tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68445729559516369172012-01-29T07:18:22.743-05:00Papercrafts by Cheryl RowleyCherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996602868056996174noreply@blogger.comBlogger5871100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844572955951636917.post-91910964777999566502012-01-27T06:39:00.000-05:002012-01-27T06:39:31.745-05:00

Hello!! I'm so happy to have new followers!  I don't want to disappoint any of you.  I've been struggling through the week with a rotten cold (are there any other kind?) and sleeping through most evenings after work so I can get through the next day!  I did get this card made, but not for me!  It's for a friend who had a knee replacement recently. I used yellow and aqua blue which I think

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Good Saturday morning!! So happy to be home today!! I love work, but this was a week from which I needed a break!! AND I want to announce my blog candy winner, too!  Random.org generated comment number 49!!  That commenter is Rosalie, and it looks like I'm sending a package to this new follower in BRAZIL!! CONGRATULATIONS, ROSALIE!! Would you please email me at drowley@stny.rr.com with your

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Bearly Winter!  Hope you like my titles!  I am so challenged when I go to write them!!  We have only had winter weather since AFTER Christmas and I'm so over it already!! But, this card (and all winter cards) are fun to make! Here's the scoop on why I made this card! Welcome to the first ever I Brake For Stamps Blog Hop!! Today, we are hopping in honor of a BRAND NEW release

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Hi friends and stampers!!  I have a card with a whole different look today (but still with pink!)!!  I made this criss cross pocket card in spring colors for the new I Brake for Challenges challenge!! Starting today you have two weeks to enter your FUN OR FANCY FOLD CARD for a chance to win a prize!!  Details are here on the I Brake for Challenges blog.  I've used TULIP from I brake for stamps

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Hello!! If you've just stopped in, WELCOME!! And, if you're here for the MAGNOLIA-LICIOUS DT BLOG HOP, WELCOME, and you're in the right place if you've come from the lovely and talented, Sharon Caudle's Blog!  I've made a couple of things with the wonderful, Sweet Crazy Love collection!  You can see them HERE at Magnolia-licious!  I hope when you finish the hop you will go over for a peek at the

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Hello, friends! Just the name of this image cracks me up!! AND, it's so cute too!! Perfect for valentines, IMHO!  It's from All that Scraps and you can find it HERE  in digital and in rubber! .  I colored him in copics-R81, 83 and 85.  I love how these reds blend.  then I used some of the peachy Es for his snout and hoofs.  That's BG10 and d11 on his wings and arrow.  I used a Martha

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Hello!  here is sweet Tilda (mini form) dressed for Valentine's Day in her pink hat and coat.  This card front is going to CHA in a couple of weeks to be in the Magnolia-licious booth! Wish I could go attached to a card!! Tilda is stamped on xpress it blending card and colored with copics. The pinks are again RV10, RV04, RV17 AND RV19. I am in love with these colors!  I used Hawaiin Shores

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Hello!! I have a card I made for Diana to take to CHA in January!  It is so fun to work with non Christmas colors for a bit!! Here, I've used some favorites-fuchsia pink, turquoise and chocolate brown!  Yummy!  I made the style of card i think is called a tent card.  It's a base (expresso) that is 4.25x 4.25.  I stamped #3096 MINI TILDA WITH SNOW HEART (Diana has a deal on sets of two AND new

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Hi de ho, neighbors!! (Yes, too much Home Improvement on TVLand!)!  It's a new month, a new year, and a NEW CHALLENGE over at MAGNOLIA-LICIOUS HIGHLITES!  It was my turn to pose the challenge, so I went with my favorite, which is ANYTHING GOES!  You can also add the option of lace!  I added a lacy doily to my card!  I had this card every which way, but right!! I colored the image and tried

Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996602868056996174noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844572955951636917.post-56638592114282946592011-12-31T07:45:00.003-05:002011-12-31T07:45:34.087-05:00

Hello!  I did so badly at getting Christmas cards out that I'm starting early on my valentines!!  This is one I made for my friend, Lisa Kind over at Kind Creations! We met for a little crafting retail therapy and snacks yesterday!  Check out her link!  She is one of those consistently great creators and so nice, too!  She has a challenge on her blog today to use felt on your creations!  Great

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Hello friends!!  It's been awhile since I've completed a card!! I don't know where the days are going!  I hope you and your family had a wonderful holiday! I'm working on Thank you notes at the moment so I have one to show you today! I used a retired set from Stampin' Up! called Festive Four.  The sentiment is from a more recent word set.  The stitched background is from Papertrey ink and is

