Amazing Love

Hi friends! Today I'm popping in with a card I made just because. I was enjoying the sunshine and reflecting on Easter weekend and Christ's sacrifice and I just couldn't help but let it all pour into my card.

Amazing love, indeed. I've been seeing a bunch of Easter creations in blogland using Verve sets and feeling a bit teary eyed about missing my little company.  So I had to sneak in a couple of Verve dies to create this card. The cross die is painted with Chocolate & Diamonds Inklingz. This might be my favorite brown watercolor paint ever. So shimmery and beautiful! I then embossed the cross with the 3D Lumber embossing folder for a woodgrain effect.

My layered stamping started by die cutting the cross from a post-it note and laying it down as a mask on my die cut rectangle and then stamping the flowers and greenery from Genuine Love from the set. I also stamped and cut a few of the roses in yellow and oranges and hand trimmed to layer at the bottom.  This panel is blended with mint julep ink and I did the same for the sentiment circle in which I stamped the word love.  I had originally planned to use the sentiment love one another on the card, but as I was reflecting I kept singing the Amazing Love song and just had to pull out the amazing word die from my Verve stash. (sniff, sniff)

I cut the word twice from white cardstock and once from cardstock painted with the Chocolate & Diamonds Inklingz and then layered them all together. The roses in Genuine Love reminded me of an embossing folder I just picked up on sale at JoAnn's, so I embossed another rectangle with this folder, then blended in orange and yellow.  All of this is layered onto a white panel with the same embossed pattern and a white card base.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a fantastic Easter weekend.

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Hope Art Journaling

Today I thought I'd pop in with a little something different. I was revisiting a technique for a card I can't show quite yet and it didn't turn out the way I expected. I decided to look back at the first time I tried the technique to see what the difference was. If you're curious, the difference was white space, which my new attempt had none. Go figure! 😁

Anyhow, this is the project I looked back on. It's an art journal page I made a little over a year ago. I struggle with depression and the past few years have been pretty hard in my little mind castle. Nowhere near as hard as so many dealing with devastating circumstances, but still impactful nonetheless.

Creativity is one of those things you can't force. It has to flow from your heart to be meaningful. You can practice and practice and you can go through the motions and create something that's pretty, but without the heart and soul of the piece, it's just a shallow prettiness. Not that soul-cleansing kind of beauty that shines deeper. Not the kind that ignites your worn out soul and makes you want to create more and more. I think I'm finally getting to a place like that again, but it's taken over a year and the closing of my business to get there. Marching ever forward, my friends. Ever forward.

When I sat down to art journal this page all those moons ago, I was feeling blue. I hadn't art journaled in quite some time. I absolutely love it, and keep telling myself I should make time for it way more often!  I had recently seen an acetate smooshing technique with magical powders on Instagram and decided I wanted to give it a go. I even set the camera up to record the journaling process, but my computer decided to corrupt the file when I imported it and deleted the original at the same time.  Technology 1... me 0.

The pages are treated with heavy gesso and then I used a stencil and light paste for some texture.  Next I sprinkled on the powders, then spritzed the acetate and blotted it on the pages, smooshing it down and adding more powders and re-applying the watery acetate until I achieved the background I wanted.

The only word that kept coming to me was hope and it made me think of this Emily Dickinson quote. So I pulled out the old Verve Hope Perches plain jane and stamped in archival ink on some pretty Prima packaging I had laying around. Next I found some feather ephemera in my stash and mixed up some of the magicals powders with water to watercolor the feathers, then also added a bit to the sentiment piece and layered them onto my page.

Next I found the word hope in an ephemera pack along with those little monochromatic chevron pieces and as luck would have it they totally matched the layout.  I added them, then did a little accenting with black and white pens to incorporate them into the page.  I finished with another bit of packaging that I journaled on and stamped the date.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you found a bit of inspiration here.

