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Today I have a Vintage Valentine Kit to show you that I put together using a product I have long loved — Cotton Scraps by Crafty Secrets.  Unfortunately, these Cotton Scraps are no longer being manufactured, so when they are gone, they’re gone.  They were a produt that I’ve used over and over and over [...]

Today I just felt like playing with ribbon — so I did!  I’ve been in SUCH a pink mood of late, so PINK it was.  And VINTAGE.  I’ve been wanting to put together more Ribbon Samplers for ages, and today was my start — I’m so pleased with the results and I hope you are, too! [...]

Tonight I needed a quick card to mail out tomorrow for a brand new baby girl.  Cotton Scraps to the rescue! No stamping — quick and easy, using Baby Girl Cotton Scraps for my focal image and Ducks in a Row 8×8 Pad by October Afternoon, dressed up with some buttons from my stash and [...]

Just wanted to show you today a really quick card I made and also some new ribbon and paper I just got in at The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.  Let’s start with the card: This is most definitely my most favorite *go-to* style of card that I make often when I’m in a time crunch.  It [...]

Very Vintage – This challenge theme comes at special request (feel free to leave your requests in the comment section below).   Today’s challenge is to incorporate a vintage feel or theme into your card — and the sky is the limit — go with a  traditional VERY vintage look, or change it up to suite today’s [...]

Mid-Winter Perk-me-up!  Today we are all going to create projects with a floral theme and some fresh spring-time colors – whatever says *Spring* to you!  Let’s just forget our cold temps and think of those beautiful flowers due to pop up once spring does hit!   Just Think Spring and have some fun! Remember to use Mr. Linky below! [...]

Love is in the Air – With Valentine’s Day as our next major card-giving day on the horizon, let’s get something ready to add to our stash.  How about a card using a heart, Valentine or lovey-type theme — no other rules — let’s just add to our stash with some hearts and/or lovey type [...]

3 Panel Accordion – Accordion cards are some of my favorite things to make, and that’s just what we’ll do today.  We’re taking it easy with just 3 panels today.  Your accordion may be as large or as small as you like it.  It may serve as table decor or it may tie closed as [...]

Gatefolds  — Today’s challenge deals with how we fold our card — we are going to do Gatefold cards today.  Fun for a change!  Gatefolds are cards that fold in from each side, meeting in the middle, so it opens like a gate.  The folds don’t have to be symmetrical, your opening can be off [...]

I’m winding down on Hallloween cards, but wanted to get one more in at least!  This was a fun one to make for many reasons.  I used an image from the Halloween Journal Note pad, gave it a little extra zing with 2 colors of Flower Soft, added a sentiment from Witch Way to the [...]