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AEIHeartU Challenge #18 and Virginia’s View Challenge #9

17 Nov

I'm participating in two fun challenges today!  The Avery Elle I Heart You challenge requirement is holiday themed cards and the Virginia's View challenge involves using metallics in various forms. I started off by cutting a panel with the Avery Elle Finished Frames die set and masked the border ... View Post

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card-making, challenge, crafting
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avery elle, distress ink, lawn fawn

Baby Shower Festivities!

17 Nov

I have to start this post off with a photo...isn't she cute!? So a few weeks ago I posted about the baby shower invites I created for the shower I was throwing for my best friend, Heather.  I spent the last month putting together the details with her mother-in-law, Pearl Ann, and on Saturday, we ... View Post

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cooking, crafting, holiday, recipes
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A new design team and a colorful holiday card!

16 Nov

Recently I decided to apply to a call for design team members for a weekly Christmas Card challenge blog and over the weekend I received the news that I've been invited to join the team!   So, as my official 'hello' to the blog,  I thought I'd participate in this week's Color Challenge!  Plus it ... View Post

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card-making, challenge, crafting, design team
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avery elle, impression obsession, wplus9

Weekly Dinner Recap #8

13 Nov

Maybe someday I'll post this before half of the next week is over...yeah, it's been a little crazy around here.  Anyway, here goes: Sunday - Lasagna We were on our way home from visiting Heather and Richard and stopped at my in-laws to pick up our pets and have a quick dinner.  My mother-in-law ... View Post

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cooking, recipes, slow-cooker, weekly dinner recap

Oops…

13 Nov

So I'm definitely still learning my way around Wordpress and my blog.  I actually purchased a new url for my blog a few weeks ago but royally screwed up trying to switch it; so now I'm just waiting until I can get assistance to do it correctly.  But apparently during that whole snafu I managed to ... View Post

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Online Card Classes: Holiday Card Workshop 2014, day 3 – take 2

5 Nov

I'm just having way too much fun in this class...finished teaching this evening and went back into my craft room for a few hours.  The first card uses embossing resist and is based on a tutorial taught by Kristina Werner.  I used my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors and snowflakes from stamp sets by ... View Post

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Online Card Classes: Holiday Card Workshop 2014, day 3

5 Nov

I was really looking forward to today's Online Card Class topic and the teachers definitely didn't let me down!  The topic was watercoloring and we got three fabulous tutorials.  I'll probably revisit day 3 on Thursday and do the other techniques but I wanted to share my first attempt at Dawn ... View Post

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distress ink, watercolors, wplus9

Better late than never!

5 Nov

Oops, well I had intended to enter this in the last Papertrey Ink Make it Monday challenge but I just didn't get it uploaded in time.  However, I really like the way it turned out and I wanted to share it!  The challenge was Partial Die Stamping and it involved stamping an image onto a piece of ... View Post

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