Eat More Cupcakes

Hi friends! I've got a fun little card to share today. This past weekend, I was inspired by the inspiration photo at The Challenge and had to pull out the Cupcakes set. The bright colors seemed like a bit of a challenge and I was up for a little something out of my comfort zone. {grin} I've since pulled off these colors with a bit more pizzazz, but you'll have to wait a while to see that! Anyhow, back to the card... I stamped the bottom in turquoise and the tops in pink repeatedly, then fussy cut them and applied some Nuvo crystal drops to the icing and dusted with glitter.

Next I stamped the sentiment in coordinating inks and then cut and matted with square dies. I fussed with the layout of the cupcakes for quite some time before gluing them down. This seemed more balanced, but I had envisioned a big giant pyramid of cupcakes. Maybe just wishful thinking! LOL

The side strip is grosgrain ribbon with an extra loop and I finished off the embellishments with some enamel dots and a puffy heart sticker, giving it that tweenage flair I was going for.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! The boys are keeping me super busy. After a weekend in red air quality and lots of coughing for our ashtmatic family, the air quality is finally only in yellow today so I think we might just brave leaving the house!

Enabler's List
Stamps: Cupcakes (Verve Stamps)
Paper: designer paper, black, watercolor paper
Ink: lost lagoon and coral rose (Altenew)
Accessories: ribbon (SU!), square dies, enamel dots, Nuvo crystal drops, glitter, puffy heart sticker

Always Coffee

Hi friends! I'm popping in with a quick little card I made with the sketch at The Challenge this week. I loved the sweet clean lines of it and thought it would pair perfectly with the new Always Time set.

This sentiment is one of my favorites. No matter what's going on in my life, one of the only things I always make time for is coffee. It might be coffee that's warmed up in the microwave three times over and then finished cold because I got distracted yet again, but there's always time for coffee!{grin}

I started by stamping the there is always time for sentiment and the cup and steam in Versafine onyx black, then coloring with copic markers. I embossed the little cup liner in white for a foamy look to the coffee, then added a yellow mat to this panel.  I lined the bottom of the yellow with a Flourished Trim die cut, then cut out the Coffee Word Die in aqua (I just colored white card stock with copics to get an exact match) and black. My idea was to use the two descenders in the coffee word in place of the little tags in the sketch. Hope that's not too much of a stretch! {grin}

I layered the two die cuts for a bit of shadow, then coated with Nuvo crystal drops for some shimmer. The paper is from a Valentine's paper pack I recently picked up on the cheap at Tuesday Morning. Don't you just love that little chalkboard accent background?

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a fabulous weekend. I'm looking forward to it. The boys are going over to Nana and Papa's for a sleepover and Mark and I get to go to a real honest to goodness no kids allowed birthday party!  Hooray!

Enabler's List
Stamps: Always Time (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Valentine (American Crafts), barely banana, basic black (SU!), white (Neenah)
Ink: onyx black (Versafine), versamark (Tsukineko), markers (Copic)
Accessories: Coffee Word Die, Flourished Trim Die (A Cut Above by VERVE), Nuvo Crystal Drops (Tonic)

How Wonderful Life Is

Hi friends! It's a very special Monday today... it marks the 500th Mojo Monday sketch! Wow! I've been working toward this goal for quite some time - just a few months shy of 10 years.  I've had so much fun sharing my sketches with you over the last decade. But as the seasons in my life have changed, I've realized that even good things must eventually come to an end.  So this will be our final Mojo Monday challenge. I am so grateful to all of you who have participated over the years. I have loved peeking in at your cards each week and watching you grow as artists.  Thanks so much for sharing and thanks for letting me be a part of your crafting for so long!

The words are hard to come by and even harder to type, so I'll send you on over to the Mojo Monday blog post today if you want to read a little bit more.

Now I'll move on to the easier stuff... my card for the challenge.  It's a contest week and we've extended the challenge deadline to 2 weeks to give y'all a chance to participate. Play along for your chance to win a Verve stamp set.

