tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38674807361058971052012-01-28T14:56:21.889-05:00Katarinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001895447997805251noreply@blogger.comBlogger6951100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3867480736105897105.post-30320902049434706342012-01-27T05:00:00.000-05:002012-01-27T21:03:01.365-05:00

Hello everyone! I am loving these adorable Wryn images from Tiddly Inks, I even love her name, so perfect! I went with a bit of paper landscaping for this card. I'm not sure what it's really called, but whenever I see someone else make rolling hills, or clouds or sky using patterned papers, I love the look of it. Not to mention I had to give this new Memory Box tree and house die a try after

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Well it almost felt like spring today, it was mild and sunny out, and it made me yearn for warm breezes! I know, I know, we still have a good two months of cold weather, but a girl can dream can't she?! Anyhow, I'm feeling like spring colors and fuzzy little bunnies when it comes to my cards, and I pulled out this adorable image from a Flourishes stamp set.  I colored the image with very

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Good morning blog friends, it's a stay-at-home kind of day with our second snow storm of the winter. Which is not bad considering we're half way through January already. Which is why it's high time I get those Valentine's Day cards finished up! This one is one of my favorites so far, I fell in love with the Kaisercraft Sweet Nothings paper pad, so shabby and chic and vintage all wrapped up in

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Hello blog friends! Want to see some color? This card has got COLOR, lol. I think it's got every color under the sun, thanks to this Indie Bloom paper pad. I don't often use such bold colors, but when I do it makes me happy. This card features a purple cupcake (grape icing, maybe?) which I personally have never seen, but think someone should make one! I used the 'Never too old for Cupcakes'

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Good morning everyone! I found myself needing to restock my baby card stash and Lili of the Valley just happens to have lots of adorable baby stamps. I used 'All Our Dreams' for this CAS card. Well, some might not consider it CAS, but it is for me! The sentiment is included with this stamp, which is always nice.  I colored the sweet baby in his little hammock with my Copics in lots of light

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Good morning everyone, hope your week is going by quickly and without too much stress. The weekend will soon be here! Hang in there... I came across these adorable digital images from Tiddly Inks last week while searching for some new Valentine stuff to play with. Little Wryn is absolutely adorable, I got the whole collection right away. Super easy to color with my Copics too! I opted to

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Good morning everyone! Well now that Christmas is over, it's time to change out the bling in my car. I worked on this dangle over the weekend for Valentine's Day. There isn't much stamping, I really wanted the vintage Valentine look so I went searching for some clip art on Etsy. After many hours trying to decided which I wanted (for this project and others, lol) I chose a collage sheet of

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Good morning friends, I have a pretty floral card to share with you all today. I was inspired by some vintage perfume bottles to try and recreate some of the elements on a card. I started out with water colored image from Flourishes. I used Tombow markers and a water brush to color in the gold embossed image.  I wanted a fancy scrolled frame around the flowers so I layered a bunch of the

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Good morning! I've been laid up at home for the past few days, unable to do much of anything. I felt my lower back getting a bit sore and weak all last week, and sure enough on Monday it finally decided to give out at work. I should've gone to the Dr. right from work, but I was hoping it would ease up and I could avoid the whole thing, but it just got progressively worse. So every move I make is

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Happy New Year everyone! It's time for a fresh start, and although I don't make any resolutions I do try to change little things here and there. It's never too late to change old habits and start some new, and the beginning of a new year is as good a time as any.  We had a wonderful time last night over at our next door neighbor's. Lots of food, wine and dessert with good friends is my idea of

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Good morning everyone! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Mine was very nice, I had a few days off so I really got to enjoy it at home and we went to my parents to spend the day with my folks and brothers. I did get all my baking done, as well as those snowflake cookies I was talking about but I've got NO pictures to show for it! I made the mistake of making two batches of butter cookie

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Thank you to all of my wonderful blog readers and friends, I appreciate all your kind comments in the past year. Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas, and a bountiful, blessed New Year!

