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Giveaway Winners!

16 Jan

Hi friends!  I'm in crazy Creativation prep mode right now but I wanted to pop in to announce the winners for a few recent giveaways: Altenew January Release Giveaway - Linnea Sundstrom Seasons Giving Blog Hop Giveaway - Cindy Beach My Favorite Cards of 2017 Giveaway -Dianne ... View Post

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Just a quick PSA*!

19 Jun

*PSA - Public Service Announcement ;) Good morning!  I had hoped to make a video this weekend but I pitted a few buckets of freshly picked cherries Saturday and now my hands are fairly scary....I think it'll be a day or two longer before I'm able to scrub all the pink and red off! ;) But fear ... View Post

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CASometry Challenge 2 – Make 5: stage 2 (take 2!)

19 May

Good morning!  A couple days ago I shared my second card for the second stage of Anna's CASometry Challenge 2 - Make 5; but the more I looked at it over the course of the day, the more I realized that it can't even kinda be counted as CAS.  So I decided to do it over! ;) I loved the color scheme and ... View Post

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Christmas Card Challenges #51: Anything Goes

22 Nov

Don’t forget to comment on the Hero Arts+A Blog Named Hero Holiday Blog Hop for a chance to win one of three November 2015 My Monthly Hero Kits!  Click here for the post!  You have until 11:59PM PST tonight to comment!! Good afternoon and thanks for stopping by for another Anything Goes week ... View Post

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From Places Abroad – Tunisia (Altenew Challenge)

26 May
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Good morning!  I totally fell in love with the Altenew Challenge inspiration photo this month and was happy to find a little more time to play along!  This was the first card I posted earlier this month: And here are today's cards: As I mentioned in my post for A Blog Named Hero yesterday ... View Post

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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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All the Sparkle

17 Jan

Just a friendly heads-up, I am in the final stages of migrating my blog to my new domain, All the Sparkle and hope to have everything transferred by the end of the weekend!  I'm excited to get this blog separated from my professional life as a musician and give it a life of it's own!  I'm 99% sure ... View Post

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Oops…

13 Nov

So I'm definitely still learning my way around Wordpress and my blog.  I actually purchased a new url for my blog a few weeks ago but royally screwed up trying to switch it; so now I'm just waiting until I can get assistance to do it correctly.  But apparently during that whole snafu I managed to ... View Post

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