Reverse Confetti: Spring Fling Hop

Click HERE for the Spring Coffee Lover’s Blog Hop! click HERE for the DeNami Designs Spring Fling Welcome to the Reverse Confetti Spring Fling Hop!  I knew that I wanted to design an Easter Basket!  What could be better than coffee + chocolate?! The Tagged Tote is so much fun and is such a great size to accommodate fun

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Coffee Loving Cardmaker’s Sponsor Solo Verve Stamps: Good Cheer

This week Melissa is featuring: Verve Stamps My newest goodies from Verve arrived recently and I couldn’t wait to ink up the Coffee Helps set: This new Verve Coffee Helps stamp set and Cup for All Seasons coordinating dies are FANtastic…a must have for any crafter 🙂  I used the fun Sequin Sprinkles that I picked up

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MFT Challenge & Inspiration: happy birthday

Hello!  So excited to tell you that I’m a March Guest for the MFT Challenge & Inspiration – sketch features!  If you’ve been following me for awhile, you know how much I love sketches! Check out this week’s sketch: Such an awesome sketch, here’s how I was inspired: I decided to combine the latest delish color

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Kindness matters…thank you

I’ve been gravitating to butterflies more and more.   I absolutely adore the Reverse Confetti Butterfly Dreams set: I’m always smitten with fancy/fun fonts and sentiments so who can resist this set?  I stamped it in Hero Arts Soft Pool and embossed the smaller solid ones with Hero Arts White.  Yup, check out that SWEET

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The Challenge Guest Designer: There’s Always time for tea!

I was super thrilled to be the winner over at The Challenge last week!  Lesley asked me to be a guest designer for this week’s challenge! Check out the gorgeous inspiration for The Challenge #64: I was thoroughly inspired by the delish colors so I decided to make them the focal point of my card

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Hero Arts: Hipster Animals

My kids will be traveling overseas for their Spring Break.  My girl will be celebrating her upcoming 21st birthday abroad.  I wanted to start designing a handful of Birthday gift thank you’s for the girl to send out: Have you seen the Hero Arts Hipster Animals set?!  So fun and perfect for my girl.  

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another cup…please.

There is such a fantastic community of designers over at the Coffee Loving Papercrafters FB group.  There’s been a fun monthly card swap, managed by Hetty.   This is the card I made especially for my February friend: This went to Jerrie! I wanted to ink up my new Coffee Happy set by STAMPlorations: They’ve

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Neat and Tangled March Release Day: Let’s Hang Out

Post 2 of 2 for today…click HERE for the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Sponsor Solo – MFT Today’s the Day!  The March Neat & Tangled New Release is now available in the shop!  I wanted to whip up a shaker card so I could use some of the newest sequin mixes: Oh my goodness, I’m totally

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Sponsor Solo: My Favorite Things

Post 1 of 2 for today…click HERE for the Neat and Tangled Release Day! This week Melissa is featuring: My Favorite Things I combined a couple of sets/dienamics: I’ve been wanting to ink up the new BB Strike up the Band stamp set…sooo cute.  I think it looks pretty sweet on the Dienamics LLD Coffee

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Neat and Tangled March Release Day Four: Punchinella

Post 2 of 2 for today…click HERE for the Reverse Confetti Camera Hello and Welcome to Day Four of the Neat & Tangled March Release! Today up on the Neat & Tangled blog: Purrfect with coordinating Nice & Neat Dies Punchinella Nice & Neat Die I’m featuring the Punchinella Nice & Neat Die: I teamed it up with Wednesday’s

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Happiness Blooms | Catherine Pooler

I’m back with another project that feature the New Catherine Pooler Designs Party inks: I combined these sets for today’s project: I thought that the Bold Bits & Patterns set would be a perfect way to showcase the gorgeous new colors! The sentiment is from the Daffodil Blooms set and has been stamped in Macchiato.

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Cup of Cheer | Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #27 – Reminder

Things are still going strong over on the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge! We have Newton’s Nook Designs as our sponsor for the month of March: For all the details about the challenge, please visit the post HERE. Here’s how I was inspired: I combined the following products available at Newton’s Nook Designs: I did some

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Miss Ink Stamps | March Sneak Peek

Today is the start of the sneak peeks for the Miss Ink Stamps New Release. I’m a huge fan of capybaras and couldn’t wait to ink up that set. I was chuckling the entire time I was designing this project. I know that Slim [stamp set – Slim’s Whims] is a gentle giant and loves

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Spring Wishes | Pretty Pink Posh

Happy Thursday, there is 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: I’m featuring the following products by Pretty Pink Posh: The cardstock colors: I can’t wait to see how my teamies were inspired. We hope that you’ll

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Sweetest Ink Hop | Catherine Pooler Designs

Welcome to the Sweetest Ink Hop on Instagram! Meet Creamsicle, Lemon Sorbet and Frosted- the three newest Catherine Pooler Designs Party Ink Colors. I’m hopping with some of my crafty friends to show you these three sweet colors along with the latest spring stamps and dies. My card features DAFFODIL BLOOMS from CP Designs. WIN

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Happy Spring | Doodlebugswa

I’m back with another project for Doodlebugs… Today’s project features the following products from Doodlebugswa: Originally I was going the clean + simple route and then I spotted that fun Argyle stencil. I love how much fun it adds to the overall design. That little bunny makes me smile, she’s lovin’ life! Doodlebugs offers $2

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New Inks Sneak Peek | Catherine Pooler

Have you heard the news, there are brand new ink hitting the Catherine Pooler Designs shop on Wednesday, March 13th. If you follow the Catherine Pooler Instagram account, you may have seen them there. I’m here with a sneak peek: I used two of the three new colors: The green ink is Grass Skirt. I

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Fresh Beginning | Hero Arts

Hey, I’m back with another project for the #StayCraftyChallenge on the Hero Arts blog. This month the challenge is: A Kind of Magic – It’s all about heat embossing! Here’s how I was inspired: Today I’m featuring the Hero Arts: Have you heard of Pink Lemons? Their exterior reminds me of round Delicata Squash but

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Let’s Party | Lawn Fawn

I was happy to see the Lawn Fawnatic’s – All Things Birthday challenge: I should really be entering more cards for this theme. I can’t seem to have enough birthday cards. This one I had my daughter in mind. Her birthday is in a couple of weeks. When she was first born she received so

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