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I know a lot card makers struggle with cards for the men in our lives, but it's not that hard to do if you start thinking differently. Think about the clothes your man likes to wear, what kind of patterns are on them? What colors? Are they sports enthusiasts? Hunting, fishing, cars, woodworking? What are some of the materials used in their hobbies? If you start looking at the different elements

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Good morning friends! I'm winding down with the Christmas projects, this is one of the ones I've been putting off since last Christmas! You see, last year right after Christmas I saw these gorgeous old fashioned candy canes in the liquor store on clearance. I snapped up whatever they had left thinking they would keep till this holiday. Well, I stored them in a box in a kitchen cabinet and when I

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Hello friends! I have to admit, my mojo is playing games with me, I have plenty of ideas but nothing seems to come of them. I think I'm suffering from Christmas burnout. I've been making merry cards since September, and I think I need a change. Which is upsetting because I still have so many projects I want to get done! So many ideas, so little time. I think the fact that Christmas is only 10

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Good morning all. It was a short weekend, but- I did manage to get some Christmas shopping done. Not much, a few small things for my other half. This is a record for me, I hate real-life shopping and will usually put it off till the last minute. It's online shopping all the way for me! I love coming home from work, stopping by our mailboxes and finding surprises there. It's like Christmas every

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Good morning everyone! This is another fast, easy to crank out Christmas card, with no coloring involved. (Well, it's fast for me). The background was created using Waltzingmouse Stamps' chevron from 'Offbeat Backgrounds' in Scarlet Jewel and Avocado. Such a pretty, yet different Christmas color combo. I embossed a piece of gold mirror cardstock with a Sizzix folder, LOVE the way this

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Hello blog friends, if you've been to the LOTV challenge blog already then you've already found out that this is our last challenge. There will be an independent LOTV challenge blog but it will be run by our very own Jacqui. Look for it in 2012. The Inspire blog will be LOTV's focus, with lots of new and exciting content in the coming year. While I am sad that challenge blog will be no more, I

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I finally colored up this adorable little ragamuffin from Mo's Digital Pencil. It sat for the longest time on my desk, and I just kept passing it over for something else, and now I can't understand why! Gosh she's adorable! I used very earthy, grayed colors she is after all, a raggedy angel. She's a poor little soul, not a dime to her name, but a heart as good as gold. I always tell myself

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Hello again! How adorable is this little guy swinging from a shiny red ornament?! He looks a bit mischievous doesn't he? He knows he's so cute he can get away with almost anything...lol. He's 'Little Elf Finn' from Mo's Digital Pencil.  I had a heck of a time coloring that red ornament, it's a pretty large area and hard to get a smooth blend. Perseverance is the name of the game! Eventually

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Hello blog friends, finally a weekend off from work for me. I came home from work yesterday so tired, the first thing I did was lay down on the couch and take a long nap! I didn't have to worry that I wasn't going to be able to go to sleep at night, and not be able to get up early in the AM. That felt good! It also felt good to sleep till 9 AM, lol. Anyway, I needed a new car dangle for my rear

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Happy December! Can you believe it?! The countdown to Christmas is ON! Yikes... I think this is the card for my folks this year. I am very pleased with the way it came out. All the papers are digital, from Raspberry Road Designs, my new favorite digital paper place. This one is called Christmas Chic.  I sewed on some tiny seed pearl beads all around the edge of the card. The only

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Hi all! Guess what? I can make normal sized cards, lol! Of course, I find myself making too few of these small A2 cards, but when I need a lot of them, quickly, these are the ones I end up making. They're so cute though, almost miniature compared to my favorite 6" square! I used the adorable little snowman from PTI's Tremendous Treats set, I decided to stamp him in a light color for the 'no

Katarinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001895447997805251noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3867480736105897105.post-19070767188298035442011-11-23T21:30:00.001-05:002011-11-23T21:50:31.514-05:00

Hello everyone, we've got another challenge going on over at the LOTV blog, this week anything goes! I really took that challenge to heart and went all out with this big ole stocking ornament on my card. It can be removed and hung on the tree for the holidays.  I added tea dyed pom pom trim, wool felt and a twill bow along with some hand stitching and jingly bells to the stocking die cut.

