Category Archives: 3-D, Gifts & Things

Altered Folded Mini Treat Bag

One more idea for using the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies, which are $10 off through Monday night on the Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deals. Make the regular mini treat bag, then fold over the top edge. Add a belly band to hold it in place and you’ve got a cute little envelope for a card and/or treat! Don’t forget all the cute embellishments that come in the set of dies, such as the strip of stars, hearts and dots, the heart and star, the words, etc. You can decorate your Altered Folded Mini Treat Bag any way you like!

For this project I just used a 6″ x 6″ piece of paper from the Cherry on Top Designer Series Paper Stack. No cutting involved. But you do need to to place the large treat bag die carefully on the paper and make sure it is properly placed as you cover it with the cutting plate before running through the Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine. The Magnetic Platform helps hold it in place but you can also use some post-it type notes or washi tape to hold the die in place. As you can see, there is very little paper waste!

Make the mini treat bag, then fold over the top. You can just do this or you can score first about 3 1/2″ from the bottom edge of the bag. Just figure out what size you want the bag/envelope to be.

Go to my Stampin’ Up! Online Store and check out all the Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deals! Then if you liked my Altered Folded Mini Treat Bag, be sure to place it on your order before 11:50 pm MT Monday June 29, 2015. All the other items on the Weekly Deals are really great too so be sure to look!

Smaller Mini Treat Bags

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I’ve let go of Christmas today and have another way to use the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies I think you will find useful! The die pieces include one large one which forms the front of the bag, and we used two of them to make the larger gusseted bags. Today we will use the smaller die piece which normally forms the back of the bag and cut two of those to make these Smaller Mini Treat Bags!

Cut two of the small bag die pieces.

Fold the score lines made by the die to form the bag. Since the bottom edges of these pieces are just straight, trim off a little bit, maybe 1/2″ from the bottom of one that will be the back piece of the bag. On the other piece, make a 1/2″ score line and fold (maybe even trimming the corners off as shown. This piece will be the front piece of the mini treat bag.

Apply adhesive of your choice as shown. I used the new Tear & Tape Adhesive.

The Mini Treat Bag on the left is made with the Cherry on Top Designer Series Paper Stack. Such a cute stack of colorful papers! As you can see the front and back top edges are the same length. The heart and words are die cuts in the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies. Not only do you get the mini treat bag dies but you get extra dies that cut embellishments for your projects.

The treat bag on the right is made from the new In Color Envelope Paper. On this bag, the front piece is folded down a bit and I tied a string of the Burlap Ribbon around the top edge. The star is a die cut in the set of thinlits dies.

Remember, the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies are on the Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deals through Monday night, June 29. You can save $10 when you purchase these dies! To see some other altered Mini Treat Bags I have made, check out this post and this post. To see some of the “regular” mini treat bags you can make with the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies, please click HERE.

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Mini Treat Bag Altered Christmas Gift Bag

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Do you realize that six months from today is Christmas Day?! That means there are less than six months to get ready for Christmas! Now that the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies are on sale this week, $10 off, on the Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deals, I thought I would learn how to make an altered size bag, rather than just the flat kind of treat bag into which you would slip a card or gift card or something not very thick. Since it is only six months today until Christmas, I thought I would make a Mini Treat Bag Altered Christmas Gift Bag!

Here is a little tutorial for you:

Instead of cutting the two different pieces to make the bag like you would normally, cut two pieces with the large bag die. This one piece would normally be the front of the regular Mini Treat Bag. Then just trim off that extra little piece as shown. Just snip it off with a scissors. That side of the bag will be the gusseted side of the bag when assembled.

Now score just that right side of the large piece at 1/2″ and 1 1/4″ as shown. There will also be a score line made from the die. For the bottom of the bag, cut one or two pieces of paper 1 1/2″ x 3 5/8″. I say one or two because it depends on what kind of paper you are using and how strong and sturdy you want the bottom of the bag to be. With card stock probably just one piece is fine; with designer paper you probably want to glue two pieces together.

