tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33966164488805415372012-02-03T03:05:34.048-06:00Heidi Blankenshiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14385891221946577488noreply@blogger.comBlogger6531100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3396616448880541537.post-62784560590581745212012-01-31T16:00:00.001-06:002012-02-01T02:18:53.687-06:00

Hello Blogging Friends! Today, is going to have to busy another quick blog post. Maybe when I get back home I can do another post with more details on this project. This is a Goddess wall hanging that I designed using one of the New Releases from Spellbinders, LF-013 Jewel Goddess. I also used S5-086 Bitty Blossoms to create the rose and S5-100 Jewel Feathers to create the foil peacock

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Good morning blogging friends!Today is the first day of CHA!! If I can get an pictures of the event I will try but most of my time is spent working in the Spellbinders booth so I don't have much of an opportunity to get out there and take pictures.I have a quick project to share with you today. I made a tag using some of the New Releases from Spellbinders--Grand Calibur, S5-099 Jewel Keys, S5-

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Good morning blogging friends! Today, I have a quick post to share a layout with you. I am taking off today for California--headed to CHA!! I am excited to see friends and all of the fantastic new products!!This is a pretty simple layout but sometimes I like it when the picture is the main focus of the layout. I used all new products from Spellbinders including--S5-077 Labels Twenty-Five, S5-

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Hello blogging friends! Today, I have a card to share with you using a new technique, Bisque Pottery. The technique is from the Try A New Technique Challenge - TLC361 - over at Splitcoaststampers. I don't do challenges very often but after I saw a beautiful card by my sweet friends Debbie Seyer I knew I had to try this technique! Click HERE to check out Debbie's card.Here is the card that

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Hello blogging friends! Sorry it has been a few days since my last post, I have been busy working on projects for CHA. I will be at CHA demoing and doing make-n-take in the Spellbinders booth. If you are going to be at CHA please stop by and say hello--I would love to meet you!!Today, I have a quit post with a Valentine's Day card to share with you.I embossed the bottom half of the card using

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Good morning blogging friends! Before I get started with my post I want to say a Huge Congrats to all of the New Vintage Street Market DT Members!!Today, is my day to post over at Vintage Street Market and I have an altered Valentine's Bingo card to share with you.I used the Family Fun Paper Kit, Party Games Paper Sheets & Tags and a Bingo Card from Vintage Street Market. I embossed a 12 x 2

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Hello blogging friends! Hopefully I will actually be able to get this post up today--I am not sure if blogger is having issues or what but it seems to be acting crazy today!! I spent almost an hour and a half trying to upload my photos and now things are jumping all over the place--LOL! I have noticed several people on FB commenting about issues with blogger over the past couple of weeks.

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The entry window for theSpellbinders Paper Arts contest on this blog has ended. Don't forget that you still have time to enterat the blogs listed on the Spellbinders blog. Thank you! Welcome to the fifth day of the Spellbinders Abilities and Beyond Blog Frenzy!Spellbinders™ Paper Arts is absolutely thrilled to bring you our largest product releases ever! These new collections are some of the

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Good morning blogging friends! Today, is the Really Reasonable Ribbon Blog Hop for the month of January. The RRR Design Team Members and Special Event Design Team Members will be showcasing the Monthly Ribbon Club.This month there is a beautiful assortment of Red, Pink and White Ribbons and Trim included in the Valentine's Mix January Ribbon Club Assortment. Click HERE for more details.If you

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Good morning blogging friends! Today I have another New Release from JustRite Stampers to share with you. The stamp set I am using today is CL-03530 Starburst Medallion Labels.Here is the card that I designed using CL-03530 Starburst Medallion Labels stamp set.This stamp set includes two beautiful medallions, a border and six sentiments for a total of nine stamps.To start I stamped one of the

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Good morning blogging friends! Today, I have another fantastic New Release from JustRite Stampers to share with all of you.Here is the card I designed using the New Stamp Set--CL-03540 Warm and Cozy Medallion Labels.This stamp set includes two beautiful Medallion Labels and five sentiments for a total of seven stamps.To start I stamped the image onto Simply Smooth White Cardstock with Rich Cocoa

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Hello blogging friends! I hope you are having a fantastic weekend!! Bonnie over at Really Reasonable Ribbon is going to be coming up on her 2-year Blogoversary and she has some fabulous goodies to giveaway!! Check out the picture below!!Click HERE to find out all of the details and for a chance to win!!Also don't forget to check out the Really Reasonable Ribbon Store & Blog.Good Luck!!!Thanks

