Coming tomorrow!!! Yummy Ribbon Giveaway!!

Join me tomorrow for a chance to win this awesome bag of ribbon from CRAFTY RIBBONS!!! I am a member of the Crafty Ribbons Challenge Design Team and get to work with their WONDERFUL ribbons on a regular basis. Ali and Tony have been VERY generous and have given me a stuffed bag of ribbons to give away whenever I desire! I have decided to run my giveaway from Saturday October 1--3 during the Operation Write Home World Cardmaking Day Blog Hop...a...

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Career Day Costume | Officer Sam!

My daughter is in Kindergarten and this week they have been studying Community Helpers and Careers. Today was the day they had all been waiting for : Dress Up Career Day!! Sam came home a few weeks ago in preparation for this day to announce that she needed to be a "policeman" for career day. She then proceeded to tell me about her PINK policeman costume. I informed her that police officers didn't normally have pink in their uniforms and that we...

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Weekly Challenge | Swirls and Pearls

It's time again for our weekly challenge at Delightful Challenges! This week's challenge is to use Swirls and Pearls! Obviously I concentrated on the pearls! I've been making a bunch of "festive" cards all year and admittedly I will say each one is my favorite. THIS card however, just may be my favorite! I love the non-traditional colors and the glisten of the perfect pearls on the ink. The pearl bling makes the card heavy and gives the impression...

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Crafty Ribbons Challenge #3 |BOO-tiful Halloween, Pretty Spooky!

Welcome to the 3rd Crafty Ribbons Challenge! I am this challenge's hostess and the theme is BOO-tiful Halloween, Pretty Spooky!!  This challenge will run from 29th Sept 8.30am until 6pm 12th Oct. We are making pretty and pretty spooky projects loaded with RIBBON! You will be amazed and inspired by all of the Design Teams' boo-tiful creations! I hope you enjoy mine! When I was gearing up for this week's challenge, I just knew I wanted...

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AJs Digi Shoppe Posting | Door Decor!

For today's post from AJs Digi Shoppe, I made a door decoration for the Halloween Holiday with Amanda's darling turtle witch and digital papers! Fly by AJs Digi Shoppe blog and check out how I made this spooky door hang...

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Sakura DT Post | "Attractive" Charm Set

It's time again for my Design Team post for Sakura Hobby Crafts! This week I chose to play with the White Brass Charms in the Swirl Technique Kit! As soon as I learned that these charms were attracted to magnets, I knew I wanted to make magnetic inserts for the charm that could be changed with the seasons! Hop on by the Sakura Hobby Crafts blog and check out how I made these! I can't wait to construct more for gifts! I think this will be...

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Festive Friday #18 | On Dasher On Dancer!

Happy Friday everyone!! It's time for the Festive Friday Blog Hop hosted by Terri Sproul again. This bi-monthly blog hop features Holiday cards from many talented card crafters as we get our Christmas cards ready early this year. If you reached this stop from Becky's blog BC Designs , then you are in the right spot! If you would like to start from the beginning, you can return to Terri's blog This week...

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Weekly Challenge | Happy Fall Y'all!

It's time again for Delightful Challenges weekly challenge and this time it's Happy Fall Y'all!!! This is my favorite season and it always ends with my sunflowers in their last days. I could not have made a card ushering in Autumn without one last look at my sunflowers and the arrival of pumpkins! I hope you enjoy my card! Thank you for stopping by! Digital Stamps: Fall Accessories & Fall Sentiments Set Cardstock: Bazzill...

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Zentangled Box | a special leslierahye's crafty gig late night

Yesterday afternoon I decided to relax in the evening and work on a wooden box that I had started on a ustream a week ago. I had painted the box, set it aside to dry and then forgot about it! ha! I finished my stream and looked to the side and there sat my little gold box!  Below you will find a special late night stream I did of tangling on the box. I have some work to do on the sides but the top is FINISHED! I love it and wanted to share...

