tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33966164488805415372009-11-09T15:55:15.184-06:00Believe... Dream... Inspire...Heidi Blankenshiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14385891221946577488floralfantasy@charter.netBlogger250125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3396616448880541537.post-18418642350169745242009-11-09T15:00:00.001-06:002009-11-09T15:47:08.165-06:00

Happy Monday! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. We had a really nice weekend, it was beautiful here in MN! I think we are finally getting our Indian Summer. Eric put up some of the Christmas lights, better to do it now rather then in the cold and snow. Eric and the boys (mostly Eric *wink*) finished up raking and bagging a ton of leaves. I worked on some projects and helped out

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Good morning and Happy Friday! A few days back my dear sweet friend, Vicki Chrisman, asked if I would like to join her and some friends in a sketch challenge. I happily said, YES!! I have a link list at the bottom of this post for other ladies who joined in Vicki's Sketch Challenge so be sure to check them out! Vicki designed a Fantastic sketch and said we could create a LO, card, altered or

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Good morning! Today I would like to share a couple of digi LO's with you and also my banner that I designed for E-Scape and Scrap.I created this first LO awhile back and just didn't get a chance to post it as I came down with the flu shortly after I created it. :( But I am feeling so much better and trying to get caught up and back in the swing of things.Here is my first LO~I love this photo!

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Have you been checking out all of the NEW Releases from JustRite Stampers? This week JustRite Stampers is showing the NEW Releases on the JustRite Blog so be sure to hop on over there and check it out! You will also be able to see new creative designs using the new products and have a chance to win some Fabulous Blog Candy!! For today's project I created a set of Christmas cards using the NEW

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Happy Monday to all of you! It is a beautiful autumn day here in MN, the air is crisp and the sun is shinning. I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and a Happy Halloween. Today I get to share a secret with all of you that I have been keeping for quite awhile! Don't you just love secrets?! *wink* A while back I received an email from Sherry Cheever asking me to join a new design team! I

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Today is the Crafty Secrets Design Team Challenge blog hop and I can't wait to see what all of the ladies have been busy creating. Vicki Chrisman our wonderful and very talented Design Team Coordinator gave us a challenge to create a project with a bird theme. Crafty Secrets has several products with beautiful images of birds from stamp sets, journal and note booklets, vintage postcard kits,

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Hello! It seems like forever since I have done a blog post with some artwork, and I am sure you are agreeing with me. *wink* Thank you so much for your understanding!! I also want to thank you for all of the wonderful comments, well wishes and prayers for my MIL and our family. We have very deeply appreciated it. I am doing much better but still have a little bit of a cold and cough. But

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This is going to be a very short post and with no art to share. I am sorry! I have been really sick for a little over two weeks. I am slowly starting to feel better but I don't have a lot of energy. I still have a horrible cough and a very sore throat and I get tired very easily. On top of all of this we received a phone call today that my mother in law is in the hospital and she may not

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I hope you have been enjoying World Card Making Day and have found at least a little bit of time today to be creative. Or maybe you are one of the lucky ones who has been creating all day!! This morning I was at Scrapping On The Go! teaching a card class. The class was full and all of the ladies were so wonderful and had a great time creating, sharing, talking and laughing.After I came home

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This past July while I was at CHA in Orlando, Florida Spellbinders™ and Tattered Angels booths were right next to each other and in conversations the wonderful ladies with Tattered Angels told us about using their Glimmer Screens in the Wizard™ to create Beautiful embossed backgrounds and we were all sooooo excited!! Who doesn't love a new technique! *wink* A couple of days ago I posted the

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For today's card I am using the Thinking of You stamp set from JustRite Stampers. This set includes six borders and centers with some beautiful images to color too. The Thinking of You stamp set fits the 2-1/4'' x 3-1/16'' Oval Wood Stamper. Here is the card I designed using one of the centers and borders from this set.Here is a close up of the stamp so you can see all the details in the

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Things are cooling down here in the north and fall is upon us. I love the crisp cool air and prefect sweatshirt weather. The colors of nature are so beautiful in the fall. One of my favorite things in the fall is Halloween! I love Halloween! I love decorating for it and creating for it.The card I have to share with you today is a cute Halloween card. I had a lot of fun creating this card

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Edit ***So Sorry for the late post! I was having some issues with blogger this morning. :(Good morning! Today is the Crafty Secrets Blog Hop and our Design Team Leader, Vicki Chrisman gave us all a challenge to create a card or project using a stamp set that we haven't used in awhile and if we were making a card it had to have fancy folds or a different size or shape.The inspiration for the