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Good morning blogging friends! The sun is shinning and it looks like it's going to be another beautiful day. I can't believe how crazy this weather is--it's going to be in the high 40's today and once again the snow is almost gone. Today, I have another New Release from JustRite Stampers to share with you.Here is my card I designed using the New CL-03545 Your Special Day Medallion Labels and

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Good morning blogging friends! Today, I will be sharing one of the New Release from JustRite Stampers with you. During this week and park of next week the JustRite Designers will be sharing New Release so be sure to check the JustRite Blog so you don't miss out on any of the New Releases.CL-03535 Always & Forever Medallion Labels is one of the New Releases from JustRite Stampers and it matches

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Good morning blogging friends! I was so thrilled when Michelle Jackson asked me to join the VSM Design Team--what a Fantastic way to start out the New Year. I am very honored to be joining such an amazing and talented group of ladies!!Today, for my project I altered a mini canvas and a matching card. This would be the perfect little gift for a friend who loves sewing. I used the papers and

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Hello blogging friends! Happy New Year to all of you!!I have to tell you I am SO looking forward to 2012!! 2011 was a good year but it had a lot of ups and downs and I guess I would have to say it was a year with some very eye opening experiences. I am thankful for both the ups and the downs because even though the down times can be really hard to go through I think they make a person

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Hello Blogging Friends! I can't believe it's already New Year's Eve!! It seems like this past year just kind of flew by. If you go out to celebrate tonight please be safe!! We are staying in this year. Not really sure what we are going to do--maybe just hang out, watch some movies and have some goodies. We just celebrated our last Christmas celebration last night and it was so nice to see

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Hello blogging friends! It was so nice outside today--sun shinning and in the 40's which is Crazy for a Minnesota winter!! I think I am already in the mood for Spring--I know it's a long ways away--but I can hope--LOL! Today, I have a card to share with you using JustRite Stampers Botanical Butterflies stamp set, This set is so pretty and perfect if you are in a Spring mood. ;-)I stamped one

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Hello blogging friends! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and that Santa was good to you. Did you have a white Christmas? Did you get some fun new crafty supplies? We had a very nice and relaxing Christmas and we still have one more to celebrate. I have to say Santa was pretty darn good to me!! I got some fun new crafty supplies--132 set of Prismacolor pencils (SO excited about these

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Good morning blogging friends! It's Christmas Eve Day and I still have some wrapping to do--LOL! I have a quick little post and one more Christmas card to share with you for this year. All of the supplies are listed below. I hope tonight and tomorrow are magical for you and your family. I hope Santa is good to you but I also hope you will Remember and Celebrate the REALLY Reason and Meaning of

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Good morning blogging friends! I know it has been a few days since my last post. I have just been busy trying to get things ready for the holidays and trying to finish up some Christmas cards. I wanted to let you all know my new meds are starting to work and I am starting to feel a little better. I also wanted to thank all of you who left me comments about trying ginger tea--I think it is

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Good morning blogging friends! Today, is the Really Reasonable Ribbon Blog Hop for the month of December. The RRR Design Team Members and Special Event Design Team Members will be showcasing the Monthly Ribbon Club.There is a beautiful assortment of White Ribbons, Lace and Trim included in the December Winter Whites Monthly Ribbon Club. Click HERE for more details.If you are following the

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Hello blogging friends! Today, I have a card to share with you using Azalea Metallic, Posh Spruce Satin Sparkle, Jade Riccio Embossed, Herbal Garden Medium, Posh White Linen papers from Discount Cardstock. The Azalea Metallic cardstock is on sale this week. Click HERE for all of the details. I love the metallic papers and I think is my favorite Christmas card so far this year. I used S5-055

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Good morning blogging friends! I hope you all enjoyed the weekend. We had a nice and relaxing weekend. We had a house full on Saturday night--our oldest son had a bunch of friends over, some were home from college for the weekend. It seems so strange when you see these kids all grow up together and see them for years and then they go off to college and we only get to see them once in awhile.

