Hero Arts: Mahalo!

I’m up on the Hero Arts blog today with a fun nautical card.  I’ve been having so much fun with the new Summer Collection! Here are just a few of my favorites: Hero Arts CM165 Color Layering Sea Turtle Hero Arts DI390 Color Layering Sea Turtle Frame Cuts Hero Arts CM162 Color Layering Blue Whale

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Francophile: Bonjour!

I’m a relatively new francophile: We’re excited to plan a trip to Paris because the boy will be over there this fall for a Study Abroad program.  How lucky am I that Donna Mikasa supports my addiction by sending me some sweet goodies.  Here’s how I was inspired by them: Eep!  The My Favorite Things

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2017 Hero Arts Summer Catalog Blog Hop

Hello!!!  The Hero Arts Summer Catalog Products are now in the Hero Arts online store!  We are celebrating with a hop!  You should have arrived here from my awesome teamie May Park’s blog.  If not, you’ll want to start at the beginning which is the Hero Arts  Blog! Hero Arts will be giving away three

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May Guest Designer: Color Throwdown – Just Because

I’m so excited to be a May Guest Designer for Color Throwdown!  I’m a huge fan of their challenge!  Check out this week’s inspiration: If you’ve been following me for any amount of time you’ll know that green is my favorite color!  I had so much fun with this one! I love to use non-traditional colors

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Reverse Confetti: enjoy the ride!

Have you seen the latest release by Reverse Confetti?!  There are soooo many great new stamps, confetti cuts and colors!  I managed to combine a couple new goodies on this card: I started off with a Mist card panel.  I cut the Hello & Thanks Label on a panel of Cloud White.  I adhered the

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Another Birthday?

You know, I’ve been working hard to build up a stash of Birthday cards so I’m not whipping one up at the last minute.  Well, I ended up whipping this one up yesterday morning: Llamas/Alpacas…LOVE them.  The MFT Llama Love is so fun with the cute llamas and great puns.  I love the MFT Subtle

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a • muse | studio May Guest Designer: Always believe in yourself

I’m back up on the a • muse | studio blog with 2 cards.  I’m sneak peekin’ one of them here: I teamed up the new You Are My Sunshine set with the previously released Be Yourself.  The sentiments/fonts in the You Are My Sunshine are absolutely perfect.  There are so many to pick from, gotta love that!

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Happy Birthday: Make a wish or two

I finally broke into some awesome Stampin’ Up colors:  Emerald Envy + Flirty Flamingo: I combined it with Stampin’ Up Crushed Curry and their Hearth & Home Thinlets.  The computer monitor and Happy Birthday Sentiment are from Mama Elephant: Blogging Buddies + Mini Messages.  The Make a Wish is by MFT, More Essential Sentiments. Do you spy

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May Guest Designer: Color Throwdown – Happy Freakin’ Birthday

I’m so excited to be a May Guest Designer for Color Throwdown!  I’m a huge fan of their challenge!  Check out this week’s inspiration: Gorgeous, eh?!  I’d totally do my living room in that color palette!  Here’s how I was inspired: That heart panel is from an Amy Tangerine ‘best of’ 8.5 x 11 paper pack

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Mama Elephant’s 14th Anniversary | Stampede Day 1 – IG Hop

Mama Elephant’s new release is here! To celebrate their 14th year anniversary, MamaElephant will be giving away five $25 Gift Cards per Stampede Day to a random commenter on Mama Elephant’s Instagram, Facebook or YouTube channel in addition to their sitewide sale and free gift promotion! Make sure to check out the shop HERE. Here’s today’s Instagram Hop listing – 9/15 Stampede Day

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Frosty & Festive Collection Coming Soon | Catherine Pooler

Coming soon Catherine Pooler – Frosty & Festive Collection! Save the date, Wednesday, September 16th it is available in the shop. Check out today’s card: My card features: I masked the upper portion of an A2 watercolor panel and blended: Using the Holly & Berries layered stencils, I used these colors: Do you see the

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Friendship | Pinkfresh Studio

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Maps For today’s card was inspired by the theme + sketch. I combined the following Pinkfresh Studio products: I also used the Angie Blom Digital Designs – Let’s Go Travel Backgrounds to tie in the sketch. I printed it onto

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Hey Pumpkin | Pretty Pink Posh

I’m back with another project for Doodlebugs… Although Doodlebugswa has discontinued the design team, I have plenty of products to still create projects. Some of the products may not be available at Doodlebugswa but I have the card recipe at the bottom of the post. My card for today features the following Pretty Pink Posh products:

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Gourd Time | Simon Says Stamp

I should be playing with some new summery sets but I had to whip up this card that features the following from Simon Says Stamp: I found out that Laura Davis’ is celebrating her Mom’s upcoming 90th birthday – here’s here instagram too – on September 30th and is doing a card drive. Well, I’m

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I dream of a better world | Brass & Bliss Craft Co

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Rolling Pins For today’s card was inspired by the botanical designs and color palette. I combined the following Brass & Bliss Craft Co products: That sentiment cracks me up and because there isn’t a chicken on the card but flowers,

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Crafty Friends | Simon Says Stamp – STAMPtember Party!

Yay for STAMPtember! Have you checked out all the fabulous products?! Find them here over in the Simon Says Stamp shop. Today there’s a Party over on the SSS blog with a listing of all the designers that are participating. Collect the different giftie codes, make sure you note if they are FREE with purchase

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Sweetness | Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #57

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 Hero Arts: Cardstock + Ink: I just love that mouse from the What’s Cookin’? set! I wish they would come out with more additions

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