Hello my card making friends and Happy Saturday. Today I’m Joining Simon Says Stamp for an epic United We Craft Party. Our goal is to bring you crafty inspiration and to inspire you to craft. I am so very grateful for crafting and this crafting community, it’s my happy place during these difficult times. I have a new Simon Says…
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Hello card making friends and welcome back. Today I have Peony Bouquet Stenciled Birthday cards to share with you. YIKES, My birthday card stash is extremely low right now! So I decided it was time to break into this lovely Peony Bouquet Stencil from the Simon Says Stamp Hey Bestie release and give it some love. Both cards fit for…
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Hello my cardmaking friends and welcome back. Today, while the snow was falling, (yes another 5 inches overnight – ug!). I found myself wishing terribly that spring would arrive and I could go outside and play in my gardens. Pull some weeds, see the first bright green leaves of my tulips popping out, SOMETHING so I hooted through my “yet…
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Arteza recently sent me another box of goodies to play with so in today’s Video I’m sharing – Let’s Color with Arteza Real Brush Pens. I do a little comparison to others I have and then show you a few different ways I like to color with them. I also share 4 completed cards at the end of the video….
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Hello my cardmaking friends and welcome back. Today I’m sharing a Simple Easter Box and Card created with the Simon Says Stamp Oh Bunny Stamp and Die set. With Easter sneaking up on us and most of us staying in, I thought it might be fun to create a few Easter Projects that we could share with our family and…
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hello my cardmaking friends. As promised, I am back with a New Video Spring Gnomes and Copic Coloring. I first showed you these little darlings a few weeks back but the Simon Says Stamp New Release sold out on the first day so I was waiting for them to come back in stock. Which they are now! yeah!….the coordinating dies…
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Hi cardmaking friends. It’s the 20th today so it’s hop day with my Crafty Friends and I have Pinkfresh Studio Rainbow Cards to share with you. Hope you’re doing ok dealing with the social restrictions and like me, enjoying some extra time stamping. It’s such a great way to take your mind off the stress of what is going on…
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Hands Up – who loves Penny Black Stamps? ME, Me, ME, and today I have a New Penny Black Flying By Easter Cards. Ok, so when I was cruising the “what’s new” at Simon Says Stamp, I saw this little gem and quickly added it to my cart. At that time I had no idea what I was going to…
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Hi card making friends and welcome back. Today I have an adorable shaker card to share with you created with the Picket Fence New Sleeping Baby Stamp and die combo. This sweet little fellow is colored with Copics and cut out with the coordinating die. I sponged another piece of card with Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide and then stamped the…
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Hi card making friends and welcome back. Today is the Picket Fence March Release day! Pretty new Stamps, stencils, fun bundles and more this month. I am honored to be asked in as the Guest Designer for March as I really love working with their products. I have a few to show you today and tomorrow and check out the…
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This is Fun, Simon Says Stamp is having a MYSTERY SALE Use CODE LUCKY777 to save 20% on over 70 different Mystery Brands – good through 3/15 SHOP SIMON HERE Also, don’t forget to check out the Steals and Deals, there are some awesome prices in there too, although they tend to sell out quickly but I just checked and…
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Hi again stamping friends. Second post today as this is very time sensitive. The Simon Says Stamp Easter 2020 Card Kit went live this morning. As you may know, this is a super popular kit and sells out very quickly. Hopefully spring is just around the corner and that means Easter is too. So Simon is EGGstra excited to share…
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Hey cardmaking friends, welcome back. Today’s share is Simon Says Stamp Lifting Hearts Bunny Card. It’s day 12 of the “The Daily Marker 30 Day Color Challenge” so I dug out this bunny again and gave him a little coloring love. I needed this card to be super bright and cheery so instead of a blue stenciled sky, I made…
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Hi cardmaking friends and welcome back. Today I’m sharing Simon Says Stamp Floral Mix Background. It’s a stamp I purchased a bit ago and haven’t really played with much. First, my apologies for being AWOL for a few days….TAXES, ugggg, we have to do taxes in both countries. It’s a pile extra work and I just had to keep my…
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Hello my card making friends. I have been busy updating the Crafty Sales page with all the awesome specials that are popping up and thought I would send out an updated e-mail so you don’t miss out on these great deals. Have fun shopping, there are lots of warehouse sales, additional discounts and NEW PRODUCT RELEASES too. There’s even a…
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Hello my wonderful cardmaking friends and welcome back. New Video up today – Learn How to Two Step Stamp and both cards are 10 Minutes to WOW. Toda,y we are stamping with the fabulous NEW stamp set LAYERED TULIPS from the Simon Says Stamp “LUCKY TO KNOW YOU” released this past Thursday. What a release – have you checked out…
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Hi cardmaking friends and welcome back. I have 7 New Cards for the Lucky to Know you Release from SImon Says Stamp. Oh my goodness you are going to fall in love over and over again with this Simon Says Stamp NEW release LUCKY TO KNOW YOU.…and there’s GNOMES. NEW Gnomes and I was doubly blessed that they sent…
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Happy March 1 and I hope you are having a fabulous weekend. I have a 30 Day Color Challenge and Sneak Peek to share with you today. First up: Kathyrac’s 30 Day Color Challenge starts today and runs through March. It’s the 15th such challenge and is a boatload of fun. The goal is to make time to color every…