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Good morning blogging friends! I am so excited this morning to announce that I am the Guest Designer for Vintage Street Market for the month of December!!I was SO thrilled when Michelle Jackson, owner of Vintage Street Market asked me to be the Guest Designer!! I hope you will hop on over to the Guest Designer Blog and check out the projects that I designed using Dimestore Vogue, Party Games,

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Hello blogging friends! Today, I have an 8 x 8 layout to share with you. Can you guess who is in the picture? LOL! If you guessed that it's me in the photo then you are right. :-) I used LF-127 Grand Scalloped Squares and then I was happily surprised to find out that one of the Decorative Inserts from E8-005 Classic Postage Stamp matched up perfectly with the scallops in the square! Here is

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Hello blogging friends! I have another Christmas card to share with you, using Dark Red Baronial Scored Card & Envelope Pack 6 x 6, Posh Hemlock Felt, Bazzil Salt Dotted Swiss from Discount Cardstock. This week the Dark Red Baronial Scored Card & Envelope Pack 6 x 6 is on sale at Discount Cardstock--check out the great deals on cardstock!I also used S4-346 Labels Twenty-Two, S4-338 Holiday Tags

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Hello blogging friends! Today, I have a quick and easy Christmas/holiday card to share with you. As a matter of fact it's SO quick and easy I don't really have any details to add--LOL!Please see the supply list below. ;-)Thank you so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a creative day!!Hugs & Smiles,HeidiSuppliesPaper: Discount Cardstock Really Red; Authentique 6 x 6 Bundle Collection

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Hello blogging friends! Omgosh it so cold out today and it looks like it could snow! So far we have been lucky and avoided most of the snow, other then a light dusting about a week ago. Today, I have a tutorial to share with you on how to create the decorative foil rose pin shown above. I made this a few months ago for a pub call but it wasn't one of the projects that got picked up. But on

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Hello blogging friends! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and friends!! Did you go out and do some shopping on Black Friday or did you just stay home? We didn't go out to do any shopping but we did get some great deals on a few online purchases.Today, I have a Get Well card to share with you. The card is for the wife of one of Eric's co-workers. She has been in the

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Happy Thanksgiving!!(click on image to enlarge)I hope you all have a Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving Day with your family and friends!!Hugs & Smiles,Heidi

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Hello blogging friends! I have a quick post for today and a tag to share with you using the New CD Creating With Vintage Illustrations from Crafty Secrets.I love the image of this fairy! All of the coloring was done using Copic markers. I also added Turquoise Baby Blingfrom Want2Scrap and Pralines and Cream Fairy Dust Glitter from Clearsnap. I added a Butterfly and a small piece of Finesse

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Good morning blogging friends! Before I get started with my projects today (yes, I have some artwork to share!) I want to say a HUGE Thank You to all of you for all of the wonderful comments, emails and phone calls!! Thank you for all of your thoughts, prayers, links, information about books, home remedies and all of your support!!! It means SO much to me!!! I haven't been on the computer much

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Good morning blogging friends. I am sorry I don't have any artwork or tutorials for you today. I tend not to share a whole lot of personal stuff on my blog but you are all such wonderful and loyal followers and I just feel that I need to share this.A few of my close friends know that I have RA but I tend not to talk about it or dwell on it much because it is something that over the past few

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Good morning blogging friends! Today I have a fun, bright and cheery birthday card to share with you.Personal, I am not usually one for the brighter colors but I had so much fun coloring this CR-02230 Toppsy Turvy Cake image from JustRite and adding all of the pretty and colorful bling from Want2Scrap®.I used Copic markers to color the image and then used Spellbinders™ Grand Calibur Die Cutting

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Join Spellbinders™ Paper Arts and Crafters Home as we celebrate aFall Sneak Peek!Spellbinders and participating stores in the Crafters Home Buying Group are excited to introduce three new die template sets sold exclusively through Crafters Home stores through January! You’ll have to wait until February to find these die template designs in non-member stores.These new dies are in stock! Get yours

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Good morning blogging friends! Today, is the Really Reasonable Ribbon Blog Hop for the month of November. The RRR Design Team Members and Special Event Design Team Members will be showcasing the Monthly Ribbon Club.There is a beautiful assortment of Gold and Silver Ribbons included in the November Monthly Ribbon Club. Click HERE for more details.If you are following the order of the blog hop

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Hello blogging friends! Today, I have a quick, easy and sparkling Christmas card to share with you. It's a very simple card but I love all of the shimmer from the metallic cardstock and the sparkle from the rhinestones. Here is a close up of the snowflake. I used S5-054 2011 Snowflake Pendant and S4-340 Create-A-Flake Three die template to create the layered snowflake. For the paper I used

