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Christmas Card Challenge #50

15 Nov

Good afternoon and welcome back to another Christmas Card Challenge!  This week we have an interesting photo inspiration… I'll admit that I was really stumped at first...I wasn't sure how to incorporate Santa into a kraft and black color scheme (especially since I don't own any Santa ... View Post

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lawn fawn, mama elephant, memory box, neat and tangled

Christmas Card Challenges #49: Anything Goes (+ a giveaway!)

8 Nov

Good afternoon!  It's an Anything Goes week over at Christmas Card Challenges so I hope you'll play along!  Here's what I created! I wanted to focus on that beautiful deer die from Memory Box so I kept the rest of the card fairly simply.  I die-cut the deer from silver cardstock and then used ... View Post

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lawn fawn, mama elephant, memory box

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

Christmas Card Challenges #43: Anything Goes

27 Sep

Good afternoon and thanks for stopping by for another Anything Goes week at Christmas Card Challenges!  It's been awhile since I've made a shaker card so I thought I'd break out the beads and sequins this week! To create my card I die-cut the Memory Box Retro Ornaments from a piece of white ... View Post

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lawn fawn, memory box, papertrey ink

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

Christmas Card Challenges #40 – Color Inspiration

6 Sep

Don't forget, you have until 11:59 PM EST tonight to comment on the Blog Hop celebrating the Fall 2015 release of The Ton Stamps in order to be eligible for one of 8 giveaways!!  Click here to join the hop! This week we had a really pretty inspiration photo for our color challenge!  The colors ... View Post

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card-making, challenge, christmas card challenges, crafting, design team
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memory box, simon says stamp

Christmas Card Challenges #35: Color Challenge

2 Aug

Good afternoon!!  If you’re looking for my Chibitronics LED stickers giveaway please click here!  And don’t forget my Instagram giveaway that can be found at my IG account: @JessicaAFrost! ? Anyway, onto my actual post for today… This week's Christmas Card Challenge is a really unusual and ... View Post

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glitter, memory box

Christmas Card Challenges #34: Anything Goes

26 Jul

Good afternoon!  I'm back with another Anything Goes Challenge at Christmas Card Challenges!  Here's my card: I've been wanting to use this cute stamp set from Newton's Nook for awhile and I'm glad I had the time to do some coloring today for this card!  I started off by die-cutting a ... View Post

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