Sunshine Award

I wanted to thank my friend Julie Leonhardt for honoring my blog with the Sunshine Award!  Julie is a fellow stamper and has a fabulous scrapbooking blog called Random Memories. Be sure to check out her awesome layouts for some scrapping inspiration!  Although I'm fairly new to the blogging world, and I still need to …

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Matchbox Dresser Mania!

Now for something a little different!  How about a fun little dresser that you can fill up with candy, jewelry, hair bows, gift cards, and even Barbie Clothes?!  You could hide all kinds of things in this cute little chest! The size may be a little deceiving in the picture…this mini dresser stands about 2-1/2" …

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Poppin’ Pastels With The Brownies

I'm writing this on Thursday morning, and later this afternoon I'll be stamping with a couple of my nieces at the first Brownie troop meeting I've attended in nearly three decades!  I'm very excited to be sharing my love of stamping with them as we create a beautiful, hand-stamped card for their moms for Mother's …

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Elements of Zindorf’s Style by Michelle

I had to show you this AWESOME card made by Michelle Hoover, who is part of my Too Cool Demo Team!  Take a look at this… Like me, Michelle loves a great tutorial and this card was created using a fabulous tutorial by Michelle Zindorf at Freedom In Creating.  For those of you who haven't …

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Elements of Style Purse & Card Gift Set

Today is the finale to my four-part series on the special Mother's Day present I created for my MIL, Nancy.  I created six cards (two each of three card designs), and you can see the details of each of those cards in my previous posts: Embossed Vine, Shimmery Hummingbird and Embossed Stencil. All of the …

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Elements of Style Embossed Stencil Card

The third installment of my Elements of Style Card Set ensemble features an embossed stencil technique (I love this technique!).  You can see the first and second card designs in my previous posts: Embossed Vine Cards and Shimmery Hummingbird Cards.       Embossed Stencil Details I began with a piece of decorative Bella Bleu Designer …

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