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Good morning blogging friends! Today, I have another New Release from JustRite Stampers to share with you--CR-02250 Winter Words. CR-02250 Winter Words is a prefect set to take you through all of the winter months, covering Christmas, Winter, New Year's and Valentine's Day which includes 27 stamps.I randomly stamped the snowflakes on the Kraft paper creating my own background paper. Then I

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Good morning blogging friends! Today, I have two New Release Background Stamps from JustRite Stampers to share with you. Both of these background stamps are so Beautiful!! But before I get started I wanted to let you know that JustRite Stampers is having a Christmas Sale - 25% off Every Christmas Stamp- Cling, Clear, Original. It's a web sale -- no coupon code required!! So be sure to check

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Hello and Happy Halloween!!I thought that since today is Halloween it would be a great time to share this layout with you. This is a picture of my youngest son and myself at his Cub Scout Halloween party a few weeks ago. All of the boys dressed up and some of the parents did too. Check out the bling on my face--it's Finesse Swirls Black Rhinestones and 72 Count Purple Rhinestones! Now that is

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Hello Blogging friends! Just one more quick Halloween card to share with you. I can't believe how fast the month of October flew by!!The card base is a Soot (black) paper from Discount Cardstock and the pattern paper is from Echo Park the Apothecary Emporium 6 x 6 Paper Pad. I used three images from the Crafty Secrets Halloween Creative Scraps and layered them on a doily. To color the doily

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Hello Blogging Friends! Today, I have a set of four greeting cards using Crafty Secrets Creating with Vintage Patterns CD, Grand Greetings and Mini Frames Stamp Sets.I just love the shabby chic look for this card set! I used the Creating with Vintage Patterns CD to design the pattern paper. I used the Music Notes and then layered Rose Clusters on the top.I used the image of the postage stamp

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Good morning blogging friends! Before we start the November Release, JustRite would like to say thank you to all of our loyal blog and facebook fans!! JustRite appreciates each and everyone who visits and reads our post. As their way of saying thank you the blog team has an exclusive coupon code for our blog readers and facebook fans. Simply use this code JRBLOGTEAM (use all

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Good morning blogging friends! Today, I am the Guest Designer on the Spellbinders Blog! I created a Christmas Ornament and a matching Card to share with you using Edgeabilities® E8-002 Classic Bracket die templates from Spellbinders™.I have a step-by-step tutorial with pictures so you can see exactly how I created the projects. Plus they also have a prize giveaway!! So hop on over to the

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Good morning blogging friends! Before we start the November Release, JustRite would like to say thank you to all of our loyal blog and facebook fans!! JustRite appreciates each and everyone who visits and reads our post. As their way of saying thank you the blog team has an exclusive coupon code for our blog readers and facebook fans. Simply use this code JRBLOGTEAM (use all CAPS)

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Good morning blogging friends! Before we start the November Release, JustRite would like to say thank you to all of our loyal blog and facebook fans!! JustRite appreciates each and everyone who visits and reads our post. As their way of saying thank you the blog team has an exclusive coupon code for our blog readers and facebook fans. Simply use this code JRBLOGTEAM (use all CAPS) during

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Good morning blogging friends! Today, is the Crafty Secrets Design Team monthly challenge. For this month Sandy and Vicki challenged us to make a gift bag using an envelope. Click HERE to watch a video on how to make the gift bags using an envelope! Each of the Design Team Members picked a theme for their project and I picked Halloween.I made a Halloween treat bag and a matching Halloween Tag

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Good morning blogging friends! Today, I have a fun little Halloween project to share with you.I used the Nestaboard™ Sprightly Sprockets by Donna Salazar and embellished them with paint, die cuts and bling to make a fun & spooky Halloween pin.But if you don't want to wear this as a pin you can pin it to a black ribbon and create a a little mini home decor wall hanging.I painted the largest and

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Good morning blogging friends! I can't believe how fast October is flying by! It seems like it was just the first of the month and now it's almost Halloween!! I designed a fun little Halloween card using Costume Cuties from Crafty Secrets. Costume Cuties is a fantastic stamp set with 21 stamps including 8 sentiments and it's perfect for all of your Halloween crafting!Here is a close up of the

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Welcome to our TWO-day event!You should be joining me from Robin Weatherspoon's blog, if not then head to the beginning on the Unity Stamp Co. Blog. With all the blog-swaps that are happening out there lately, I can’t think of one more exciting than when the amazing women of SPELLBINDERS™ get together with the rock stars of UNITY STAMP COMPANY! We can’t wait to show you a special line of

