Monochromatic Card Design with Coffee Inspiration

I had an idea that I playing with in my head after I designed THIS card. I challenged myself to create a more monochromatic design with a caffeinated spin. I’m featuring: *retired I didn’t achieve full monochromatic but that’s okay. I’ve really been on a blue kick and I love how peachy corals so with

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Have a Happy Day | Lawn Fawn

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Frogs I was inspired by the colors +theme. My card features the following Lawn Fawn products from Doodlebugswa: Evidently, I’m still in my blue era. My card was also inspired by the current Lawn Fawnatics: This is always such a

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Explore the Under the Sea Collection by Waffle Flower

I’m back with another card featuring the Waffle Flower – Under the Sea collection: This turned out a bit brighter than I’m used to but it’s growing on me. The sentiment was stamped on the stamp color panel as the stenciling. I’m featuring: In case you missed my earlier projects: Here are my other two:

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Explore Hero Arts’ May Collections

Hero Arts has a couple new May Collections: I’m featuring products from the You’ve Got a Friend Collection: Today’s card features: I also snuck in a sentiment from an earlier release: I used a bunch of Hero Arts inks: The stenciling was done on ColorWheel cardstock: Affiliate links at no extra cost to you.

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Creative Shibori Card Making with Handmade Paper

Did you catch my earlier post about my Shibori Weekend with my girl? This is one of the things we worked on: My girl brought handmade cotton paper that she found at ReCreative. I dipped it into the dye vats. I couldn’t wait to use one of the panels for a card. I combined these Hero

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Shibori Weekend | Pratt Fine Arts Center

Last weekend my girl treated me to Shibori classes on Saturday + Sunday via Pratt. A big thank you to Kentaro Kojima for such a great class. The definition of Shibori: Shibori is a traditional Japanese, manual “shaped-resist” dyeing technique that involves folding, twisting, stitching, or compressing fabric to create intricate patterns. Derived from the

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Hello Duo | Waffle Flower

I’m back with a card duo featuring the Waffle Flower – Under the Sea collection: There are so many amazing new products! Let’s chat about the submarine card first: This card features: I snuck in an earlier released sentiment from: I stenciled the background with these Distress Oxides: My other card mixes: *previously released I

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Mint to Be | Brass & Bliss Craft Co

Hello and Happy Saturday! I’m excited to be up on the Brass & Bliss Craft Co blog. Check it out HERE for more pics and a tutorial. These are the Brass & Bliss Craft Co products I’m featuring today:

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Coffee Date with Laurel | Coffee Loving Papercrafters + Giveaway!

My teamie Laurel Seabrook and I are having a coffee date! We both used her monthly challenge: To see Laurel’s fabulous card, hop over to the Coffee Loving Papercrafters blog! Here’s how I was inspired: I had all kinds of ideas swirling around and then decided to go with that sweet bunny. These are the

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Friend | Alex Syberia Designs

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Vases I was inspired by the sketch colors +theme. My card features the following Alex Syberia Designs products: That cork is from my stash and I love how it adds to the design. I can’t wait to see how you’re

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Happy Hollydays | Mama Elephant Stamp Highlight

Today I’m joining in the Mama Elephant festivities – Stamp Highlight : Holly and Leaves I adore this set for the gorgeous foliage and super fun sentiments. Buy the coordinating dies to also have the coordinating sentiment dies. Yes, another traditional color palette. I can’t believe it but I just adore those mini poms I

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September Edition | Woodblock Wednesday

Edited to Add Winner. I used random.org to pick the winner: Yay Congrats! Please note the next Woodblock Wednesday is: Announcing that I’ll be continuing Woodblock Wednesday into 2024. Every last Wednesday of the month will be Woodblock Wednesday. I’m back with another edition of Woodblock Wednesday! Although there’s no official sponsor, I wanted give

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Winter Banner Duo | Mama Elephant

I’ve been having so much being a Guest Designer for the Mama Elephant 12th Anniversary Release. I knew that I wanted to design shaker cards. I love how these banners look! For this Believe in Magic project, I went pretty traditional in the colors. This second shaker – Peace and Love has been stepped up

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Faboolous | Doodlebugswa

I’m back with another project for Doodlebugs… Today’s project features the following products from Doodlebugswa: The sentiment strip has been heat embossed in white. The cup lifts up from the bottom to add a message. Here’s to a fantastic day! Doodlebugs offers $2 shipping for orders over $35 and FREE shipping over $65:

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Tis the Season | Mama Elephant

Have you shopped the Mama Elephant’s 12th Anniversary Event: My card today features: The poms are from my stash and are the perfect size to make this berrylicious! Thanks so much for stopping by! Some links are affiliate at no extra cost to you:

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Crunchy Leaves | Miss Kate Designs

…SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATED SALES… Happy Thursday, there is a new Inspired By…challenge! Here’s how I was inspired: I was inspired by the: A big shout out to my friends at Miss Kate Designs! They sent me a bunch of goodies from their Pumpkin Season Collection. Want to save 5%? Check out their shop and Use

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STAMPtember | Simon Says Stamp + Colorado Craft Co

Have you been keeping up with Simon Says Stamp + their STAMPtember sets? Today they are featuring Colorado Craft Company.- Work of Art. –Both the stamp and stamp/die bundle are sold out– This Anita Jeram set is so sweet! The images have been stamped on watercolor paper with VersaFine Onyx Black. I colored with Zig

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Mama Elephant 12th Anniversary Stampede | Day 3

I’m honored to be guesting for Mama Elephant’s 12th Anniversary Stampede! Today is Day 3 of 3. Here’s a message from our friends at Mama Elephant: Happy Anniversary to you and ME! We are celebrating 12 years of being in this wonderful industry full of kind people who share the love of crafting and making

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Thank You Duo | Doodlebugswa

I’m back with another project for Doodlebugs… Today’s project features the following products from Doodlebugswa: I purposely made these cards postal friendly = one forever stamp. I recently sent out a handful of cards that needed additional postage because of all the foam adhesive I tend to use. My overall color palette is by Concord

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