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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 40

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the fabulous Dani Dziama’s blog.  I know we have some super cute goodies for you today!

I am clearly obsessed with watercoloring these days!  I just can’t stop playing with the soft affect of watercoloring with our re-inkers.  Today’s project features a lovely watercolored flower as it’s centerpiece.  It was so easy peasy!  I white embossed the Blended Bloom on watercolor paper and painted away.  We did this project in my stamp club on Friday night and every flower was as individual as the artists painting them!  So fun!

The rest of the card features some fun embellishments from the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits, the cute pom pom ribbon and ribbon from Sale-A-Bration.  Once the painting was complete, the rest of this sweet card came together in a jiffy!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 39

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the fabulous Dani Dziama’s blog. I can’t wait to share our beautiful inspiration with you today!

It is starting to feel a little like spring around here.  My mama’s daffodils are poking their heads through our snow drifts and it has been sunny and warm all weekend 🙂  My project today features soft, springy colors.  I am so in love with the new Lovely Amazing You photopolymer set!  The font makes me seriously swoon!  My card today is simple and easy and features this lovely, amazing set 🙂

I painted some watercolor swooshes in Wisteria Wonder, Soft Sky and Crisp Cantaloupe.  I just used a drop of re-inker and my Aqua Painter…so fast and easy!  I white embossed the envelope image from the set on all three colors of paper and cut them out.  I stapled them together randomly and popped them over the swooshes.  On top of that is the sentiment, white embossed on vellum.  The finishing touches were rhinestones, sequins and a bit of string.  My favorite string this week is deconstructed white jute ribbon.  It is so easy to pull apart and I love the texture it adds.  It is so easy to work with, you can pretty much shape it any way you want.

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Needing a little sunshine….

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 38

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the fabulous Dani Dziama’s blog. I can’t wait to share our beautiful inspiration with you today!

Well the whole country has been dealing with lots of snow the last several weeks and now it is Colorado’s turn.  It has been snowing on and off since Friday and we got quite a bit of the white stuff.  We need the moisture so it’s hard to complain but I sure miss my sunshine!

Today my project is super simple and features some sunny colors!  I am using the Hooray It’s Your Day Simply Created Kit.  This was our “Take & Make” from Leadership and I thought it was the perfect kit to bring in a little sunshine 🙂  I only used a couple of things outside the kit.  One thing I did that was super fun was using silver foil on the wood accent pieces.  I coated them with 2-way glue and let it dry for a bit and then added the foil.  Easy peasy and so much wow factor!

I added silver foil to the mini clothespin too.  I hope this inspires you to make your own simple, sunny project today!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 37

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the fabulous Dani Dziama’s blog. I can’t wait to share our beautiful inspiration with you today!

I just got home about 15 minutes ago from a fabulous trip to Florida!  I went to see my bestie in Pensacola and we went to Stamping’ Up Leadership in Orlando.  I was gone for two whole amazing weeks filled with friends, fun, laughter, stamping, crafting, laughter….lots and lots of laughter!  My abs hurt from laughing so much 🙂

During my trip we made 53 different projects:  cards, journals, Project Life layouts and albums, valentine ornaments, marquee lights….just to name a few!  It was simply amazing 🙂  All the while we chatted, talked, laughed and cried; it filled my soul with all things good.

Today I am sharing one of our last projects and it was a true collaborative effort.  Usually we are each working on separate projects with lots of community input back and forth, but this project we both worked on together 🙂  It was so much fun to make and reflects our mutual love affair with coffee in general and Starbucks in particular 😉  I hope this inspires you to make something beautiful with your fancy craft-y friends!

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Sweet Little Birdie

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 35

Hello friends! Welcome back to our first Monday Montage Blog Hop of 2015! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the fabulous Dani Dziama’s blog. I can’t wait to share our beautiful inspiration with you today!

