Cottage-core Thank You

Today’s card is truly in my wheelhouse. I am loving the recent decorating trend known as Cottage-Core. To me, it’s a mix of vintage country along with a throwback to my decorating style of my younger married days. So my card was really fun to create as it, too, is a throwback to some of my favorite Stampin’ Up! products: Country Home bundle and the Tin Tile Dynamic embossing folder. The patterned paper is from…

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Pretty View of Fall – PP763

I noticed an arched window die online recently and was half tempted to purchase it until I realized I could easily re-create the window using SU’s Everyday Arches, so that’s what I did! I began with a card base of Early Espresso card stock and added brick patterned paper from my stash. To create the window, I cut an arch from Early Espresso and then cut the next smallest arch using a patterned from SU’s…

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Autumn Toile Thanksgiving Gatefold Z Fold

Hello! That blog title sure is a mouthful…right?! I’m back once again with a unique fun fold courtesy of Jeanie Stark’s Mystery Monday Fun Fold series. This is a fun way to experience new folds to add to your card making portfolio. With the holidays quickly approaching, like they do every year, I’m winding down on creating Autumn cards and looking toward breaking out all the Christmas goodies in my stash. So, this may be…

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Tri-fold Accordion Thanksgiving Card – #TTTC282

Are you ready for another Tic Tac Toe Thursday? Today’s challenge board is brought to you by my fellow teammate, Betty and it’s full of seasonal and non-seasonal elements to inspire you. Since I find myself being a seasonal stamper more and more, I decided to check off another Thanksgiving card from my list. I chose to go two ways here: First row across: Leaves, Enamel Dots/Sequins, Fun Fold and Middle column down: Enamel Dots/Sequins,…

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