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Hi!  Well, it's sure getting down to the wire now, isn't it?  I have been working on some gift packaging!  Um, even though our Christmas cards aren't done!  Hope you are doing better than me at finishing things up!!  I made this box using the directions in the most recent Magnolia magazine.  It's a wonderful little box from the Grand Labels four.  My Scor-pal is a must to make this kind of box

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And she's waiting on the windowsill!! I have a new die!! I love this Memory box die which is also available at www.poppystamps.com.  This is the small window die.  The large window die is on its way to me and may come in today's mail.  I can hardly contain myself!!  My card was inspired by the adorable mini images from Magnolia-licious, but also by the MOST talented Kittie747!! She makes

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Hello!  Are you overwhelmed yet? I am, but just a bit.  Shopping is pretty much done for me.  How about you?  I have a couple of ornaments to show you today!  I hope you like them!  They are for a dear person in my life, but I've never met her in person!   I used an Ellison die cut at school for my snowflake ornament base.  I cut out medium coasters and then some of this great teal sparkle

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Hi!  I had some stamping time this weekend and made this gift bag for a receipient in my Card Club.  We have our Christmas party this week and we each bring items (all the same) to fill the bags, then we draw numbers to see who take which bag home.  This is my first year with this 'lots of fun' group! I can't wait to see the bags everyone designed!! And, if you're up for a challenge, we have

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Good morning!  I have a card with a stamp from I Brake for Stamps! It's called Elegant Joy.  You still have a week (10 days to be exact) if you'd like to join in.  Rules are on the blog I BRAKE FOR CHALLENGES.  You don't have to use an IBFS image, but if you have one (some) we'd love to see them!  We hope you'll join in for IBFCC15!!  I used a kraft card base, my favorite!  Then I added a

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Hi friends!  Thanks to those of you who hang in there with me when I don't get posts (and Cards!) done as often as I'd like!!  I {{heart}} you! I finally inked up a great Stampin' Up set called Snow Much Fun!  I love snowmen stamps!!  Do you have a lot of them too?  Quick and easy to color!  This card was a case of a Karen Barber (I think!) card on Splitcoast.  Give credit where credit is due!

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Happy Thanksgiving, dear friends who visit me in cyberspace!!  Today's card is snowy, but one of the things I'm thankful for is that we DON'T have snow for Thanksgiving!  I can remember some wintry Thanksgivings when we had to drive 40 minutes to my Aunt's house for our turkey dinner!! But, this little guy is pretty happy to have snow!  He is called SNOWBALL BOY and is from Whimsy and Stars

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Good morning!  It's time for the Magnolia-licious monthly Blog Hop and I'm so glad you're here!!  This time we are trying to wow you with holiday projects that are not cards AND that include Tilda Wrapped and Tilda Unwrapped!!  If you've come here from the wowzer Suzanne Dean's Blog then you are in the right place. If not, you may want to start there so you don't miss a project!  You have to

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Hi!  I have a new card today (finally!).  This time I used a new image from Whimsy designed by Sylvia Zet and available at I Brake for Stamps! This one is called A Letter for Me.  I think it would be cute to leave a note for Santa in this card! I used Bordering blue for my card base, then Night of Navy and then some dp from Magnolia.  I have some Spellbinders snowflake medallion dies that

Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996602868056996174noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844572955951636917.post-73809702183800864622011-11-13T12:43:00.001-05:002011-11-13T13:02:30.922-05:00

Hello friends!!  Well, another weekend almost gone!! So sad!! Oh well, I guess I'd better get my school work done that I brought home....as soon as I finish my post! I made a tag today!  When I want to make something with one of my Magnolia images that is quick I pull out the minis!  they color up so quickly and they are ca...ute!! I've used #3048 MINI SITTING TILDA WITH TEDDY BEAR, and #448

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Hello!  I have another Christmas card I want to show you today!  I'm so happy with how this turned out!  How will I ever send it?!  At least I get to look at it for a few weeks first!  The image is #3101 TILDA WITH SNOW HEART from Magnolia-licous!  It's a great store for all things Magnolia, great customer service and a frequent buyer program!!  I's sorry she's not in stock right now, but the

Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996602868056996174noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844572955951636917.post-3716715826841747162011-11-05T09:55:00.001-04:002011-11-05T10:04:20.535-04:00

This new blogger is driving me crazy, but happy Sasturday anyway!!  I'll not dwell on what I dislike about trying to post!!  Another holiday card, FINISHED!  This one features an image just made for the baker in your family (or mine!) .  This Gingerbread Boy is from Whimsy and Stars!  You can get the digi image for 3.00, delivered immediately!  I colored it with my copics, but forgot to

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Hello and Happy Thursday! Only one more day until Friday!!  Though I can't believe it's already November, I say, "bring it on!"  We, the DT at Magnolia-licious have the November challenge ready for you!! It's a couple of inspiration photos for you to choose from by the most talented, Angie!  You can see them both on the Magnolia-lcious Highlites Blog!  You have all month to play, so come on and

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Hi!!  We have another I Brake for Challenges challenge for you today!  The theme for this two weeks is White out!  that means no white card stock.  BTW, mine is cream and I hope it's allowed!! I love this cute RUDOLPH image from I Brake for Stamps!  They have such a variety and Della releases new images all the time!!  AND, you can use my code SAVE10CHERYL to get 10% off your order. 

