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Hello everyone! I have been away at the Snap! Conference - a three-day event with classes and inspiration keynotes for craft bloggers. I've met some awesome designers and crafters that I would love to collaborate with for Waffle Flower Crafts. So stay tuned~~ For today, I'm sharing a modern flower wreath I made with Core'dinations paper for Darice's booth at the conference. The girls from Darice are adorable and I really enjoyed making my first flower wreath: Supplies: Core Essentials Cardstock Paper Pack - Pastels - 12x12 Core Essentials Cardstock paper Pack - Neutrals - 12x12 Core’dinations Cardstock paper Pack...

Hello everyone! Popped in to share another card I made with Twirly Girly Collection from Chickaniddy for their CHA booth. I basically kept the beautiful flourish design on the patterned paper but emphasized bits and pieces with ready-made brads and a handmade flower! Supplies: TG14OS04 Keepsakes Paper; TG14OS05 Paper Posies Paper; TG14OS08 Itty Bitty Ballerina Paper; TG14EB06 19 Brads; TG14EB07 32 Enamel Hearts; TG14EB04 Tags) I love that there are some solid color paper in the collection that we can make our own embellishments in matching colors! I used my Embellish It - Flower Die and the brads in the...

Hello everyone! Did you know that March is National Craft Month?  I'm very excited to share this DIY Nautical Tote Bag as part of the Jo-Ann Fabric And Craft Stores® National Craft Month campaign. I am one of the crafters selected to share our love for crafting and highlight the latest spring trends. Jo-Ann makes spring crafting easy during National Craft Month with a $5 off $25 or more purchase coupon and a spring crafting inspiration website. Since we've been having bright sunshine days here in Arizona, it was easy for me to take on the Nautical trend. I always try to include...

It is the 1st Birthday of CAS-ual Fridays! I feel so lucky and honored to be the guest designer for this special week! If Clean and Simple (CAS) is your thing, CAS-ual Fridays is The Challenge to play along! It has a great owner Michele and a super talented design team! I draw my inspirations from the new look on CAS-ual Fridays blog and came up with this card... The sentiment is from Cling Sentiments (by Kelly Panacci for Hampton Art); heat embossed in Teal. I punched the flowers out from orange cardstock and stacked 5 layers for one thick flower:) The...

There are so many talented designers and amazing crafters on the web. One of the ladies that inspire me the most is Melania Deasy. Her works are so bright, happy and often with some clever uses of products! When she asked me to make a project with her new digital stamps, I had to say yes! :) I am so excited and happy for Melania! All stamps from Melania's new digi set. This is my first time working with digi stamps. I hope I did ok? I copied the clouds multiple times to create the background and then resized the birdie...

Happy Monday! I am here to share my guest design project for Scor-pal blog. My apologies that I could not finish the Ver. 2 tutorial for this post today. I made about 20 boxes to get the Ver. 1 tutorial done. And after making 10+ more, I have simplified the pattern to Ver. 2 as shown here. I promise I will put the tutorial up ASAP! (A full video tutorial, maybe! lol) Download a pdf of the Ver. 1 Tutorial Here, Hexagon Template Here, watch the final step here: Ver. 2 - 5 simple steps with a minimum supplies as shown below: I...