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Hi cardmaking friends and welcome back. Today I have a New Video – Copic Markers and Heat Embossing. These two items don’t normal go together, but I’m going to show you how they can with the help of your Misti Stamping Tool. I also share a quick lesson on the Copic Flicking Technique for the coloring – so read and…
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Hi there crafty friends and welcome back. Today’s card making share includes two more cards made with the Stronger Together Stamp set from Simon Says Stamp. This stamp set is in the March Card Kit and I have really enjoyed creating with it. The floral images are simple and easy to color with any medium and the sentiments are strong…
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Hi cardmaking friends and welcome back. While hooting around in my stash looking at Valentine’s stamps earlier this month, I came across this Penny Black All My Love and decided to make an anniversary card with it. I love to color with my copics and small images like this are quick and satisfying to color. They don’t require a lot…
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Hello cardmaking friends and welcome back. Today I have three cards for you created with the Simon Says Stamp March Card Kit. This kit is fabulous, lots of florals and sentiments in the stamp set and the papers are predominantly Lavender and Mint so I went with it. The Simon Says Stamp March Card Kit also includes a packet of…
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Welcome back my papercrafting friends, today I’m cardmaking with Gina K Designs for the CRAFTY FRIENDS Blog Hop. I have long been a fan of Gina K and her amazing designs. She is an astute business woman and a wonderful human and her stamping/crafting products are all first class. SO – I’m super excited to announce Gina K Designs as…
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Hi cardmaking friends. I have a clean and simple Simon Says Stamp Botanical Heart card to share with you today. Who could resist this beautiful stamp when it came out in the recent Simon Says Stamp Hey Bestie Release? Not Me that’s for sure haha. I think this release was one of Simon’s finest and I wanted to push the…
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Hello cardmaking friends, hope you are enjoying a nice long weekend. Today it’s Distress Oxides Color Combos and Cards 4 up on the blog. This time I’m blending 4 colors for the project. On an A2 card 5 – 6 colors would be the max before it would start to get muddy and you will see in the video I…
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Hi again, I’m back with the JUST RELEASED – Simon Says Stamp March 2020 Card Kit Stronger Together . As you know these Card Kits are super popular and sell out quickly because of the awesome quality, the exclusive stamp sets and the great price point for all the products included in the kit. This kit has a beautiful SPRING…
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Hello my card making friends. A very Happy Valentines Day to you. Today I’m playing with Simon Says Stamp Lifting Hearts Stamp set along with a bunch of new dies. I had a total blast making this card. It probably took me over an hour and my die cutting machine got a work out. Read on and don’t forget to…
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Hello my card making friends. Let’s decorate the Cake today! a Beautiful Lemon Chiffon Cake on a Milk Glass Stand with absolutely NO CALORIES – YEAH! And a super easy Copic Coloring technique to boot. Read on and don’t forget to download the FREE PDF File for today’s card too. The start of a New Year and I’M OUT OF…
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Hi crafty friends and welcome back. Today’s cardmaking adventure is More Pawsome Love with Simon Says Stamp. I added the heart Frame overlay from the Window Frames February Card Kit. Like many of you, as far as “Valentine’s” go, I have one true love, my hubby Ian. However, Valentine’s can also be about your Pals and friends and telling them…
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Hello my crafty friends. It’s Sunday so that’s my Distress Oxide Series day and today I’m sharing how to label your Distress Oxide Ink Pads. It’s been a question I get asked a lot each week when I have been doing the Distress Oxide Videos, so I decided to do a quick video and share the PDF File that I…
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Hi card making friends and welcome back. Today I created a fun Valentine’s with MFT Stamps Let’s Stick Together. This adorable stamp set is so quick and easy to color, cut the images out with the coordinating dies and boom you have a card. To start my MFT Stamps Let’s Stick Together Card, I used my Misti…
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Hello my papercrafting friends. Today I’m sharing SSS Feb Cardmaking Kit and a very Special Simon Says Stamp Anniversary Sale. The Kit got hung up in the Christmas mail and just arrived last week, and then my life was crazy for a week and I just today got to sit down and create with it and it’s FABULOUS. The Window…
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Hi papercrafting friends and welcome back. As promised, I have cardmaking with Altenew Dot Botanical today for you. Two cards actually, one with more of the VersaFine Clair Ink I shared with you in last weeks video, and another, heat embossed with colored embossing powder on black…most striking. This Altenew Dot Botanical stamp set has so many possibilities, and I…
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whoo hoo, the Feb My Monthly Hero – Feb Kit just went live. You know these sell out quickly so if you need a FABULOUS Birthday Card Kit, don’t delay. It’s a good day for a birthday – or in our case, it’s a good day to create a stash of birthday cards! The February release will put you well…
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Hi crafty friends and welcome back to my Cardmaking Blog. Today I’m stamping with Zippy Zebras from My Favorite Things. Their stamp artwork is always adorable and uplifting and who can resist a zebra on a scooter? NOT ME! haha. I have another bright and cheery Distress Oxides Color combo for you too. I started by blending the background with…
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