I was feeling overwhelmed sitting down to make this final Mojo Monday card. Mark jokingly said, "No pressure. You just need to make the best card you've ever made." LOL Well, I'm not sure I achieved that lofty goal, but I do like the end result! Choosing a stamp set to start was the hardest part. This sentiment from Wonderful Marvelous kind of summed up how I was feeling about everyone who has played along in this challenge over the past almost 10 years.

I've been wanting to play in the TCP Tuesday #336 Sand, Sea and Sky challenge, so started with that as my inspiration. I had to flip the sketch horizontally to fit my sentiment. The sentiment background and horizontal strip is done with distress oxide inks in broken china and faded jeans and I stamped the sentiment in archival ink. I added some white paint splatters to the tip top strip, then distressed the edges and rolled the ends as if they were maps or scrolls. I'm pretty sure this was one of my very first Cuttlebug folders.  Love the wavy feel to it, and I tied some hemp twine around to add to the beachy theme.  It has a really beachy masculine feel, which I think will be perfect for my Dad for Father's Day.

Be sure to head on over to the Mojo Monday blog and give a shout out to the amazing design team who has tirelessly brought inspiration week after week! They have truly been a dream team. :)

Enabler's List
Stamps: Wonderful Marvelous (Verve Stamps)
Paper: tiptop taupe  (SU!), watercolor paper (Creatology)
Ink: faded jeans, broken china (Distress Oxides by Ranger)
Accessories: stitched rectangles (Cottage Cuts), d'vine swirls embossing folder (Cuttlebug), MISTI, paper distresser, hemp twine (Hemptique)

Brightly Blessed

Hi friends! I'm popping in with a card I made a while back and had held off on posting because the Be Blessed stamp set I used was out of stock.  It's back in stock as of last night, so yay! It's been a long couple of weeks here at the Tilman house with high fevers for both boys.  I still haven't figured out if I'd rather have them both sick at the same time or the long 2 week drag out of one entire sickness, then another.  Either way, it's exhausting. ;)  I'm happy to report that they're both back in school (Montessori goes through the end of June) today and I get a creative day in the stamp room.  Hooray!

I  don't remember all the details of making this card, though I know the background and aqua piece, as well as the yellow flower were done with Lindy's Magicals powders. I added bits of gesso all around and collaged a few different types of flowers and leaves.  The sentiment is from Be Blessed and the pink I chose to stamp it with was way redder than pink, so I had to do a little wash of pink over it to tame it down.  Little sprinklings of glitter and some tattered edges finish things off.

Enabler's List
Stamps: Be Blessed (Verve Stamps)
Paper: watercolor paper, soft sky (SU!)
Ink: Altenew, Magicals (Lindy's Stamp Gang), gesso
Accessories: paper flowers, skeleton leaves, leaves, glitter

Every One of My Thoughts

Hi friends! It's Monday again, and time for a brand new Mojo Monday sketch.  This week, I went with a simple sketch that leaves lots of room for interpretation. Hope you like it!

I've been swatching out my watercolor palettes as a way to relax after some very crazy days at our house. Two five year olds at once is A LOT of 5 year olds. {grin} Since I loved how my clean-up paper worked on my Life Is But A Dream card, I decided to do the same thing as I finally swatched out The Classics Prima Watercolor Confections palette I got for Christmas. I did a bit more working across each color than on my previous card, so I could have some solid color blocks, then sprinkled some water on the whole panel.  Interestingly enough, the only color that lifted any with the sprinkles was the aqua, but I just loved how it turned out.  Isn't this rainbow palette just lovely?  It also includes, pink, white, brown, grey, and black, which are saved for other projects.

I just love the you're in every one of my thoughts today sentiment from the Always On My Mind set. It seems to speak my heart and is a favorite to send to friends just because or who are going through something. I'm also thinking of making some little lunch notes up with it to tuck in the boys lunches. I stamped it directly on the card base, then added three strips of washi tape towards the bottom of the card.  To this I added a resist chipboard butterfly that I quickly watercolored with a rainbow look.  I finished off by accenting the body with black pearls.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you were inspired. To see some more takes on this week's sketch, head on over to the Mojo Monday blog and check out what the design team is sharing today.

