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Butterfly Reflections Ink: Narwhals, Narwhals…

22 Apr

You know it....you're singing the song now, right?!  Ha ha, and if you're not...head here and watch this before you go check out my card at Butterfly Reflections Ink! Here's a sneak peek...yep, I totally went there... ;) ... View Post

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butterfly reflections ink, card-making, crafting, design team

Hero Arts Ombre Ink Pads

21 Apr

I am totally in love with the Hero Arts ombre ink pads and I cannot wait until the new colors are released in a few weeks!  I was inspired to make time to play around with them after seeing Jennifer McGuire's video last week and I ended up making more and more backgrounds... ;) I won't go into ... View Post

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card-making, crafting
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hero arts, mama elephant, mft stamps, penny black

Christmas Card Challenges #20: Cookies!

19 Apr

Hi and welcome to another Christmas Card Challenge!  This week we've got a fun (and yummy) inspiration photo for you! Here's my card: I think this might just take the award for busiest card I've ever made...it really didn't start off that way but it kinda snowballed.  Leaving off the ... View Post

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card-making, christmas card challenges, crafting, design team

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

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