This is how you will fold on the score lines on both pieces to form the gusset for the side of the bag. If you just want the side flat, then just score at 1/2″ and use the score line made by the die. You won’t need the center one. Play with the two pieces and see how they will fit together so you have the folds going the correct way.

Adhere the bottom piece to the bottom tab and all the sides to form the bag. I like using the Multipurpose Liquid Glue because it gives you time and slip to be able to move the pieces to exactly the right positions. But Fast Fuse or Tear & Tape Adhesive.

Next comes the fun part of embellishing the Mini Treat Bag! I used a piece of the In Color Envelope Paper, the Cucumber Crush color, to make a banner. I stamped a Christmas greeting with a stamp in the Wondrous Wreath Photopolymer Stamp Set in Real Red ink, then punched it out with the 2 1/2″ Circle Punch. I die cut a piece of Silver Glimmer Paper with the Circles Collection Framelits Dies for a layer behind the greeting. The little bow is a die cut in the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies package! So many cute and useful extra dies in that collection! I would also suggest putting a Rhinestone Jewel on the center of that bow. (I forgot!)

There you have it! Really the process is pretty easy to make a Mini Treat Bag Altered Christmas Gift Bag. Take advantage of the $10 savings on this die this week. Weekly Deals are good through Monday night, June 29 until 11:50 pm MT. Shop for these Mini Treat Bag Dies and any other stamping and art supplies you need at my Stampin’ Up! Online Store HERE. PS: That Silver Glimmer Paper is also on sale this week on the Weekly Deals!

Altered Mini Treat Bag

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With the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies on sale for $10 off this week on the Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deals, I thought I would make an altered Mini Treat Bag so you can see some versatility with this die! By just doing a few different things, you can make a larger gusseted treat bag with the same dies! You can make a smaller one too! And this die comes with so many different pieces and coordinates with a new stamp set in the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog. That stamp set is You’re So Sweet on page 57.

The negative image of the word “Enjoy” is leftover from something else I made with the word cut out that I just happened to save and it came in handy for this bag! I had a scrap piece of the same Bohemian Designer Series Paper so I just turned it over and glued it to the front of the bag with a scrap strip of Gold Glimmer Paper across the front. I also used the star die in the package to cut out the star out of the Gold Glimmer Paper. So easy!

Tomorrow I will take a few more photos and show you have to make this altered Mini Treat Bag.

Be sure to check out the Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deals for the week of June 23, 2015. These are good through Monday night, June 29. Every item on there is worth having! But I know you’ll have fun with the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits!

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Cherry on Top Cotton Paper Mini Treat Bag

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When I broke out my new Cherry on Top Cotton Paper in the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog I decided to make a treat bag with it using the Big Shot and the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies. I love the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits because you get so many pieces with it, and of course other people have figured out ways to alter the size of the treat bags and things you can make with the bag die. So it is a little pricey but you get a lot with this set.

But back to the Cotton Paper! It’s a little heavier, I would say, than tissue paper. It is lightweight but sturdy. I love my treat bag I made with the Cucumber Crush color, but I did find it a little difficult to work with in making the bag. It was a little bit difficult to fold on the score lines since the paper is lightweight. I found using SNAIL adhesive to not work with it at all – seems the paper was too slick for the SNAIL to catch on to. But the Fast Fuse worked great and I imagine the new Tear & Tape Adhesive would work great. After making the treat bag, I cut a piece of Whisper White card stock to fit inside and stamped it with Watermelon Wonder ink with a birthday greeting from the Amazing Birthday Stamp Set. (You can also buy a Bundle with the matching Banners Framelits if you like and save 15%.)

