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paper hugs from the heart ♥ week one

Isn't he cute?  Seeing this cute photo inspiration on the Inspired By blog, allowed me the opportunity to ink up my Pinkfresh Happy Hugs stamp set.

I was inspired by 

bears, black and white, and frame

And here's the sketch this week, inspired by the photo inspiration.

Thank you so much for visiting and make sure to

 check what the amazing team created on THE BLOG!

goodbye 2020

   Good morning! As we close out the challenges for 2020, I want to say how thankful I am for this craft and the people we meet through our challenges and teams.  I work with the best team and the challenges and the team have made this year a creative one!

 We are hosting our last challenge of 2020 on the IB blog.  There is also a fun giveaway for the winners of the challenge this week, Santa thinks the members are definitely on the good list...wink, and we love all the inspiration in the gallery!

A World of Good Wishes

I was inspired by the colors, the circles, the celebration, and the hope for a really wonderful New Year!

And Santa has delivered some gifts for the winners this week.

I hope you have a wonderful Christmas celebration and a healthy and peaceful New Year!

Thank you so much for visiting and make sure to

 check what the amazing team created on THE BLOG!

i love tags snow much (updated)

I loved making these tags and the challenge was perfect to finish some gifts.  This challenge was so fun and really helped jumpstart the process to coordinate my gifts, a win!  And today, I read that one of my tags created for the challenge was selected as designer’s choice, which means that I will have an opportunity to create alongside the designers for an upcoming challenge, how cool is that opportunity?  Thank you for selecting one of my tags, I look forward to the challenge and fun!

 I love tags, handmade tags, big or small, round, square, scalloped, shaped...I love them all.  I think a gift that has a handmade tag feels the same as a handmade card in the mailbox, special and thoughtful.  Every year, I try to create as many tags for our gifts as I can find the time, and this year, with all of the time at home, I've been creating quite a few and it's fun wrapping gifts!       

 I needed some tags for some packages and wanted to create some snowman tags to coordinate with the wrap and the gifts.  I checked out a few of my favorite challenge spots and found a snowman theme with the TicTacToe challenge this week, clapping, so fun.

For my first tag, I chose the diagonal from the top left: Snowman, winter holidays, and gold.  

I have a gift for one of my shabby chic loving friends and wanted to create a tag that would coordinate, this challenge was just the jumpstart I needed.

I decided to use my Stamperia Pink Christmas papers along with various glittered papers and die-cuts to create my snowman.

I added gold glittered paper to the hat and buttons.

For my second tag, I chose the left row down: snowman, red, and green

On this tag, I used the Stamp Market Script Merry die,  the Happy + Merry dies and different shades of ink.

I cut glittered paper for the snowman base

This was a lot of fun and I am happy with the tags that will be adorning packages very soon! 

Thank you for stopping by my little corner!

happy holly day

  Good morning!  We are back with another challenge over @ IB this week. This week, we are having our last Christmas-inspired challenge of 2020.  There is also a giveaway to one random participant, we love all the inspiration in the gallery!

I was inspired by:

 the colors, holly theme, Christmas

I needed to create several tags and this challenge definitely inspired me to create them. 

Merry tag

I created my tags using 

The Stamp Market Merry die

The Stamp Market Happy + Merry Stamp Set

The Stamp Market Just Checkin' in Stamp Set

Inks: Memento (Pear Tart, Rose Bud), Studio G (light green), Tim Holtz picked raspberry and Jenni Bowlin (YES, I still have this thankfully) Seed Packet

October Afternoon holly leaves

Happy Merry tag

And the sketch this week inspired my card

Merry Card

And there's a prize this week to one random participant!  Let the Christmas season begin!

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 check what the amazing team created on THE BLOG!

 

melted snowman

   Good morning!  We are back with another challenge over @ IB this week. Our inspiration photo today has so much room for interpretation and it was a lot of fun to see unassembled snowmen/melted snowmen and cupcake snowmen.

so cute and fun right?

I decided to create a tag for both the inspiration photo this week and the sketch.

And the sketch this week

BRR tag

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 check what the amazing team created on THE BLOG!

dashing through the dough

   Good morning!  Happy Thanksgiving, I hope it's a beautiful one for you!

 I am thankful to be back sharing my take on the newest challenge over @ IB this week. Our inspiration photo today has these cute snowman treat packages, ADORABLE!

I was inspired by:

 the colors, snowman theme, Christmas, winter

Holiday Cheer card

And there is also a sketch this week too

Thank you so much for visiting and make sure to

 check what the amazing team created on THE BLOG!

brush on color

  Good morning!  I am thankful to be back sharing my take on the newest challenge over @ IB this week. I love creating Christmas cards.

Our inspiration photo today has these fun bottle brush trees, and I just love them so much!

I was inspired by:

 the colors, the bottle brush trees, Christmas, winter

And there is also a sketch this week too

Thank you so much for visiting and make sure to

 check what the amazing team created on THE BLOG!