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Christmas Card Challenge #50

15 Nov

Good afternoon and welcome back to another Christmas Card Challenge!  This week we have an interesting photo inspiration… I'll admit that I was really stumped at first...I wasn't sure how to incorporate Santa into a kraft and black color scheme (especially since I don't own any Santa ... View Post

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card-making, challenge, christmas card challenges, crafting, design team
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lawn fawn, mama elephant, memory box, neat and tangled

Let Your Dreams Take Flight

14 Nov

Good morning!  I'm beginning to realize that it's more difficult than I thought it'd be to blog daily...but I'm determined to keep trying!  For some reason I was really having a creative block yesterday but I flipped through my stamps a few times and landed on a stamp set that I've owned for a long ... View Post

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card-making, crafting
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clearly besotted

Colorburst “Confetti”

13 Nov

Good morning!  I'm still working on my RAK card stash so I created another quick set of colorful cards! I LOVE that sentiment from the Hero Arts Acts of Kindness stamp set and thought that the Ken Oliver Colorburst powders would create really pretty, no mess "confetti."  I've been ... View Post

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card-making, crafting
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hero arts

Quick Watercolored Notecards

12 Nov

Good morning!  Yesterday was quite the busy day but I was able to finish up a set of cheerful watercolor cards that I started Tuesday and wanted to share them! These were very simple to throw together but will be perfect for RAK cards throughout the month of November!  I realized that I've ... View Post

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card-making, crafting

Coffee Loving Cardmakers Design Team (+ a giveaway)!

11 Nov

This is my second post of the day!  For my first post scroll down or click here! Hello again!  I am really excited to share that I was chosen for the very first Coffee Loving Cardmakers Design Team!  There's an amazing line-up of designers and I am so honored to get to work with them!  To see ... View Post

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card-making, coffee loving cardmakers, crafting, design team
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coffee loving cardmakers, newton's nook

25 Tags of Christmas

11 Nov

This is my first post of the day!  My second post can be found here! Good morning!  Today I am excited to be participating in the 25 Days of Christmas Tags hosted by Tracy McNeely!   Every day, for 25 days, a different stamp company is highlighted and today the focus is on Lawn Fawn!  Be sure to ... View Post

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card-making, crafting
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lawn fawn

Share Handmade Kindness Shaker Pocket Cards

10 Nov

Good morning!  I have a quick set of shaker pocket cards to share today! I finally had a chance to play with my Acts of Kindness stamp set from Hero Arts and I knew I wanted to use the sentiment 'throw kindness around like confetti' in a shaker!  I decided not to make a typical shaker ... View Post

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card-making, crafting
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hero arts

Christmas Card Challenges #49: Anything Goes (+ a giveaway!)

8 Nov

Good afternoon!  It's an Anything Goes week over at Christmas Card Challenges so I hope you'll play along!  Here's what I created! I wanted to focus on that beautiful deer die from Memory Box so I kept the rest of the card fairly simply.  I die-cut the deer from silver cardstock and then used ... View Post

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card-making, christmas card challenges, crafting, design team
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lawn fawn, mama elephant, memory box

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