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Fleur Impressions

We have been having one of the snowiest winters in several years here in Western PA. All of the constant cold and snow has me longing for spring. Since real flowers are going to have to wait I have...

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Fleur Impressions Valentine's

I'm back today with more cards using The Greetery's Fleur Impressions set. I honesty couldn't stop stamping these gorgeous flowers! This time I used them to make Valentine's Day cards.Since these were...

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It's Cake Chomping Time

When My Favorite Things released their Baby Shark die-namic and Sharky Sentiments set, I bided my time until they went on sale and then bought them. Both my boys love sharks, especially my oldest, so I...

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Choo Choo You're 2!

My little nephew turned 2 this past week so of course I had to make him a fun card. I knew I wanted to use the MFT Pumped-Up Numbers die-namic and thought it would be fun to have it pulled by the train...

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Lavender Praying for You

Unfortunately I found myself needing a sympathy card this week. I had stamped these lavender blooms a few days ago for another project but decided they would be perfect for this. The flowers are from a...

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Love for a Lifetime

Hello! Today I am sharing a card I made for a friend's upcoming bridal shower. I haven't used my Botanical Bounty set in a long time so decided to pull that out and create a lovely floral card. Except...

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Some Bunny Loves You

Easter is coming up quickly and as we'll have my niece and nephew with us this year I wanted to make small Easter baskets for each of them. Papertrey Ink's Berry Basket die was perfect for this! The...

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Daisy Birthday Wishes

Hello! Today I am sharing a birthday card I made for my sister-in-law. Her favorite flowers are daisies so I decided to create a bouquet of them using Budding Beauties Summer by The Greetery! The...

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Layered Bouquets for Mother's Day

I'm getting a head start on making my Mother's Day cards this year. These ones use a beautiful floral set from Pinkfresh Studio called Layered Bouquet. The flowers and leaves are each just two steps so...

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Egg-stra Special Easter

Up today is a sweet little Easter card. This is a case of a card where the background really dictated the rest of the design. What I mean by that is after making the Mother's Day cards in my last post,...

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Up, up and away!

My youngest son turned 5 a few weeks ago (a whole hand!) and we celebrated with an airplane themed birthday party. I made this airplane shaker card for him using a retired Papertrey Ink set called...

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I Love You to the Moon and Back

My husband and I recently celebrated our anniversary and this is the card I made for him. This was one of those very rare times where I had an idea in my head and it turned out just the way I hoped!...

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Layered Bouquet Happy Birthday

 I have been growing my collection of Pinkfresh Studio goodies so I challenged myself to make a card using only products from that company. This was fun! The background was created by blending Slumber...

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Pink Layered Bouquet Mother's Day Cards

 I am making Mother's Day cards for all of the moms and mentor moms in my church moms's group. We have been entirely virtual for over a year now so I wanted to send them each something personal to stay...

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Purple Layered Bouquet Mother's Day Cards

Today I am sharing more Layered Bouquet Mother's Day cards. I seriously stamped a big pile of pink and purple bouquets and went to town making cards! These are very similar to yesterday's pink cards....

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Teacher Appreciate Gifts 2021

Hello! It is Teacher Appreciate Week and boy do we appreciate our teachers! After months of virtual learning I am SO glad my kids are back at school in person! I put together these small gifts for my...

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Bold Alphabet - Just a Note

Hello! I finally had a chance to play with some of my new anniversary goodies from The Greetery! I tried out the new Bold Alphabet dies and also the AlphaBud Bold Floral Details stamps and dies for...

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AlphaBud Bold Floral Details Thank You Cards

After yesterday's card I had (and still have!) quite a few extra stamped AlphaBud Bold Floral Details pieces so I played around with more card designs. I wanted to see how they looked with the Written...

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You Make This World a Beautiful Place

The last day of school for my oldest son is tomorrow so I have been a busy bee making end of year thank you cards for all of his teachers. This particular card was a fun one as it is meant for his art...

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Seeds Of Knowledge Teacher Cards

 I've been making a whole stack of end of year teacher cards for all of my son's teachers. It's been fun pulling out lots of different school themed sets! These cards use an old Papertrey Ink set...

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Spooky Halloween House

 Hello! It has been quite a while since I shared anything here on the blog but today I do have a Halloween card I'm super excited about. I used many of the Open House dies from Spellbinders to create a...

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Cozy Cup Coffee Card

 Hello! This is the first card I've made in the new year and it felt great to be creating again! I have a gift card to a coffee shop to give as a thank you gift so of course I needed to make a coffee...

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Just bee-cause

 Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! If you are an educator, thank you SO much for the many things you do! I made this to give to one of my son's classroom teachers this week. I've had the idea to make...

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Back to School Cards

 My kids went back to school this week so I made each of them a special back to school card for their first day. I used the adorable Pack It Up die from Spellbinders to make custom backpacks! The...

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I Spy the Birthday Boy!

My oldest son recently turned ten (ten!) years old. He has been interested in spy stuff lately so I used some older products from Papertrey Ink to make him a spy themed birthday card! The stamp set I...

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