The Cutting Cafe • Christmas Treat Boxes

This week at The Cutting Cafe the design team made cute holiday treat boxes. Regina offers so many cute little boxes. I choose to work with the sweet little snowman treat box, and filled him with holiday peanut butter M&M's. :)

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Color Our World • Ribbon Carousel

The fabulous Stephanie Muzzulin is challenging you to Color our World at the Ribbon Carousel blog!  Neutrals can always be used, but be sure to keep with Stephanie’s palette of Kraft, Red and Brown as your inspiration.

This week we are honored to have The Greeting Farm back as our sponsor!

The Greeting Farm will be giving one lucky random winner a choice of 4x6 rubber stamp set or one of their fabulous new clear acrylic stamp sets!

Your creation can be anything from cards, quilts, sewn items, paper crafts, paintings! *** Be sure to have ribbon, bakers twine, jute twine, lace, thread (basically anything that comes on a spool). ***

This week I made a tag to top a very special package. I used the 1.5" Red/Ivory Striped Grosgrain Ribbon!  

Thanks for all your sweet comments!

Clear & Simple Stamps

I am so excited that one of my cards is being published today on the Clear & Simple Stamps iPhone app!
This app is so cool and bursting with inspiration from lots of different artists, featuring Clear & Simple's fabulous stamps. For my card I worked with the fun set Craft Room. Stop by Clear & Simple Stamps to see all the great stuff they have to offer!

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Holiday Hoopla • Ribbon Carousel

This weeks challenge at the Ribbon Carousel is Holiday Hoopla with our very talented Lindsay Amrhein.  With the holidays upon us, Lindsay is challenging us to make a creation celebrating a holiday! Any holiday will do, Hanukah, Christmas, Thanksgiving, or even New Year's if your that far ahead!

Our sponsor this week is the fabulous Jenny Suchin Designs! Jenny will be sending one fabulous random participant her Owl See You In Class stamp set!

Your creation can be anything from cards, quilts, sewn items, paper crafts, paintings! *** Be sure to have ribbon, bakers twine, jute twine, lace, thread (basically anything that comes on a spool). ***

For my creation I chose to hoop it up with a Christmas card. I used Black V Shaped Twill from the best ribbon shop the Ribbon Carousel! 

Also the Ribbon Carousel is offering a 20% Holiday Discount this Thursday through Monday!!! 

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CSS Daily App • Sneak Peek

I am super excited that one of my cards featuring Clear and Simple Stamps will be published on their iPhone App September 25th! Here is a sneak peek of my card. Download this awesome app {here} to view all the yummy CSS inspiration!

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CAS-ual Fridays • CFC #29

Happy Friday everyone! This week at CAS-ual Fridays we are extending our challenge for two weeks for the Thanksgiving holiday. We have a fabulous sketch from Karen to work with and Tradefish Designs as our sponsor.

Unfortunately the mail service did not cooperate with us and I did not get my sponsor stamps in time to work with them. I did make this CAS card using the sketch though. I will be posting a new card as soon as I get my Tradefish stamps. I hope you all come and play with us at CAS-ual Fridays!

Thanks for all your sweet comments!

The Cutting Cafe • Thanksgiving

This week The Cutting Cafe crew worked with the Thanksgiving Day Set, what a darling set! This set come with 26 printable images. Stop by The Cutting Cafe blog and see what the other team member created with this fun set.

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MY Sketch • Ribbon Carousel

This weeks challenge at Ribbon Carousel blog is one of my sketches! I love making sketches and making cards from sketches they always get my creative mojo flowing.

This weeks sponsor at the Ribbon Carousel is Heather Sienkiewycz of 31! Heather is offering one yummy prize to this weeks winner so head on over and play at the Ribbon Carousel.

Your creation can be anything from cards, quilts, sewn items, paper crafts, paintings! *** Be sure to have ribbon, bakers twine, jute twine, lace, thread (basically anything that comes on a spool). ***


I made this Christmas card using one of my all time favorite ribbons from the Ribbon Carousel Store, the scrumptious V Shaped Twill Ribbon, offered in tons of yummy colors, I used green. :)

 Thanks for all your sweet comments!

CAS-ual Friday • Tag Your It

Happy Friday friends! This week at CAS-ual Fridays we are making tag, tag your it! We are also so lucky to have Purple Onion Designs sponsoring us at CAS-ual Fridays! Our design team even got to play with some yummy purple onion stamps, all of their stamps are so cute!

I made a little holiday tag using the Stephanie Ackerman Designs, Home Sweet Home. Love this set it's so versatile!

Come and play with us at CAS-ual Fridays and wins some fabulous stamps!

Thanks for all your sweet comments!

Remember • The Cutting Cafe

This week at The Cutting Cafe the design team worked with Jot It Down Set, this set has tons of fun journaling tags. I looooove tags, so I'm in heaven.

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Pillow Boxes Stuffed with Important Stuff • Ribbon Carousel

The rest of our awesome design team is being introduced today over at the Ribbon Carousel. Welcome ladies!

This weeks challenge RCC28 is being brought to you by design team member Andrea Ewen and it's all about "Pillow Talk". The sponsor this week is Your Next Stamp and they are generously offering some of their yummy stamps to the winner of this challenge.

Your creation can be anything from cards, quilts, sewn items, paper crafts, paintings! *** Be sure to have ribbon, bakers twine, jute twine, lace, thread (basically anything that comes on a spool). ***

I created this little holiday pillow box, ready to stuff with the "important stuff", gift cards or cash! I used these two types of ribbon on my pillow box from my favorite ribbon shop, the Ribbon Carousel. 

 1.5" Antique Gold Satin Center Band Ribbon. 

3.8" Red/Ivory striped Grosgrain Ribbon and 

Thanks for all your sweet comments!

CAS-ual Friday • Over the Edge

Happy November and Happy Friday! This week at CAS-ual Fridays we are going over the edge CAS style, that means any project, LO or card with something hanging over the edge.

This weeks sponsor at CAS-ual Fridays is Lil Inkers Designs they offer, "Quality clear stamps and steel dies in the freshest designs". Hurry on over and play along with us at CAS-ual Fridays for a chance to win fabulous prizes!

Thanks for all the sweet comments!

The Cutting Cafe • Huge Circle Words

This week at The Cutting Cafe the design team was to work with Regina's Huge Circle words. I chose the "I Love Cupcakes" set. All of these sets are so versatile and tons of fun to work with.

Have fun looking at all the possibilities these sets have to offer here on the website. Lots of eye candy for sure!

Thanks for all your sweet comments!