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Good morning! Happy Halloween!! I love this holiday!  It's so fun to see the kids dressed up at school.  Do other schools around the country still "do" Halloween?  Just wondering! This is #121 Mini Edwin Mummy from Magnolia-licious on a quick, last minute card for the day!  He is cute and quick to color!  I went with sort of a 'color block' look on this card with no frills as you can see. 

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I wish right now I could type some little ditty for a pumpkin rap, but no, not me!!  However, I hope you like my card!  I used this week's SCS sketch and CASed the Featured Stamper as well! This great image (stamp) is by Stampendous and is from our LSS-Buffalo Stamps and Stuff!  It came to me, though, from my friend Lisa Kind!  Thank you, Lisa!  I looooove it.  So fun (and quick) to color!!

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Isnt' she cute, tucked in her Christmas stocking!!  I sure think so!  When I first saw this collection, this is the one that caught my eye!!  And now she's mine AND the mini is on its way to me my collection too!!  Here's where they are in THE STORE!!  Diana has THE BEST selcetion of Magnolias and Minis at the best prices!! Check 'em out!  This is the regular size image and she is colored

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Hi! Are you happy that it's mid week?  I sure am!! Except for wishing it was Friday! LOL!  There's a new challenge up today on the I Brake for Challenges blog!!  We want to see your Halloween cards!! Come on, you know you want to play!  Please enter!  You have two weeks to do so!! And, you don't have to use an IBFS image, but if you have some why not use 'em!  I used the Rick St. Dennis

Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996602868056996174noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844572955951636917.post-16838300368904714172011-10-18T05:00:00.000-04:002011-10-18T06:18:00.260-04:00

Hello!! Thanks for visiting today!  It's a big day at Whimsy and Stars Studio Etsy store 'cuz it's the Christmas release day!! You'll want to see all of Mabelle's new images.  I think they're in digi for now, but she also has some of her art in rubbah now!!  And there's a BUY TWO GET ONE FREE SALE!! Who doesn't love a sale!? My card is made with Sweet Cupcake. It comes in a set of two cupcakes

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We, (the DT for Magnolia-licous) have such a great blog hop for you today!  The fun, working title was  a bit long, but hre it is: It's the "We only have 'one Life to Live' 'As the World Turns' at the 'General Hospital with the'Young and the Restless'', Featuring Dr. Edwin and Nurse Tilda!! If you arrived here from a fabulaous post by the equally fabulous Janiel (Scrappy Jan Designs), you're

Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996602868056996174noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844572955951636917.post-68114109660550772492011-10-11T06:19:00.002-04:002011-10-11T06:19:51.928-04:00

Good morning!  Ever had one of those weeks?  You just want to quit!  That was last week for me. Am hoping for better things this week! Sooo, with that in mind I finally created something! This is a new stamp from a NEW set of stamps at I Brake for Stamps!  They are called Wee Stamps by the very talented Sylvia Zet!! Cute, cute cute!  This is Rose's Bike Ride, but you can see samples with

Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996602868056996174noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844572955951636917.post-44429316526128868582011-10-05T03:30:00.000-04:002011-10-05T03:30:00.113-04:00

Hello stampers!  I'm so happy to be sharing my October challenge card for Magnolia-licious today!  Our new challenge goes on the whole month (so you have lots of time to play along!)!  Maureen has brought us this GREEEAAT sketch!  She also wants us to use Orange and Octogons for October! I added a little yellow, purple and green with my orange!  I've used the new SU purple  IN color for my

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 Hello! I'm sorry to go so long between postings! I never intend to, but life (mostly work) gets in the way of my crafting/posting time! I'm still at a loss with these Blogger changes as well! Why, oh why does everything have to change?  Anyway, this cute image is Acorn Squirrel from Whimsy and Stars Studio. He (or she) is sooo sweet!  I cut him out in a close fashion after coloring him.