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Good morning blogging friends! Today, I have a fun and whimsical Halloween Treat Box tutorial to share with you.How fun is this little treat box with the bats flying through the air! I was so happy with how this treat box turned out and it was pretty quick and easy to make.For the base of the box I used Posh Tangelo Dungaree cardstock from Discount Cardstock. I used the Grand Calibur and LF-

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Good morning blogging friends! We have SO many New and exciting things happening at Want2Scrap™!! Today, I have some information to share with you about the PINK Sale, Bling Bundle Bonanza and a Fun New Product from Want2Scrap™ but before I do that I want to let you know the Want2Scrap™ website is going to be down today starting around 1 pm for maintenance BUT please stop back later in the

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Good morning blogging friends! Today, I have two New Releases from JustRite Stampers to share with you.The first set is Autumn Words - which has 40 images that will take you from the first day of Fall through ThanksGiving!! Great for scrapbooking as well as card making! Set of 40 Clear Stamps - 5 Decorative Elements , 24 words and 11 numbers, which include Autumn Leaves, Fall Months, Autumn

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Good morning blogging friends! I hope you had a wonderful weekend!! Today, I have another New Release from JustRite Stampers to share with you. The New Release is called CR-02235 O Christmas Tree. This is one of the New Clear stamp sets from JustRite. The stamp set includes 15 stamps that match Spellbinders S5-028 Nested Pennants. For my project I decided to use the stamps to create a star

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The E-Team is excited to share in a fun blog hop with the Want2Scrap™ Design Team. If you are new to eclectic Paperie or Want2Scrap, here is a little information about these two creative companies. Each offer unique lines of products for all paper crafters.eclectic Paperie (eP) is an online boutique for all who love paper crafts. There is an eclectic assortment of products, supplies, tools, and

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Good morning! I have another card to share with you today revealing not just one but two New Release stamp sets from JustRite Stampers!The two New Release stamp sets are JB-10010 Grandma's Doilies and JB-10015 Old Friends. The Grandma's Doilies set includes 4 Designer Centers and 4 Interchangeable Borders. The stamps look like antique doilies, the detail is amazing! The Old Friends stamp set

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Good morning blogging friends! Today, I have a card to share with you using the New Release, CL-02205 Lace Borders from JustRite Stampers.I love all the details of the lace trim stamps! I think this is going to be one of those go to sets for me. There are so many possibilities with the CL-02205 Lace Borders and you can mix and match them.For my card I used three of the border stamps in the set

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Good morning blogging friends! Today, I have a card to share with you using the New Release CL-02200 Autumn Labels Twenty-Two from JustRite Stampers.The CL-02200 Autumn Labels Twenty-Two stamp set is a beautiful set of 6 stamps--four of the stamps match S4-346 Labels Twenty-Two from Spellbinders™ and two of the stamps are sentiments.To start I stamped the image with Rich Cocoa Ink on to Simply

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Welcome to the Spellbinders and Core’dinations Blog Swap!This week Spellbinders™ has teamed up with Core’dinations Color CoreCardstock® to showcase the wonderful ways our products work together!Hello blogging friends! Today, I have a card to share with you using three different collections from Core'dinations ColorCore Cardstock.I used the BasicGrey Collection Whimsy for the card base, pink

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Hello blogging friends! Today, I have a layout of our sweet puppy to share with you. Well, I guess she's not exactly a puppy anymore but she is just as playful as one LOL. ;-)I love adding dimension to my layouts and I know that doesn't always work the best when putting them into an album but this one is going on an easel and I am going to use it as a home decor piece. I love to have layout

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Hello blogging friends! Today, I have a tutorial to share with you showing another way to use a piece of Nestabling™ from Want2Scrap™ even if you don't have a die template.Instead of using a die cut I used a 4 inch doily for my focal point and stamping base.I started by inking the doily with three colors of Distress Ink--Tumbled Glass (blue), Victorian Velvet (rose) and Antique Linen.Next I

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Good morning blogging friends! Today, I have a quick and easy sparkling card to share with you. ;-)All of the card stock is from Discount Cardstock and this week the Straw 110# is on sale. Click HERE to check out all of the details. I also used Posh Wagon Red Dungaree and Simply Smooth White card stock. I stamped the sentiment from Crafty Secrets Grand Greetings stamp set on to Simply

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Good morning blogging friends! Today, is the Crafty Secrets Design Team Challenge. Each month our DT Coordinator, Vicki Chrisman picks a theme for us to work with and this month the theme is Retro Inspiration. Here is the card that I designed for the challenge. The fun image of the lady is from the Girlfriends Creative Scraps. The floral background paper was printed from the Creating With

