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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Classic Christmas Wreath – Guest Designer @ Tic Tac Toe Challenge #189

  Before I jump into my post here, I’d like to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving.  I hope that you are feeling blessed today and enjoying this special holiday. Today’s post is pretty special to me.  I’m the guest designer for the Tic Tac Toe Challenge #189.  If you’ve been following me, you know that I play along with this challenge as much as I can.  I love combining the elements of the challenge…

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Sugar & Spice Holiday Card

I can definitely say that I’m in full holiday creating mode and couldn’t be happier.  I’ve been digging out all my Christmas and Winter stamps, dies, paper and embellishments.  And I’ve been finding so many fun products in my stash.  One of the stamp sets I uncovered was Papertrey Ink’s Scent-imentals. I randomly stamped the Gingerbread Man to create a cute background.  I used SU’s Cinnamon Cider Ink which I think is the perfect gingerbread…

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It’s Holly Jolly July!

We’re jumping on the Christmas in July trend for CASEing Coast to Coast this month.  If your new here, Karen Hallam out West in CA and myself, here on the East Coast in PA come together once a month to CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) each other’s project.  This month it was Karen’s turn to decide our direction and she chose the theme: Christmas in July.  I don’t usually think about making a Christmas card during…

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