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Shaker Saturday #8

18 Apr

Good morning!  Thanks for stopping by for Shaker Saturday!  Today's card was heavily inspired by the "snow" outside my window today.  All of the trees are in full-bloom around here and with the breeze this afternoon, there was a constant flurry of petals past my window. I took this photo of our ... View Post

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card-making, crafting, shaker saturday
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distress ink, heat-embossing, mama elephant, papertrey ink

Happy 1st Birthday Rogue!

17 Apr

With a houseful of rescued pets we tend to celebrate adoption days rather than pet birthdays...but that's primarily because we don't actually know the birthdays of our dogs or rabbit.  We still don't know the exact date for Rogue but we've got a much firmer idea.  We adopted her on June 20th and was ... View Post

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card-making, crafting, pets
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avery elle, kuretake gansai tambi, mft stamps, rogue

Wishing on a star!

15 Apr

This is my second post of the day.  If you're looking for my Butterfly Reflections Ink card, please scroll down or click here! Good morning!  Sorry I didn't have a post yesterday...I realized that it was the first day I've skipped since January.  As you'll see, I was a little busy with this ... View Post

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card-making, crafting
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chibitronics, distress ink, hero arts, mama elephant

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
Meowwwww www.allthesparkle.com

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

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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