Pumpkin Party

Today, we spent the entire day with great friends! They hosted a pumpkin carving party at their house! Such fun! We brought the cupcakes so I made some tags using the PTI Halloween Tags set. My son helped make orange icing….. Had to pick out some pumpkins at the pumpkin patch up the road. Nothing [...]

Gift Card Holder Card!

Today, I participated in a few challenges for inspiration. I was thrilled to find a new challenge blog to follow, Just Us Girls. This week, they have a color challenge that I loved. Red, Cream and Aqua. What awesome colors!!!! During the last Papertrey Ink release party, I couldn’t help but purchase Lauren Meader’s Cash [...]

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #31

Today, I participated in the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge! It was fun layering, which is something I do not do often! I tried to layer more, but my mind got the best of me…. Here is the sketch challenge and my submission (click each picture to enlarge):
I just fell in love with the ink embossing [...]

Happy Birthday to my hubbie

Today is my husband’s 32nd birthday! Lucas and I woke up earlier than him so we made some cupcakes for breakfast!!! So I figured this card I made was the perfect birthday card for him. I wrote up a little rhyme to go in the inside. And I couldn’t pass up the chance to post [...]

Soaring by…….

Since I just got back from a whirlwind trip to the beach, what better stamp set to whip out! I love Everyday Button Bits from Papertrey Ink! I took some DP, brown dry embossed card stock, my marvy circle punches and my sponge dauber and created this fun card. The twine gives it a rustic [...]

Rasberry Suite Color Challenge #13

Let me first just say I had quite a time with this card!! I love Dawn McVey’s color challenges. She inspires me to use colors I would never put together! For instance, I like and use all the colors in her current challenge frequently with the exception of the berry sorbet. I am not much [...]

Hoppy Birthday!

I just love the Cuttlebug. A friend of mine let me borrow hers to be sure I would like it, like there was ever a doubt I wouldn’t. About two hours after I used it, I bought one off of Amazon.  I got a bunch of dies and folders off of Ebay (HINT, everyone should [...]

Color Throwdown

So, I follow A LOT of blogs that inspire me via google reader. If you follow a lot of blogs and are tired of going into each individual blog every day to see if there are any new updates, then google reader is definitely for you! It will let you know when your blogs have [...]

Happy 4th of July (a bit early)

I really wanted to find out what all the fuss was about embossing. From what I understand, there are two kinds of embossing. A texturized one where you can emboss shapes/texture onto your card, and one that adds shine to your card! So, I decided to try out the one that adds shine to the [...]

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Laurel Beard
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