Hello Blogging Friends!! Welcome to my project for the “It’s A Girl Thing” Turner Syndrome Awareness Inaugural Blog Hop! Turner Syndrome is a genetic disorder where a female is born with only one X chromosome, instead of two, leaving her with life-long medical issues and learning disabilities. This condition occurs one in 2,500 female births worldwide, but
Masculine cards are tough for me, how about you? I’m either designing cards with cute critters or coffee. So this is as close as it gets: I work in an office with 17 employees. We’ll be celebrating two February birthdays and I’m the official card maker. I went through my stash and thought I might
Happy Monday! I’m beyond grateful that I have self motivated kids. I’ll always call them my kids, even when they’re in their 40’s, for now they are 21 + 23. This month, the oldest, my girl, started a regular full time position with the Seattle biotech company that she was contracting with. I literally whipped
I just received Craftin Desert Diva’s latest coffee set, Love Your Mug. I couldn’t wait to ink it up so I ended up designing a card duo. I used the same sketch with both cards, more on that in a smidge. My first card also features The Perfect Blend 6×6 by Your Next Stamp. I
Have you been following all the fun on the Scrapping for Less blog?! The new January Flavor of the Month Card Kit is now available and you’re going to go perky over it! Here’s a bit about the kit from Teresa of Scrapping For Less: Let’s “Perk Up and Start the New Year” with our
If you’re a crafter, you might know how it feels when you finish a card that makes you happy. Not because it’s any special design but the images are just too stinkin’ cute, that’s this card: Inking up another highly neglected set, Hello Bluebird’s Pig Day. Oh good grief, their facial expressions are killing me.
So, I should have been organizing but I was whipping up a card. The Lawn Fawn How You Bean set, I’ve had it (and the coordinating dies + add on shaker dies) for a while now and haven’t busted them out yet. This organizing thing has me inking up sets that haven’t been used yet,
I wanted to ink up the Newton’s Nook Designs – Newton Dreams of London. I don’t know about you, but I love seeing all the news about the Royal Family. Her Majesty the Queen is awesome and a Corgi Lover. Bonus points that she keeps her holiday decor up until February 6th..I want to adopt
Hey happy Tuesday! I wanted to ink up some of my newest goodies from Your Next Stamp. I combined the Brew-tiful Day stamps with The Perfect Blend 6×6 paper pad. I did buy the coordinating dies for the stamp set, they cut the interior of the mug handles (bonus!). I managed to upcycle a Starbucks
I wanted to ink up some of other The Rabbit Hole Designs stamps, check out Caffeinated Cat + Caffeinated Dino: The Caffeinated Cat has been teamed up with Your Next Stamp’s The Perfect Blend paper pad. Isn’t that cat hilarious?! Wait until her coffee kicks in —> Super MOM. The Caffeinated Dino, oh she’s cute
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
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
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
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
Howdy & Happy Friday! I’m up on the Neat & Tangled blog…pop over there and check it out!
Happy Thursday! I didn’t have a post scheduled for today…totally mismanaged my time over the weekend and thought that I had created a post for today and hadn’t. Then I put together a Throwback Thursday post, highlighting June 5th posts from 2008-2013. I got to thinking about that and didn’t like that idea anymore. Perfect
I REALLY love the June Simon Says Stamp kit. Today’s card uses the paper from the kit: cardstock: simon says stamp june 2014 cardkit paper: simon says stamp june 2014 other: technique tuesday hello die Yup, I need more of that sweet vellum! The die is by Technique Tuesday..LOVE it. I was inspired by the
While digging around in my crafty supplies I came across my stash of Melody Ross, Homespun Chic. cardstock: simon says stamp june card kit other: melody ross/homespun chic journal card other: pti lemon tart ribbon The journal cards are wonderful…just a smidge of glitter…pure perfection. Although I love how the card above turned out I
You may have read earlier on my blog that my daughter is moving into an apartment with two of her friends. I’m happy for her and have been collecting housewares for her the last week or so….really, it’s overflow from what we currently have so it’s a win-win. She will be living across the street
This is post 2 of 2 for me today…click HERE for my Cure for the Monday Blues/Freshly Made Sketches post. cardstock: stampin’ up river rock, paper accents vellum stamp: unity ink: zing white, distress ink other: gold thread Check out the newest Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge Something Simple photo source: Pinterest We have an awesome new