To decorate the bag, I punched ten flowers with the Pansy Punch from the Watermelon Wonder Cotton Paper. I could also have used the Floral Frames Collection Framelits Dies. Just stack the flowers together, staple in the center with the Stampin’ Up! Handheld Stapler. Then just smoosh each layer up and toward the center to make the flower! The Cotton Paper works well for this! Just smoosh and fool with it and get it to your liking. If you are mailing it, you can flatten the flower and tell the recipient to fluff up the flower when they receive it! I also stamped a banner from the Amazing Birthday stamp set to decorate and applied a piece of Cherry on Top Washi Tape over a strip of Whisper White card stock since the tape is transparent. Then I just adhered it to the bottom of the treat bag. And since I had an already stamped and die-cut leafy image from the other day, I stuck that on behind the flower. So cute!

If you need any of these supplies, you can find them at my Stampin’ Up! Online Store HERE.

Gift Bag Punch Board Bohemian Gift Bag

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One of the new products in the new Stampin’ Up! 2015-16 Annual Catalog is the Gift Bag Punch Board, With this punch board, you can create many different sizes of gift bags, using card stock or designer series paper. There are three sizes of bags listed on the punch board, based on the size of the bottom of the bag. But then you can make the bag as tall or short as you like. It also punches holes in the top to thread ribbon through to tie closed, but I didn’t make this bag that way. On this bag, I also scored about an inch across the top so I could fold the paper over at the top to see the pattern on the other side. You could also make a decorative top edge. You can bet people will figure out many ways to make different sized bags and who knows what projects with this Gift Bag Punch Board! The sides can be straight and plain, or they can be gusseted to fold in a bit. And then of course, the possibilities of decorating are endless, especially for Stampin’ Up! papercrafters!

This gift bag is made with a pattern in the Bohemian Designer Series Paper. You could use any of the papers, any side. With some patterns of paper, you probably want to pay attention to which way the pattern is going before you cut your paper for the punch board. Don’t score too hard with designer paper so as not to tear the paper. It will probably hold up pretty well, though. The tag is made with the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch and the new Delightful Dijon card stock and the greeting is from the Bravo Photopolymer Stamp Set. What a fun greeting set to have on hand!

There are directions that come with the Gift Bag Punch Board and they are even printed on the board itself, But the best bet is to watch this Stampin’ Up! video to really get a feel for it. Make a bag or two with some scrap paper to get the idea and you will be all set! Not that hard!

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Sara Douglass Farmers Market Party Ideas

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Don’t you love these cute party ideas with the Stampin’ Up! Farmers Market Designer Paper , the All About Sugar Stamp Set, and four other products and accessories?! Sara Douglass, Shelli Gardner’s daughter, was featured on a local TV show in Utah, Good Things Utah, and showed how anyone can make a few simple party decorations to jazz things up! These are really cute and super simple to make! Just change the designer paper to suit the theme of your party or gathering!

Watch the video below, and visit the page HERE.

Here are the products Sara used. Now you can start planning your party decorations!

138684 – All About Sugar Stamp Set
138448 – Farmers Market Designer Series Paper
101650 – Very Vanilla 8-1/2” x 11” Cardstock
138315 – Kraft Tag a Bag Gift Bags
138417 – Hello Honey 5/8” Striped Cotton Ribbon
132708 – Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad

To read the article and see a few more photos of the party decorations, visit the Stampin’ Up! website HERE and find the article “Sara Douglass on Good Things Utah”.

When you have your party planned, just visit my Stampin’ Up! Online Store HERE to make your purchases! Looks really fun to me!!

Last Days for Retiring Stampin’ Up! Products!

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I can’t believe it is the end of May and the beginning of June tomorrow! Where does the time go? And so it will be the end of these retiring stamps and accessories from Stampin’ Up! on Tuesday, June 2nd. Be sure to peruse your outgoing Stampin’ Up! Catalog a few more times and make sure you have everything you can’t live without!

On June 2nd you will be able to order anything available from the current Stampin’ Up! Catalog, the Occasions Catalog (also ending that day), and the NEW Stampin’ Up! Catalog. It should be available online that day if you do not have a copy. It’s the only day you will be able to order old and new! But that’s it for the outgoing catalog.

Here are some of the products I think I will miss!

For The Birds Little Red Wagon Card

The For The Birds Stamp Set and the Perfect Polka Dot Embossing Folder.

