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Doddle Flowers with Stems Wish You a Beautiful Day
I've used this die set before, this time I decided to use the stems for these flowers. I kept it simple and only added one layer of the...
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Jun 28, 20221 min read
Craft-a-Flower Cosmos Have a Beautiful Day
I decided to try something different in coloring the layers to these flowers and stems. I used Distress Reinkers on a glass mat, added a...
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Jun 28, 20221 min read
Inlaid Fine Bouquet Happy Birthday
I pulled out this pretty die from Altenew and decided to use it with the inlaid method. I cut the outline from heavy weight white...
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Jun 27, 20221 min read
Embossed Lush Garden with Copic Coloring
I decided to try this new embossing folder again. It is a beautiful floral arrangement, but I wanted to see what it would look like...
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Jun 27, 20221 min read
Embossed Lush Garden with Stencil Coloring
I just received Altenew's Lush Garden Kit and decided to give it a try. I embossed the flower image and then colored it using the...
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Jun 27, 20221 min read
Enjoy Your Day Watercolored Rose
I was going through my flower dies and pulled out this beautiful layered die from Honey Bee Stamps. I've used it before in cards, but...
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Jun 27, 20221 min read
Happy Birthday Argyle Plaid
This card uses a great patterned paper and a big and bold sentiment. PRODUCTS USED: · The Paper Studio Eat Cake Cardstock · ...
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Jun 22, 20221 min read
Celebrate You Party Hats
The sentiment was cut from a strategic spot on the patterned paper and adhered in place with foam tape. A secondary sentiment was cut in...
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Jun 22, 20221 min read
Big Balloon Happy Birthday
This is another masculine birthday card using patterned paper. A solid turquoise paper was used to cut out a large balloon, which was...
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Jun 22, 20221 min read
Party Time Balloon
This card uses a great patterned paper and cutout balloons. The sentiment is from the patterned paper, Copic Marker 100 was used to...
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Jun 22, 20221 min read
Chevron You Take the Cake
This is a masculine card with bright and colorful chevron paper and a great die cut sentiment from My Favorite Things. PRODUCTS USED: · ...
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Jun 22, 20221 min read
Three Candles Happy Birthday
A masculine birthday card with patterned paper and candles die cuts. PRODUCTS USED: · The Paper Studio Eat Cake Cardstock · ...
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Jun 22, 20221 min read
Smile: It's Your Birthday
A masculine birthday card with patterned paper and die cuts. PRODUCTS USED: · My Favorite Things Double the Smiles · ...
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Jun 22, 20221 min read
Celebrate You Presents
Another masculine birthday card with patterned paper and die cuts. PRODUCTS USED: · My Favorite Things Celebrate · ...
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Jun 22, 20221 min read
Happy Birthday Party Hats
I needed some masculine birthday cards and decided to pull out some patterned paper and add some images and cutouts. For this one it was...
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Jun 22, 20221 min read
Happy Birthday Riotous Wildflower Watercolor
I had used this stamp on a previous card and decided to use it again with watercolors. It was stamped with VersaMark Ink and heat...
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Jun 22, 20221 min read
Hello Sweet Friend Fantasy Floral
I had this pretty background that didn't look good on a previous card. It needed a solid flower image and so I pulled out Altenew...
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Jun 22, 20221 min read
Sending Birthday Wishes Riotous Wildflowers
As I was going through my stamps I pulled out this pretty background stamp from The Ton. I colored it with soft pink and yellow Copic...
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Jun 22, 20221 min read
Hooray Triston! You Did It!
A young man in our church is being baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We wanted to give him a...
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Jun 18, 20221 min read
Bitterroot Flower Happiest of Birthdays
This layering stencil from Altenew is very difficult to use, but the results are lovely. PRODUCTS USED: · Altenew Bitterroot...
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Jun 18, 20221 min read
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