You're in My Prayers 22

Hi! I hope you all are having a wonderful week! Today I have a card to share for my sweet sister Marlene featuring a variety of products including PTI stamps and dies: I added a trio of tiny pearls for an extra touch of elegance:   For sketch inspiration, I'm joining along with Freshly Made Sketches:  Up next is an oil painting inspired by Nancy Medina's e-course featuring a bouquet of daisies on a 16" x 20" canvas: I'm...

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sending Christmas cheer 31

Hi! Today I today I have a couple of very personalized Christmas cards to share. I was inspired to join along with this week's PTI Make It Monday challenge where Ashley is challenging us to create Holiday Photo Cards. The first one up is for my dear sister Tina which features my sweet dog Griffin all dressed up for Christmas:  and this one is for my dear husband Scott which features a photo of Meredith and Connor that was taken about...

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Christmas Blessings 26

Hi! Hope you are all enjoying the magic of the holiday season! I'm here to share a few Christmas inspired projects. First up is a card that I made for my dear daughter Angie featuring a variety of PTI stamps including: Spruce & Sprigs, Signature Christmas and Vintage Linens: I'm joining along with this month's PTI Create Along With Us Release Week challenge and was inspired by Dawn's pretty card shown below: and for color inspiration,...

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Sending you Christmas joy! 25

Hi there! I'm back with more Christmas cards to share. Today I have a trio featuring a cute reindeer image from an older Stampin' Up set that I hung on to from years ago. I combined the cute reindeer with patterned paper and a stamped sentiment from PTI: For sketch inspiration, I'm joining along with the current Freshly Made Sketches sketch challenge: as well as the card concept challenge. I made clean and simply style cards, was inspired...

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joy and wonder... 21

Happy December! I've been busy creating Christmas cards ~ 'Tis the Season :) Today I have a collection of 5 to share featuring one of my favorite Christmas tree Inkadinkadoo images along with a sentiment from the PTI Holiday Wishes stamp set. I love the coordinating PTI Ocean Tides ink used to stamp the tree image and the PTI patterned paper. A grey ink was used to stamp the sentiment: For sketch inspiration, I joined along with the current...

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Merry Christmas 30

Hi! It's been awhile since I've blogged. Just busy living the American dream :) ... Enjoying my family, the holiday season, working, traveling, exercising and working on my brush strokes. I am trying to get a jump start on making Christmas tags and cards so I joined along with this week's PTI Make It Monday challenge where Dawn has challenged us to create Double Layered Gift Tags: I made a collection of tags and coordinating cards...

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