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Christmas Card Challenges #8: Color Challenge

24 Jan

Good afternoon!  We're on day 3 of a huge snowstorm and for the first time this entire overly-warm winter it felt like I should be creating Christmas cards!  I was definitely in a holiday mood yesterday!  Anyway, we have a fun color challenge at Christmas Card Challenges this week and here's what ... View Post

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card-making, challenge, christmas card challenges, crafting, design team
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distress ink, hero arts, kuretake gansai tambi, technique tuesday

Christmas Card Challenges #7: Photo Challenge

17 Jan

Don't forget to leave comments on the Anniversary Release Week posts for The Ton Stamps to enter one of 9 giveaways!!  Previous posts can be found by scrolling down! Good afternoon!!  I'm back with a fun photo challenge for Christmas Card Challenges! I loved all of the various shades ... View Post

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card-making, challenge, christmas card challenges, crafting, design team
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hero arts, mama elephant, wow embossing powder

Christmas Card Challenges #5

3 Jan

Good afternoon!  If you missed it, head over to my Favorite Cards of 2015 and comment for a chance to win $25 to Butterfly Reflections Ink! ;)  We had a brief vacation during the holidays but Christmas Card Challenges is back and we're giving you a pretty color palette for your inspiration!  This ... View Post

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wplus9

Christmas Card Challenge #1: Photo Inspiration

6 Dec

Good afternoon and welcome back for another year of Christmas Card Challenges!  I am excited to begin my second year on the design team!  Alanna always gives us fun inspiration palettes and photos and I love having 50+ cards and tags done before the holiday season begins!  We also have some new ... View Post

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card-making, christmas card challenges, crafting, design team
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lawn fawn, mft stamps, neat and tangled, simon says stamp

Christmas Card Challenges #52: Anything Goes

29 Nov

Good afternoon and thanks for stopping by for another Anything Goes week at Christmas Card Challenges! I wanted to use slightly non-traditional colors to create my card this week!  I stamped the new ornament from Mama Elephant and stamped the Fair Isle patterns from WPlus9 over the ornament. ... View Post

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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

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

Christmas Card Challenges #48

1 Nov

CRAFTY DESTASH – I’ve updated my destash items.  You can see all of the items here and you can click on the individual photos to open up the photo in Instagram.  Alternatively you can follow my destash account on Instagram @jesscraftydestash!  Happy shopping! Good afternoon and welcome back to ... View Post

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