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Hello! Well, Blogger is acting weird again-wouldn't let me type above my picture! So, I'll just type here!~I've done some fall cards, but now want to work in earnest on Halloween cards! I just love making them, because I love color!Here's my beautiful (and favorite) new background stamp. It's Impressions Obsession's Cover a Card gingham. I want to stamp it tone on tone in every color!! But,

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I have a lot to be grateful for, but tonight I am not grateful for Blogger! this is the second time I've typed this post! Blogger wouldn't save, and, of course my great words all disappeared! Grrr!!!! I am on my way out the door this evening, too! Back to school for Open House! Long day for teachers!Okay, on to the cardd! I loooove this IBFS image called Pumpkin and vine border. There is a

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Hello dear friends! I am the starting designer for our monthly blog hop! If you get lost along the way, please see the post on the Magnolia-licious Highlites blog for the complete order! Our mission was to design the cover of our Mini Binder from Magnolia-licious! A daunting task (for me!) indeed! Can you see the theme I settled on? If you said "A girl for all seasons" you are correct! The

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Hollah and welcome to Friday! Yippee! I finished the easel card up last night, as promised and here it is! I even did some stitching on the base part! My sentiment was off center so I made the error into opportunity to balance it with embellishments!for the greens on Tilda I used:yg21, yg 23 yg25 yg 67 and then dulled it down with some E42Her pants are E42 and 43. then I deepened it with E37 Love

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Good morning! I have to make this a quick post as I have tons to do at school and need to get there earlier every day it seems! BUT.... was determined to finish the Just Magnolia sketch this week BEFORE the deadline! It's a great sketch! I also need a birthday card for a friend tomorrow! This is the card front, actually because I'm going to make it into an easel card tonight. Then that can be

Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996602868056996174noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844572955951636917.post-75906647502841351182011-09-14T04:00:00.001-04:002011-09-14T04:00:09.867-04:00

Hello and welcome to hump day! Hope you're having a good week! Thanks for coming by to spend a minute or two! Mabelle (Whimsy and Stars Studio) asked us to design a card with one of her fall images for a Designer Showcase.Here's her blog where you can read about it! Whimsy and Stars Blog . I post pretty early so if it's not there yet ( post date of Sept. 14) I hope you will check back.I colored

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Hello! It's Sunday night as I write this, and the weekend is over! I hate Mondays and as we start a new year everything is challenging-the schedule, the routine (lack of), some of the children. I don't care what anybody says, teachin' ain't easy! Sorry, you didn't come for that! I bought this stamp from Rubber Cottage. They come to the nearby Stamp and Scrap Art tour in August. As soon as I saw

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Hello and happy, happy Friday! It's been a quick and crazy busy week with the start of school! I am one TIRED teacher! Oh, my how will I get through a five day week? Once the routine is set it will get better! I'm determined that it will! Right now I should be doing the school work I brought home, but I'd rather jot a note to you! Now, on to another job! Nursing! My sister is a nurse and I think

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Hello! It's Wednesday and time for another I Brake for Stamps challenge. The challenge for the next two weeks is to make a project with a background stamp. You can read the details over on the I Brake for Challenges Blog. I'm not sure my tag counts as using a background stamp, but it's what I was inspired to make! (It's early here in NY-the challenge will be up in a bit) this is the IBFS

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Hello and welcome! Today is release day for new digital images from Whimsy and Stars Studio. Here is the one I chose to use to show you today! This is Alex with pumpkin. I colored him with copics. My favorite part is how his 'jeans' came out. They have that worn in the knees look that little boys' jeans get! I used B21 and B95 for the jeans with the colorless blender. His shirt is YG21, YG93, 95

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Hello friends! I've had to accept that it is fall and am enjoying working with my fav fall colors.! I bought this Impression Obsession stamp (Apples) about a year ago and hadn't inked it up. It was so fun to color once I got going! The artist does the important shading so it's not as difficult as it might look. I just love how he hides the cat in the image, too! I used a soft suede card base,

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Hi and happy Saturday! Hope you are having a splendid weekend! I am working on using some of my unused stamps these days. I buy so many that I love and then they sit unused-virgin rubbbah! Also trying to play in some challenges so I used the Papertake Weekly Challenge which is a GREAT sketch! It'll work for rectangle or square cards. Since mine is for a boy I kept it pretty close to the sketch.