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Hello everyone! I had a nice long weekend to get caught up on lots of stuff at home, managed to get some stamping/coloring time in too! I'm furiously trying to put a dent in the ole Christmas cards for family/friends pile. This is one of my favorite older PTI sets, Friendship Jar Holiday Fillers. I love all the little fillers you can use to put in the jar, candies, snowmen, snowflakes... I

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Good morning everyone, I'm thinking I might want to take up cross stitching or something, because I can't seem to stop doing it on my cards, lol! I love the way it looks and the texture it adds. It also just seemed the logical thing to do to this background paper I created with WMS's Nordic Winter. So pretty! It tool a loooong time to do the little cross stitching around the border, but man am I

Katarinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001895447997805251noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3867480736105897105.post-71638401261688801032011-11-18T05:00:00.000-05:002011-11-18T05:00:05.737-05:00

 Good morning folks! It's Friday-ay-ay! (I've got the weekend off, so I'm excited, lol!)  I've got another explosion box posted on the LOTV Inspire blog, take a peek if you've got a minute!  I don't think I've ever made a clear card using acetate for the card base, but I've always admired them. I decided it was time to try. It didn't come out quite perfect, clear cards require a lot more

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Hello everyone!  I don't know why I waited so long to make this Three Kings box from Waltzingmouse Stamps. I suppose it looked very complicated and I was a bit intimidated, so I kept putting it off. Well, to my surprise, it was actually pretty easy! (Pssst...it's a freebie in the WMS store- here.) Sooo, I'm looking through my fresh new stamps I got last week and 'A Cottage Christmas' jumps out

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Good morning! There's not much stamping, and no coloring at all on this card today, just loads of beautiful die cuts and textured paper. This card started with me experimenting with the Damask letterpress plate from Sizzix. There a quite a few Damask embossing folders out there, but they were all too small for the size card I like to make, so when I saw the larger letterpress plate, I had to try

Katarinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001895447997805251noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3867480736105897105.post-64630258775328675222011-11-11T05:00:00.000-05:002011-11-11T05:00:09.893-05:00

Good morning everyone, Happy Friday! It's also Veteran's Day, so let's not forget to thank a Vet for their service to our country. Thanks to all our military Veterans for fighting for our freedom! I have another very time consuming card to share with you. These gorgeous backgrounds from Motivet are just so gorgeous, and they've recently released a few more. They're so beautiful. This one is

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Hello friends, are you gearing up to place your orders for the new stamps from LOTV? Which ones will you be ordering? It's a difficult decision I know! For our Creature Comforts challenge this week, I went with this adorable critter 'April Showers'. Sometimes these easy-to-color images are great, they are super fast to do. And the matching sentiment is great, no more wasting time digging

Katarinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001895447997805251noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3867480736105897105.post-15931598056637273492011-11-08T06:35:00.000-05:002011-11-08T06:35:16.312-05:00

Good morning everyone! Here's a cute little new baby card I whipped up the other day, she's called 'Special Delivery'. She'll be available for purchase real soon.  I used the gorgeous new Cheery Lynn lace edge die again, this time cut to fit around a circle. Actually, I cut all the individual lace sections apart and glued them in place around the edge. It's very delicate so I didn't want to

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Hello folks, I've been without internet all day and was seriously going through withdrawal! It really stinks to have a day off and not be able to go online, lol!  But, it's finally back and now I can post this card that has been sitting in my drafts folder for a while now. As some of you may know, I've been a huge Papertrey Ink fan almost for as long as they've been in business. My stamping

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I've posted another card using one of the new stamps coming up on the 10th on the LOTV Inspire blog. Take a peek if you have a minute:

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Here's something totally different for me. I've seen a few cards with actual knitted items on them and LOVED them, I knew I'd have to try it sometime. I don't knit, but my mother does so I asked her to whip up a bunch of mini scarves for me. She was happy to oblige! Since Papertrey Ink was featuring a challenge which was right up my alley, multi stamp background building, I figured I'd join

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Hello loyal blog readers, thanks for stopping by today! Lili of the Valley has some adorable new stamps coming out if you haven't heard already. They're scheduled to be released Nov. 10 in their web store, earlier if you're lucky enough to be attending the Hobbycrafts show in Birmingham, UK!  If you're a fan of their adorable Mice are Nice line of images, then you're in for a treat! Lots of new

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Good morning everyone! What an awful weekend off it turned out for me. Imagine my surprise when Saturday it starts snowing, and snowing....and snowing.... We ended up with this: Trees came down on power lines, power went out mid afternoon, and that was the end of a productive crafting weekend. Yesterday we took a drive down to my parent's house in Jersey, my brothers were up from NC for

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I have an easel card posted on the Ideas to Inspire blog, check it out if you haven't visited already!

