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If you are here for the Lawnscaping Spring Blog Hop, Click Here! If you are here for the Lilypad Cards Birthday Blog Hop, Click Here! My GCD Studios goodies arrived a couple of weeks ago:) I sat on my floor and wowed about them for hours! Sweet colors and fun patterns! Some of them are perfect for cutting out and making into embellishments - Like these butterflies from Bonjour paper designed by Diane Kappa: These butterflies were outlined with a white border - perfect cut every time! Bend the wings a little and popped them on with foam dots; add some glitter...

Hello Everyone, Nina here with another Joy's Life Design Team project. This week Joy challenged us to create something Easter or Spring related. I have this tulip die that I wanted to make into a chickie foot the moment I saw it:) So I created this chickie: I used a scalloped circle punch for the chick body and free hand cut the nose and comb. Sentiment from Holiday Occasions Set by Joy's Life. It fits perfectly in the Photo Captions Large Punch by EK Success :) Love my sentiments fit into my punches:) Do you know that the hearts in...

If you are here for the Lily Pad Blog Hop, please scroll down or click here! GCD Studios Online Magazine: The Paper Cut is now live! It's so beautiful and so inspiring! Check out the clever techniques and tutorials, and join us in the fun challenges! Check it out here! (Click on the thumbnail in the landing post to view the online magazine!) It is so fresh and trendy! Off to take my 7th look at it... Let's go!

If you are here for the Lily Pad Blog Hop, please scroll down or click here! Happy Monday Crafters! I am so excited to share the news! I'm on Hampton Art Design Team! I will be working with inks from Clearsnap and stamps designed by Doodlebug, Graphic 45, 7 Gypsies, Outlines, Spellbinders and Hampton Arts Signature Designs! Wow! :) Here is one of the cards I made for the call: All stamps from Hampton Arts! Love the polka dot stamp (Studio G), so versatile! Check out all the wonderful girls on the design team here: 2012-2013 Hampton Art Design Team...

This week's Joy's Life Design Team Challenge is to create a project with something that moves… Well, the ribbon unties to reveal a gift card inside in this project:) I do not use ribbons much (though I have a ton of them) but now I see why we need a ribbon hole border punch:) I would like to share how I did this with a Mcgills Hand Punch 1. Start with a piece of 4-1/4" x 9-3/4" cardstock, long side at top, score at 1-1/4" and 4-1/4"; fold. 2. Mark every 1/2" starting from the middle on the short 1-1/4"...

Hi everyone! Nina here with another Joy's Life Design Team project. I made a card using "Lucky Me Having You in My Life" sentiment from You're So Punny Set. The sentiment, the fonts, and how the letters are positioned are just perfect! I used the biggest heart in the nesting heart dies set as a template to form the foam dotted heart and put glitter on the dots. Messy but fun! ;) You can download the Man and Woman Silhouette Pattern as a .studio cut file here or the printable pattern below: (right click on the image and save it to...