted on the Neat & Tangled blog earlier this month but I also wanted to share it here on my blog: cardstock:  stampin’ up  paper:  house of three, teresa collins  stamps:  neat & tangled photo booth  ink:  zing white embossing powder  other:  neat & tangled neon yellow sequins  inspired by Case Study

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I Scream, You Scream…

So, for the past 1+ month, I’ve been only posting DT projects…I’m trying to get back onto the challenge wagon: august 2014 simon says stamp kit, lawn fawn enamel dots, glossy accents, hero arts hues, pinking circle dies. I recently received my August Simon Says Stamp kit and wanted to start using the sweet summery

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add lime…

Happy Monday! I’m back to daily posting and lovin’ it!  I spent several hours on Sunday craftin’ up a storm.   I’m smitten by the Reverse Confetti Fresh ‘n Fruity set! paper:  dear lizzy 5th & frolic, fancy pants design burlap & bouquets  stamps:  reverse confetti fresh ‘n fruity  ink:  memento rich cocoa  other:  reverse

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for you: fancy chickaniddy

Good Morning! I’m blogging live today with a card that I whipped up this morning.  It’s amazing what a girl can do when she wakes up at 3 am! paper:  chickaniddy crafts twirly girly, fancy pants designs as you wish  other:  may arts twine, jillibean wooden flag, cherry wood veneer paper This card was made

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