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Christmas Card Challenges #21: Anything Goes

24 Apr

Good afternoon!  It’s an Anything Goes week at Christmas Card Challenges and I'm excited to share my shaker card with you today!  I recently picked up a few sets from Ellen Hutson and I love this Christmas Scribbles set! I've been playing with my distress inks a lot recently so I started by ... View Post

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card-making, christmas card challenges, crafting, design team
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christmas, distress ink, ellen hutson, essentials by ellen, shaker

MFT Challenge Cards (AKA conquering my fear of sketch challenges)

18 Apr

Good morning!  After my struggle to create a card based on a sketch for the most recent Lawnscaping Challenge I decided it was time to face my fear head-on!  I had some free time to get crafty so I searched around for a sketch challenge and chose the MFT Sketch Challenge.  Many of my crafty friends ... View Post

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card-making, crafting
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lawn fawn, shaker

Effie’s Surprise Birthday Party Blog Hop!

26 Mar

Today is the last day to enter my current giveaways…a Starbucks giveaway to celebrate the Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and a watercolor giveaway showcasing the awesome Daniel Smith watercolors!  Hope you’ll check them out! ? Good morning!  I've got a special post today! The design team ... View Post

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bloghop, card-making, crafting
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Christmas Card Challenges #14: Color Challenge

6 Mar

Don't forget to comment on the Ken Oliver/Impression Obsession Blog Hop for a chance to win a set of colorburst powders and a gift certificate to Impression Obsession! ;) Good afternoon!  We have a fun color palette to inspire you this week! I love how the colors are SO close to ... View Post

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card-making, christmas card challenges, crafting, design team
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lawn fawn, shaker

Coffee Loving Cardmakers Sponsor Solo: Lil’ Inker Designs

24 Feb

Good morning!  I'm back with another sponsor solo for Coffee Loving Cardmakers, this time featuring Lil' Inker Designs! Lil' Inker Designs has a bunch of really cute coffee or drink themed stamp and die sets!  You can click here to see some of them! I decided to use Coffee Talk ... View Post

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card-making, coffee loving cardmakers, crafting, design team
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lil inker designs, misti, shaker

Stamp Study #3: Concord & 9th February Release

18 Feb

Good morning!  I'm really excited about today's post!  Exactly one year ago I blogged my first Stamp Study...then I posted a second one.  And then I promptly forgot about it...oops. But I'm back (and hopefully it won't be another year before my 4th stamp study!)!!  I've realized that I will often ... View Post

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card-making, crafting, stamp study
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concord & 9th, shaker, stamp study

Online Card Classes: Watercolors for CardMakers – Intermediate Techniques Days 2 and 3

28 Jan

I am having SO. MUCH. FUN. in this Online Card Class...seriously, I cannot recommend it highly enough!  While I'm certainly not mastering all of the techniques that are being taught I'm getting wonderful ideas that will definitely be used for future cards and lots of helpful tips for improving my ... View Post

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card-making, crafting, online card classes
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altenew, hero arts, memory box, shaker, simon says stamp, winsor and newton watercolors, wplus9

Color Burst Vellum Shaker

16 Dec
ColorBurst Shaker Card www.allthesparkle.com

Good morning!  I'm really excited to be here with my first post as a member of the Ken Oliver Creative Team!  I've been a huge fan of the Color Burst powders for some time now and use them frequently in splattered card backgrounds.  But for my first post as a member of the creative team I wanted to ... View Post

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card-making, crafting, design team, ken oliver crafts creative team
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