Happy Wednesday! It's time for another Card Concept challenge, and this one is another stunner! I just love the colors in this one... For my card this week I grabbed another digi image from Sassy Cheryl's Illustrations, this one called But First... Coffee! I also swooped the layout from Jul...

Happy New Release day to The Ton! We are celebrating The Ton's Spring 2019 Release with 7 new designs! There are additional promotions with free gifts. Head over to The Ton's blog for more details.And to celebrate I got to play with a new BEAUTIFUL Daisy Fields background stamp! Isn't this...

After winning the Queen of Snark last week, I'm thrilled to be Guest Designer at the Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers this week ... and drum roll ... the theme is ... K is for Karma. I knew immediately that I wanted to use my Karma Stamp from Rubber Dance Stamps Sarcastic Superpower set ......

Welcome to Day 5 of the My Favorite Things Stamps April Release Countdown! I chose the cat-friends image from the HUGE Picture Perfect stamp set--I loved this set's size, which made it easy to color! (Okay, my eyes aren't as young as they used to be.) This image reminded me of my parents' las...

I'm thrilled to be guest hostess at the SplitcoastStampers Inspiration Challenge this week. I chose this fun whale bedding from SNURK to inspire my design. I've been wanting to play with the Whale Wishes Stamp set from Rubber Dance, so I mounted the stamps and had some fun. I started by r...

Have you been joining in with our Spring release Blog Blitz? I do hope so as there are prizes to be won! Want to know more? Here's how... The blog blitz runs from March 2-14. We'll be giving away a prize on every blog blitz post during this time. To enter to win you need to leave a comment ...

Another week of skipping through blogland: Cherry Dump Cake (made with frozen cherries) love these Vintage Needle Crafts Had no idea there was a Dirty Shirley Temple ... I'll have one please Tokyo Fashion Fun A fabric amount estimator (what can you make with that 3 yards of fabric in your cra...

Click HERE for the cutest wallpaper AND Don't forget to check out our newest collection, All Heart. Full of all the prettiest hand drawn elements, florals, and trendy icons. xoxo, The CP Team

Hi friends, today is March release day for 3 new stamp and die combinations at Ellen Hutson - yah! My card uses the new Backyard friends stamp set, which is also available with a coordinating die set. I have been yearning for Spring, so my card leaned heavily into a Spring colour scheme with...

The Ton is celebrating their first washi tape release with two new washi tapes! There are some free gifts with purchase promotions ongoing. Head over to The Ton Stamps' blog for more details. You should have arrived from the blog of the talented Laura Jane. These are gorgeous tapes and I lov...

Hey everyone! Happy Monday! Hope you had a marvelous weekend! My weekend was full of crafty good times! Yeah! I had so much fun at the Stamp and Scrapbook Expo on Friday! Mark came with me and then we met up with some old friends for a yummy pizza before driving home. We finally watched our DVD ...

Another week of fun blogland discoveries: Love the art of Jill Bliss Introvert Survival Strategies Shepherd's Pie is one of my comfort foods Color Palettes from Movie Scenes Gorgeous Wire Sculpture Art Cookie Monster Thoughs Lovely Kimono Fashion Cinnamon Swirl Pancakes Lately I've been cravi...

Hello everyone! Welcome to the Waffle Flower February 2019 Release Blog Hop! We have plenty of fun florals to color including a big, beautiful bloom and lovely girls relaxing in Peony Dreams (stamp, die, combo) illustrated by our new artist, Oana Befort. We also have soft and delicate flowers ...

Hello everyone!! It's time for Waffle Flowers February Release! You can check out the release HERE <------click! and I've got links to all the stamps and dies individually as well as the stamp and die bundles below: To celebrate the new release there's a fun blog hop with a bunch of ins...

Hi crafty friends! Welcome to the Tim Holtz Creativation 2019 Blog Hop! A huge thank you as always to Richele for organizing this fun hop. So exciting to see samples using all of the new products that were released at Creativation last month. And thank you Tim, Paula and Mario for giving me th...

Hello crafty friends! Happy New Year! Gung Hay Fat Choy! Today is the celebration of Chinese Lunar New Year so I'm posting a card I made to mark this special occasion. I love to make festive and pretty cards for this wonderful celebration. I have lots of friends who celebrate this beautiful cult...

Hi there! Welcome to Day 3 of the Neat and Tangled release for February...today we have Jump for Joy! I love these happy little critters and their trampoline so much. To create this card, I blended Distress Oxides in Picked Raspberry, Worn Lipstick and Wild Honey to make a warm background. Then ...

Our challenge this week at Global Design Project is Down the Garden Path. I couldn't help but think "this is easy...practically every card I make fits into this category"! LOL I used three of my favorite products from the 2019 Occasions Catalog. I started with a Grapefruit Grove cardstock ...

Hello February, you are finally here. This is the month of Daffodils and Tulips, Crocus and Hyacinths, and let's don't forget the robins and that pesky groundhog. Tomorrow he comes out to see his shadow or not, telling us if we are going to have more winter. I know a lot of you are colder than w...

Earlier this week we had a water line break in unoccupied space adjacent to our Condominium during the night. When we awoke (our bedroom is on the 2nd floor), we stepped into our entire first floor space covered with water. So while my studio space is supposed to look like this: it instea...

I can't get enough of Valentines-themed projects. If you've followed me for awhile y'all probably know this about me already! Today I'm sharing a some quick and easy coffee-themed gift card holders that are made simple with patterned papers, lots of awesome Honey Bee Stamps dies and some quick s...

Hello friends and welcome to the Honey Bee Stamp Brie Mine Release Blog Hop Day 2! Today I'm sharing one of my favorite kinds of cards, tri-fold one layer cards with extreme masking and colored with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers. The sweets from the Piece of Cake and Mae the Mouse Stamp Set...

Hello everyone! Welcome to Day 2 of blog hops celebrating Honey Bee's Brie Mine release! If you missed Day 1 you can check that out HERE <--------click! There's also GIVEAWAY info at the end of this post! I also did a Release & Review video showing all the new products HERE <------click! and m...

Hi everyone! Today I'm buzzzzzing by with a fun bee themed valentine card! Will you BEEEE mine? Please!? This card was a joy to make, and combined several of my favorite things! Lots of color, Copic Markers, Distress Ink blending, and cute stamps! All the stamps and dies used today are from Hone...

Hey everyone! It's been a little quiet around here for a few reasons. I have been settling in with my new spot at Taylored Expressions, creating lots of crafty goodness for the upcoming February release there, and writing over on the Taylored Expressions blog. It's been a good change for me an...