Creative Shibori Card Making with Handmade Paper

Did you catch my earlier post about my Shibori Weekend with my girl? This is one of the things we worked on: My girl brought handmade cotton paper that she found at ReCreative. I dipped it into the dye vats. I couldn’t wait to use one of the panels for a card. I combined these Hero

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Shibori Weekend | Pratt Fine Arts Center

Last weekend my girl treated me to Shibori classes on Saturday + Sunday via Pratt. A big thank you to Kentaro Kojima for such a great class. The definition of Shibori: Shibori is a traditional Japanese, manual “shaped-resist” dyeing technique that involves folding, twisting, stitching, or compressing fabric to create intricate patterns. Derived from the

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Hello Duo | Waffle Flower

I’m back with a card duo featuring the Waffle Flower – Under the Sea collection: There are so many amazing new products! Let’s chat about the submarine card first: This card features: I snuck in an earlier released sentiment from: I stenciled the background with these Distress Oxides: My other card mixes: *previously released I

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Mint to Be | 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:

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Coffee Date with Laurel | Coffee Loving Papercrafters + Giveaway!

My teamie Laurel Seabrook and I are having a coffee date! We both used her monthly challenge: To see Laurel’s fabulous card, hop over to the Coffee Loving Papercrafters blog! Here’s how I was inspired: I had all kinds of ideas swirling around and then decided to go with that sweet bunny. These are the

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Friend | Alex Syberia Designs

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Vases I was inspired by the sketch colors +theme. My card features the following Alex Syberia Designs products: That cork is from my stash and I love how it adds to the design. I can’t wait to see how you’re

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Under the Sea | Waffle Flower Release + Giveaway

Edited to add winner: The random winner is: @buzybunny Congrats Julia! I’m going to send you a DM! 🎉INSTAGRAM Giveaway 🎉 In celebrating the new Waffle Flower Under the Sea release, I’ve partnered with @waffleflowercrafts to give One lucky winner a $20 gift certificate to Waffleflower.com! Giveaway Rules: Open internationally, except where prohibited by law; 18+

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Wish Big | Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #53

New month means a brand new challenge over on the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge! Let’s get to this month’s challenge: Here’s how I was inspired: My project features these products by Concord & 9th: My overall color palette is I snuck in the Pretty Pink Posh – Wish Big Script | die I did a

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I am here for you | Brass & Bliss Craft Co

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Clothes Pins I was inspired by the sketch. My card features the following Brass & Bliss Craft Co products: *These products are on sale right now! All Brass & Bliss Craft Co sentiments + dies are 30% off. Today is

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April Edition | Woodblock Wednesday + Guest Designer

Edited to Add Winner: I used random.org to pick the winner: Becca Yahrling Yay Congrats! I’ll send you an email! Please note the next Woodblock Wednesday is: Wednesday, June 24. I’m back with another edition of Woodblock Wednesday! Although there’s no official sponsor, I wanted give away a prize. One lucky random project with a

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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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Neat & Tangled Release Week: Day Two

Hello!  Welcome to the Neat & Tangled Release Week!   Did you miss Day one?  Remember to pop over to the Neat & Tangled blog for tons of inspiration! Today we are featuring a set called  Sunday School Songs paper:  carta bella hello again  stamps:  neat & tangled sunday school songs  ink: hero arts hues black other:

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