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Hi there! I'm so happy to say that Mabelle, owner of Whimsy and Stars Studio has asked me to be a part of her Fall/winter design team! Thank you, Mabelle! She showcased cards from her upcoming (SEPT. 6) release of new digi images on the blog yesterday. The other designers are top notch artists and the cards are stunning! I hope you'll head over there to see them! Here's my card using

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Can you hear me screaming?! It's in disbelief that it is September! But, wait, good things do happen with Magnolia-licious at the beginning of every month! The lovely and talented Sharon Caudle has brought us an easy challenge with many interpretations! Make something (with your Magnolias, of course) using a fall theme and fall colors! The Mag Highlites has the complete info on the challenge! The

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Hello friends!! Thanks so much for visiting me here today! I have a simple little card for you today. It works for today's Featured Stamper on Splitcoast, but is also a result of my shopping trip with Lisa Kind yesterday! Such fun!! We were at the Hamburg Fairgrounds where every year at the end of August our local stores sponsor a Stamp and Scrap Art Tour show. There are 20 vendors with

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Good morning! I have a little gift to give a friend today so I decided to dress it up with one of my new Whipper Snapper Design images. This is Beckham from the new stamps out for the Fall/Winter of 2011. Isn't he great?! Here's the link to BECKHAM. I colored him to match the Autumn paper I'm giving. Maybe a little weird, but I was dying to color this snowman and the paper has awesome colors!

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Hello, stampin' friends!! I'm back today with a gate fold card. I hadn't made one of these in quite awhile so it was fun! Fall is indeed in the air here in Western New York, with somewhat cooler temps, but it's all good! Hate to see summer end, but who doesn't love fall?!On with the card! This fabulous image is one of the Rick St. Dennis exclusives for I Brake for Stamps! If you haven't seen the

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YOU are cordially invited to attend the festivities to honor our own Diana! I'm the very end so if you want to hop our party you can begin at the official start-Suzanne's Blog! (Be sure to return!) If you've come from Maureen's Blog you are on the party track! The complete line up is also listed on the Mag Highlites blog! I'm bring the table and the party chair for the party! Here is the table!

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Hello, friends!! I have a card for a college bound girl today! She leaves for UB on Thursday and we wish her all the best as she starts her post high school journey!! Good luck, Annie! Diana is the best store owner on the planet!! Orders are shipped quickly and you earn Store Credit with each order. She not only has the new "Winner takes it all" collection in the Magnolia-licious store, she ALSO

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Hello! I need a card like this for a friend going through a rough time right now! It's not me, but I'm having issues too! I'm sorry I haven't been around much! (I always feel badly whenb I lose followers :( Thanks to you for sticking with me! We enjoyed a wonderful family camping weekend in the Finger Lakes region! I can now call it annual because we've had two! I've probably mentioned that I

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Hello and happy, happy Saturday! I'm off doing something fun with my family and I sure hope you have a wonderful weekend, too! ! Sometimes you just get lucky! I had made this High Hopes elephant piece for an ATC challenge some time ago. When I was cleaning up the studio I came across it and happened to lay it on this scap of dotted MME paper! Loved it! Found the sketch online (Sweet Sunday, I

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Hello friends!! I've really worked on my studio this week and now it's a joy to stamp in there! I had to find places for the paper hoard I have! (Mainly because there is more on the way to me!!) Anyway, I had time yesterday to create with this great Tilda image from the Sweet Rainbow Collection~ called TILDA WITH KITE (3020). It comes in Mini too and I have to check and see if I have it-it's

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Hello! There's not much stamping here, just the leaves from Papertrey Ink's Turning a new leaf. Everything else is punches and dies and PAPER! I used the flower dies from Papertrey ink as well to make the sunflowers. I made these awhile back when I was working on some OTHER CARDS. I bunched these three into this feature piece mounted on the Nestability shape until I could figure out the card to

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Hi! "The Big Cheese" is the name of this image. I just sent it out to a very special birthday 'boy' with the sentiment, "CHeez, we're glad you were born!" What d'ya think? The image is from Whipper Snapper designs. Here is the link to the STAMP. Last weekend they released their Fall/winter stamps. They are GREAT!! My order should be here anyday! And, you can join them on Facebook and post your

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Hello! The new DT challenge for the month of August was brought to us (and YOU!) by Diana herself!! And we said, "What, ONLY paper?! How can that be done?" Well, it's a challenge, it's supposed to challenge you a bit, ya know? So here is my card made from only paper (and a few stickles!). It was actually kind of fun because I do love to make my own flowers. When you do so you can get the exact

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Hey there! Thanks so much for dropping by! After a day of cleaning (2 more rooms done!) I get to spend time papercrafting tonight! Since I may finish a card to show you tomorrow I'd better get this one posted now as supper is cooking! The challenge for the next two weeks at I Brake for Challenges is to create a Christmas card! We'll all need to get started on them, right!? I used this fun to