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Good morning blogging friends! My mom was in need of a welcome card for one of the new employees at work.Here is the card that I designed. The card is basically pretty quick and easy but by using the Nestabling™, Nestaboard™ and other bling it really dressed the card up.I used Tuxedo Black ink and two stamp sets from Crafty Secrets, Birds of Happiness (sentiment) and Grand Greetings (flourish

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Good morning! Today I have a quit little project to share with you that I made for DiscountCardstock.com. The Posh Yellow Crepe paper is on sale this week, click HERE for more details. To create the box I used the Grand Calibur™, and LF- 012 Square Petal Top Box from Spellbinders™ and I added the embossed details to the box using the GI-004 Fancy Flourish Grand Impressabilities.To create the

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Hello! Today is the last day of the Blog Hop and I hope you have enjoyed it as much as I have!! I love seeing all of the creative designs!!Want2Scrap™, Spellbinders™ Paper Arts and JustRite® Stampers Designers have teamed up to bring you an amazing four day Blog Hop Event Sept 6th -9th filled with fabulous designs that are sure to inspire all!! Each day we will be sharing a link list with

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Good morning blogging friends! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend! I can't believe how fast the summer flew by and the kids are back in school again. Today, I have a quick little back to school project to share with you.I designed this quick and easy little set with a book marker and a mini pencil box. For the book marker I used New Champagne Parchment and Really Red 80# paper

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Hello blogging friends! I know it's been a few days but life happens and I have been really busy working on a few things--but nothing I can share just yet. ;-) Today I have a 8 x 8 scrapbook layout to share with you. The pictures are of my oldest son who LOVES to play paintball!! The layout is more of a simple one but I wanted the pictures to be the main focus. I used LF-132 Grand

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Good morning blogging friends! Before CHA I was very excited to received an email from Joan Fricker from At Joan's Garden and she asked if I would like to be a Special Guest Designer for one of her blog challenges! Joan offers up a challenge based on my project and gives you two weeks to complete your project. Sounds pretty fun to me! To find out all of the details--how to enter, where you

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Good morning blogging friends! It is day two of JustRite Stampers New Release. For today's project I used the New Greetings from Paris stamp set from JustRite. Like I said yesterday I think this is my all time favorite release!! Here is the card that I designed using Greetings from Paris. The stamp set is designed to match Spellbinders S4-190 Labels Four and JustRite JB-08950 Nested Frame

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Good morning blogging friends! Today, is the beginning of a three day New Release with JustRite Stampers. I will only be able to do the 23rd and 24th so please be sure to visit the JustRite Blog on the 25th so you don't miss out on seeing all the beautiful projects the designer have been busy creating. Believe me you won't want to miss a day of this release--it is filled with so much shabby

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Hello Blogging Friends!! I wanted to let all of the local people know I will be back at VIP Scrapbook in Rochester, MN this weekend August 26th & 27th for their Secret Envelope Two Day Event!! I will be teaching two classes, Creative Edge Basic and Creative Edge Advanced for the Secret Envelope Two Day Event. Here is the class schedule for the event: Friday, August 26th Creative Edge

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Good morning blogging friends! It's that time again for another Crafty Secrets Design Team Challenge. This month our challenge is to create a project with a Fairy theme. For my project I altered a frame. I used the one of the colored papers, a frame, corner embellishments and clusters of roses from the Creating With Vintage Patterns CD from Crafty Secrets to create the background paper. I

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Good morning blogging friends! Today, I have a card to share with you and a step-by step tutorial. I used Nestabling™ Heart Circles Brown Rhinestones and 72 Count Baby Blue Rhinestones to accent the stamped images. The stamped images are from the Keys to Life stamp set from Crafty Secrets. To started I stamped the image on to Simply Smooth White cardstock using Rich Cocoa Ink. I added the

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Hello blogging friends! Today, I have a card to share with you using one of the New Crafty Secrets stamp sets, Queen Bee. This is one of those cards that I wasn't sure where I was going with it but I am very happy with the outcome. The color combination is a little different for me but I have to say I really like it and I hope you do too! ;-) I started by stamping the images from the Queen