If you like measurements, here's what I used to draw up the sketch.

Mojo Monday 498 Card Sketch

Card base: 4.25" x 5.5"

Layer 1: 2.5" x 5.25"

Layer 2: 3 strips of washi or 0.5" strips at lengths of 2.5", 3" and 2.25"

Layer 3: large die cut, embellishment or  1.75" circle

Enabler's List

Stamps: Always on My Mind (Verve Stamps)

Paper: kids watercolor paper (Michaels)

Ink: onyx black (Versafine), The Classics Watercolor Confections (Prima)

Accessories: resist chipboard butterfly (Teresa Collins), black flatback pearls (Pizzazz Aplenty)

Vintage Notes Card Concept

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Hi friends! It's time for another fabulous inspiration challenge over at The Card Concept.  This one was right up my alley and I knew right away I was going to use some Tim Holtz tissue paper for my mixed media creation.

I started with a manila tag coated with gesso.  I then added faded jeans, broken china and peeled paint distress oxide inks to create the background, spritzing with water and repeating until I achieved the depth I was looking for.  Next I hand trimmed around the big winged thing from the tissue paper, then layered it down with collage medium over the entire tag.  Another round of distress inks to make everything nestle in, then I added accents with a black prima oil pastel and some white gel pen accents.

The sentiment tag is also covered with a music notes section of the tissue paper and treated with the same color of distress oxide inks.  I tried to lighten it up a bit where the sentiment would go, then embossed the sentiment from Bloom & Grow in white. The sentiment didn't pop as much as I'd like, so I outlined everything with a black pen, then shaded around the panel with black oil pastel before layering it over the tag.  I added a bit of crinkled seam binding to the tag and cut a card base to match the size, adding some hints of distress all around.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! For a little more inspiration with this challenge, be sure to head on over to The Card Concept to check out what the other designers are sharing today.  We'd love to see what you create from the inspiration!

Enabler's List
Stamps: Bloom & Grow (Verve Stamps)
Paper: manila tag, cream cardstock, Melange Tissue Paper (Tim Holtz/Idea-ology)
Ink: faded jeans, broken china, pealed paint distress oxides (Ranger), Versamark, Gesso, black and white pens, Oil pastels (Prima), Gesso
Accessories: crinkled seam binding, white embossing powder, Collage medium

Rise and Shine Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Hi friends! Today's the official kick off of the Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and I have a fun little coffee card to share. I've been finding a few minutes here and there to work on some new Verve, and whenever I can, I try to start off my design sessions with a little warm-up of coffee themed designs. It takes a little bit for me to clear the distractions in my brain and focus, and since coffee is such a source of inspiration for me, it always seems like a very good place to start. {wink}

So, I'm offering up another free digi in honor of the Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop from some of my warm-ups.  It's called Rise and Shine, and is filled with a few fun little sentiments and mugs celebrating the return of the sun after The Winter That Just Kept On Coming.  I hope you enjoy it.  If you get a chance to use it, be sure to link it up over on the Verve Blog for a chance to win our prize drawing for a $40 gift voucher to the Verve shop.

So on with the card. I printed the PDF version of the digi set with my laser printer, then cut the rise and shine sentiment with a stitched circle die.  I colored the sun mug with Copic markers and then hand trimmed. Next I pulled out the steam stamp from the Coffee set and stamped it in archival ink, colored with copics, accented with Nuvo crystal drops and hand trimmed as well.  I used the stitched circle die as a stencil and sponged inside the sentiment, then matted with a pinking circle cut from daffodil delight.

A scrap of gray paper was embossed with a Darice embossing folder, then I used sandpaper to make it stand out a bit.  I tucked this panel behind my cup for the appearance of even more coffee aroma wafting into the atmosphere.  A scrap of green paper at the bottom and some grosgrain ribbon finishes things off.