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Hello everyone! We have a lovely sketch from Bev for this week's challenge. I chose 'Lots of Letters' for my card. The image is so detailed and beautiful I didn't want to do too much in the way of embellishments. I chose to go with a variety of pretty papers and a big red striped bow.  I colored my image with Copics once again, my poor pencils are feeling neglected, I'm sure. While I'm on

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Good morning everyone! I ran into some more stamps made by this artist (anyone know who the artist is, let me know please!) this time from Nellie Snellen. I'm smitten with the adorable little girls and animals! I had to purchase these from an Ebay seller in the UK because I just couldn't find them here.  Colored with Copics, added some snow with a Souffle pen, then sprinkled Glitter Ritz

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Okay, I've had a long enough break from blogging. The past week has been a bit stressful and busy. For starters, my son got his Driver's License. Need I say more? lol. As excited as I was for him, the worry and stress from the worry really started building when my Dad announces he's going to buy him a nice used starter car. Well, I wasn't quite prepared for that, and I must say I've been going

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Good morning everyone! I have the weekend off and there's no kids and no significant other, so I am enjoyin' the peace and quiet! After work last night I settled down on the couch, and watched about 4 episodes of 'The Tudors' on Netflix, I can't tell you how long it's been since I've been able to do absolutely nothing!  Well, I'm up bright and early (had to place my Papertrey Ink order nice and

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Hello folks! I had such a hard time putting together this project, it sat on my desk for weeks. I didn't want a traditional Halloween theme, and I just couldn't figure out how to do it otherwise. Night after night I searched through my stash of patterned papers, but nothing appealed to me. Until I found this oldie but goody from Cosmo Cricket's Gretel collection. I love old CC, I wish they would

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Hello folks! It's time for our Thursday challenge again, our theme is all things warm and cozy. If you haven't read it already on the LOTV blog, the challenge DT has been split in two. Team A will participate in one week's challenge, Team B will do the next and so on. Makes things a lot easier I think. Anyway, I dug through last year's Christmas release for this beauty, 'Mary and Joseph'. The

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Hello everyone, I love Christmas scenes. I can't stop buying them even though I have tons. They just give me such a warm, cozy feeling. Here's my latest addition from Flourishes, 'Vintage Postcard'.  I wanted to have a soft snowflake pattern in the background of the image, so I stamped it on some Basic Grey paper that had such a pattern already. I think it's from an old collection 'Wassail'.

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Hello everyone, I am smitten with these winter fairies from Sugar Nellie. Look familiar? They MUST be the same artist that did these Pergamano stamps I've used in the past. Am I right or am I right?! lol! Anyway, this one is called Hello Little Robin and she's a beauty. I colored her with my Copics.  I finally got the coveted new Poinsettia from Spellbinders and now I am content that I

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Good morning folks, in honor of World Card Making Day Lili of the Valley is having a little celebration over at their blog. Some fun prizes are up for grabs so make sure you head on over  to join in on all the fun. I can't seem to stop making Christmas cards! I think they may be my all time favorite kinds of cards to make, so I hope you're not getting sick of seeing them! I used 'Christmas

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Good morning everyone! Can you believe September is just about over already?! Where does the time go?  I've been wanting to make a jar filled with Halloween treats for a while now, especially with the Ghost shaped Peeps peeking through the side. So cute! I decided NOT to make it the recipe mix, since I read the comments that the bars didn't come out so well, so I just made it a treat jar. 

