Hey there everyone! I'm back today as part of another awesome blog hop! Pinkfresh Studio is launching a new release of beautiful background stamps! We are all showcasing different ways to use background stamps and there is tons of inspiration in this hop. So happy to be part of it! I made two fresh and bright cards that are just right for Spring. So ready to use vivid colors again in the craft room, aren't you?? There are prizes and tons of crafters involved today. So please be sure to read all the way to the end of this post!... Continue reading

Hey guys!!! Two posts two days in a row! Yahoooo! And, Happy Valentine's Day! The hubs and I are out vintage hunting today, and having a nice lunch together in this gorgeous weather. I hope you are having a delightful heart day too! Today is the awesome and GIANT blog hop celebrating the new 2020 Hero Arts Catalog release! It's Spring, and it's time to craft with color!! I chose some of my favorite brand new products from the catalog to share with you today. I made two cards and can't wait to share!! Be sure to scroll all the... Continue reading

Hello everyone! Today is an exciting day! It's time to introduce the brand new, beautiful February release from The Greetery!! It's called Lily and Palm and it's all about Spring and Easter. Gosh, it's really all so beautiful and classic. I feel so lucky to be part of this team! Betsy blows me away each month with her vision and the gorgeous, timeless stamps and dies. I love Easter, so this release is particularly a favorite!! I know you're going to love it too. I'm sharing three projects today - as is the rest of the team. Be sure to... Continue reading

Helllooooooo! Happy Monday and happy February! January seemed like it took forever! Geez. But here we are in the month of love! It's been really warm here and on Saturday we picked daffodils in our front yard already. Things are blooming for sure. Feels like the beginning of Spring. Hope you had a great weekend! I have a really fun project I'm excited to share with you. The idea for this card has been in my head for a while. I am really into old vintage typewriters with flowers. I love everything about that look and image. When Tim Holtz... Continue reading

Good morning friends! Happy Monday! Hope you have a nice day...and a nice week! I finished this card late last night and just got the photos taken, and couldn't wait to share it with ya! We had a fun and mellow weekend. We went to see Doolittle at the movies and it was so cute and fun. I am a huge Robert Downey Jr. fan so it was a treat for me. It was a light-hearted movie that made us laugh so I call it a win. I love how all the movie theaters have recliners now. OH man, how... Continue reading

Hey guys! It's post #2 for me today! Happy Friday indeed! So many fun things to share! Today is my third project for my guest designer gig with Concord & 9th for January's new release! The products we're showcasing and featuring today are the Tall Type Tagalongs Dies and the Tiny Tagalongs Stamp Set. These two new products were made to be used with one of my favorite Concord & 9th Die Sets - Tall Type Alphabet! You guys know I used that one alllll the time. I decided to make a Happy Mail Card using the rainbow image from... Continue reading

Hey friends! TGIF! TGIF means Thank God It's Friday....but it also means The Greetery Inspiration Friday! I'm super happy to be sharing over on The Greetery Official Blog today! Woot! I'm also sharing here on my blog because, well sharing is caring! CLICK HERE to visit The Greetery Blog to see all the fun inspiration from Betsy and the rest of our team. You will not be disappointed. I guarantee that! Every Friday there will be a new project to inspire you to use your beautiful The Greetery stamps, dies and stencils. Today I'm sharing a pretty thank you card... Continue reading

Greetings! I'm back from a wonderful and fantastic trip to Arizona for Creativation 2020!! It was such a good trip - I am happy and renewed and inspired by all the sights and lovely people. My whole trip went smoothly and was super fun. My flights were on time and smooth. I rented an Air bnb for the first time and loved it! The Creativation Show was pretty quiet this year. It seems to get smaller every year. I saw so many of my crafty friends and got so many hugs and had so many laughs. My feet hurt, but... Continue reading