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WOW What a weekend!! I am back home from ScrapFest at Mall of America and I can honestly say I have never experienced anything like it!! I went to ScrapFest with Spellbinders and Kim Hupke, Education Director and I worked in the booth doing make-n-takes for the event. The lines were never ending!!! The ladies would already be lining up when we arrived each morning to set up, greeting us with

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Are you ready for an Amazing Blog Hop? JustRite Stampers and 54 very talented Ladies are going to be sharing soooooo much creative inspiration with you over the next two days!! Yep, that's right it's a two day JustRite Mega Font Blog Hop!!! JustRite Stampers is also going to be having a wonderful SALE on ALL of the Fonts.Here is the information on the JustRite Sale.JustRite is celebrating

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I am going to be teaching a class at Scrapping on the Go! October 3rd and I would love for you to come and join in the fun! We will be making two beautiful fall cards and a snowflake Christmas ornament. For the class you will get a chance to use some of the wonderful new products from Spellbinders Paper Arts and JustRite Stampers.Pictured below are the cards and the Christmas ornament we will

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I have been wanting to share some exciting news with you for awhile now but with my recent computer problems I had to put things on hold. I have the computer back and I can finally let you in on the secret I have been keeping. Julie Mead, Owner and Designer of E-scape and Scrap contacted me and asked me to join her Creative Team, E-scape Artists. I am so excited and honored to join her

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Are you going to ScrapFest at Mall of America? If you are I hope you will stop by and say Hello! I would love to meet you!! ScrapFest is September 18th - 20th. Kim Hupke, Education Director for Spellbinders Paper Arts and I will be at there to show you Spellbinders Products and to make some wonderful and fun make-n-takes. We will also be at Scrapbooks Too in Bloomington, MN on Thursday, Sept

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Hello! Before I get started with the blog post I just have to tell you I have some Fantastic news--I have the computer back!! I can't even begin to tell you how happy I am!! You just don't realize how much you depend on the computer until it's gone and then it about drives you crazy until you get it back--LOL!Today JustRite Stampers is the Product Focus at Splitcoaststampers and the product

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Good morning! Today is the Crafty Secrets Postcard Challenge Day and Vicki Chrisman our wonderful Design Team leader came up with a Fantastic challenge for us this month! Each DT Member has created a project to share using the NEW Vintage Postcard Kits. We could have any theme and use any NEW Vintage Postcard Kit we would like for the challenge. I love these New Vintage Postcard Kits!! Each

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Hello and Welcome to the JustRite Christmas Blog Hop! I am very excited about today's Blog Hop, it's going to be soooo Huge! The JustRite Chritmas Blog Hop was open to several Guest Designers who were welcome to join in the fun, we have 33 Designers in all!!! That is Fantastic and I can't wait to see what all of these talented ladies have created!!Here is a list with links to the JustRite Blog

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Hello!!! OMGosh I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am to be doing a blog post!!!!! I am sorry for my absence but after I came home from CHA we went on a family vacation (had a Wonderful Time!!) and came home to a blue screen on the computer!! We are still having some issues with the computer but at the moment it is up and going and I am keeping my fingers crossed!! Technology is

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Hello! Sorry I haven't been able to post for a little while--I have been in sunny Florida at the CHA show!! I was at the show with Spellbinder and I had a wonderful time working in the booth at the demo table and the make-n-take table. I always love going to the show, seeing friends and meeting so many wonderful people. I have several pictures to share and I have some new art to share too but

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For all of you who love the vintage style you will be happy to know that Crafty Secrets has done it again and created some fun and amazingly beautiful Vintage Postcard Kits!! This weekend Sandy Redburn, owner of Crafty Secrets is revealing some of the Vintage Postcard Kits on the Crafty Secrets Blog and a NEW Stamp Set! Yesterday was the 1st reveal for the Baby Girl and Story Time Vintage

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Today is another JustRite Blog Hop and I hope you will join in the fun! Here is a list of all the JustRite Design Team Members so you can check out all of the beautiful creations they have to share with you. Also don't forget to check out the JustRite Blog!!Barb Schram Becca Feeken Debbie Olson Heidi Blankenship Kathy Jones Kellie Fortin Lauren Meader Lisa Somerville Michele Kovack Michelle

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