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Hello everyone, here we are with another Thursday challenge for LOTV. Our theme this week is to use buttons on our projects. No problem-oh! I love using buttons, and use them frequently. Here's what I came up with... I decided to make a cute little wool felt tree with buttons for the Christmas 'balls'. I simply cut out two triangles from felt, stitched them together, and added some pom pom

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Good morning folks, I'm putting a pretty good dent in the Christmas card pile, and it's still nice and early so I should be good in time for Christmas. How's it going for you? This is a very traditional style card, which I love, using a variety of stamps.  The Poinsettia is from Papertrey Ink, embossed in pearl white and water colored with Peerless w/c's. I did three separate layers and

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Good morning everyone, this is my second attempt to write up a post. Blogger completely went kaput and didn't save a single thing on my last attempt. I'm going to be smart and save my work as I go along this time. Nothing like repeating myself over and over, lol... Anyway, do any of you ever get stumped for card ideas? Sit there for hours trying to come up with a good card design? I know I do

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Hello fellow Lili of the Valley fans! It's time for our Thursday challenge. This week we are using Aqua, white and glitter. No problem for me, I love Aqua. Blue greens are my favorite spots on the color wheel, dark or light!  Here's what I came up with. Since I love Aqua, I went with my all time favorite LOTV design, 'Christmas Candle'. Out of all the absolutely beautiful stamps, this is the

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Wouldn't you agree?! I spied these little cuties over at Funky Kits and they were in my basket and checked out faster than I could blink! When something is this cute, I don't even have to think about it. They're mine. Now this doesn't happen to me as often as you might think. It used to when I was a new stamper, everything was a must have! Now I like to think I'm a bit more discriminating, lol.

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Hello blog friends! I came across a gorgeous digital scrapbook kit called 'Christmas Past' from Scrap Matters and fell in love with the plaid and ticking patterns. I love old world Christmas style, and this kit would be perfect for the Pines & Poinsettias set from SU. Lots of lace, gold papers, and chunky glass glitter was what I envisioned. Here's the end result... I used SU markers to ink

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It's Friday! And I have the weekend off, woo hoo! Saturday is my sweetie's birthday so I'll be taking him to our favorite Italian restaurant for dinner. It's been quite a while since we went out for dinner. The card I'm showing you today is almost completely digital. All of the papers were printed from the Snow Folk kit at Nitwit Collections. I LOVE all the adorable little embellishments from

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Good morning everyone, it's time for an Impression Obsession challenge. We're celebrating fall this week. Lots of fun fall themed stamps from IO, just hard to choose which one! I went with this adorable little guy, 'Boy in Leaf Pile'. Coloring the leaves was a lot of fun, I used my Copics.  I scribbled a lot of different colors onto a piece of acetate and just dipped YR21 into each one. This way

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Hello folks, time for another Lili of the Valley challenge. This week we're challenged to use the colors red, green and white on our cards. I really wanted to try to use the colors for any card except for Christmas, but I just couldn't get it to work. A Christmas card is what I settled on.  I colored the image with Copics, and used lots of snowflakes to embellish the snowy scene.  I

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Hello everyone! My weekend was too short, and here it is time to go back to work again. Not a happy time, lol. But I did get some stamping done and I have some cards to share with you.  This one was made using PTI's new Harvest Berries set, a must have for me. I love the shape of Ginkgo leaves. They're so unique! I've only seen real Ginkgo trees a few times, they're not really common around

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Hello everyone! I wanted to share this harvest themed card with you all, with one of my favorite stamp sets from Papertrey Ink. I LOVE pumpkins! Pumpkins for Halloween, snowflakes for Christmas, can't get enough of them.  I left the Copics alone and opted to color these beauties on kraft paper with colored pencils. I really love the look of colored pencils on kraft. I've done it a few times

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Good morning blog friends! Here's another spooky Halloween card for you using the wonderful Waltzingmouse Stamp set 'Cicely at Halloween'. When I saw the sentiment 'Jolly Japes' I laughed out loud. It sounds so innocent! I have never heard this phrase before, but I could pretty much guess at it's meaning. I looked it up anyway: jape  (jp) v. japed, jap·ing, japes v.intr. To joke or quip.

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Good morning everyone! We're getting drenched with rain again. It's been 48 hours of non stop rain and it's getting to me. Fortunately, I get to stay home today, so it won't be too bad.  Our challenge this week is to make a Missing you card. I went through all the LOTV stamps I had trying to decide which one to use when I came across this furry cutie, 'Messy Messages'. She just looked perfect

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Good morning everyone! I tried to make this card with a shaped base as I've seen a lot of people doing, but it didn't quite work out as planned. I have some more experimenting to do with my Gazelle I guess. But, I did manage to cut out the shaped layers OK, and am pretty happy with the result.  This darling little image is from the previous Christmas release, called appropriately enough, '

