Inspired by Kimberly Rorick Pottery

It was my Other Mother's birthday last week (that's my step-mom, Dawn Gerardot Putman), and I created a special birthday card to go along with her gift!  I love to coordinate my gifts and cards (and gift packaging) whenever I can!  A Little Backstory: My O-Mom is a mixed media artist featured at the Orchard …

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Candy Cane Christmas Presents & Contest

Now that my December stamping events are officially done, I've finally had some time to do some "fun" stamping for me!  There are SO many holiday projects that I still want to try, and SO many holiday products that I still want to use before the Holiday Mini expires on January 4th.          Both …

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Deck The Halls Never-Ending Card

Whew!  I have had two crazy weeks of events, so my days and nights have been filled with prepping and packing and stamping and reorganizing and doing it all over again. Eight events in 14 days!  It's been like a mini-stamping marathon!  Originally I had 10 events scheduled (what was I thinking?), but a workshop …

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French Foliage Flap Card & Crazy Clearance Sale!

  Here are a couple of lovely little cards with unique double-flap openings that I CASEd from Chiaki Haverstick's StampingPro blog.  The design of the card is interesting-to-open, yet simple-to-create, making it a fun workshop card.  Plus, it gave me another excuse to use the French Foliage set! I used Pumpkin Pie, More Mustard, Early …

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Batty For You Spider Cards

Don't you hate it when you get ready to do a project, then realize that you are missing a key ingredient?!  Well, that was me today when I got ready to create a Halloween card with the Spider Web Impressions Folder.  Oh, I had the Spider Web in my possession (finally)…but, I'll be danged if …

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Stamp Club August Challenges

Every month at my Stamp Club I offer challenges for the members to try and I wanted to share a few of the awesome cards that were shared at our event!   Challenge #1: Create a pop-up card    Here's Peggy Tassler's take on the pop-up card.  She used the retired Polka Dot Punches set with …

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