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All is Calm, All is Bright

31 Jan
All is Calm All is Bright by Jessica Frost-Ballas for Simon Says Stamp

Good morning!  I spent the weekend organizing and sorting my stamps and set aside a few sets that I've owned for awhile but never got around to using!  My goal is to use all of the stamp sets in that pile at least once this year!  So the set at the top of the stack was Neat and Tangled ... View Post

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card-making, crafting
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kuretake gansai tambi, neat and tangled

MarkerPop: Squad Goals!

7 Oct

Hello!  I'm over on the MarkerPop blog with a Game of Thrones themed card!  I hope you'll head over and check it out...here's a little sneak peek of Rhaegal! ... View Post

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card-making, crafting, design team, markerpop
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kuretake gansai tambi, mama elephant, markerpop

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

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

Add a little sparkle…(part 3) with a sparkly giveaway!

23 Sep

Good morning!  If you missed the first two parts of this series you can find them here and here!  I originally thought that I could wrap up this series with a third post but I think I might need to share one or two cards tomorrow.  This ended up being a little longer than I expected... ;) I ... View Post

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kuretake gansai tambi, mama elephant, memory box

Watercolored Coneflowers

29 Apr

All the new growth in my garden has me dreaming of summer flowers so I decided it'd be appropriate to break out the Tim Holtz Flower Garden stamp set for the first time!  I love how realistic the flowers look and decided to focus on the coneflower for today's card! I stamped the flower twice ... View Post

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kuretake gansai tambi, tim holtz

Happy 1st Birthday Rogue!

17 Apr

With a houseful of rescued pets we tend to celebrate adoption days rather than pet birthdays...but that's primarily because we don't actually know the birthdays of our dogs or rabbit.  We still don't know the exact date for Rogue but we've got a much firmer idea.  We adopted her on June 20th and was ... View Post

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card-making, crafting, pets
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avery elle, kuretake gansai tambi, mft stamps, rogue

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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hero arts, kuretake gansai tambi, simon says stamp

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