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Good morning friends. Should I take a break from Christmas cards yet? That's hard to do since it is my favorite holiday. I love all things snow, Santa, snowmen, trees, holly, berries and the list goes on. I never get tired of it. Not to worry, I've got some other projects up my sleeve that do not involve Christmas. I think... Anyway, I am so pleased with this card. I rarely use silver so it was

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Hello everyone! I have an 'icy' winter card to share with you all today using some of Impression Obsession's latest stamps. This one is called 'Snowman and Kids'. Very cute designs from this artist! I water colored the image using a combination of SU markers and Distress inks. I made the patterned paper with the Cover-a-card Snowflakes stamp. I did a simple emboss resist technique using

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Hello everyone, I wanted to share this pretty fall card with you all today. With the nights getting cooler, back to school for the kids, it's time to start thinking autumn. Spring and fall are my favorite times of the year, both bursting with color. Although fall is by far the most beautiful with all the reds, golds and yellows of the all the trees, it makes me feel slightly nervous about the

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Good morning blog friends! I have another peek of one of the new stamps Lilli of the Valley is releasing soon. This one is called Festive Fairy and she is a beauty. (aren't they all!)  She's colored with Copics to match these gorgeous papers from an older Stampin Up collection. I added lots of sparkle with Stickles to all the snow.  The rose is from Wild Orchid Crafts. I didn't have a

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Good morning all! We finally got our power and internet back yesterday, happyhappyjoyjoy! I don't like being without internet, it makes me feel lost.  I have a lot of card blogging to catch up on, so let's get to the good stuff.  Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year. Probably because I love all things creepy and spooky. I chose to make a card using a Waltzingmouse Stamps image

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Well I'm back in the groove again! It's easy to stamp when I don't have to work, go places, run errands, etc. Having a weekend off really gets the creativity into gear. Our power has been out since around noon Sunday, I had a very scary experience when I had to run out and pick up my son from his friend's house. I was driving along nervously, amazed at all the downed trees, raging creeks and

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Good morning friends!As I type Hurricane Irene is working her voodoo even here in NE PA. The wind is pretty strong, and it's been raining since yesterday. I'm typing up my post as quick as possible in case the power and/or internet (NOOOOO) goes out. Most of yesterday morning I was without internet and I could not figure out why. I unplugged this, reset that, checked wires, connections all to no

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Hello everyone, sorry I've been so quiet, working on quite a few things behind the scenes. Believe it or not Christmas comes early when you're designing cards for stamp companies. We have to be, customers want to see Christmas things with plenty of time to create in time for the holidays!Well, this project isn't necessarily for Christmas, but I needed to make a gift for a very generous friend of

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Hello everyone! It's time for our Impression Obsession Thursday challenge. This week we're making hostess gifts. I love making projects like this, a pretty package and a coordinating card make such a nice presentation.  I made a little gable box with a window using my Gazelle and filled it with some fall colored Reese's Pieces. Some pretty patterned papers from Stampin Up and a gold silk bow

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Hello folks! Finally a day off from work, and there is so much to cram into just one day, I feel seriously overwhelmed. I've been working on this particular project for a couple of weeks now. It started out as a small card (the square part), but it didn't seem complete. So I put my thinking cap on and worked on something to add. This is what I came up with... It's a little wall hanging perfect

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Good morning! This week we're making Thank you cards. You can never have too many of these in your stash! I chose to use 'Milly Flower Power', she's just too cute! She's colored with Copics. I did a bit of hand stitching around the border of the card, I should really do it more often. Such a little thing adds so much to a card. Check out that ribbon, is it not divine?! I am such a ribbon

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Hello blog friends, I know it's been a while since I've shared anything. We took a long weekend spent at the lake a couple of hours away from us and it's proving difficult to get back into the groove. It seems like any interruption to the creative process stalls my engine and takes forever to get started back up, lol!So I'll share one of the cards I sent off to CHA with Impression Obsession. This

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Hello everyone, it's time for our IO Thursday challenge, and our theme is ORANGE. This one kind of scared me, because me and Orange do not get along real well. But then I got to thinking that Halloween is all about Orange, and I love Halloween! Clear as mud right? I don't get it either. I hate orange unless it's for Halloween, lol.Well once I had my plan for a Halloween card, it was simple to

