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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this ‘n that

Hello and Happy Monday! Can you believe it, I don’t have a card to share.  I didn’t have much crafting time over the weekend so Sunday was spent catching up on my DT assignments for the week.   Last week I published 8 blog posts that contained a total of 12 cards. I want to

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thinking of you

Hello! Here’s a card that combines some of my favorite things! I used Neat & Tangled Just Thinking of You Chickaniddy Crafts Date Night Stickers Chickaniddy Crafts Date Night Backwoods Lovin Chickanddy Crafts Date Night Plaid is Rad Chickaniddy Crafts Date Night Awesome Blossom I was totally inspired by Little Tangles Laurel Seabrook’s Inspired by

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Sweet Stamp Shop: bold & elegant

Hello & Happy National Scrapbooking Day!   In case you missed it from yesterday, I was up on the Sweet Stamp Shop Blog.  I’ve been featuring 1 stamp set – 2 ways. This time around I was super pleased with the results! The set?   Elegant Sentiments. So I’ve always gravitated to sentiment sets and

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Sweet Stamp Shop May Release #1

Click HERE for my Exclusive Top Dog Dies post. Click HERE for my Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge post. Yup, it’s that time of the month already: Sweet Stamp Shop May Release #1 If you haven’t joined the Sweet Stamp Shop Facebook page, I HIGHLY recommend it.  Mrs Sweet has been known to post some specials and sneaks of the

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Curtain Call Challenge Pink & Pretty: Waving Hello!

Click HERE for my Exclusive Top Dog Dies post. Click HERE for my Sweet Stamp Shop May Release #1 post. We’re back with a new Fabulous Sponsor, Pretty Pink Posh, for the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Pink & Pretty!    photo source: 100layercake.com The LEAD of this challenge will receive a gift certificate to the Pretty Pink Posh Shop!

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Exclusive Dies from Top Dog Dies: Live the Life

Click HERE for my Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge post. Click HERE for my Sweet Stamp Shop May Release #1 post. Hello! Sharing a quick shaker card that I made: paper:  authentique anchored  stamps:  verve words of wisdom  ink:  hero arts hue other:  top dog dies butterfly finishers die set, pretty pink posh winter snow sequins

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Avocado Arts: strength

Hello & Happy Wednesday! I’m popping in real quick to share the rest of my Avocado Arts cards for the April release: This card uses both of the April sets, A Mother’s Love and When & Where: Love that journal card from the When & Where set!  It’s super versatile and a ‘must have’.  I

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Seize the Sketch #19: birthday girl

We’re back with  Seize the Sketch #19 The awesome Jessi is the sketcher for this super challenge! Initially I struggled with the sketch…not because of the sketch itself, but I was desperately trying to use pattern papers.  That combined with the fact that I was ‘crafting’ with 4 other gals, nothing ever gets accomplished 🙂 

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Poppy Sketches #3: oh happy day

We’re back with a new challenge over at Poppy Sketches So excited for our new Super Sponsor Lawn Fawn I got to play with Hello Sunshine I can’t tell you how PERFECT this set is for me…I absolutely ADORE it! I heat embossed everything with Zing Chestnut, with exception for the heart on the vellum

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