Memorial Day Cards

This weekend I had the awesome pleasure of participating in the Operation Write Home Memorial Day Blog Hop--in preparation for that I hop I prepared SEVERAL cards but because I wanted to follow the rules of the hop, I only posted the one card. The hop had over 140 stops and was MASSIVE but awesome to see all of the talent in one spot. So, on to the cards! The first is a new favorite designer of mine--her name is Amanda and she has a new shop at AJs...

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Operation Write Home's Memorial Day Blog Hop

Welcome to Operation Write Home's Memorial Day Blog Hop!! This wonderful 3 day blog hop contains more than 145 fabulous bloggers! I am honored to be among them. I created several cards for this hop but since they've asked us to only post one to help make this go smoother and quicker for our wonderful hoppers, I picked my favorite! I will post the other two cards next week! This card is one of my favorite House Mouse images. I colored...

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Festive Friday Blog Hop #10 | The Magic of Christmas

It's time for the Festive Friday Blog Hop hosted by Terri Sproul again. This bi-monthly blog hop features Holiday cards from 13 talented card crafters as we get our Christmas cards ready early this year. If you reached this stop from Fab's blog Fab's Big Christmas Card Challenge , then you are in the right spot! If you would like to start from the beginning, you can return to Terri's blog. For this easel card I used an older Close to My Heart...

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Weekly Challenge | TAGS!! & Announcements

This weeks challenge at Delightful Challenges is TAGS!!! I love tags and making tags! I knew for this challenge I would need some cute little bee tags--the mascot for my children's schools are bees/yellow jackets. Honey Pot Larry would make the perfect little favor to add to end of the school projects for the kids classes! I hope you enjoy my Honey Pot Larry Tag! ALL DDSTAMPS USED: HoneyPot Larry, Blank Circle Sentiment from Circle Sentiments SetCS...

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Making Halloween Cards Challenge #1 | 3D Popup Card & AJ's Digi Shoppe Opens!

This week I'm joining my friend Fab at Making Halloween Cards Blog in his first challenge: 3D Popup Card! This is a great bi-weekly challenge that will focus on one of my favorite holidays- HALLOWEEN!! For this card since it was the 1st of a challenge, I attempted a new popup card type and used my friend Amanda's new monster and celebration digitals from her brand new AJ's Digi Shoppe. For this card I combined elements from her monsters set...

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Challenge #95 | May Flowers

House Mouse Challenge #95 | May Flowers I stamped Bed of Flowers featuring Mudpie and Monica with Stazon in Black and colored with my Staedtler Watercolor pencils and blended with my Stampin Up Blending pens. I added Ranger Distress Ink Walnut stain to the colored piece and matted it with green Bazzill Basics card stock. I embossed yellow Bazzill Basics with a Tim Holtz Sizzix Texture Fades and again added Walnut Stain to the edge. The front cover...

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Weekly Challenge | Masking and New Release!

This week at Digital Delights we have a super new release Grillin' and Chillin! The images and their accessories are perfect for creating scenes, making awesome Father's Day and summer cards, and creating unique invites for the backyard barbecue--super cute sets with matching paper!! This week's challenge at Delightful Challenges was to do the masking technique with an image manipulation program to create a scene using the new release sets!...

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Festive Friday Blog Hop #9 | Holly Jolly Reindeer

I am so excited to be part of the Festive Friday Blog Hop hosted by Terri Sproul. This bi-monthly blog hop features Holiday cards from 13 talented card crafters and I'm proud to be among them. If your reached this stop from Fab's blog Fab's Big Christmas Card Challenge , then you are in the right spot! If you would like to start from the beginning, you can return to Terri's blog. Holly Jolly Reindeer For this diecut reindeer card, I used the...