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Good morning blogging friends!! What do you think about the Want2Scrap™ and Graphic 45 Blog Hop so far? I am loving all the Gorgeous projects!! Graphic 45 and Want2Scrap™ Designers have teamed up to bring you an amazing week long Blog Hop August 8th -12th filled with fabulous designs that are sure to inspire all!! Each day we will be sharing a link list with you for the featured

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Hello blogging friends! Today, I have a quick, clean and simple card to share with you. I used the New E8-003 Classic Triple Scallop to cut/emboss the beautiful decorative edge along the bottom. Here is a close up of the decorative edge.For the stamped images and sentiment I used Dandelions Dreams stamp set from Skipping Stones Design. I used Ranger Tumbled Glass Distress Ink for the flowers

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Good morning blogging friends! Today, I have a card to share with you using the New Release Be Strong stamp set from JustRite Stampers.This is such a beautiful stamp set with 5 Frames, Ribbons, Butterflies, and Several Sentiments--21 Stamps are included in this set! The Be Strong stamp set is the very first CLEAR stamp set from JustRite Stampers!!JustRite Crafting For a Cause In an effort to

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Good morning blogging friends! Today, I have a card to share with you using the New Release JB-09930 Strength & Courage stamp set from JustRite Stampers.As you can see this is a beautiful stamp set with 4 Designer Centers and 4 Interchangeable Borders. JustRite Stampers will have two New Releases for the month of August, Be Strong and Strength & Courage. Before I get started with my card let

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Good morning blogging friends! Today, I have a blingy garden chic wall hanging to share with you. Recently Want2Scrap™ partnered up with Eco Green Crafts and we received some products from Eco Green Crafts. A couple of the products were inks and stamps and to create the stamped images I used the Garden Chic rubber stamp set and Black ink.I started by taping the S4-319 Lattice Rectangles on to

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Hello Blogging Friends!! I know it's a hot summer day but I have a card that will maybe help cool things off a bit. LOL! I created this cute snowman card using JB-09945 Blizzard Bunch stamp set from JustRite Stampers and non-traditional Christmas colors.I used Copic markers for all of the coloring. I used a handy little tool from We R Memory Keeper called Sew Easy to create the hand stitched

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Hello! Today, I have a fun summer layout to share with you. I LOVE watermelon and it is always a favorite at any family gathering in the summer.Last weekend our family got together to celebrate my grandpa's 81st birthday! My grandpa loves watermelon too so we had birthday cake and fresh cut watermelon. The kids were really enjoying the watermelon--lol! I was snapping a few pictures and got

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Hello blogging friends! I just have a quick post today sharing a birthday card. It's seems like a person can never have enough birthday cards and the one I designed for today is a very quick and easy one. For the Happy Birthday sentiment and the fancy frame I used CL-02145 Family Garden stamp set from JustRite Stampers stampers with purple and black ink. Then I used S5-031 Fancy Tags Three

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Hello blogging friends! Today, I have one of the New Grand Chipboard Albums to share with you from Want2Scrap™. This album is Grand Chipboard Album - Labels Twenty-Three and it coordinates with Spellbinders™ LF-347 Grand Labels Twenty-Three die template #6 measuring 8⅜ x 6⅝". So you can die cut your favorite papers for a perfect match to the album!I covered all of the pages with K & Company

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Good morning! I am back home from CHA! Wow--What a week!! The show was amazing!! I always love being able to see friends old and new and all of the great new products. I spent most of my time demoing in the Spellbinders booth. But I did get a chance to take some pictures of Spellbinders, JustRite Stampers and Want2Scrap booths.Pictures for the Spellbinders Booth. Sorry I can't share

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Good morning blogging friends! I have a quick post for you this morning with a wedding card using the Bazzill Wedding Multi-Pack from Discount Cardstock.I also used Mountain Rose Metallic and Simply Smooth White for the rose and tag.SuppliesPaper: Discount Cardstock Bazzill Wedding Multi-Pack, Mountain Rose Metallic, Simply Smooth WhiteInk: Ranger Spun Sugar Distress InkDies: Spellbinders

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Good morning! Today, I have a mini creative page to share with you using some of the NEW Want2Scrap™ products. I created this fun--I'd rather be in Paris--creative page using Nestabling™ Fancy Tags Two Black Rhinestones, NEW Nestaboard™ Fancy Tags Two, NEW Nestaboard™ Labels Twenty-Three, Baby Bling Pink Rhinestones and NEW Swirls, Maxxi Girl Rhinestones Silver from Want2Scrap™. To start I

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Good morning!! It's time for another Crafty Secrets Design Team Challenge! This month our challenge is to design a project with some of the fantastic New products from Crafty Secrets. I used the New Play Ball stamp set from Crafty Secrets to design this fun Baseball card. This would be perfect for a little boy's birthday. To start I stamped the image using Rich Cocoa Ink and stamped on to

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Hello blogging friends!! I am just popping in here for a very quick post--sorry no artwork to share with you today. I am getting ready to leave in a few minutes for the airport!! SO excited to see some of my friends that I only get to see once or twice a year at CHA!!!! I will be working in the Spellbinders booth during CHA so if you are going to be at the show please stop by and say hello!!

