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Festive Gatherings Fun!

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I may or may not have lost my mind with Tim Holtz’s 2023 Christmas goodies! How could I help myself? So many fun things to make! I’ve made a few cards with the Festive Gatherings Dies. I can see featuring these dies in projects year round, they are so versatile. My first card is super simple and features the dies and “Happy Holidays” from Hero Arts’ Holiday Words Fancy Die set. I highly recommend those dies, I use them so much!!

My second card features a shaker ornament also adorned with Festive Gatherings, this time in non-traditional colors. The shaker dies and embellishments are from Picket Fence Studios and I just love, love them! The shaker dies make it so simple to create shaker cards and I can’t wait to shaker all the things!! I got a whole set that includes several sizes of square and circle dies. I highly recommend!

I hope you enjoy these pretties! I am stuffing in all the creating time I can right now, since I am getting knee number two replaced in a few weeks and that will slow craft time down a bit! Thank you for stopping by, I’ll see you soon!

Festive Gatherings
Festive Gatherings
Festive Gatherings

reach for the stars!

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Hero Arts My Monthly Hero for December 2022 is such a great suite of products I had to get all the add-ons too lol! This kit is still available, get it while supplies last for sure!!

For the background, I stamped the background image a few times in a few different colors, layering color as I went. Next I spritzed HA White Iridescent Shimmer mist, I love the “spacey” feel it has!

Find the December MMH here.

Hero Arts My Monthly Hero

Bicycle Fun

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I finally pulled out My Monthly Hero (Hero Arts) from May, I hadn’t had a chance to get it inky yet! I love the fun silhouette dies in the set and how can anyone resist that precious pup on the back of the bike??

This super cute collection is still available at Hero Arts and you can get it here.

Hero Arts MMH May, 2023

By the numbers…

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We grow and get better everyday…by the numbers. And hope is never lost for the future!

My card was created with all Tim Holtz products: Distress Watercolor Paper, Distress Watercolor Pencils, Distress Embossing Glaze, Stampers Anonymous Stamps/Stencil duo, Tim Holtz thinlits dies. Super fun to make! I hope you enjoy 🙂

Hope is Never Lost

All about icons!

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I cannot stop with the Rugged Icon Dies! They are just so much fun! One thing I forgot to mention last week is that when I made the paper piecing mountain I had a bunch of fun outlines left to make more cards with. It’s always a good thing when you can get double duty out of card parts 🙂

The guitar card I was thinking about in bed one night lol. Oooooo I can use with the Merry Melody embossing folder. I love how it came out! I went super simple with the mountain card for my color palette and zhuzhed (Google says this is how you spell zhuzh lol) it up by creating a shaker card. I put some really subtle paper behind the the scene and added the blue and green colored fancy sequins. Those sequins are just the best! I added them everywhere!

Rugged Icons Stampin' Up
Rugged Icons Stampin' Up
Rugged Icons Stampin' Up

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At the shore

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It may break my heart for the New Horizons Suite to go away at the end of this month! The New Horizons paper is so yummy! Today’s card is a pretty shore scene and it came together in a couple of minutes. I added some soft color with blending brushes, stamped the birds and added some grass and a fence… super quick!~

New Horizons Stampin' Up

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you love this card as much as I do!

A little something to brighten your day!

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The Rainbow of Happiness Bundle has the most fun dies! I used the biggest one on my card front to create a peekaboo of the watercolored rainbow underneath. Super quick and simple to create! I used Sweet Sorbet, Daffodil Delight, Parakeet Party and Tahitian Tide for the watercolor rainbow. I love how simple and pretty it is!

Rainbow of Happiness Stampin' Up

Happy Stamping!

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New “Creative” Tutorial

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I just love making samplers, there is something so satisfying about making several tiny projects that all come together into one cohesive piece! This sampler is probably my favorite of all time (I always say my latest is my favorite lol)! For sure this one is going up in my craft room!!! It is really bittersweet that Crafting Forever and It Starts with Art are both retiring in June. I think these will find a permanent home in my craft room…I can’t imagine living without a stamp that says “let’s stay up late and craft” 🙂

A detailed tutorial is available here.

Create Sampler Stampin' Up

Last call for Sale-A-Bration!

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This time of year always seems to fly by at light speed!  Well maybe it is all times of year lol!  I can’t believe tomorrow is already April 1st!!  Anyway, that means that today is the end of Sale-a-Bration!  So you only have a few more hours to get in on some of the super cute items that come for free with a $50 order.  One of my absolute favorites this year is this Botanical Butterfly DSP.  It is so cute and the colors are so perfect!  Best of all, many of the butterfly images fit right in the Butterfly Duet punch!  I love this the most!

Here’s a trick to punch out just the large butterfly from the paper and not damage any surrounding images with the smaller butterfly part of the punch.  Trim the butterfly from the paper and then use a post it to create a “handle” so you can put the butterfly image in the punch.  It works every time!  See pics below:

Butterfly Duet Stampin' UpButterfly Duet Stampin' Up

I love the lemon lime twist, grapefruit grove and highland heather together in this card, I think this color combination is so pretty and springy 🙂

Beauty Abounds Stampin' Up

Beauty Abounds Stampin' Up

Beauty Abounds Stampin' Up

I hope you enjoy this card as much as I enjoyed creating it!

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I’m just wild about this cute dino!!

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I made this adorbs card for a swap quite some time ago!  This is another favorite set of mine that is retiring when the new catalog launches.  This stamp set and this designer paper is one of my favorites 🙂

Pieces and Patterns Stampin' Up

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  1.  This card was so simple and fast to create!  Quick watercoloring and fussy cutting of the cute little dino was easy.  I actually love fussy cutting, it relaxes my mind (I know, sounds weird…but you should try it!)
  2. I colored in the wild about you sentiment with a marker, I used Crushed Curry to coordinate with the DSP strip on the side.
  3. Splatters of Flirty Flamingo and Emerald Envy picked up the other colors in the DSP.