The Hi There Stamp Set and the Word Bubbles Framelits Dies. I loved making this card!

Hi There Hey There Card

The Label Love Stamp Set, the matching Artisan Label Punch and the Retro Fresh This and That Washi Tape.

Label Love Happy Birthday Card

The Petite Purse Die, great for little gifts and party favors.

Modern Medley Houndstooth Petite Purse

Make The World a Better Place Card

I have loved the Starburst Sayings Stamp Set and the matching Framelits.

Petite Petals Top Note Thinking of You Card

And my goodness, the Top Note Die! We used that for everything when it first came out!

Valentine Top Note Purse Candy Treat Bag

Two Top Note Dies together to make a pocket card for Christmas!

And of course:

The digital papercrafting software from Stampin’ Up! The software is ridiculously priced now, has so much content, and you can purchase any extra downloads you want for 30% off!

My Digital Studio

Shop now through Tuesday, June 2nd for any retiring Stampin’ Up! products! Don’t miss out!

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May 2015 Paper Pumpkin Kit

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If you didn’t join Paper Pumpkin by May 10th, this is what you missed! And if you did get your Paper Pumpkin kit in the mail already, you might like to watch this video to see how it goes together – OR you might want to wait and be surprised when you open your kit! I don’t know what is coming in the June kit, but you need to sign up by June 10th to get your kit shipped by mid-June!

Take advantage of the 50% off special for the first two months! It’s for new subscribers so join NOW! Good through June 10, 2015. Use Promo Code SAVE50

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Watch the video and see how fun and easy the kits are!

Mini Treat Bag Card or Gift Card Holder for Mother’s Day

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Happy Mother’s Day!

Maybe you still need a quick card or something in which to put a gift card for your mother or special someone. The Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Die is great for this! It die cuts two pieces with which to make a little bag and comes with plenty of extra die pieces, such as the heart strip on the bottom, the Pumpkin Pie banner piece and the “For You” words. I went kind of bold with this, choosing a large polka dot pattern from the Sweet Taffy Designer Series Paper. It’s such happy paper, cute patterns and is on sale through tomorrow night on the Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deals! Grab some while you can! I added a strip of Melon Mambo across the top with a belly band around the bag with another paper in the Sweet Taffy pack. The little metallic threads are pulled out of the Gold Baker’s Twine! It seems to be the “in” thing to just adhere some circles of twine or threads behind another element on a card.

You can slip a card inside with a greeting or you put a gift card! Either way this makes a great unexpected card or gift holder. And you can use it for many occasions!

Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deals good through Monday night, May 11th!

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Make a Pretty Box With the Gift Box Punch Board

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Make this pretty gift box with some designer series paper and the Gift Box Punch Board in just minutes! I chose the Gold Soiree Designer Series Paper because of the pretty gold pattern and because the patterns inside and out didn’t matter which way they ended up going! The Gift Box Punch Board, although it may look confusing at first, I think after you make one or two boxes you will totally have the hang of it. This is the largest box, 4 inches on each side, and uses a
12″ x 12″ piece of paper. I used designer paper so the inside would also be decorative, but you can also use card stock if you wanted a solid color.

To trim the gift box, I used the White 1 1/4″ Jute Ribbon in the Occasions Catalog. For an extra-special accent I added some Gold Sequin Trim. This could be for any nice occasion! Add a tag if you like or a gift card.

And for a special treat, the Gift Box Punch Board happens to be on the new Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deals this week! Save $5! You can watch a video HERE to see how to use the punch board. Order your punch board by Monday, May 11.

A Handmade Berry Basket for Easter

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If you own the Berry Basket Die, you are all set for making cute little Easter baskets! My other berry baskets have been made with card stock or designer paper, but this one is made with Coaster Board and is much sturdier. The Vanilla Coaster Board is described as thinner than chipboard and sturdier than card stock.