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International Talk Like a Pirate Blog Hop hosted by Captain Gill

Ahoy mates! Welcome t' Gill's International Talk Like a Pirate Day Blog Hop! This be one o' me favorite holidays. I be so happy t' be a part o' this celebration. If you came upon this hop in t' middle then return t' Gill's blog t' start at t' top. If you hopped over from Haidee's blog then you be in t' starboard spot. It was by chance that me daughter's snack day landed on Talk Like a Pirate Day. She and I were both excited. I decided for me post...

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LIVE EVENT Saturday Sept. 17th

Join designers all over the world as we create cards for our soldiers to send to their loved ones. Saturday September 17th 2011-- 2:00-5:00 p.m. CST! more details on Wednesday!! See you the...

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Weekly Challenge | Girly Girl

It's time again for Delightful Challenges weekly challenge and this time it's GIRLY GIRL!!! As I live with a girly girl, I knew the perfect accessories would be metallic lacquer and glitter and flowers and pearls! I hope you enjoy my card!  Digital Stamps: Sugar plum Fairy Cardstock: DCWV, Bazzill Basics Markers: BIC Mark-Its Accessories: Sakura Hobby Crafts 3D Crystal and Metallic Lacquer, Foam...

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Challenge #2 | Anything Goes!

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Celebrate Card Making for Soldiers WORLD WIDE

Saturday from 2 p.m.-5:00 p.m. CST myself and several talented friends from around the world will be demonstrating cards of all kinds for our service men and women to send back to their families. This event originated as a celebration of Operation Write Home's 4th Birthday and turned into something much more...We learned that this opportunity--to give to our active service men and women beautiful cards that they can in turn send to their loved...

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AJs Digi Shoppe Posting | Trick or Treat Ghosty

Thank you for stopping by! I just love Amanda's Turtle Digis and new SpiderWeb Papers from AJs Digi Shoppe...This week I also took the opportunity to play with some new toys from Sakura Hobby Crafts and Crafty Ribbons! Disappear on over to AJs Digi Shoppe Blog and learn how to create this simple background--it's not spooky...I promise! I hope you enjoyed my ca...

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Sakura DT Post | Instrument Luggage Tags

I am thrilled to share with you my first post as a brand new member of the Sakura Hobby Crafts Design Team!!! For my very first post I decided to make these cool luggage tags for my son and his friend to put on their instrument cases. Hop on over to the Sakura Blog to see how I made these and also enjoy other designers great crafty projects! Thanks you for stopping by!! ...

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Festive Friday #17 | New Toys

Happy Friday everyone!! It's time for the Festive Friday Blog Hop hosted by Terri Sproul again. This bi-monthly blog hop features Holiday cards from many talented card crafters as we get our Christmas cards ready early this year. If you reached this stop from Becky's blog BC Designs , then you are in the right spot! If you would like to start from the beginning, you can return to Terri's blog I titled...

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Weekly Challenge | Bling It!!!

It's time again for Delightful Challenges weekly challenge and this time it's BLING IT!!!! Show us your all your glitter glitz bling and sparkle! [This secretly is my favorite!]! Thank you for looking!  Digital Stamps: Toby the Wizard, Halloween House accessories, Halloween Sentiment Set Digital Papers: Spooktacular Digital Paper Pack Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Markers: BIC Mark-Its Accessories: Sakura...

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Crafty Ribbons Challege #1 | Festive Cheer in September

If you are looking for my Delightful Challenges Weekly Post, it is here. Welcome to the 1st ever challenge from the shiny new Crafty Ribbons Challenge Blog!!! Crafty Ribbons is a ribbon emporium operating in Dorset England. They have an amazing range of ribbons and ribbon kits and buttons to choose from It is my extreme pleasure to be joining them on the challenge design team.  The first challenge theme is: Festive Cheer in September! Ingredients Basic...

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