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Christmas Card Challenges #44: Color Inspiration

4 Oct

Don't forget to celebrate World Card Making Day with The Ton Stamps by hopping along with the design team or entering your own card in our first challenge!  You have a few more days to join the fun! Good afternoon and welcome back to another Christmas Card Challenge!  This week we have a ... View Post

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card-making, challenge, christmas card challenges, crafting, design team
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mama elephant, simon says stamp

Add a little sparkle…(part 4) with a sparkly giveaway!

24 Sep

Good morning!  Whew, this is my final post in my sparkle series!  You can find the first three posts here, here, and here!  Today I'm using two more conventional methods of adding sparkle to cards and one old but not so well-known technique using an everyday household item! For my first card I ... View Post

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card-making, crafting
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altenew, glitter ritz, hero arts, simon says stamp

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 #39: Anything Goes

30 Aug

If you're looking for my Crafty Destash Sale please click here! Good afternoon!  We have five Sundays in August so this week is an additional Anything Goes week! Here's my card: I was going through my stamps this week and realized that I've owned that Poinsettia Parade die from ... View Post

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card-making, challenge, christmas card challenges, crafting, design team
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Christmas Card Challenges #38

23 Aug

Good afternoon!  For my Crafty Destash Sale please click here!  New items are being added constantly! For the next two weeks we have a Anything Goes Challenges over at Christmas Card Challenges and this is my card! I decided to break out my distress inks for today's card!  I started off by ... View Post

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card-making, challenge, christmas card challenges, crafting, design team
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hero arts, simon says stamp

Christmas Card Challenges #37

16 Aug

Good afternoon!  Welcome back to another Christmas Card Challenge!  This week we have a really pretty photo challenge: However, the only real rule is that you create a holiday card...so if you're not feeling the white on white, no worries! Here's my interpretation of the photo ... View Post

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simon says stamp, wplus9

Christmas Card Challenges #36: Anything Goes

9 Aug

Good afternoon!  If you're looking for my crafty destash sale please click here! It's time for another Anything Goes week at Christmas Card Challenges!  The only rule is that you create a holiday card!  Here's mine: Recently I've been clearing out some of my older stamp sets and ... View Post

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mft stamps, simon says stamp

Christmas Card Challenges #33: Photo Inspiration and the end of Shaker Week!

19 Jul

Good morning!  I'm back with my final card for shaker week as well as this week's card for Christmas Card Challenges!  We have this super cute photo to inspire you for the week! And here's my card: I decided to finish off shaker week doing a more "traditional" shaker card design using no fun ... View Post

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card-making, challenge, christmas card challenges, crafting, design team
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distress ink, lawn fawn, shaker, simon says stamp, technique tuesday

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