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Welcome to the April Stamp of the Month Blog hop.  The featured stamp set is called Flower Pot.  Just like our weather here in NC, this set reminds me of summer and it is my favorite stamp of the month set in our spring catalog!  Because the set reminded me that it is almost time to plant summer flowers, I decided to use it to make a card/seed packet holder to send some seeds to a friend who's

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It's blog hop time again!  If you arrived here from Georgia Hauglid's blog, you are on the right path.  When you are ready to continue to the next blogger, you will find the link at the bottom of this post.This month our Close To My Heart set is packed with 26 Sentiment stamps for Holidays and Special Occasions.  It also includes a scallop border and a set of brackets to frame those sentiments. 

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It's our Stamp of the Month blog hop time again ... Yay!  I missed the last two months due to lots of activities going on at my house so I'm happy to be in the hop again.  The February set is called Piece of Cake and it has 6 whimsical cake images and 4 verses.  I can't wait to see how everyone else uses this set! For my card, I used: Emporium Paper Packet Crystal Blue, Tulip and Black Inks

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I like organizing my bills by the week that I will pay them each month, so, I searched for an organizer that would allow me to sort my bills into 5 different weeks.  Several months back I found a clear plastic literature organizer that had 6 slots in it which was perfect for what I wanted to use it for!  I use the 6th slot for "future" bills.  Anyway the organizer was a little boring so I thought

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It’s time for the November Stamp of the Month Blog Hop featuring the Close To My Heart stamp set “Around the Block”. Following along is simple to do - just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one! I thought this month’s stamp set was perfect for a cover of a “Neighborhood Recipe Album” I’ve been wanting to create. I love collecting recipes and it seems I

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Welcome to the October Stamp of the Month Blog Hop featuring the CTMH Holiday Warmth Stamp Set! This is simple to do - just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one! This month, I have been sick with the flu and haven't felt like doing much so my cards are simple.  All use the Jingle paper packet.  All have White Daisy distressing & embossing, Liquid Glass &

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I really wasn't planning on ordering the Grace Workshop on the Go, my plans were to get the Twitterpated workshop because I loved the cute stamps in that one.  I was surprised to get my last order with Grace in it instead of Twitterpated .... dummy me put in the wrong order #!  Although not the package I really wanted, I really enjoyed using the papers and stamp set!  Below are some of the cards

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Wow, it is September already! I am excited this month for many reasons, one is this blog hop. This is my first time participating in any kind of blog hop but I love them and I love stamping & scrapbooking so I thought it was time to join in on the fun! This hop will have over 60 participants and will have a continuous loop with each blog directing you to the next blog but if for any reason you

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Fall is my favorite season of the year. I love the cooler temperatures and nature's vivid display of color so, CTMH's new Twitterpated paper packet was my first purchase from the new catalog. Instead of the traditional orange, golds and browns for fall, this paper has a fun color palette using sorbet, Crystal Blue and Sweet Leaf with Chocoloate. What I love most about the paper packet is that the

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This card was just plain fun to make! Gotta love all the zoo critters in the "It's A Zoo" stamp set! Recipe for card:Papers: Moon Doggie & BellaStamps: It's A Zoo, It's Your Day, Birthday ScriptInks: Orange, Honey, Grey Wool, Brown Bag & ChocolateEmbellishments: Foundry Bookplates and Garden Green Waxy FlaxCard Template: All Squared Up (6x6 version) found in Wishes p. 101

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I really love the colorful papers in Close To My Heart's Moon Doggie Paper Packet. Several weeks ago I used it to create some layouts that I will share at another time because I still haven't put the photos on them yet! I thought the papers would make a great background for a birthday card so I paired them up with this month's stamp of the month set and made this birthday card. Recipe for the

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Have you ever had one of those days, when something surprising happened that you never would have dreamed of when you awoke that morning? Well that's what happened to me yesterday. When I started the day yesterday, I didn't have a clue, that it would be ending with this ....Isn't she sweet? She's a 6 week old Australian Shepherd! Yesterday I had my day all planned out, I was going to get my

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This is another card created for a card challenge. Life is always so busy so I love doing card challenges because the template is already created and I don't have to spend a great deal of time thinking about what I want to do! I chose to use stamps from the CTMH Ms. Gardener set for this card and the papers are from the Perfect Day paper packet ... such gorgeous colors in that packet! When I saw

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For those of you who have had enough of winter this year I'm sure this is the last thing you want to see! We don't get much snow here in NC so I really enjoy it when we do. Prior to this year, the last really big snow we had was in 2000 and I it was so much fun watching the boys play in the snow that year. They were little and experienced their first snowmen and snowball fights. This year we had

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I'm finally able to get around pretty good and I took a break from taxes today to make this card. It is for a template challenge using the Cubes & Colors template from the CTMH Originals book. Today I thought I would use a new set I just got called Bunny Love ... the little guys in this set are just too cute! I thought the papers in the Daydream paper kit would look nice as an Easter background.

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Yep, this is a brand new blog and for those of you who used to visit me at Inked Art, it has gone to blog heaven. It is always fun and exciting to have something new though and I kind of like the look of my new blog :). The other exciting news is that I signed back up with Close to my Heart! I got my kit the last week in December. I have been looking foward to playing with my new stuff ever since

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