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Hey Friends! I am playing around with a fun new blend of Sparkle Blends from Doodle’s Paper Playground. I just love the bold bright colors of the Lemonade Blend, and how perfectly it pairs with distress oxides. I created this card by smooching four different colors of Distress Oxide onto some watercolor paper. I used Fossilized Amber, Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed and Scattered Straw. I also…

So I am just coming off of a two week camp where I volunteered my time to help kids learn a little bit about art and crafting.  For me there is something really rewarding about putting a bit of art and crafts into a kids hands and seeing what they are able to create.

However, I am drained after two weeks of working out in the elements of camp (which included high heat and thunder storms) plus…

Follow Me Into Temptation

I had a bit of time today, so I figured it was time to dust off the old challenge skills.  It just feels like I haven’t spent nearly enough time doing challenges since we moved.  I am excited that the start of school for the kids is only two weeks away, and I may be able to carve a little more time out for my crafting roots.  Never the less, here are a few cards…

Up first from the gals over at L…

I might have Forgotten to Stamp Today

So do you ever find that you have pigeon hold yourself into a corner?  Lately, I feel like I have done that to myself.  I sort of have gone down the coloring path for so long, I have forgotten to play…to fail…to mess totally up.  I am sort of going to give my permission to try again, like I did in the beginning, to see what I like doing.

With this decision made, it was sort of the perfect week…

So I have been a little quiet on the card challenges lately.  I know, I know, you are just going to have to deal.  Life is at the best of times crazy busy, but with our up coming move coming up( have I mentioned that I am moving?, if not, my family is moving …), I am just busier more than ever.  So, I just haven’t had that much time…but today, there was a strange lull in the schedule so I created…

A bit before Bed

I swear I am heading up to bed in just a moment, but I wanted to take a second and share a little of the fun I had today.  I got a bit of time and was able to drop out a couple of cards.  (Of course, I then got distracted by the choreography work I am doing and lost all tract of time.) My bed is now call me, but before I reach that spot, I want to show some of the fruits of my labor. So without…

A bit of what is on my desk…

***So I thought I scheduled this to post for Thursday Night…apparently I can’t read a calendar, so here it is…a little later than I intended…but alas here it is.*** I have been getting a bit of nagging from people who like me to see more pics of what I’m working on.  I almost always have a canvas up on my easel that I am working on and most likely something small I am playing with on my desk.  I…

Okay we are up to the fourth day of my holiday hopping around the internet to discover all the cool challenges happening everywhere. Today I have day 4 of Ellen Hutson’s 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Touch.  Day Four’s theme was all about felt.  Now, I am not a felt user and found this tag particularly difficult. I did however die cut some felt with a My Favorite Things die set and hand…