Create a Smile August Blog Hop: Hope your day is special

Click HERE for Curtain Call Challenge Create A Smile is a new stamp company in town – their first stamps were released in July 2014. The stamps are made of high quality photo-polymer and produced in Germany. They will for sure make you smile! These are the facts: Create A Smile is releasing two sets TOMORROW! You can find

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just waving hi.

So, I’m an impatient grasshopper. I took a bunch of pictures last night and when I was editing, I didn’t like any of them.  Today is a typical gloomy Seattle morning {Yay for the weather change, it was just too hot!} and I don’t have any natural sunlight so I went outside.  Think of it

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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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my friend

sigh…too many toys, not enough time. These adorable stamps have been waiting to be inked up! paper:  studio calico  stamps:  avery elle red & goldie ink:  memento tuxedo, various copics  other:  spellbinders circle die Red & Goldie Pure cuteness by JJ Bolton and her boy. How can you resist those images? I was inspired by

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May Inspiration Baking & Sewing: thanks a latte

This is post 2 of 2 for me today…click HERE for my Poppy Sketches post. Super Excited and Honored to be a guestie over on Mariana’s blog. She’s invited me to take part in her May Inspiration challenge: Baking & Sewing I was inspired by the photo & the colors: cardstock:  stampin’ up basic black/so

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Poppy Sketches #5: hello

This is post 1 of 2 for me today…click HERE for Mariana’s May Inspiration Baking & Sewing challenge. Hello and Happy Monday! Yay for the long holiday weekend! We’re back with a new challenge over at Poppy Sketches Our Super Sponsor is The Cutting Cafe I played with the fun Polaroid set! Here’s how I

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Papertrey Ink May Blog Hop: happy birthday

It’s that time, the monthly blog hop for Papertrey Ink! Who can resist Aqua & Melon? My goal with these hops to to ink up a set that I haven’t played with yet, today is Sweet Speech I definitely have a love/hate thing with solid images…it’s hard to capture the image when you use a

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time to celebrate!

 This is post 2 of 2 for me today…click HERE for my Chickaniddy Crafts project. Hello, post number two for me today.  Evidently I thought today was the 25th when I was scheduling my blog posts earlier this week…more on that in a bit. I generally don’t like to post multiple times in one day

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Chickaniddy Crafts Focus on Shapes: Circles

Today is my Chickaniddy Crafts day!  Our assignment was to focus on shapes: Supplies:  Papers (DN140S01; CN14SP00; TG14OS08) Mini Sticker Sentiments (TG14EB05) This card has several layers of goodness but what I started with is a 4.25 x 5.5 inch panel of the glorious gold foil, Goldie Lox.   I randomly laid circle dies on the

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Avocado Arts: Oh Boy!

TGIF! Yay for long holiday weekends! I’m sharing the last of my Avocado Arts cards I designed for the May Release. This skinny card has the ‘staches heat embossed in brown and the card is finished off with an Elle’s Studio die cut: Next up is another skinny card that has been heat embossed with

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Neat & Tangled New Release: Final Day

This is post 2 of 2 for me today…click HERE for my Top Dog Dies post. Today is Neat & Tangled’s Final Release Day! You’re going to love today’s featured set Clouds paper:  fancy pants designs memories captured  stamps:  neat & tangled clouds  ink:  fresh ink navy  other:  fancy pants design tag, neat & tangled

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Neat & Tangled New Release: Day Three

Whew!  We’re on Day Three of Neat & Tangled’s New Release!  How are you liking the new designs?!  Aren’t they fabulous?!  Click HERE for Day One and HERE for Day Two. Today we’re featuring So Very Blessed paper:  carta bella hello again, strathmore watercolor  stamps:  neat & tangled so very blessed  ink:  hero arts hues

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