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Guest Designer Craft Us Crazy Week #8|Favorite Embellishment and/or Something New

If you are looking for my Weekly Challenge for Digital Delights by Louby Loo, look here. It is my EXTREME pleasure to be a Guest Designer for the biweekly challenge over at Craft Us Crazy. They offer challenges for all sorts of crafting~not just cards! You're welcome to use any and all company brands and products. They love to see all walks of crafts ...decoupage, stamping (Rubber or Digital), altered, 3D, LOs, Die cut projects,...

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Weekly Challenge | Must Use Flowers

If you are looking for my Guest Designer spot with Craft Us Crazy, look here. This week on Delightful Challenges, the challenge is to use FLOWERS! Our sponsor sent cutting files for the design team to use in making their creations as well. As I do not *chirp* [I do not own a cricut], I was delighted to see that The Cutting Cafe includes PDFs of their files! This little flower opening bag was so easy to cut and fold from the pattern that I simply...

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Introducing the leslierahye blog button!!!

 How cool is THIS!?!? My friend Manda of A. J.'s Arts and Designs is in her own right an amazing fine artist. She also has talents in digital imagry and recently demoed how she does her digital scrapbooking for her son who is not quite 2 years old. She has been very supportive of me as a crafter, artist and business woman. She and my friend Fab of PaperMood.com have continually commented that my zentangling is awesome and especially the more...

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Ribbon and Crystal Bookmarks

Last year my boss' mother commissioned me to make for her some bookmarks for her Women's Club in a variety of colors to go with her presentation--each color represented each woman and what a "jewel" she was for volunteering with her that year. The bookmarks were so well received that this year I received another call to make them, this time for my boss' aunt! close-up of crystal focal piece with dangle. For this...

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Happy National Scrapbook Day! Come2Crop TONIGHT!!!

6:00 p.m.--midnight CST7:00 p.m -- 1:00 a.m. ESTJoin me and the Creative Edventures Team for our first ever Virtual Crop! Lots of cropping, sharing, demos, laughter and fun!!! OH!! and there will be giveaways!!! See you the...

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Weekly Challenge | Mother's Day or Someone Special

Thank you for stopping in! This week at Delightful Challenges we are asked to create a card for Mother's Day or Someone Special. Happy Mother's Day! ALL DDSTAMPS USED: Flower Pot Faces SetCS AND PAPERS: Stampin' Up & Flower Pot Faces Paper SetMARKERS (if any): BIC Mark-Its This card was easy and fun to make! I hope you enjoyed it! Thank you for stopping by! Our fabulous sponser this week is one of our regular's with a $20 gift certificate...

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A Cinco de Mayo Ruffle

A letter came home today with Sam's backpack saying that she needed to wear a skirt to perform a dance for Cinco De Mayo. Sam really wanted a traditional Spanish Folk Dance outfit but her teacher and I convinced her that a shorter skirt with a ruffle perhaps would be perfect as she needed to be able to shuffle her feet for the dance. I went to my stash of fabric from my mother-in-law's quilting days and found this beautiful colorful striped piece....

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Blog Hop Winner and a Tutorial Download

Thank you to everyone who stopped by my blog during Nicolette's Mom's Day Blog hop! I enjoyed greatly making my projects and sharing them with you! I used random.org a few minutes ago to select my winner and it was #33 Anna Dowdy!! Congrats Anna, I have sent her an email and www.cutnpastememories.com will send her the gift certificate!! Tonight on In The Zone, I demonstrated how I constructed my Mother's Day Bracelet and explained how I created the photo fragment charms. You will find the playback to the Beat It! Episode of In The Zone on the...

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Nicolette's Mom's Day Blog Hop | Day 2

Welcome to DAY 2 of Nicolette's 2-day Mom's Day Blog Hop! I am thrilled to be a part of this wonderful blog hop with nearly 30 talented crafters!! If you arrived here from Martha's blog you are in the right place! If you just happened to my blog in mid-hop and want to start from the top, Nicolette's blog is the starting point and can be found here. a keepsake bracelet for the box!  For the present in the box, I chose to make a keepsake bracelet...

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