Creating Coast to Coast: Christmas in July

Karen and I are so happy to be back collaborating again! We’ve changed our CASEing Coast to Coast monthly stamping adventure to Creating Coast to Coast. If you’ve been following us for sometime, you may remember that each month, Karen Hallam at www.stampinghabit.com and myself take turns taking the lead in choosing a theme, color combination, sketch or product. Karen lives in sunny CA and I live in hot, humid PA, thus the title of…

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Take Two Tuesday: Notes & Totes Card and Gift Card Holder

Welcome to Take Two Tuesday. For this week’s project, I created a card and coordinating gift card holder using the Notes & Totes dies along with the Storybook Moments DSP. They turned out exactly as I envisioned they would. And let me tell you, this almost never happens! Here, take a look… Here’s the details… Crumb Cake card base: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, scored at 4 1/4 Very Vanilla card stock: 5 3/8 x…

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Fun Fold Friday: Tucked Fun Fold Birthday

It’s been such fun following along and participating in Jeanie Stark’s weekly Mystery Monday challenge. I’m enjoying learning new fun folds along with seeing Jeanie’s and other’s cards. It’s something I look forward to each week. And today’s fold may be my favorite so far…it’s called a Tucked Fun Fold. It was very quick to put together but surely doesn’t look that way. Jeanie’s directions were very straightforward and easy to follow. If you haven’t…

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Way Back Wednesday: From Feathers to Pears

You may have noticed that I’m trying a little something new on the blog. I’ve given each day a theme. It’s given me some direction for each post and is making my card making a little more intentional, along with a little challenge to keep within the parameters of the theme. For today’s theme, I’m going back into my “archives” and pulling a card to revamp using current products. So let’s start off with the…

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