Hi there! Greetings on this beautiful Friday! As you're reading this, I'm in Phoenix at Creativation! Woot! Hop over to my Instagram Stories to see what's going on at the show! Friday is for meetings and classes, but I'll be on the show floor all day Saturday and Sunday. Thanks for popping by to visit my blog today. As you know from last week, I'm one of the guest designers for Concord & 9th for the month of January! Yeah! I love guest designing for them!! The products this month are awesome (per usual!) and I'm having a good time... Continue reading

NOTE: I HAVE TWO BLOG POSTS TODAY! PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR MY POST FOR THE GREETERY NEW RELEASE! Hello friends! Welcome to my stop on the massive three day Pretty Pink Posh Blog Hop! YEAH! Oh my gosh, I have been loving everyone's projects. So fresh and soooo pretty. Today's the last day of the hop. Be sure to go back over to the PPP Blog to see everything! All the new products from the January Release are already available at the Pretty Pink Posh Store. The Hop today coincides with the January new release, but it is also a... Continue reading

Good morning everyone! Today is going to be a great day at A Blog Called Wanda! I have TWO blog posts today! So super excited to share everything that I've been making. We are definitely turning the corner towards Spring and Valentine crafting and I'm loving it! This post is for The Greetery! Yeah! Welcome to day one of the project sharing for The Greetery's new January Release! The release is called Love Letters, and it's truly so gorgeous. Betsy has outdone herself yet again. Beautiful florals, hearts, letters, postage stamps...everything you can imagine when you think of love letters.... Continue reading

Hey Girl, Hey!!! Happy FRIDAY!!! Cheers to a nice weekend ahead! I'm popping in to announce that I am a Guest Designer for Concord & 9th for January! WOOOOT! That means each Friday, for the next four weeks, I'll be sharing a card I made with products from their awesome new January 2020 product release. Lemme tell ya, there's some fun stuff coming! Can't wait to share my projects with you. If you can't wait, everything is available now in the Concord & 9th store! I'm delighted to be a guest designer again because you guys know this is one... Continue reading

Hi friends!!! Happy Monday!!! I invented my own term for this day... Happy "Back to Normal Life" Day! Hahaha. Holidays are officially over. The tree and the decorations are taken down. (Our house feels naked now)... All the shopping and eating is over... I really don't mind actually. I'm sort of glad to get back into my normal routine and slow down the pace a bit. I like to organize and nest in January and I've already spent a lot of time in the studio in 2020. I have lots of fun things to share in the next two weeks... Continue reading

Hi there crafty friends! Happy New Year (again!) If you haven't already, make sure to pop in to my last blog post and enter to win the prize giveaway for Season's Givings!! How is your week/year going so far? I have lots of fun things to share in the next couple of weeks, and then I'm off to Phoenix for Creativation 2020! I didn't go last year, and I really missed it. Looking forward to the trip, to seeing all the new products, and hugging my crafty people! Today I'm sharing a card I made with the brand new January... Continue reading

COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED! THANK YOU EVERYONE! MY WINNER IS NATALIE WINTERSTEIN HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020! MANY BLESSINGS FOR A HAPPY, HEALTHY, CREATIVE YEAR AHEAD! Thank you very much for coming by my blog today to celebrate "Season's Givings" with a giant blog hop and awesome prize giveaways! This is my SIXTH year doing this great hop! (CLICK HERE TO SEE last year's post!) I want to say a HUGE THANKS TO LATISHA for organizing this amazing blog hop every year. I am very proud to call her a friend! I hope you are having fun looking at everyone's blogs!... Continue reading

UPDATED 12-31-19 WINNER - MARY KOBY! THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR STORIES! I LOVED READING EVERY COMMENT! Hi crafty friends! Did you have a very Merry and Happy Christmas!? I hope you did! Our holiday was low key and lovely and fun! One of the big churches by our house had a concert series that had as a guest Brian King Joseph! He was one of my very favorite people on America's Got Talent! We were lucky enough to attend the show on Sunday night! It was fantastic. We enjoyed gorgeous services at our own church too and spent quiet... Continue reading

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2019! FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS WISHING YOU HAPPINESS AND BLESSINGS ON THIS CHRISTMAS DAY! Continue reading

