National Iced Tea Day Collaboration with SugarPea Designs

The Coffee Loving Cardmaker’s Design Team is so excited to be hopping with Super Sponsor SugarPea Designs in celebration of National Iced Tea Day!  If you hopped here the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog then you’re right on track.  If you stumbled upon this post, make sure you start on the SugarPea Designs Blog.   Leave comments along the way for more chances to

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Pretzels | Ink Road Stamps

If you follow me on IG, you may have seen one of my recent IG Stories that showed my latest order from the Ink Road Stamps.   Any Seinfeld fans out there?  If you’re one, you NEED the Ink Road Stamps’ Serenity Now set.  Both my daughter and I are fans and when I told her

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June 2019 Creative Hop | Reverse Confetti

Hello!  Today is the 8th of the month which means it’s time for the Reverse Confetti Creative Hop!  You should have arrived here from my teamie, Heather Hoffman.  If not, you’ll want to start at the beginning of the hop which is the Reverse Confetti blog! I have a birthday duo to share with you today: I never

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a little hello | Badges & Banners

Hello + Happy Friday!  So I thought my day was going to be filled with driving around only to realize that will be next Friday.  How lucky am I that I get to stay home, be crafty and oh yeah, really make a dent in cleaning my craft room.   So at my last Crafty Garage

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Paper Smooches June 2019 Blog Hop + Giveaways!

Hello!  I’m so excited to be part of the Paper Smooches June 2019 Blog Hop!  They’re releasing one new stamp set and five new dies that will be available to purchase in the Paper Smooches online store at 10:00 am central on Friday, June 7th. To add extra fun to the blog hop…there are prizes!  The prize – a $30.

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work that crown | Paper Smooches

Check out this project that features three different Paper Smooches stamp sets: Courteous Cuties   |   Pineapple Crush   |  Pineapple Crush 2 The yellow narrow strips are washi. Loving that sentiment.  This is going postal to my stepdaughter.  Her birthday is this week. I was inspired by: Freshly Made Sketches Paper Smooches Photo Inspiration Challenge The

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Coffee date | Create a Smile Stamps

So, I wanted to play with the Create a Smile Stamps Coffee Collection Kit and decided to combine it with some older CAS stamps: That big rainbow mug?  It’s from their (retired) Coffee First set.  I LOVE that mug for the style and size!  The other coffee to go cup and green mug are from

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many thanks | Flora & Fauna – Reverse Confetti

A clean and crisp thank you card design.  All based around that Palm in Vase die by Flora & Fauna. I’m a certified black thumb.  It must have skipped a generation because my girl LOVES plants.   It seems a lot of her friends are the same way. I wish you could see the Wink of

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New York | Newton’s Nook Designs

If you’ve been following me on FB or IG, you’ll have read that I spent a bit of time in NYC.  We celebrated my boy’s college graduation!  My trip inspired my project today.   I’m featuring the Newton’s Nook Designs –  Newton Dreams of New York.  The (retired) Basic Grey Hey Boy collection is perfect for

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cheers | Reverse Confetti

Hello and Happy Tuesday.  My first day back to work after taking a week off.  Today, I’m sharing a project that features Reverse Confetti products! I’m featuring the Drink More Coffee + Cake & Champagne sets. I’m loving the added texture with the (retired) stencil and modeling paste.   I doubled up the cheers from the

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neat & tangled blog hop!

Hello & Happy Monday! The Neat & Tangled team is hopping today!  We’re pleased to announce the Neat & Tangled Nice and Neat dies collection! You should have arrived here from Kristen’s fabulous blog.  If not, you’ll want to start at the beginning of the hop which is the Neat & Tangled Blog! GIVEAWAYYou have

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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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