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Archives for 2015

Butterfly Reflections Ink: Belated Birthday Snail

15 Apr

Good morning!  I'm over at Butterfly Reflections Ink sharing this cute Lawn Fawn card!  Hope you'll come over and say hi! :) I'm also entering this card in the Lawnscaping Challenge #103: Dimension and Virginia's View Challenge #14: Layers and Dimension!   ... View Post

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butterfly reflections ink, card-making, crafting, design team
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lawn fawn, mft stamps, wplus9

Christmas Card Challenges #19: Travel

12 Apr

Good afternoon and welcome to this week's Christmas Card Challenge!  We are challenging you to create a card with a travel theme...think sleighs, cars, boats, trains...and here's my interpretation: I had a lot of fun with this card...I knew I wanted to create a scene with reindeer and I ... View Post

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card-making, challenge, christmas card challenges, crafting, design team
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distress ink, lawn fawn, simon says stamp, wplus9

Shaker Saturday #7

11 Apr
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Good morning and welcome back to Shaker Saturday!  A few weeks ago I won an IG giveaway from May Park and the prize was the recent Neat and Tangled stamp set, Meowwwww, that she designed!  It arrived in the mail this week with an adorable card and a photo of her cute kitties!  Thanks May!!  I ... View Post

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card-making, crafting, shaker saturday
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lawn fawn, neat and tangled

A Blog Named Hero Challenge: Embossing

10 Apr

This week A Blog Named Hero is challenging you to create something using embossing!  You can use dry or heat-embossing...there are so many different ways you could interpret this challenge! Here's my card! I started off by stamping the large background Hero Arts stamp with versamark and ... View Post

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hero arts, kuretake gansai tambi, simon says stamp

Mermaid Lagoon distress ink!

10 Apr

So, if you're a new reader, I've been making a set of cards using the new Tim Holtz distress inks as they're released each month.  You can find my Cracked Pistachio card here and my Abandoned Coral card here!  Again I won't go into too much detail because you can find step by step directions on my ... View Post

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card-making, crafting
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distress ink, hero arts

Watercolored Chickadee

9 Apr
wplus9 www.allthesparkle.com kuretake gansai tambi

Just a quick share today!  I saw this stamp in the newest WPlus9 release and I had to have it...when it arrived yesterday I was able to make time to break out my watercolors and play! At the moment I'm a little partial to black-capped chickadees anyway because two are nesting in one of my ... View Post

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card-making, crafting
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kuretake gansai tambi, wplus9

Craft Storage Ideas and Butterfly Reflections Ink!

8 Apr

Good morning!  I'm over at Craft Storage Ideas sharing storage solutions for quilling paper strips!  And I'm also sharing a card over at Butterfly Reflections Ink!  Head on over and check them out! Here's a sneak of my card!  Lots of Lawn Fawn and distress ink goodness! ;) I'm entering this ... View Post

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Spring Blooms!

7 Apr

Good morning!  I'm still recovering from a very fun but busy holiday weekend so I don't have a card to share today but I did want to share a few photos! A few months ago I posted about the landscaping work that was done in our front yard this past fall and we're finally getting to see some of the ... View Post

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