Season’s Givings Blog Hop

Click HERE for my Stories of stamps, paper and… Click HERE for my i {heart} papers post! Click HERE for the Fusion Card Challenge/One Year Anniversary Celebration post! Click HERE for Curtain Call/Winter Wonder! So thrilled to be part of Latisha’s Seasons Givings Blog Hop for the 3rd year!  You should have arrived from Lorena’s blog!  I’m

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Neat & Tangled News

I know that I’ve been kind of quiet on my blog….that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been busy!  I’m prepping for a couple new releases and enjoying my time off from work.  The girl is still home with us and we’ve been having fun like eating HERE. I did want to pop in here and

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warm thoughts

So, as the year wraps up, have you been pondering your New Years resolutions? One of mine is to work on Holiday cards throughout the year.  Although I had fun creating 80+ Christmas cards in November, it is something I just don’t want to do again in 2015. I actually don’t have a whole lot

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walking on sunshine.

Are you singing it?! What, really?  HERE you go. paper:  pebbles/home made  stamps:  butterfly reflections ink/head in the clouds  ink:  fresh ink/navy, clear embossing powder  other:  spellbinders, impress glitter washi Don’t you love the stamped sentiment? It’s a Butterfly Reflections Ink exclusive set designed by Shanna Noel called head in the clouds Yup, it’s a

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papertrey ink: december 2014 blog hop

Happy Boxing Day! Today’s the day for the papertrey ink December Blog Hop I was inspired by the gorgeous bar necklaces.  Who doesn’t love the look of gold and silver?   Combining them, that’s a challenge: cardstock:  papertrey ink, chickaniddy crafts/goldie lox  stamps:  papertrey ink phrase play #3/rosie posie  ink:  zing white, delicata silvery shimmer

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stories of stamps, paper and… : warm winter wishes

Merry Christmas Eve! Today is my day up on the Stories of stamps, paper and… For those that don’t know, it’s an italian based challenge blog that runs monthly themes.  The new challenges start on the 1st and run through the month.  The month the challenge is  Christmas with a Bow Throughout the remainder of

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peace love and happiness

Here’s a set of cards that will make good New Years cards: cardstock:  stampin’ up basic black/cherry cobbler  stamps:  paper smooches/pretty phrases  ink:  zing white, wplus9 white  other:  reverse confetti/double edge scallop border confetti cut, impress gold washi I’ve been seeing a lot of black base projects (check out the mambi blog) and love that

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sprinkled with lots of love

Happy Monday! It’s fun to gravitate away from holiday themed cards: cardstock:  recollections/white, stampin’ up/pirouette pink  paper:  teresa collins/nine & co  stamps:  reverse confetti/donut you know  ink:  fresh ink/chocolate & red currant  other:  cork, reverse confetti/donut you know confetti cuts The Reverse Confetti, Donut you Know set is filled with fun sentiments and I adore

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Holiday Coffee Lovers Blog Hop: listing of blog sponsored winners

So, this is the final follow up post for the  Holiday Coffee Lovers  Blog Hop All the blog sponsored prizes have been drawn and the winners have been contacted, if they left their contact information. HERE is a google doc that lists a majority of the blog sponsored give-a-ways. This might be a great time

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Coolest Day Ever | chance to win!

Hello and Happy Friday Eve! My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Poolside I was inspired by the theme + colors. My card features the following Lawn Fawn products: I also squeezed in these products: I used the following Concord & 9th cardstock: The sentiment has been heat embossed in white on

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Happy Birthday | Simon Says Stamp

I’m back with a birthday card. Did you catch my earlier Centenarian Birthday Card Request? You could be the lucky winner of a $20 Gift card: If you were following me last year, you might remember that I did a call out for Birthday cards for my former Mother-in-law’s 99th birthday. I’m doing it again

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Snowflake Soiree | Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #55

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 The Greetery: These are the Catherine Pooler ink colors I used: *retired The Coaster and base are Bazzill – Marshmallow. My last card contains

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Seas & Greetings | My Pretty Things

Have you checked out the newest release from My Pretty Things – Life InDex?! There’s still time to comment over on instagram for a chance to win! I have the direct links to each hop stop HERE. I’m back with a new project, here’s how I was inspired: This card features: The colors were inspired

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My Pretty Things – Life InDex Release IG Hop

My Pretty Things’ Life InDex Release is now in-store, and it makes memory keeping easy with perfectly sized products for all papercrafters!! Forget those rolodex and boxes for specialized dies. MPT’s new line is sized to fit 4”x6” index cards for easy storage in pocket pages, index boxes, scrapbooking, albums, or even cards. There is

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