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Hello and happy Monday! We are fully back from vacation, unpacked and laundry is done! Dave is back at work and I need to get going on house cleaning again. How I wish I was one of those people who love to clean! They are my heroes! Here are the other three cards I made using Papertrey Ink's Gracious Vases and Debbie Olsen as my inspiration. I love how all of the cards came out and only have a

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Hi! We are homeward bound from our vacation today! So sad it's over, but ready to get back home and see my fam, friends and the cats! I had meant to get this card posted all week! I made it before we left to add to my very small stash of ready to go cards! Do you have one of those? If you visit here, you already know I often make regular sized cards with my Tildas, especially the mini ones! They

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Hello and happy Monday! Yes, it is a happy Monday! The Magnolia-licious DT and the Magnolia-licious challenge team have partnered again for a HOP and a CHALLENGE!! The blog hop starts with the lovely and talented Sharon and you should have been to Maria's Studio for inspiration before coming here. Our projects (and YOURS!) are to be part of a theme which includes SUMMER FUN-think Beach, BBQ,

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Hello! The I Brake for Stamps has another challenge going on right now! You can find all the details here at the I Brake for Challenges Blog! This is my sample card for the challenge!Summer fun to me means gardening! Often I wish I had vegetables, but mine is generally flower gardening. I think it fits in with cardmaking because I love all the colors in my flower beds! I'm not a rose gardener

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Hello! I have threee Papertrey Ink cards to show you today. They were 100% inspired by one of the PTI designers whose blogs I stalk! Debbie Olson. Here is THE LINK to her card. Here is the link to the stamp set GRACIOUS VASES.While I had the stamps arranged on my blocks I stamped and then colored six of these so I could make a set of cards to have on hand. So, there I will have three more to show

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Hello! Planned on posting this morning, but time got completely away from me! So here I am this evening after another gorgeous WNY day! I've been trying to use some of my Papertrey Ink stamps lately and I thought I could make these three flowers work with my mini favs! Our friend TILDA and her friend, HUGO. They are, of course, from the Magnolia-licious store owned and managed by the wonderful

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Hi! Happy Fourth of July, Americans!! I'm so proud and grateful to be an American! Despite the problems, this is a great country! My card isn't patriotic as maybe it should be for today, but I wanted to post to let you know (or remind you) about the I BRAKE FOR CHALLENGES blog and challenge! This is our 4th challenge and we hope to grow in participation. Won't you join in! Details are on the blog

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Hello! Summer keeps getting in the way of crafting! We're still getting a handle on the gardens and purging unnecessary things on the inside of the house! But, ENOUGH of that! It's a brand new, beautiful month and Mindy Baxter of our fab design team has a sketch for us this month!! Details and the SKETCH are on the Mag Highlites Blog! It's a beauty Mindy! Thanks! I used #3020 TILDA WITH KITE as

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Hello friends! I have several graduation cards to finish and this is the first. I used Papertrey Ink's set Up, up and away to say to some great graduates that they can achieve their dreams! We were at a graduation party for a lovely neighborhood girl last night. The variety of guests was a reminder that it really does 'take a village'. At such a young age her life has touched so many others! For

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Hi! Wow, let me first say thanks for visiting! I'm over the moon that I gained 5 new followers the other day! I appreciate all of you!! I know I'm not able to post as often as some others out in blogland so I am very grateful that you want to know what's new here. Thank you from my heart!Thank you for all the comments and interest in my Magnolia black and white with a pop cards (last post). I

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Hello! Well, it's our final Monday for this school year and I'm getting into transition mode. That means I start on lists for summer work and projects! Cleaning house (a big yucko!) is first on my list.Enough of that!! It's the Magnolia-licious DT monthly blog hop! The hop started at the Mag Highlites blog if you'd like to go there here's the LINKOR if you've joined me from Maureen's blog, you're

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Hi! I made this card for our 5 year old great nephew! His birthday is today-late again!I haven 't colored a Whipper Snapper image in a while and this was the one I decided on for him Hope it's boyish enough! I decided to keep the rest of the card simple-no bows or flowers! But, buttons are okay, I think! And some fauz stitching to frame the image.DP is from Prima Marketing-Dude collection from a

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Good morning, friends!This is the first shape easel card I've ever made even though I've admired the ones other paper crafters have made for awhile now. It was fun and easy! I used #412 HUGO THE SNAIL available right now at Magnolia-licious! He's one of the adorable stamps in the Sweet Rainbow collection. He was awesome to color! Iused Purely Pomegranate and Certainly Celery as my guiding colors.

