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Butterfly Reflections Ink: Woof or Meow?

27 May

Good morning!  I'm over at Butterfly Reflections Ink today with four cards specifically created for dog and cat lovers!  I'd love to hear what you think so head on over and check them out! Here's a sneak of one of the cat cards! ... View Post

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butterfly reflections ink, card-making, crafting, design team
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avery elle, distress ink, mft stamps, shaker, studio calico

Christmas Card Challenges #23: No Patterned Papers

10 May

Good morning and Happy Mother's Day!  Our Christmas Card Challenge this week is a fun one: create a card using NO patterned papers! :) Of course, I very rarely use patterned paper but as soon as I can't use it, I want it!  Ha.  But I suppressed the urge to reach for patterned paper and created a ... View Post

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card-making, christmas card challenges, crafting, design team
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distress ink, mama elephant, savvy stamps

Fossilized Amber distress ink!

5 May

Okay, so I'll admit Fossilized Amber is not my favorite distress ink color but that's mostly just because I'm not a big fan of yellow.  However, I'm committed to making this distress ink series so I made it work! ;) I didn't think that this color went particularly well with gold or silver so ... View Post

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distress ink, hero arts, wplus9

Celebrate National Scrapbook Day with Butterfly Reflections Ink!

2 May

This is my second post today!  If you're looking for Shaker Saturday please scroll down or click here! I'll start off with the most exciting part: 20% off EVERYTHING at Butterfly Reflections Ink all day long!!  So click on the image below to start shopping and then come back here and tell me what ... View Post

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distress ink, neat and tangled, watercolors

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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distress ink, heat-embossing, mama elephant, papertrey ink

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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chibitronics, distress ink, hero arts, mama elephant

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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distress ink, lawn fawn, simon says stamp, wplus9

Mermaid Lagoon distress ink!

10 Apr

So, if you're a new reader, I've been making a set of cards using the new Tim Holtz distress inks as they're released each month.  You can find my Cracked Pistachio card here and my Abandoned Coral card here!  Again I won't go into too much detail because you can find step by step directions on my ... View Post

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