Vintage Christmas Tags

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I wanted to finish using up the vintage wrapping paper I found, so I made three more Christmas tags to Join in with at Tag Tuesday: Believe it or not, I still have a some of the wrapping paper left! ~ I’ll save it for another time ~

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From CAS Beach to Christmas

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I’m all over the calendar today from the snow and mitten days of winter, to the hot summer beach days! Yesterday, I started working on Christmas tags for the challenge at Tag Tuesday. I was in Hobby Lobby recently and they have all the Christmas decorations out already. Normally I would be excited, but I’m […]

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Friday Smiles, Clusters and a Get Well Card

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Here we are at Friday again so I’m joining in with the group at A Stitch in Time. This week I tried my hand at making clusters out of recycled tea bags, paper, and other bits and pieces. I watched a video HERE for inspiration. I have small pieces of “stuff” sorted by color already […]

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T for Tugboat, Dolphin, Crush,Card, and Inchie

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Happy T day to the Altered Book Lover crew! My hubby, my daughter, and I went fishing recently on a beautiful sunny day on the Chesapeake Bay. We didn’t catch any fish, but we enjoyed trying. We passed a tug boat and It got me wondering, what is it about tug boats that make me […]

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Nautical Card For July CCC

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Here is the sketch and the card I made for the July Card Chain Challenge: I’m late in my reveal as the month of July slipped away from me. This card was mailed to Dawn in New Zealand 7/13, so she probably hasn’t received it yet. I used the napkin technique and ended up with […]

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Nautical Wedding card,T stands for Gatorade, and inchie

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Happy T day to Elisabeth and everyone that joins in on Tuesday’s. I saw an ad on facebook for jewelry at Beachware.co. I don’t normally shop that way, but the wave necklace was so cute I thought I would get a few as Christmas gifts. I also wanted to share that I made the Gluten […]

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Feline Birthday Cards

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My neighbor asked me to create a cat themed birthday card for her friend. I found inspiration from: The Paper craft crew with a tic-tac -toe challenge. I chose straight across with birthday theme, watercolor background, and to make it masculine. Daisy Chain: is requesting no patterned paper. and Cheerful Sketches for there design. I […]

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Hello Silhouette , Black and White Floral and Inchie

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CAS on Friday: Anything but white and TGIF Silhouettes challenge and Shopping our Stash: Black and white, are the sites that inspired me to make these two cards this week. The Purple card was made with a die from Stampin Up and layered on handmade paper. The black and white card the die is by […]

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75th Birthday and Friday Smiles

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My neighbor and friend turned 75 today so I made her a birthday card. I found inspiration at Double D Challenges to make it beachy, and found the design at Sweet Sketch Wednesday. Lot’s of stamping and fussy cutting shells which I had done about a year ago on vacation for such a time as […]

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