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I received a Stampin' Up order last week and used the Featured Stamper challenge yesterday as inspiration to create this card. I just love this Vespa! I used a white card base, soft sky and then a layer of Papertrey Ink's Linen Vellum. The dp is SU-either Rose Red or Pomegranate, but I colored the Vespa in Pomegrante colors:RV14,17 and 19Flower pots are YR12 and 18. Tires and seat are C1, 3, 5

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Hello and happy Saturday! As my husband and friends have been outside this morning dismantling our storage shed I have been in the house stampin'! I have to put lunch on soon, but thought I'd try to get my post done first! This card came together from pieces left from my recent mini Magnolias. I switched from peach to daffodil when I saw my friend, Michele's gorgeous sunflower card! I just had to

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Hi stampin' friends! Hope you are well today! I finished this card last night, but with work, exercise and gardening was too tired to create my post! I know we've all been there! I've used paper piecing with the GORGEOUS new mini papers from Magnolia-licious! In stock now! I love, love them and think I might just need another package! You can see three of the patterns here. They would match Rich

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I told you I was addicted to these colors! Actually, I haven't had time to do new work this weekend. I made this when I was working on the other recent posts and thought I'd show it today! My nephew was married to his bride last night in a beautiful ceremony followed by a nice reception! They are soooo happy! (That's why no time!) Oh, and gardening!Anyway I used some of the scraps of background

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Hi friends! As I mentioned in my quick post yesterday, Janiel has challenged us (Yes, you too! LOL!) to use only minis on a card or project! I'm not so good at scenes with several of our dear Maggies~too much planning! But, I love, love to use them individually on A2 sized cards! That's what I've done! I'm am crazy about these colors-SUs peach parfait and Papertrey Ink's Hawaiin Shore! With a

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Hi! I wanted to post today so I thought I'd show you another card with the Papertrey Ink set I just got. Don't you love aqua and black? Me too! The card is pretty self explanatory, but not there is some shading on the flowers. I stamped them in Cool Caribbean, but then shaded them with a slightly deeper shade copic marker. I like the effect! I have another card with this technique, but tomorrow I

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Yep, you really do! Thanks for visiting me here!I've made this card using the free Anniversary set from Papertrey Ink. I ordered enough last year that I got two of these sets so one is on its way to my friend Diane! With so many stamps it was very fun to work with, but it is pretty self explanatory so I guess I don't have much to say about it!I hope you're having a wonderful holiday weekend and

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Hello and TGIF! I love when it is finally Friday! Things are a little hectic at school right now with so much to do and no one knowing what their job is next year! We had so many cuts in our 2 elementary schools so I am very grateful to have a job, and it's a good job, but.....Anyway, that's not why you came! First, I will finally announce my winner from the wedding post (blog hop) a few posts

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I can't wait for the new Rainbow collection, but in the mean time here is Tilda in pink overalls. I think she is out checking on her flower gardens! I used #275 Mini TILDA IN LACE JEANS and #427 LAZY SUMMER FLOWERS for my circle card. I stamped the flowers twice on white xpress it blending card. I stamped Tilda on the same paper and cut her out after I'd colored her. I see so many great dies from

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Hi stampin' friends! We finally had some great weather yesterday and I had to attack all the weeds in my flower beds! They were taking over! There was time at the end of the day for reading and a glass of wine on the deck! So today is for creating! I always check the featured stamper on Splitcoast on Sundays. I had partially colored this bear from I Brake for Stamps and had chosen my paper. The

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Can't you just hear the music to the Wedding March!?! The design team has gotten together to show you wedding themed cards and projects which also feature Scor-Pal! As it turned out we did not have to build an ark yesterday, but the rain made it possible for me to work inside on my project. I NEVER seem to be able to finish things early! But, I am so glad you came by today! If you've joined me

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Hi! What was up with blogger this morning when I wanted to post!? Oh well, I put this card on SCS this morning and wanted to get a blog post done so here I am! I took a few shots to show you that she is a bit 3D. I stamped her twice and cut out her face/hair separately as well as the hand on the flower pot. I did not cut out a second flower pot. Instead I cut up the right edge of it and raised

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Hello and Happy Mother's Day! We are finally having spring weather in Wester New York. And though my mom has been gone for 6 years I made this card with her in mind. She loved dogwood trees. Now while we are near lakes, I grew up in Cherry Creek which is in a valley. The spring changes (warm weather and flowering trees) can be two weeks later than they are near Lake Erie only 15 miles away. So

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Hello! It's last minute me again! I finished my card for the Magnolia-licious DT May sketch brought to us by Suzanne Dean. It's a great sketch! You will find so much inspiration on the Mag Highlites blog! Won't you join us in making a card with it? You have the rest of the month to get yours entered, so come on! Oops! I see I forgot to add the sentiment-I'll have to do that!) I hadn't inked up my

