Brewing Up a Halloween Shaker Card

Welcome to the October edition of CASEing Coast to Coast with Karen Hallam in CA and myself here in PA.  This month it was my turn to choose the direction of our project and I thought it would be fun to shake things up a bit with a shaker card.  I really enjoy making these types of cards and I know they are super fun to receive.  So here’s my cute halloween shaker… I put…

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It’s World Cross Stitch Day!

Who knew there was a World Cross Stitch Day?  I certainly didn’t but I’m happy there is.  I’ve recently picked this hobby up again and have to say that I’m loving it just as much as I did when I was younger.  When my girls were young, I cross-stitched a lot.  It was so relaxing to stitch while they were napping or in bed for the night.  I think when I discovered stamping, cross-stitch went…

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Another Birthday Butterfly

Today is my sweet, sensitive and extremely artistic daughter, Lauren’s birthday.  She loves butterflies and has a Papillon (which means butterfly) puppy so naturally butterflies are a good choice for her card. I used this layout on a card I did HERE last week and decided not to recreate the wheel.  I just changed the color scheme, patterned paper and sentiment and the card felt new and different. Here’s the details  The card base is…

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Celebrating with the Party Pandas – Tic Tac Toe Challenge #037

I’m still “Sale-a-brating” with the adorable Party Pandas stamp set that you can get absolutely FREE with a $50 purchase during Sale-A-Bration.  I also created this card for this week’s Tic Tac Toe Challenge.  Here’s the challenge board…. I chose the first row across: Aperture (window), Celebrate, Sequins Here’s the details… The card base is Whisper White thick card stock with a mat of Lemon Lime Twist card stock.  I’m a little late to the…

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