Soooo excited to share a card featuring some super fun stuff from Sale-a-Bration and the new Occasions Catalog!  I just love this little birdie from the Sale-a-Bration set “A Happy Thing”.  I colored it with my most favorite toys, my Blendabilities 🙂  I also used the Irresistibly Yours Designer Series paper behind my little birdie.  I sponged the striped piece and then cut it into a circle behind my birdie.  I added some background stamps from Butterfly Basics out of the the Occasions Catalog and some pops of Cherry Cobbler to set the whole creation off.

I hope you love as much as I do!  And remember, the wonder Irresistibly Yours and A Happy Thing are free with a $50 purchase…what could be better than that!

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Wondrous (embossed) Wreath

 

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 34

Hello friends! Welcome back to our Monday Montage Blog Hop! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the fabulous Dani Dziama’s blog. I can’t wait to share our beautiful inspiration with you today!

Today I have a card with traditional Christmas colors….judging by my recent posts, this is a little out of character for me 😉  This card is simple and elegant and even easy to make.  It calls for several layers of embossing with the 3-step stamp set.  You emboss the biggest image first in Whisper White, come back in with the next leaf image and emboss it with Gold.  Last, you stamp the berries in Versamark and emboss them in Cherry Cobbler.  After cutting your wreath out with the framelits set, you are ready to put your beautiful card together 🙂

Enjoy!  I hope you love my Christmas inspiration 🙂

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Sooo thankful!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 30

Hello friends! Welcome back to our Monday Montage Blog Hop! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the fabulous Dani Dziama’s blog. I can’t wait to share our beautiful inspiration with you today!

Hello there my friends….another pretty fall card for you today!  This card features the pretty “For All Things” set once again!  When my bestie Kimber was here last weekend we had a crafting marathon and this was one of the many things we created.  There is nothing better than working together on projects….yippee!!!

We used the now retired Expressions Thinlets which can still be found on the Clearance Rack!  Don’t miss these awesome thinlets….I just love these sayings.  We cut out “thankful” in gold foil.  The trick to using the expressions thinlets is to layer wax paper between the die and your medium, then your words slide right out of the die 🙂

The rest of the card is easy peasy….we stamped the leaf image in several colors on the card front, we cut one leaf out and popped it up.  We added some cute washi tape, a feather die cut from brushed gold and the final touch of cuteness are the glittered wooden leaf elements.

I hope you like these as much as we liked making them 🙂

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PLxSU….beautiful album cover!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 29

Hello friends! Welcome back to our Monday Montage Blog Hop! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the fabulous Dani Dziama’s blog. I can’t wait to share our beautiful inspiration with you today!

This week I am featuring the Project Life Espresso 6″ x 8″ album.  It comes plain and is just screaming to be made extra pretty!   I cut out “my life” with my Silhouette using the Smitten punch from MDS.  The rest is very simple to re-create.  Enjoy 🙂

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Grateful….for you!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 28

Hello friends! Welcome back to our Monday Montage Blog Hop! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the fabulous Dani Dziama’s blog. I have something super fun today & I know my friends have amazing inspiration too!

I couldn’t resist using the “For All Things” set again this week.  We made this simple, yet gorgeous card in my stamp club this week.  It required a little cutting for the leaves but otherwise it was very simple to put together.  I hope you enjoy 🙂

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Golden Fall Delight

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 27

Hello friends! Welcome back to our Monday Montage Blog Hop! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the fabulous Dani Dziama’s blog. I have something super fun today & I know my friends have amazing inspiration too!

Are you in love with the new Holiday Catalog???  Oh my gosh, there are some super cute things in there 🙂  I have been playing with lots of new products and today I want to share something I made with the”For All Things” set.  This is perfect for fall and features the very popular watercolor look to the stamps.  I used the watercolor background image and stamped it a couple of times on watercolor paper in Cajun Craze and Crushed Curry.  Then I spritzed it liberally with sparkliness!  I love, love how this came out.  I added a few gold feathers and some sequins and our luscious gold ribbon…voila, a gorgeous fall card!

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