Noel | Instagram Guest Designer

I’m so excited to be a guest designer for Michelle Lupton’s Case me a Christmas Card event. Join the fun with “Case me a Christmas Card 2025”! This series features ten creative hops in October—two on YouTube and eight on Instagram—where we’ll CASE (Copy And Selectively Edit) cards from fellow crafters. Make your own unique

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Merry Furry Christmas | 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 Spellbinders products: *Out of Stock I’m sorry to say that the Bewitched Cat is out of stock but I’ve added some other pet sets that you could easily swap

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Find Joy | Brass & Bliss Craft Co

Hello and Happy Saturday! I’m excited to be up on the Brass & Bliss Craft Co blog. Check it out HERE for more pics and a tutorial. These are the Brass & Bliss Craft Co products I’m featuring today: Affiliate links used at no extra cost to you:

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You’re the best | Altenew Ambassador + Giveaway!

Thanks to my friends at Altenew for sending me a box of goodies! Check out how it inspired me: My card features the following products from the October Release: Today is the final day of the shipping special, it’s a great day to shop! I also used these Altenew products: I kept swapping out the

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Hey Boo | Brass & Bliss Craft Co

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: boo I was inspired by pumpkins… My card features the following products by Brass & Bliss Craft Co: I decided I wanted to add a string of lights. I used a bit of the interior of Wavy and hand cut

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Sugar and Spice Release | Simon Says Stamp

Simon Says Stamp has a NEW Sugar and Spice Release! There are so many amazing products! Today I’m playing with the: Such a sweet set, I had to design two cards! Let’s chat about this one first: This card also features: It’s been stamped in Picket Fence on top of the ink blended Salty Ocean.

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You are Magic | A Colorful Life Designs

I’m excited to be a guest designer for the month of October for A Colorful Life Designs. I’ll be sharing projects throughout the next couple of weeks. Here’s how I was inspired today: This is the A Colorful Life Designs product I used: This is how I did the stenciling: I used a shadow word

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Delightful Day | Doodlebugswa

I’m back with another project for Doodlebugs… My card for today features: The sentiment was stamped with Concord & 9th – Sweet Pea ink. Thanks for stopping by!

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Santa Fuel | Hero Arts

Two fantastic collections have just hit the Hero Arts store: Today I’m featuring a card that showcases the Yule Fuel Collection. These are the products I used: *Previously released I may have been chuckling when I was putting this together. I originally stenciled a background but it was too busy for me so I decided

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Hi | A Colorful Life Designs

Happy World Cardmaking Day! I’m excited to be a guest designer for the month of October for A Colorful Life Designs. I’ll be sharing projects throughout the next couple of weeks. Here’s how I was inspired today: These are the A Colorful Life Designs products I used: The definition of bauhaus? This is compliments of

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paper smooches: go to your happy place

Where is your happy place? I have many but one of my more consistent one is in the early morning hours…when the rest of the household is asleep and I’m in front of the computer or is that the computer is in front of me?  It’s how I start my morning…with, of course, a cup

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stripes & blooms

Hi ya! I have a little giftie that I put together for a friend. I love the Whisker Graphic bags, this one is White Horizontal Stripe Middy Bag: These are such multi-purpose bags…you can use them for envelopes or for goodie bags…so many other options for them too! I decided to combine it to be

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nautical happiness

So many challenges, not enough time. I’m a huge fan of all things nautical.  I love the Authentique Anchored Collection.  I teamed it up with a We R Memories Journal card. I was inspired by the paper players and I’m playing along with The Challenge #8 Have you seen the new design team?  They’re FABulous!

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vintage hi

Hello & Happy Tuesday! I love glittery goodness, do you?  I love it even better when it is glitter is ‘ready made’ like American Crafts POW Glitter Paper: cardstock:  PTI paper:  american crafts pow glitter other:  top dog dies vintage alpha die What I love about American Crafts’ glitter paper is that it is smooth,

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Chickaniddy Crafts: Focus on Foil Pinspiration

this is post 1 of 2 for me today…click HERE for the New Poppy Sketches challenge! Today is my Chickaniddy Crafts Day!   The design team is doing a Pinspiration challenge and I picked this as my inspiration: I would totally wear that tee, gray is my favorite color and my closet is chock full

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Poppy Sketches #6: this is the life

this is post 2 of 2 for me today…click HERE for my Chickaniddy Crafts post! Hello! We’re back with a brand new Poppy Sketch with a Pop of Pattern: Our Super Sponsor is May Arts Ribbon May Arts so generously sent us product to play with and I worked with Diamond Chain Here’s how I

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let’s celebrate!

Hello and Happy Sunday! We’ve been experiencing some super fantastic weather here in the Pacific Northwest…it seems like it never extends into the weekend but it has this weekend! I have a fun layer-y card for today: papers:  fancy pants designs/memories captured  stamps:  reverse confetti label me/beautiful banners/whole lotta dots  ink:  hero arts hues/black, zing/white

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Curtain Call : Something Simple week 2

cardstock:  gmund savana, paper accents vellum  stamps:  unity  laughter, imagination, dreams ink:  hero arts hues, copic  other:  may arts twine There is still time to play with us at Curtain Call Inspiration challenge: Something Simple Our Super Sponsor is, Unity Stamp Company!  Unity provided each of us on the Curtain Call Design Team with an

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hello

Happy Thursday! I didn’t have a post scheduled for today…totally mismanaged my time over the weekend and thought that I had created a post for today and hadn’t.  Then I put together a Throwback Thursday post, highlighting June 5th posts from 2008-2013.  I got to thinking about that and didn’t like that idea anymore. Perfect

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