Fluttering By Butterfly Birthday Card

  Just "Fluttering By" to send you this cheerful Bold Butterfly birthday card greeting today!!  I really wanted to try out my new 6×6 Fluttering embossing folder and I was also die cutting these pretty little butterflies and they just kind of fell together on this card! Design Tip: Round just one of the 4 …

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Color Me Irresistable Specialty Paper from Stampin’ Up!

  Do Polka Dots just make you happy!? They make me smile!! Especially these cute random polka dots in the Color Me Irresistible specialty paper pack from Stampin' Up!  Normally I'm not a fan of random… I like everything nice and orderly in rows and columns – must stem from my structural engineering drafting background… …

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Remarkable You layered flower note card

  Do you ever do this?  You have some left over pieces from various cards on your crafting table, so you put them together and make a new card?  That's what I did .. I had all these elements from other projects and just put them together on a Stampin' Up! Whisper White note card! …

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Wooden Elements on Farmers Market Note Cards

  Do you remember THIS BLOG POST from a couple weeks ago where I showed you how to color the Expressions Natural Elements using your Stampin' Up! Ink Pad?  I really enjoyed the easy technique I shared with you in that video and have made several more cards with this technique! As you can see …

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Make your own Butterfly Stamps!

  Fun Foam + Butterfly Framelits = Butterfly stamps! When I was playing with color combos for the Watercolor Wings butterfly stamps (see this post and video), I really wanted to create a monarch butterfly… but I found that I just didn't seem to have the right stamp images… but now I do!!  I die …

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Happy Flower card with My Paper Pumpkin stamps

  Did you see my post last week with the Stampin' UP! June Paper Pumpkin kit!?  I LOVE this cute posy flower stamp that came in my kit .. so I decided to create a card other than what the kit makes.. here is what I stamped!!  How cute is this!? The White Perfect Accents …

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Add a little Pizzazz to your Project with Paper Piercing

  Paper Piercing… it's one of those little "extras" that can add so much to your stamped card or handcrafted project, but yet, we often forget about it! I grabbed the Updated Essentials Paper Piercing Template, my mat and Paper Piercing tool (pg 168 in the 2015-2016 Stampin' UP! catalog) and added a circle of …

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Happy Anniversary LOVE card with Project Life

  On Sunday, Eric and I celebrated our 29th Wedding Anniversary… wow.. 29 years?  How did THAT happen!!??  He hired me as a Structural Engineering Drafter in April 1984, and we got married on June 28, 1986… yep… 29 years ago!! Amazing!  We worked together in the office until 1991 when Jason was born, then …

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Watercolor Wishes Card Kit NOW Available!

  I'm so excited!! It's finally available!!! I'm putting in my order right now for the Watercolor Wishes card kit!! Order yours online today, here!   Did you know that this amazing kit makes 20 cards and comes with an AWESOME stamp set INCLUDED in the kit!? See the stamp set on pg 80 of …

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Stampin’ UP! June 2015 My Paper Pumpkin Card Kit

  Have you been having fun with your June My Paper Pumpkin Kit from Stampin' Up!? Yesterday I planned to start stamping my 2015 Stampin' Up! Convention swap cards, but I felt like I needed a "warm up"… so I grabbed my Paper Pumpkin box from this month and created the 8 cards from this …

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Garden in Bloom Stampin’ UP! Cards

  Do you remember the pretty card I shared with you a couple days ago? (see the bottom card in this photo or THIS POST)… well, I have 2 other versions for you today… isn't it neat how the card takes on a whole different feel just by using a different pattern from the Pretty …

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The Evolution of a Card Design

  This card didn't start out this way… so, I thought I'd share the evolution of my design process with you as I designed this card for one of our Luv 2 Stamp Group stamping days!! I stamped with the Garden in Bloom stamp set, and used the Pretty Petals paper stack… read on for …

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