Happy Easter Card & Table Decorations

Here is my project for Craft Project Central during the month of March 2017~  This pretty collection of Easter baskets and treats will welcome your guests to the table for your brunch or dinner.  Two options of baskets show off the Succulent Garden Designer Series Paper, as well as the…

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Creating Pretty Cards – Card Sketch #69

Each month, in addition to the great 3D projects that Craft Project Central has for you, they also host a monthly card challenge – Creating Pretty Cards!! To help you recreate the sketch each month, they also provide a free Sketch Mini Tutorial! This mini tutorial has information about how the inspiration card…

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Cool Treats for your birthday!

Here I go, mixing it up again!  I am tickled with how this Festive Birthday DSP goes with the Cool Treats stamps! It looks like a July birthday party, ready to happen! This is a very straight-forward card. The DSP measures 5-1/4″ x 4″. The Tempting Turquoise layer is 4″…

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Quick Note Card

Good Monday to you! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! I wanted a note card-sized card to send to my friend, but since she is a purple person, I knew it had to be something in the purple family.  Since our Note Cards and Envelopes (so handy and…

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Basket Bunch Thank You

Happy Friday!  It is a beautiful day here today – sunshine and flowers popping up all around! It is a tease of Spring, I’m sure, but I’m enjoying it!!! Today’s card is a CASE from Amy K ~ one of my favorite card maker/bloggers.  I’ve used some different DSP and…

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Blue Butterfly for GDP#075

This is my first-ever entry for the Global Design Project! The theme this week is Winged Creatures, so I thought I would make a bold blue butterfly for the challenge ~ And here is the banner that inspired my card: I started with a base card of Basic Black. Then…

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It’s All in the Details!

Paper Details: When I pulled out Falling in Love Designer Series Paper, I knew I wanted to pair these two prints together. And as I looked closely at tiny checked paper, I knew I had to back it with Basic Gray Cardstock. The fact that the check is on the…

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Wild About Flowers

When I was looking through the Annual Catalog for a card to CASE for our monthly Blog Hop last week, I came upon this one using Wild About Flowers~ I have that stamp!  But I don’t have all the elements on their card, so I set out to make my…

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Have a Peachy Birthday!

Peekaboo Peach, Tip Top Taupe, and Whisper White ~ such a warm weather combo, don’t you agree?  I CASEd this card right from the 2016-17 Annual Catalog. CASE means Copy And Share Everything, and this card was just too pretty not to try! The only change I made to the…

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

One more Valentine project for you.  If you like texture, this is for you! I kept the color palette very simple ~ black, white, red, and Crumb Cake. The Crumb Cake layer is embossed with the Seaside Textured Embossing Folder. The hearts are all cut using the Sweet & Sassy…

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Happy Birthday Bouquet

I have a lot of friends with birthdays coming up ~ I need to restock my birthday card stash! I hadn’t played with my Balloon Punch or Framelits in a while, so I thought it was time to get them out and dust them off! For this card, I used…

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Fun With Watercolor Pencils

If you haven’t tried these Watercolor Pencils yet, you need to — now! They are so smooth and easy, which makes them so much fun! I roughly colored this Tasty Truck, then smoothed the color around the spaces with my Blender Pen. They are my favorite coloring tools yet, because…

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It’s Blog Hop Day!

Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop for February 2017. We are thankful you stopped by to take a look at our 2017 Blog Hop monthly themes.  This month we are CASE’ing a project shown in a current Stampin’ Up! catalog. After all, with the Annual, Occasions and Sale-a-Bration catalogs available…

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Sealed with Love for CPC68

Happy Tuesday!  I’m sharing an extra post this week to show you my entry for a Sketch Challenge from Craft Project Central ~ And here is the sketch that I patterned my card after ~ This is Creating Pretty Cards Sketch Challenge #68, design by Monika. You can see her…

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