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Christmas Card Challenges #19: Photo Inspiration

10 Apr

Good afternoon!  We’ve got a fun inspiration photo for you this week at Christmas Card Challenges! I went fairly literal with my interpretation of the inspiration photo but had a lot of fun making a dimensional "gift" for my card! I started off by stamping the sentiment on a stitched ... View Post

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card-making, christmas card challenges, crafting, design team
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christmas, mama elephant, martha stewart

A Blog Named Hero: Peace

7 Apr

Good evening!  I'm over at A Blog Named Hero with a peaceful holiday card featuring Hero Arts and our April collaboration partner, Newton's Nook!  I hope you'll head over and check it out! :) ... View Post

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ABNH, card-making, crafting, design team
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hero arts, newton's nook

Lawnscaping Challenge #127: Beautiful Florals

4 Apr

Whew, last post for today!  You can find the Spring 2016 Release post for The Ton here and my Guest-Designer post for So Suzy Stamps here!  Psst...there are giveaways for both posts so I hope you'll check them out! Challenge #127, sponsored by Ellen Hutson, is to use a flower or two in your ... View Post

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card-making, challenge, crafting, design team, lawnscaping
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distress ink, lawn fawn, no line watercoloring

Guest-Designing for So Suzy Stamps (+ a giveaway)!

4 Apr

Today's a busy day on my blog!  For the Spring 2016 Release for the Ton please scroll down or click here!  Later you can find my Lawnscaping Challenge post here! I am so excited to be guest-designing for So Suzy Stamps today!  Suzy is one of the nicest ladies in the crafting industry and I'm very ... View Post

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distress ink, guest designer, so suzy stamps, zig clean color real brush

Christmas Card Challenges #18: Anything Goes

3 Apr

This is my second post for today!  For my first post please scroll down or click here! Good afternoon!  It's time for another Anything Goes week at Christmas Card Challenges and I had so much fun that I ended up with an extra non-Christmas card using the same stamps that I shared earlier this ... View Post

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critter, interactive, mama elephant

Kissing Whales!

3 Apr

Good morning!  I was working on my card for Christmas Card Challenges (that you'll see later today) and I really loved the distress ink background that I created.  So I made a second background panel...and then decided to make another card!  One of my new crafty friends on IG, Amy Y. ... View Post

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Trying something new…(and LOVING it!!!)

31 Mar

Good morning!  This is my second post for today!  For my Chibitronics/Lawn Fawn collaboration please scroll down or click here! So as most of you know, I spent the last Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge coloring flowers for a month.  I was really happy with my growth over the month but also ... View Post

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copic markers, kit and clowder

Collaboration: Chibitronics and Lawn Fawn

31 Mar

This week the Chibitronics design team is collaborating with one of my favorite stamp companies, Lawn Fawn, and I was super excited to create a card using both companies!  I didn't have time to do a video tutorial for this card but you can find a similar video tutorial here with detailed ... View Post

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