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Hello blog buddies, I'm ready for the LOTV Thursday Challenge! Our theme this week is to use roses in some way on our projects. Not hard to do, I love this rolled rose die from MFT and use it when ever I can! I created a pretty pink one from my hand dyed wool felt. Delicious stuff to work with - that real wool!  I chose 'Oh Christmas Tree' for my nontraditional colored Christmas card, colored

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Good morning! Boy was I happy when I saw my most favorite flower released in a new stamp set by Papertrey Ink. I LOVELOVELOVE Hydrangeas. I had a beautiful one on my back deck a couple of years ago that was just stunning, all different shades of pale blue to Periwinkle to Blue-Violet and pale Lime green centers. Breathtaking! It's gone now. I didn't research how to overwinter potted Hydrangeas

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Good morning everyone, getting back into the swing of things now! I have a sweet little angel card to show you today using one of Wee Stamps' digital designs. I used very light Copics to color the whole thing, I wanted a soft, ethereal look. The paper are from the Basic Grey Wisteria pad. I made the felt roses using MFT's rolled rose die. I love the roses that die makes... My new Ottlite is

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Hello everyone, things have been pretty quiet around here. After the mad rush of cards before CHA and the new LOTV release, I had to sit back and take it easy for a while. Major paper crafting overload, my creativity muscle was seriously sprained, lol! Not to mention I finally bought a digital cutter, and me and my Gazelle have been getting acquainted as I experiment doing this and that. I have

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Hello blog friends! We have another sketch this week for our LOTV challenge, a pretty simple one by our very own Domi. I decided to go back the the adorable girls from our previous release, 'Maisie Two Balloons'. I never got around to coloring this little cutie, and I knew I wanted to do some paper piecing with some pretty papers. Once again, theses papers are digital. These are from Tracy Ann's

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Hello everyone, I want to thank each and everyone of you that left a comment on my 'Christmas Puppy' blog candy last week, you have no idea how much I appreciate all the kind words! I know there are a lot of people who are very concerned when they don't get any or few comments on their blogs or gallery pictures, but I am one of those that totally understands if people choose not to. I know it's

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Good morning everyone, take a look at this new stamp from Impression Obsession, I love it! I want a little cabin in the woods just like this, lol! This image was so easy to color, because there's so much snow. I just added a few shadows with my Copic BG0000 and BG72 and the majority of the coloring was done. The cabin didn't need any shading because it was already incorporated into the design, so

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Good morning blog friends, I have another card using one of the new Lili of the Valley stamps coming out July 25th. This one is called Christmas Dancer. Isn't she just adorable?! You might be surprised to find out that all the patterned papers I used on this card were printed out from my computer. I LOVE digital papers. I was wading my way through my stash of real patterned papers, trying to

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Hello again everyone! I've got another card using one of Impression Obsession's newest release and a new to IO artist, Hannah Davies. I LOVE this artist's folk art style. The images and designs are so unique! Wait till you see all the rest of the stuff IO has coming... I used my new favorite technique, Burnished Velvet for this card. The image was covered with a double sided adhesive sheet tape,

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Hello everyone and welcome to the party! We've partnered with Wild Orchid Crafts to showcase some of the new LOTV Christmas stamps coming out next week July 25th, 2011. Oh you are all in big trouble when you see these beauties, you may as well hand over your wallets, lol! Each stamp is more adorable than the last, and they're coming out nice and early so you have plenty of time to get started on

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Good morning everyone! Impression Obsession is at CHA in Illinois this week so so for those of us who can't get there can have some fun right in our own homes with our Blog Party. All the designers will be showcasing projects using new stamps being released soon. Want to see the new stamps? Here is a link to the Fall/Winter catalog PDF. There are a few new artists for IO and one of my favorite is

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We're almost getting to all the celebrations going on this week, lots of fun stuff happening! First, Impression Obsession will be having a week long CHA sneak peek party. LOTS of new stamps (new artists shhh..) The DT will be showcasing them on their individual blogs every day, so hold on to your wallets! Gorgeous stuff is coming! Also celebrating this week is the joint blog party with Lili of

