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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Chickaniddy Crafts: Focus on Brads

The other day was my day over on  Chickaniddy Crafts! I’m featuring Chickaniddy Crafts brads! Supplies:  Paper (DN14OS02)  Mini Sticker Tags (DN14EB04)  Mini Sticker Banners (DN14EB03)  Mini Sticker Sentiments (DN14EB05) Brads (DN14EB06) I’m a huge fan of brads and I love Chickaniddy’s!  I mixed metal rimmed with a diecut embellished brad.   For added interest, I’ve

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CFC134: Hello

Click HERE for the PTI July Blog Hop! We’re back with a new CAS-ual Friday challenge! CFC134 CFC134: July 25-August 22 Theme: Choose a tic tac toe row (down, across, diagonal) and create something uber cool using those prompts. ·  Remember to keep your projects Clean & Simple! This is a pretty special challenge….it’s the

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papertrey ink July 2014 hop: reason to smile.

Click HERE for CAS-ual Friday Challenge 134, the last one for 2014 & a Give-a-way! It’s that time again, the Papertrey Ink July Blog Hop! Check out the inspiration photo: So, I should start by saying that I love that red/white gingham…a lot.  I even started cutting strips of cardstock to do some paper weaving

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Case Study #201: hello

Click HERE for Chickaniddy Crafts. …and I’m back with Week 4 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: Oh boy, what a great design, eh? Here’s how I was inspired: cardstock:  pti  stamps:  neat &

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hippo birdie to danny♥

Click HERE for Pinkfresh Studio/Neat & Tangled Blog HopClick HERE for Poppy Sketches Click HERE for Curtain Call Happy Tuesday! paper:  carta bella hello again  stamps:  lawn fawn/year four  ink:  stazon black, various distress markers  other:  lawn fawn speech bubble border, lawn fawn year four lawn cuts Sadly, this is the first time I’ve inked up that cute Lawn Fawn Year

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Poppy Sketches #9: life is good

Click HERE for Pinkfresh Studio/Neat & Tangled blog hop Click HERE for Curtain Call Hello & Happy Monday! It’s Poppy Sketches day on my blog!!  This is the final challenge for this term.   Where has the time gone? Okay, let’s get to the challenge, shall we? Our Super Sponsor is Jane’s Doodles I’m a super BIG Fan of

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Curtain Call Anything Goes Reminder: lemonade

Click HERE for Poppy Sketches Click HERE for Pinkfresh Studio/Neat & Tangled Blog Hop cardstock:  pti  stamps:  lemon/impress, jar/savvy, reverse confetti fresh ‘n fruity sentiment ink:  hero arts hues, fresh ink mint/lemonade, copics, other:  pinkfresh gold/coral alpha made into straw Don’t you love that Reverse Confetti sentiment? There is still time to join us for the Curtain Call Inspiration

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Neat & Tangled + Pinkfresh Studio = ♡♡♡

Click HERE for Poppy Sketches Click HERE for Curtain Call Hello and Welcome to the Neat & Tangled/Pinkfresh Blog Hop! You should have arrived here from April Joy’s blog!  If not, you’ll want to start at the beginning of the hop with is the Pinkfresh Blog! Giveaway: A prize pack containing $20 in product from

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a little something…

and I’m back…. It’s been 4 weeks since I last posted ‘for fun’.  All the other posts since then have been Design Team projects.  I’m back today with a ‘just for fun’ project and some chit chat. First up, my project: Excuse my photos as I’m trying to maneuver a different DSLR than I usually

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