Operation Write Home

I am honored to be a part of Operation Write Home’s Veteran’s Day Blog Hop. Operation Write Home is a fabulous organization. They are a group of crafters from across America (and beyond!) who make handmade cards for deployed heroes so they can keep in touch [...]

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Season of Friendship

The thing I miss most,  living here in Southern California, is the Fall Colors. I love the beauty of the trees in the fall! Even though most of the colors are passed their peak else where, I can still create beautiful Fall colors on my cards. This is the third card that I will be [...]

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Candy Corn Turkey

As soon as I saw this adorable turkey on Mickey’s blog, I knew I just had to make one of my own! I used candy corn in the Sweet Treats cup, and made my own designer paper with the leaf from Holiday Blitz. The base is a 3″x3″ card, but it could easily be incorporated [...]

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Halloween Matchbox

We’re doing Halloween Buddies at school — each teacher has a secret buddy that they give treats to for a week and a half before Halloween. It is so much fun! The bummer though, is that I can’t give anything stamped, because then my buddy would know that it was me! Arggh! Talk about frustrating! [...]

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Big Shot dies are Deal of the Week!

Whoo-hoo! There are three great Big Shot dies on sale this week!!

Flower Burst Embosslits Die * Regularly $11.95 * This week only $5.99

Three Tier Pop-Up Cake Die * Regular Price $39.95 * This week only: $25.49
Perfect Setting Stampin’ Up! Bigz Xl Die
Regular Price $42.95
This week only: $25.99
A perfect event needs a perfect setting. We’ve got [...]

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Halloween Treats!

I’m on the social committee at school. We plan events where we can hang out and relax as a faculty — things that don’t involve school work. So of course I volunteered to host card making in the library. Our big tables are just perfect for stamping! Today was our first get together, and we [...]

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Beers to You!

Our friend Tracy was kind enough to let Steve stay at her house on his latest trip to Massachusetts, so of course I had to send her a nice pack of cards as a thank you! I made a few different ones, that I will show you over the next few days. This first one [...]

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Quilting with the Big Shot

Quilting? Yes, quilting! As I have mentioned before, the Big Shot Bigz Dies cut a wide variety of materials. One of the things it cuts is fabric. And what better to do with pieces of fabric then to make them into a quilt! At Stampin’ Up’s recent Founders Circle trip, the demonstrators there were treated [...]

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Happy Birthday Steve!

The Pals Paper Arts challenge this week is a sketch challenge. I gave it try yesterday, while making my husband Steve his birthday card. (I figured I better take advantage of his going fishing for the day and get his birthday card done!)

As I tried to figure out what to put in the three circles, [...]

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Back to School!

Yesterday was the first day of school for both Eve & I. I am super excited for her to be in first grade and so is she! We made some “Back to School” cards for her teachers (she has two this year).  I went with the classic apple from Tart and Tangy. I love the [...]

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