I've got another card using the new digi set over on the Verve Blog today. Hop on over there to see this fun little tea card.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have a fabulous time along the hop. For all the entry and prize details, be sure to head on over to the official Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop post to check everything out. Happy hopping!

Enabler's List
Stamps: Rise and Shine digital set, Coffee stamp set (Verve Stamps)
Paper: designer paper scraps, white
Ink: black archival (Ranger), sunshine (Altenew), Copic markers, laser printer
Accessories: Stiched Circles Stax (MFT), pinking circles Nestabilities (Spellbinders), embossing border (Darice), Nuvo crystal drops (Tonic), grosgrain ribbon (SU!)

Take Joy

Hi friends! It's Monday again and time for a new sketch over at Mojo Monday.  This week has some fun skewed panels and lots of layers, perfect for playing with pretty papers. After 7 weeks of respiratory infection, I'm so DONE with winter, and thought I'd bring a little spring to my studio, even if it's still trying to snow outside.

I pulled out some super fabulous plaid papers and the Petals & Wings stamp set and got to work, cutting each layer and matting with white.  If you like measurements, here's what I used... the largest designer paper panel is 2.5" x 4.5" the vertical rectangle is 2.25" x 3.25" and the square is 2.25" x 2.25"  My aqua horizontal piece is 1" x 5.5". The card base is embossed with a polka dot embossing folder and I wrapped a bit of white linen thread in a bow and accented with a dew drop.

The butterflies and sentiment from Petals & Wings are stamped directly onto patterned paper and I cut with the coordinating Wings & Petals Die Set.  I stamped the antennae onto a piece of white cardstock cut with the circle die from the Springtime Stitches die set, then layered it all together, finishing off with some black pearls for the butterfly bodies.

If  you're like me and wishing to bring a little spring to your crafting, Verve has a fabulous little Wishing for Spring sale going on right now.  30% off a whole bunch of springtime classics.

Mojo Monday 486 Card Sketch

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a fabulously creative start to your week. For a little more inspiration, be sure to hop on over to the Mojo Monday blog to see what the other designers are sharing today.

Enabler's List
Stamps: Petals & Wings (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Perfectly Plaid (Lawn Fawn), white (Neenah)
Ink: onyx black (Versafine)
Accessories: Wings & Petals Die Set, Springtime Stitches Die Set (A Cut Above by VERVE), linen thread, dew drop, flatback pearls, dots embossing folder (QuicKutz)

A Valentine Birthday

Hi friends!  It's Valentine's Day, which also means it's my Dad's birthday and Mark's birthday tomorrow.  So right in the midst of all the lovey dovey pink and red heart stamping, I always have to switch gears and remember how to make a masculine card.

Today I'm sharing the card I made for my Dad and gave to him this past weekend. It's my masculine take on this week's Mojo Monday 484 sketch.  I can't seem to start a masculine card without thinking of the Birthday Bash set, so that's just where I went.  I knew the little birthday sentiment would fit perfectly in one of the squares and had visions of balloons and stars popping out. My dad is red/green color blind so I always try to stick with blues and browns, although a little green snuck in there.

The papers are from a My Mind's Eye paper collection and I sponged them with antique linen and ground espresso distress inks, then matted with early espresso cardstock.  I stamped the balloons and stars on designer paper and fussy cut, sponging along the edges.  I then layered my pieces together and stamped the balloon image on the card base, then on the designer paper panel and lined them up and pieced the balloons onto the image.  I finished off with some glossy accents and a sprinkling of glitter.

Since I can't let Mr. Verve's birthday go unheralded, we've got a little promo code going on in the Verve shop today and tomorrow.  Use gift code LOVE15 at checkout for an additional 15% off your purchase.

Hope you have a day filled with love and laughter!