Hello my dear, sweet, crafty friends! Popping in today with my last two Christmas cards for 2019! Can't believe it's here! Time to wind down things and be in the moment and enjoy these last few days before Christmas. Really get into the meaning of it all and spend time with friends and family. I start to mentally shift this week each year - from hustle and bustle - to quiet and calm. Remembering the reason for the season. Whatever is going to get done is done, and whatever isn't done, well it just isn't going to get done. And... Continue reading

Hi guys!!!! Oh my gosh! I have the cutest project every to show you today!! Merry Christmas Deer!! EEK. How's your week going? Yesterday was my husband's birthday so we're celebrating everything this month! It's fun to do lots of activities and hang out together. We've been going to craft fairs and movies and the ice rink...all kinds of things. Only two weeks until Christmas now!! And then it's 2020!!! OMG I feel like we were all just celebrating 2000! And freaking out about Y2K! Twenty years already!! I have just a couple more projects to share before the end... Continue reading

Hey everybody! Happy Monday! And it's a super fun and fabulous Monday because I'm part of a big blog hop! We are hopping today to celebrate the brand new Essentials 3 Release from Pinkfresh Studio! Yeah! LOADS of new essentials dies that will take your card making to the next level! Frames, background dies, tags, stitched shapes...it's all so so good! I am very excited that I get to be one of the crafters to share it with you first. CLICK HERE to shop the Pinkfresh Studio store. The blog hop links are at the bottom of my post... Guess... Continue reading

Hi guys!! Popping in here today with a news flash about a special release with special sale pricing from Reverse Confetti! Today they are launching this GORGEOUS Snowflakes stamp set with matching dies. I had so much fun working with these beautiful stamps. The snowflakes are the perfect sizing for cards. OOOH LA LA. Wintery goodness right here! I used lots of embossing and a graphic color palette of red, white and silver. Brrrrr! CLICK HERE to go to Reverse Confetti and check out this new set!! My finished card is a white A2 card base. I layered A LOT... Continue reading

Hey everyone! Popping in here on this Friday afternoon to share my latest crochet project.... BECAUSE IT'S FINISHED! YEAH!! Go me! This one took me a long time to finish and I was very happy to put the edges on and photograph it last week! It's another Granny Square Blanket - because I totally love Granny Square Blankets! This one is for our home! It's made from the nicest yarn I've ever worked with so far. It's super soft Merino Wool. YUM. (Debbie Bliss Rialto DK). I chose a bunch of colors I liked and it came out so nice!... Continue reading

Hello friends! December is rolling along, and I'm frantically trying to make all the ideas that are inside my brain! I'm going to run out of time! Eeeeks! This morning I went through all my Christmas bins (there's a lot!) and sorted through things and re-discovered old favorites! Dang I have a lot of stuff! Twenty Five years worth! I also made my tiered tray for Christmas time and it has gnomes in it! So adorable. Are you on team gnome? I love them! It's foggy and dreary, but we are warm in the craft room today. My favorite kind... Continue reading

Ho Ho Ho! It's officially December! Yikes! Christmas is coming FAST! Better get your sleigh ready! Hope you're having a beautiful Sunday. We are all snuggled in because it's pouring outside! Hubs just went to get us a pizza and Lucky is fast asleep in his bed. I love this kind of day! Friday I did a little crafting and made some sweet felt mitten ornaments to share with you! (I made ornaments, but these could easily be package tie ons or gift tags or bottle tags, or a garland...whatever you want them to be!) I used beautiful felt from... Continue reading

Hi everybody! Happy day-after-turkey Day! How are you? How was your holiday? We had a very nice and calm day here at our house. We started decorating the house for Christmas and my husband decorated my car too! YAY! It's full on pedal to the metal Christmas mode now! I hope you had a great Thanksgiving! Are you going shopping today? We are! In the past we were those crazy people who got up at 3am and went shopping on Black Friday. But now, we are more reasonable and go out later. Mostly because there isn't much 'stuff' that we... Continue reading