Thank You | Essentials by Ellen

Happy Black Friday! Have you been able to take advantage of some great sales? I have! I’m back again with another project using some products by Ellen Hutson LLC – Essentials by Ellen: I was inspired by THIS card by Therese Calvird. I’m sending this to my girl. She treated me to almost all my

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Merry & Bright | Pretty Pink Posh

We’re back with a new Inspired By…challenge! Every Thursday there will be a new inspiration photo and optional sketch! Here’s how I was inspired: I was inspired by the: When I saw all the gifts I knew I was going to use the Pretty Pink Posh – Build a Gift dies. I haven’t used them

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Special Edition – 100th Kit – La-La Land Crafts

I’m guesting for La-La Land Crafts this month! Their Special Edition – 100th Kit hit their shop a couple days ago and I had so much fun with it. I combined: The train die set is so easy to put together. I love how the the images can be easily placed onto your card design.

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You’re the Sweetest

Did you catch that my girl + I just got back from New York last week? We stayed with my boy who has a roommate. I wanted to send her a card for tolerating our chatter and laughter. She likes pineapples so I decided to send her a pineapple themed card. I literally have like

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Sweater Weather | Essentials by Ellen

Have you checked out the newest Ellen Hutson LLC – Essentials by Ellen Release? Today I’m featuring the beautiful Cozy Sweater Tag die set. I teamed it up with a sentiment from the Fallish Stamp & Die combo from the previous release. It has been heat embossed in Hero Arts Copper – from my stash.

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Final Day – Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

It’s the final day of the Fall | Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop! I’m up on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog, sharing a card trio. Here’s a sneak peek of just one of my designs: For all the details plus the full reveal of my other two designs, please check out the Coffee Loving Cardmakers

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With enough coffee | Honey Bee Stamps

We’re back with a new Inspired By…challenge! Every Thursday there will be a new inspiration photo and optional sketch! Here’s how I was inspired: I was inspired by the: When I saw the cranberries, I was going to initially go with Holly because I don’t have any cranberries. Today I’m featuring Honey Bee Stamps: The

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Day Seven – Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

It’s Day Seven of the Fall | Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop. Tomorrow is the final day! Today I’m featuring Newton’s Nook Designs. Here’s how I was inspired: You may have read that I was in New York last weekend. My girl + I traveled east to visit my boy. We had so much fun

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Coffee Lovers Blog Hop with Catherine Pooler

I’m up on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog today with my friend, Erika Post – Creative Manager at Catherine Pooler Designs. We’re playing with this pretty color palette: Here’s a bit of a sneak peek of ONE of two project that I’m sharing over on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog: Pop over to the blog

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hey there.

A late {live} posting for me.  I’ve been behind on feedly {had to do the ‘ole mark all as read}, feel like I’m racing around in circles but hope things calm down today. Here’s today’s card: So, the other day we made a road trip to Oregon.  We picked up our airplane seats…why yes, they

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have a nice day.

No crafting for me yesterday so I whipped up a card this morning: Originally, those Paper Smooches friendly flowers were part of a panel of blooms.  I colored them using: picked raspberry distress ink squeezed lemonade distress ink mister huey’s sherbet It took me awhile to color them because I used a paintbrush.  I love the

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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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