Enabler's List
Stamps: Birthday Bash (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Breeze Lost and Found TWO (MME), early espresso, soft sky (SU!)
Ink: antique linen, ground espresso distress (Ranger), espresso Altenew)
Accessories: glossy accents, glitter, grosgrain ribbon

A Beautiful Day

Hi friends! Welcome to another Friday.  I'm still coughing and have spent most of the week in bed, but I'm less sick than a week ago, so I think that's progress. And the boys were able to attend school a few days this week, so hopefully we're all on the mend. In the midst of all our sickness, there was one very beautiful day this week.

Just before Christmas Mark's doctor found a few concerning lumps in his neck and the possibility of cancer was quite probable. It gave a bittersweet taste to our holiday season as we had to wait until the middle of January for biopsy, and instead of visions of sugarplums, we had all sorts of what-ifs dancing through our heads. The biopsy results came in this week, and after all that waiting and wondering I'm glad to report the lumps are benign.  Hooray! Life is so very fleeting and I know there are so many who do not get the good report we did.  And this month of waiting has impressed upon my heart how difficult those inner battles we face that no one sees can be.  It is true that a little kindness, however small, is never wasted.

My card started with this kindness sentiment from Kindness Matters in mind and I just had to play along with the Card Concept challenge again.  I really love the current challenge graphic and went shabby chic/mixed media again.

I stamped the sentiment on a scrap of designer paper, then smudged some pearlized paste all around it.  The flower started out white and I spritzed it with Dylusions spray, then added some gesso, some pearlized paste and some glitter to give it a fun textured look.  The skeleton leaves were from my stash and I tucked a bit of linen thread behind it.  The background is cream cardstock, embossed with a hearts embossing folder. I colored the hearts with a distress crayon and smudged, then added a bit more of the pearlized paste to tie everything together.  A bit of vintage lace at the top of my stamped panel separates the layers and I finished off with some distressed edges.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you have a fabulous start to your weekend.

Enabler's List
Stamps: Kindness Matters (Verve Stamps)
Paper: cream, designer paper (7 gypsies)
Ink: espresso (Altenew), dylusions spray, distress crayons (Ranger)
Accessories: flower (Prima), gesso, pearlized paste (Recollections), glitter, vintage lace, skeleton leaves, hearts embossing folder (Sizzix), linen thread, paper distresser

My Favorite Day

Hi friends! It's Monday again and time for another Mojo Monday sketch.  This week Trevor and I have a super easy go to sketch for you.  We hope you'll play along.

My card came together in less than 10 minutes using the brand new limited time Love from Me digital freebie and the current thank you gift (paper, doily and ribbon) with an order from Verve.  I printed the pdf, cut the sentiment with a pierced square die, then cut the pink paper to 2" x 3.75" and the black paper to 4 x 5.25".  The doily is glued down to the black layer and trimmed off, then I tied a black seam binding bow around the pink layer and glued everything down on a white card base.  Easy peasy!

I just love this sentiment and think it would be perfect for so many occasions. It pairs with a few love themed sentiments and a lovey dovey coffee cup to round out the Love From Me set. The set is available as a FREE download through February 14.  If you make something wonderful with the set, head over to the Verve blog and link it up for a chance to win a $40 gift voucher to the Verve store. I'm also sharing another card I made with this set and Mojo sketch over there if you want to come and take a peek.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  For more inspiration with this sketch, head on over to the Mojo Monday blog to see what the other designers are sharing today.

Mojo 481 Card Sketch

Enabler's List
Stamps: Love From Me digital set (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Amour and Words of Love (Carta Bella), white (Neenah), paper doily
Ink: laser jet printer
Accessories: pierced squares STAX (MFT), black seam binding ribbon

More than Chocolate

Hi friends! It's Monday again already and that means it's time for a new Mojo Monday sketch.  My son, Trevor, helped me with the sketches this month.  He sat on my lap and told me what shapes to draw and where to draw them.  I think we might have a little sketch master in the making! {grin} When we finished the month's sketches he told me he would help me with February's on another day, he needed a break!

