Flourishing Phrases Birthday Card for Christine

    The brand new Flourishing Phrases floral stamp set and Flourish Thinlit flower dies are an amazing combo!  Look at these pretty cards – I created the one on the left for Christine's birthday!!  The flower set and Bundle (at 10% off) are found on pg 49  and you can see the full set …

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Happy Birthday to Shannon!

  Many of you have probably seen this #imbringingbirthdaysback hashtag on Facebook over the past several months, and today we are celebrating Shannon's birthday, the creator of this movement to Bring Birthdays Back!!  Shannon felt that wishing people happy birthday on facebook was not allowing us the opportunity to do what we do best… create …

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It’s My Party – Pop-Up Birthday Cards

   {{Reminder: Double Points on your online orders this week! CLICK HERE}   These pop-up birthday cards were SO fun to make, and not difficult at all! Have you tried them? They were actually customer thank you cards, but I was hoping the recipients would enjoy the birthday  card idea featuring the Stampin' UP! Party …

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It’s a Penguin Birthday Celebration!

  One of the cards I stamped for our son Jason's birthday last month is this fun penguin card! Why Penguins?  Jason and I love them!! 🙂   The cute penguins are so easy to stamp and die cut using the matching Big Shot Framelit dies!! yay! The festive birthday patterned paper I used on …

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Happy 25th birthday to Jason!

  Honestly.. everyone tells you … "the years go by faster the older you get"… but how is it that 25 years have sped by since my sweet little baby Jason was born!? I guess "they" were right! Jason turned 25 last week and I thought I'd share one of the cards I made for …

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Grab your Party Pants!!

  Put your Party Pants On!?!?  Doesn't that just crack you up!? 🙂   This is one of the fun new stamp sets now available for a limited-time during the Stampin' UP! Sale-a-Bration promotion in 2016!  See the 3 new items below.. so fun!  And yes, that bow is TOO adorable, right!?  If you watch …

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Rose Garden Birthday card with golden touches

  Wow.. I stamped this a long time ago and never got around to sharing it!   I love the soft feel of this card!  Cindee and I created it together, and we used a card somewhere on the internet for inspiration, but as usual, we veered off course and made it our own.  Or it …

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Bear Hugs Balloon Card for a Friend

  My Sweet Friend Kylie Bertucci from Australia asked me to be a part of her Crazy Crafters team Blog Hop.  What a fun honor to be included in their hop!! This month the Crazy Crafters are all casing Patty Bennett!!   CASE means Copy and Share Everything.  They are using my blog and my projects …

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Pedal Pusher Bicycle Built for Two! New for Sale a Bration!

  What fun!!  3 new Sale a Bration products were just introduced for 2016!!  CLICK HERE to see the video and the 3 new products! What is Sale a Bration?  It's the biggest promotion of the year from Stampin' Up! and allows you to select one of 11 free gifts of your choice with each …

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Celebrating a milestone birthday with a special card

  It's so very fun to celebrate milestones, and especially special birthday milestones! A long time family friend recently celebrated his 70th birthday (even though he doesn't seem a day over 60), and so I made him this card.  In our family, we have a tradition that my hubby is in charge of the funny/humorous/silly …

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The Story of Pink Box Friday – Punch Art Donuts!

  <<< Let me take you back… way back.. to the mid-1980's when Eric and I worked together at a Structural Engineering firm in Lafayette, CA.  We worked together for 7 years – every day – it was amazing… I loved every single day!!! Back then, the big treat of the week was PINK BOX …

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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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