My Creative Escape

{Scheduled Post} Ok so don’t pass out. LOL!  I PAPER scrapped last week.  Ay yi yi… I can’t remember the last time I seriously scrapped a layout with paper and traditional supplies… meaning non-digital. LOL! This layout filled two purposes for me.  I needed a paper layout for one of the art contests at Creative University  and Erin Gudge (the OTHER Erin G) at Treasured Scrapbooking was holding a Guest Designer contest for her store and pointed me in the…

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{Scheduled Post} Hey friends! Remember when I did the Scrap My Scraps challenge last year?  We had some fabulous fun with that one and I wanted to do it again, but haven’t really dug into my scrap heap quite yet.  However, I made a card recently using some paper that I was not “overly fond of” and have gobs left… Here’s the card with some snippets of the paper on it: What you also don’t see is the purple collection…

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Hey friends! Just a note to let you know that the Hop(e) for Haiti card and gift auctions are now LIVE. I have listed all the links to each individual auction in the top right hand side of my blog’s side bar for your convenience. Simply click on the links to view and bid on these treasures. Let’s see what we can raise for the people of Haiti! Thank you & Inky Smiles!

{Brent has been unsubscribed from my blog (for now) and has sworn not to look at the blog until Sunday.. hahaha!  } So I wanted something creative yet simple to do for my sweetheart for Valentine’s day this year.  I am not a big expensive gift person on Valentine’s day.  I think Valentine’s day is a good day to show the people you love, whether you’re single or married, that you DO love them.  You can write a nice letter…

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Hey friends! I was working on some Valentine’s projects yesterday in hopes of getting everything ready to give this weekend.  I have a fun little something for my sweetheart all figured out and nearly ready to go, but I can’t show it because he reads my blog.  (I should unsubscribe him so he can’t see ahead of time… hehehe!) I needed some “quickie” type cards and didn’t want to have to think about or dig through embellishments and whatnot to…

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Happy Tuesday ya’ll! Today we’re playing with another fun sketch from  Belinda Chang Langer of Bleu Bella Paperie. Here’s today’s sketch: MMMM… nice and simple… gives me lots of room to play.  And very few rules to break, if any…  well, I did take the liberty to leave off one of those black dots… I am so totally head over heels in luuuuuurve with Skipping Stones Design’s Dandelion Dreams stamp set that I had to use it again today.  Here’s the…

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