As my boys say, it's been winter for days and days and days around here. With all the snow and rain and freezing temperatures, I felt like I needed a little perking up.  So I chose these fun, vibrant papers from the Fancy Free collection by Pink Paislee.  Each layer is matted in basic gray cardstock.  I stamped the sentiment and the candy hearts from the Chocolate set in grey ink, then colored the candies with copics and die cut the circles.  The Chocolate Word Die  is cut from basic gray cardstock and I finished with a bit of taffeta ribbon and a bow.

It wasn't planned, but I kind of love how the word bubble that catches my eye on the designer paper is the one that says "whatever".  Which is what I can totally imagine Mark saying when he reads this sentiment!  LOL

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Head on over to the Mojo Monday blog to see what the other designers did with this sketch.  We hope you'll play along!

Enabler's List
Stamps: Chocolate (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Fancy Free (Pink Paislee), basic gray, blushing bride (SU!), white (Neenah)
Ink: Lava Rock (Altenew), markers (Copic)
Accessories: Chocolate Word Die (A Cut Above by VERVE), stitched circles STAX (MFT), classic and pinking circles nestabilities (Spellbinders), taffeta ribbon (SU!), Nuvo crystal drops (Tonic)

2016 Seasons Givings Blog Hop

Hi there! It's Seasons Givings Blog Hop time again and I'm so excited to be participating again this year. I'm just a few days shy of 10 years of blogging here at Poetic Artitstry and am so grateful for all the friends I have made here over the years. Sharing inspiration is something I love to do and I am so blessed by those of you who take the time to send your support in comments, emails, cards and orders. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I've also been blessed with a husband who supports my creative endeavors and doesn't mind an entire room of the house devoted just to papercraft things lined up in rainbow order.  So I have an overflowing treasure trove of goodness in my stamp room, and new stuff from Santa to put away! I'm offering up the following giveaways as a thanks to all of you for your support and friendship. Here's to a bright and shiny 2017!

To enter my giveaway, leave me a comment telling me your favorite saying, quote, billboard, ad, commercial, etc.

I'll go first... in downtown Boise this holiday season there's a billboard that says, "In a world where you can be anything, be kind. Happy holidays."  I love it so much and smile everytime I see it.  Okay, on with the giveaways...

Giveaway 1 {winner must have a US shipping address}

This box includes 9 months of Paper Pumpkin kits, May 2015 through January 2016.  All stamps and papers are unused. Also includes a Paper Pumpkin stamp storage case for the stamp sets (not shown in photo). The mini ink pads are not included as they were immediately assimilated into my treasure trove.

Giveaway 2 {US & International winners welcome}

My second giveaway is a $75 gift code to my shop, Verve Stamps. We've got our year end clearance sale going on through January 3, plus save an additional 15% off your order with gift code GBUY16.

Comment deadline for the prize drawing is 8:00 pm Mountain on Monday, January 9.  Please check back on Jan. 10 to see if you are a winner.

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Alicia Thelin

Asia King

Debbie Seyer

Yvonne Van De Grijp

Tenia Nelson

Michelle Woerner

Christina Griffiths

Lori McAree

Barbara Anders

Jill Hawkins

Veronica Zalis

Leigh Penner

Margie Higuchi

Amy Coose

Melody Rupple

Karen Letchworth

Heidi Ramsey Blankenship

Jennie Harper

Jodi Collins

Jessica Frost-Ballas

Gracie Chavez

Stephanie Klauck

Savannah O’Gwynn

Terre Fry

Neva Cole

Maria Levine

Misti Oblander

Ceal Pritchett

Here are a few of my favorite makes from the first half of 2016....

January Favorite: Wallpaper Love

February Favorite: A Brighter World

March Favorite: Watercolor Bunny

April Favorite: Always Blessed Card Concept

May Favorite: Beautiful Card Concept

June Favorite: Life Happens Mixed Medai

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