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Online Card Classes: Watercolors for CardMakers – Intermediate Techniques Day 1

25 Jan

OH. MY. STARS....the new Online Card Class is fantastic!!  Hands-down this is my new favorite class in the Online Card Classes series!  It is taught by the amazing Dawn Woleslagle of WPlus9 and I cannot recommend it enough!  I don't want to give too much away but here are my creations for the first ... View Post

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card-making, crafting, online card classes
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altenew, gold gouache, memory box, mft stamps, winsor and newton watercolors

CAS-Muses Challenge: Ruby Naz

18 Dec

Good morning!  Today I have the extreme pleasure of playing along with the CAS-Muses challenge!  The CAS-Muse for November was my good friend Ruby and as soon as I saw her palette I knew I wanted to play along! In her CAS-Muses interview Ruby shared several cards and I really gravitated ... View Post

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card-making, challenge, crafting
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altenew, kuretake gansai tambi

Your kindness makes such a difference!

28 Nov

Good morning!  I hope you've had a wonderful holiday and are recovering from a day of shopping! ;)  I can't believe it's almost the end of November!  I've got one more set of cards to share.  These all went out in the mail today! I used the Altenew layering inks to stamp the layered ... View Post

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card-making, crafting
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altenew, papertrey ink, wplus9

Happy Thanksgiving!

26 Nov

Good morning and Happy Thanksgiving to all those who are celebrating today!  My husband and I (and our four-footed herd) are at my parents' home and looking forward to eating lots of turkey and stuffing later this afternoon!  I'll be off most social media for the day but thought I'd share a quick ... View Post

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card-making, crafting
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altenew, hero arts

Thinking of You

24 Nov

Good morning!  Just a quick card to share using the new Beautiful Day stamp set from Altenew...really this stamp set kinda sells itself!  Super easy-layering using the Altenew inks and it's just stunning! I used my Scan N Cut to cut out the flower once all three layers were stamped and the ... View Post

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card-making, crafting
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altenew

Hello!

21 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! Good morning!  Another quick post as I'm still out of town but wanted to share a quick set of shaker cards I created for ... View Post

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card-making, crafting
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altenew

My least favorite card to make…

27 Oct

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 morning!  I was going through my ... View Post

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card-making, crafting
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altenew, hero arts, mft stamps, simon says stamp

Crafting Cues: Watercolor Mediums

2 Oct

For the first Crafting Cues post, please click here! Good morning!  I'm back with my good friend Ruby, of A Rare Ruby Crafts, for our second installment in our Crafting Cues collaboration!  A few weeks ago we shared our ideas for using Brusho watercolor powders!  We had so much fun that we ... View Post

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card-making, crafting, crafting cues
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altenew, finetec palette, memory box, twinkling h2os, watercolors

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