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Hello everyone, it's time for our weekly challenge, but I have some news first. Next week Lili of the Valley and Wild Orchid Crafts will be having a Christmas in July party all week long. Make sure to stop by the Inspire blog for all the details. Now back to the Thursday challenge...This week we were creating Pink and Blue projects to inspire you. I was feeling a bit blank for a layout and

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Hello blog friends, sorry for being so quiet lately. With summer CHA coming up I've been furiously working at samples to send in next week. If you happen to be there, stop by the Impression Obsession booth to take a look! I squeezed in a card that I made just for fun using another one of those Quartz Glass backgrounds I made a while back. I lovelovelove this technique! This one has one of my

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This week the IO DT are creating cards just to say hello. This one might not actually say hello, but it's a card for no occasion in particular. Perfect if you just want to drop someone a line, let them know you're thinking of them.I chose this beautiful 'Spiral Shell' stamp, and once again, I've used the burnished velvet technique. Love it! I used some Tombow markers to add a little color right

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Hello everyone! Still no Ottlite, so my pictures are seriously edited and not up to par, please excuse. I chose this adorable little pup for my card this week, because he goes perfectly with this sentiment from Inkadinkado. I love it. (For those of you looking on the LOTV web site for this stamp, please note that it isn't there BUT will be released this autumn.)Lots of bright primary colors for

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Hello everyone, I hope you're all still with me while I wait for my replacement Ottlite, in the meantime I had to go through extreme measures just to get a half way decent picture of some of my cards! LOTS of editing, lol.A while back while perusing my favorite place on the web (Splitcoast Stampers) I came across a technique I had not seen before called Blown Glass or 'Quartz Glass'. I instantly

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Hello everyone! My OttLite craft lamp saga drags on. I searched high and low for the right replacement bulbs, most places wanted $12 some places wanted $35 for the same bulb! Outrageous, IMO. It's just a light bulb for crying out loud. So as I search online, I see that Lowe's carries them too, for significantly less. I head on over to my nearest Lowe's. Oh, too bad, they don't carry the bulb I

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Hello everyone! I haven't been blogging for a while, I know, and it's all because of one light bulb. Yep, my Ottlite craft lamp that I use for crafting as well as taking pictures of my projects burned out and I can't get a good picture no matter what I do. I'm hoping to pick one up tomorrow and resume my regularly scheduled programming, lol! Here's a card I made a while back using some adorable A

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Hello everyone! We have a lovely sketch by Donalda for this week's challenge over at LOTV. I think working from sketches are my absolute favorite challenges. They really help me break out of my usual layout 'rut'.  I used the new Emma in the Garden stamp, colored in pencils. I went with a very Victorian theme to go with the beautiful Pink Paislee 'Butterfly Garden' collection of papers. Lacy

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Good morning everyone!  I've always wanted to try a diorama style card since seeing the tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers a long time ago. I am however, The Great Procrastinator..haha. Well, I could put it off no longer. I was going through some of my older stamps and came across this Magnolia background from my design team days with them. Then I came across this 'Little Girl - SwingTime' stamp

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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. Happy Father's Day to all the Daddies out there! Here's a final Father's Day card I have to share with you all using an older SU set called 'Pheasant Thoughts'. I knew I had to hunt down this set and finally found one used but in great shape on Ebay. Jimmy is a

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Good morning blog friends! This week for the Impression Obsession Thursday challenge we're creating Summer themed cards. And you know what came to mind when I think of hot summer days? Sitting by a still lake looking out over the reeds and rushes and watching the dragonflies zooming around. The sound of peepers and crickets filling the warm air, the sun hot on my shoulders. I'm starting to sweat

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How's this for a masculine card? Pretty easy with Stampin' Up's digital stamps and papers, which I love. I am so glad they're offering digital products now, last minute cards? No problem. Inexpensive, immediate download, print, and you're ready to get creative. Now that's my idea of 21st century crafting, lol!  This is probably one of the most digital cards I've ever made, the patterned papers

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Hello everyone, I have a sweet little project to show you today of a wall hanging I made for my cousin's new baby girl. I thought this new stamp coming out on June 14th called 'Daisychain' would be perfect to adorn a baby girl's room.  Now it's not actually much more than I would do for a large card, but I really wanted a pretty, lacy punched border all the way around the outside layer and in

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