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Year: 2023

Krafty Chicks Challenge #683 – All Occasions

  • Posted on September 27, 2023
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Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday! Welcome to our Week 4 challenge – All Occasions – just create something that is suitable for any special event, holiday, message, etc. and you can enter your…

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Swing For the Fences

  • Posted on September 27, 2023
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Today’s card is a clean and simple baseball card, which I made for the challenge at Just Us Girls (#698). I really love baseball, from the time I was little…

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Can You Handle the Pressure? – Bees/Beehives

  • Posted on September 22, 2023
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Can You Handle the Pressure has a new challenge starting today! This challenge requires that you must use an embossing folder while creating your card. The theme is always “anything goes,…

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Alphabet Challenge – M for Monochrome

  • Posted on September 22, 2023
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The new challenge starting today at the Alphabet Challenge features the letter “M.” The theme inspired by that is “monochrome.” You’re free to use any stamps, dies, techniques, styles, or…

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Krafty Chicks Challenge #682 – Clean and Simple

  • Posted on September 20, 2023
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Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday! Welcome to our Week 3 challenge – Clean and Simple (CAS). In general a clean and simple card has lots of white/open space, minimal layers and embellishments, and…

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Cardz 4 Guys #331 – Stars

  • Posted on September 19, 2023
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The challenge starting today at Cardz 4 Guys (#331) has a theme of “stars.” We’re looking for any way you would like to highlight or incorporated stars into your card…

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Double Trouble #148

  • Posted on September 18, 2023
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Hello and thanks for checking out my card for the new challenge at Double Trouble (#148). The only requirement to enter is the challenges at Double Trouble is to follow…

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Festive Friday #FF0143 – World Card Making Day

  • Posted on September 15, 2023
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It’s Festive Friday! We have a new challenge starting today, and this time our festivity is “World Card Making Day.” We used that to come up with ten items for our…

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Krafty Chicks Challenge #681 – Christmas

  • Posted on September 13, 2023
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Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday! Welcome to Week 2 – our Christmas theme challenge, or any holiday/winter card. You are free to use any products, techniques and style you want, you can even…

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Can You Handle the Pressure? – Trees

  • Posted on September 8, 2023
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Can You Handle the Pressure has a new challenge starting today! This challenge requires that you must use an embossing folder while creating your card. The theme is always “anything goes,…

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Alphabet Challenge – L for Literature

  • Posted on September 8, 2023
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Hello and thanks for stopping by! Today I am sharing a card I made that was inspired by the new challenge at the Alphabet Challenge. We are featuring the letter…

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Krafty Chicks Challenge #680 – Stamp Act

  • Posted on September 6, 2023
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Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday! Starting off a new month with our week 1 “stamp act” challenge, all you need to do is use any stamp or digital image on your card or…

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Paper Funday Challenge #57

  • Posted on September 6, 2023
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We have a new challenge starting today at the Paper Funday Challenge (#57). We are always an “anything goes” challenge, but we also have an optional twist you can play…

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Cardz 4 Guys #330 – Poppies/Remembrance

  • Posted on September 5, 2023
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Our theme for the new challenge starting today at Cardz 4 Guys (#330) is “poppies/remembrance.” Remembrance Day is not until November 11, as is Veteran’s Day here in the US,…

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Double Trouble #147

  • Posted on September 4, 2023
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We’re starting off the month with a new challenge at Double Trouble (#147). Joining the challenge only requires you meet the challenge of Thing 1. This time that challenge is…

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Festive Friday #FF0142 – World Gratitude Day

  • Posted on September 1, 2023
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It’s Festive Friday! We have a new challenge starting today, and this time our festivity is “World Gratitude Day.” We used that to come up with ten items for our Inspo…

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Sparkles Christmas Challenge #152 – Build Me a Snowman

  • Posted on September 1, 2023
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This month we have a theme of “Build Me a Snowman” over at Sparkles Christmas Challenge (#152). I have always loved snowmen and have a large collection of snowmen stamps and dies,…

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Simply Clean & Simple – Stencils

  • Posted on August 31, 2023
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There’s a new challenge starting today at Simply Clean & Simple, where the theme is always “anything goes” – as long as it follows the Clean & Simple style. To…

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Krafty Chicks Challenge #679 – Anything Goes

  • Posted on August 30, 2023
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Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday! Welcome to our “Anything Goes” challenge – whenever there is a fifth Thursday in a month we open up the gallery for anything you choose! The die cut…

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Double Trouble #146

  • Posted on August 28, 2023
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Today is the start of the new challenge over at Double Trouble! This time it’s our one week “Something, Anything, Everything” challenge – so all you have to do to…

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Can You Handle the Pressure? – Poppies

  • Posted on August 25, 2023
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Can You Handle the Pressure has a new challenge starting today! This challenge requires that you must use an embossing folder while creating your card. The theme is always “anything goes,…

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The Alphabet Challenge – K for Kitchen (anything related to food)

  • Posted on August 25, 2023
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Today we have a new challenge starting at the Alphabet Challenge. This time we are on the letter “K” and the chosen theme is “kitchen” (anything related to food). This…

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Krafty Chicks Challenge #678 – All Occasions

  • Posted on August 23, 2023
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Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday! Welcome to our Week 4 challenge – All Occasions – just create something that is suitable for any special event, holiday, message, etc. and you can enter your…

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Welcome Baby

  • Posted on August 22, 2023
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Worked on a card today so I could try out a new foil plate that I just got from Newton’s Nook. I was gifted a hot foiling system by a…

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Cardz 4 Guys #329 – Going to the Beach

  • Posted on August 22, 2023
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A new challenge is starting today over at the Cardz 4 Guys Challenge Blog. The theme for challenge #329 is “Going to the beach.” I couldn’t resist using this image…

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