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  • Spellbinders Glimmer Backgrounds Collection

    Looking for an easy way to add a splash of color and texture to your cards?  The new Glimmer Backgrounds Collection from Spellbinders features modern and versatile patterns and is designed so that it can be foiled once for borders and strips or foiled a couple times for a complete background. Using the new Rainbow […]

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  • Cats Who Lunch Card

    Today I’m sharing a cute way to catch up with a friend by mixing a couple of different Rubbernecker stamp sets.  I love the quirky style of these fish and cat images, and thought that this fun sentiment was the perfect way to bring them together on a card. COLORING THE CAT GROUP  Stamp the […]

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  • Divinity Designs May Release Roundup

    How about one more look at the May release from Divinity Designs and a couple of new ways to use these fun products?  The Footsteps Stamp & Die set is full of beautiful sentiments and a really unique footprint image.  I stamped the footsteps onto woodgrain paper in Versamark Ink and added Sand embossing powder […]

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  • Creating Scenes With Inking Techniques

    It’s no secret that I love ink blending…almost every card I make has anywhere from a little ink around the edges to a full-blown inked background panel.  I collect different blending tools and smooth cardstocks like my cat collects toy mice.  So today’s card features some of my favorite inking techniques to create this peaceful […]

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  • Divinity Designs May Release

    Ready for a peek at the newest release from Divinity Designs?  May’s release is full of unique dies that make fun-fold cards easy, beautiful sentiment stamps, and even a fun paper pack perfect for Father’s Day and summertime cards.  I used the Stitched Sunburst Die to cut an ink-blended panel and paired it with a […]

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  • Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog Hop

    Happy Friday y’all!  Today I’m excited to be playing along in the Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop using some super cute Rubbernecker stamps and dies.  Truthfully, if you were to find me at a café, I’d be more likely to order tea or hot chocolate, but the great thing about most coffee stamps and dies […]

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  • Country Sunset Scene Card

    As the days get longer this time of the year, one of my family’s favorite things to do is take a ride in the country after dinner.  There’s one particular route we enjoy that travels past tons of open farmland, and on that route is a one-lane bridge that doglegs over a tiny brook surrounded […]