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Hello! I want to show you two of the projects I swapped with other stampers at our 4th Annual Springfest last weekend! First up is my 3D swap. I made twelve of these little boxes-like a small crayon box. It's a free template over at My time Made Easy! The tag is from Papertrey and the stamp is from Whipper Snapper! If you have any questions about them, just ask! Then, this is what I made (30 of

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Good morning! What a weekend! It was so much fun to attend Stamp Fest 4 in Buffalo on Saturday! There was talking, laughing, stamping and food! What else could anyone want! Tracy Harp and her team did a wonderful job, yet again! Buuuut, I was soooo tired on Sunday that I did not get much done! I unpacked in between naps! Here is a link to Diane's blog~she has some event pics posted too! So, in

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Good morning! I have a Sweet 'n Sassy card to show you today! This is Springtime Cocoa and I think he's soooo cute! Here he is peeking around a rock to send get well wishes! Here's the link to the Cocoa Page over at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps. There are so many cute images and sets, including digital images for only 3.00!I used paper from the My Mind's Eye pad called Gertie from the Stella Rose

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Hello! I want to thank you so much for visiting today! I'm sorry it's been so long between postings! While I was off work last weekend I had some fun (shopping) and had much to do to prepare for the upcoming (this weekend!!) Spring Fest 4-a day of stamping with others who are obsessed with this hobby and I am HAPPY to call them my friends! This card has some of the elements of the Shoebox Swap

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Hello! Here is Movie Maven Maude enjoying her snack with a good movie! Movie Maven Maude is from I Brake for Stamps and you can see her HERE. My sentiment is from Whipper Snapper (no guarantees, though, it's really old!) I used paper piecing for Maude's comfy chair and the basic layout from the Splitcoast Sketch challenge this week. Always shade your paper piecing for a more 3D look.remember you

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Hi! Well these tulips by Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps are just about the only sign of spring around here! We had snow today! April 18, Really!?! All anyone talks about is the weather and the Sabres! Go, Sabres! These are the tulips that are part of the set I showed you last week on a sympathy card with just the sentiment. These tulips are drawn beautifully and are so versitile! This card could be for

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Hello! I have a box to show you today! I made it to go with the colors Lisa Kind chose for the Pretty Palette #5 Challenge! She chooses awesome colors for the challenge and posts on Sunday each week! We'd love to have you join us in #5-Green, Orchid and White-the colors from the logo Lauren uses at My Time Made Easy. This shot makes it a bit difficult to tell that it is a box, but I'm more

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Hello and Happy Friday!! One more day to work and next week off! Can't wait! I kept looking at this card and trying to decide what else it 'needed' and I finally decided on nothing! I think sometimes less is more. I wanted the focus on the image and on my spellbinder's label so I quit and took my photos! I hope you like what I've done. This is #294 TILDA WITH BALLOON in mini form. This is one of

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Hello! Sympathy cards are really challenging for me. I usually end up buying them, but it seems like I've needed a lot of them lately. I got my inspiration from the Featured Stamper on Splitcoast this week. The sentiment is from a Clear set over at Sweet 'n Sassy stamps, called Springtime Tulips. It's very popular right now to stamp your sentiment on a nestability shape and use it as your focal

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Good morning! I hope you are well today! I made this card on Sunday afternoon using FUNNY BUNNY from I Brake for Stamps. He's kina cute, I think! If you like him (or anything else at IBFS) please feel free to use my code SAVE10CHERYL to get 10% off your whole order! And while you're there you can check out the Wild Orchid flowers! Yes, IBFS is a U.S. distributor for Wild Orchid! Yeah! You will

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Hi stampers! Thanks for not deserting me! It was a very busy week! Before I start, does anyone have a name for this Tilda? I can't find her anywhere! (And she's so cute!) Edited to add: Okay, this is CHERRY TILDA, and thanks to Kathy for her quick response! I used the Just Magnolia sketch for the week. It has a lot of design elements and I think I represented each one. It was a little tough

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Well, this is a special day! It's Korin's birthday! She is the owner extraordinaire of Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps and I get to post my first card as a Guest Designer for the company on HER big day! There is a blog hop in her honor starting at the Sweet 'n Sassy blog so head on over to hop through and maybe even leave your good wishes for Korin! I've used a new release of Cocoa (the adorable mouse)!

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Hello stampers! I have a card two days in a row! While I had those My Mind's Eye papers out (Quite Contrary Collection) I kept going with this bridal shower card. As soon as the glossy accents and stickles are dry I have to get it into an envelope! I need it for a shower this afternoon, 'cuz my nephew is getting married!! I used the My Favorite Things set called My Umbrella and sentiments from

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