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Hello blogging friends! OMGosh I can't believe I will be leaving in just a couple of days for CHA!! The time is just flying by--so many things to do and so little time--LOL!! All of the companies are coming out with their new products and the sneak peeks are popping up all over blog land!! Speaking of sneak peeks you will have to check out the Crafty Secrets Heartwarming Vintage Blog. This

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Hello blogging friends! Today, I have a fun little project to share with you using the NEW LF-010 Square Bracket Edge Box from Spellbinders™.This little box is SO quick and easy to make!! It's just the perfect size for little gifts. Here is a photo of all the die cuts. The two larger die cuts are from LF-010 Square Bracket Edge Box. The patterned paper is K & Company from the Waterfall

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Hello blogging friends! Today, I have a vintage postage stamp card to share with you. I love these tiny beautiful little images from the New Vintage Mini Creative Scraps from Crafty Secrets!! The Vintage Mini Creative Scraps sheet is filled with all kinds of sweet vintage images.Here is a close up of the images. I layered the images on postage stamp die cuts. To create the die cuts I used

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Spellbinders Paper ArtsGet the Knowledge! Blog FrenzyJuly 6 - 14, 2011Welcome to the sixth day of the Spellbinders Paper Arts Get the Knowledge! Blog Frenzy! Spellbinders™ Paper Arts’ is absolutely thrilled to bring you one of the most exciting die releases to date! These new collections are some of the most innovative and beautiful die templates in the world. The Get the Knowledge! Blog

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Today is the fifth day of the Spellbinders Get The Knowledge! Blog Frenzy! Please click HERE and visit the Spellbinders Blog for all of the details.Today Christine Emberson and Michelle Woerner will share their beautiful works of art with you and I know you will be inspired!! July 6 Day 1 Debbie Olson Kimberly Crawford July 7 Day 2 Becca Feeken Latisha Yoast July 8 Day 3

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Today is the forth day of the Spellbinders Get The Knowledge! Blog Frenzy! Please click HERE and visit the Spellbinders Blog for all of the details.Today AJ Otto and Gloria Stengel will share their beautiful works of art with you and I know you will be inspired!! July 6 Day 1 Debbie Olson Kimberly Crawford July 7 Day 2 Becca Feeken Latisha Yoast July 8 Day 3 Tonya Dirk

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Good morning! Today, I have a card to share with you using two New Releases from JustRite Stampers, JB-09910 Trick or Treat and JB-09808 Halloween Mini Sentiments. The JB-09910 Trick or Treat stamp set includes 4 Designer Centers with fun Halloween images to color and 4 Interchangeable Borders. The JB-09808 Halloween Mini Sentiments includes 18 sentiments. To start I stamped the image using

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Today is the third day of the Spellbinders Get The Knowledge! Blog Frenzy! Please click HERE and visit the Spellbinders Blog for all of the details.Today Tonya Dirk and Shanna Vineyard will share their beautiful works of art with you and I know you will be inspired!!July 6 Day 1 Debbie Olson Kimberly Crawford July 7 Day 2 Becca Feeken Latisha Yoast July 8 Day 3 Tonya Dirk Shanna Vineyard

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The Twinery and DiscountCardstock.com Design Teams are joining up today for a Summer Party themed blog hop!As you hop from blog to blog make sure and comment on every post because there will be two winners chosen randomly along the hop. If you get lost anywhere along the hop (or if someone is having a blog glitch!) a complete list of participants will be posted on The Twinery and

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Today is the second day of the Spellbinders Get The Knowledge! Blog Frenzy! Please click HERE and visit the Spellbinders Blog for all of the details.Today Becca Feeken and Latisha Yoast will share their beautiful works of art with you and I know you will be inspired!!July 6 Debbie Olson Kimberly Crawford July 7 Becca Feeken Latisha Yoast July 8 Tonya Dirk Shanna Vineyard July 9 AJ

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