I decided to stamp mine with the Wildflower Meadow Stamp Set. This is one large background stamp, which I would recommend you purchase in the wood-mount. Those large stamps are just easier to manipulate on the wood block than sticking on the very large clear block. I colored the flowers and leaves with various Stampin’ Write Markers and then pressed the Coaster Board pieces, after they were die cut, onto the Wildflower Meadow stamp. I had to cover the portion of the Coaster Board basket that I didn’t want stamped. And think about which way your pattern is going. I stamped different portions of the large stamp on each side of the basket.

Once it was all stamped, I realized that if I attached the usual basket edges around the top, they would cover up some of my stamping! So I adhered the basket edges to the INSIDE of the basket to hold it together and adhered the Venetian Crochet Trim around the outside top edge of the basket. I tied a separate bow and adhered it with a Glue Dot to the front. I love the way it turned out, if I do say so myself!

This berry basket won’t even be just for Easter! It’s pretty for any time, especially spring!

If you are interested in the Berry Basket Die, you can also purchase the Magnetic Platform for the Big Shot to use with framelits and thinlits on Monday, taking advantage of FREE SHIPPING and the Weekly Deal discount ending on Monday! Hey, with free shipping all next week (Mon, April 6 – Friday, April 10) you can order the Weekly Deals you want on Monday and then order again if there is something you want that comes out on Tuesday!

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Stampin’ Up! Coloring Techniques for You!

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Maybe this is the end of your Spring Break, or the beginning. Maybe you are snowed in or rained in. Maybe you are having a relaxing and lazy Sunday and would just like to sit back and watch some videos! Here are some that Stampin’ Up! released the other day showing various coloring techniques that you might enjoy.

Coloring Techniques with Sale-a-Bration Papers:

Watch Carrie use the Sale-A-Bration Irresistibly Yours paper that is already embossed AND the printed Sheer Perfection Vellum Paper Stack!

Watercoloring with Blender Pens – A Happy Thing Stamp Set

When I first started stamping, Blender Pens were one of the main things we used! They are still tons of fun to use with ink pads or ink refills in many ways! Get re-acquainted with your Blender Pens or order new ones!

Watercolor Wash Technique – For Being You Stamp Set

Have some fun by embossing with White Embossing Powder and the Heat Tool, then use the Aqua Painter and ink to do a watercolor wash!

Order any of the current Stampin’ Up! products and with a $50 purchase you qualify for a FREE Sale-A-Bration product! Remember, besides the Sale-A-Bration Brochure, new Sale-A-Bration products were added! And a few more were added last week!!

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Make Yourself a Triple Berry Basket

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A few weeks ago, after playing around a little with my new Berry Basket Die, I wanted to try to make a larger basket to actually hold some cards on my desk. Some I saw online were actually two or three baskets put together but I didn’t want the divider inside. So I figured out this arrangement:

You can see I cut off some of the basket sides in order to assemble this and glued two sides at the ends. I also took the strips that would be the handles and cut them to adhere the pieces together in the basket bottom. Then I covered the inside bottom of the basket with a piece of card stock that fit the length and width to give it a more finished look inside. You’ll have to measure to get the best fit.

Then my berry basket was decorated with the pretty Painted Blooms Designer Series Paper, along the trim and for the flower.

I highly recommend trying the Coaster Board for making these baskets. It will be a lot sturdier and stronger than card stock. However, the card stock is cute and handy to use, too!

Get the Berry Basket Die and have fun making small baskets! How great they will be to make for Easter and spring! The Handheld Stampin’ Up! Stapler is very fun to use with these baskets and makes them look like real baskets!

Don’t forget to check the Weekly Deals, too! Last Day!

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Easter Bunny Tag

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Last weekend I had SO much fun making twenty-four of these fun Easter tags with two of my customers/friends and one cute little girl for a group of children. I found the idea for the punch art bunny on Pinterest somewhere and fortunately the bunny fit just right on a tag made with the Stampin’ Up! Tag Topper Scalloped Punch. I added some designer paper on the tag for the background and stamped the Easter greeting from a retired Hostess set (sorry!) right on the paper. We played with different combinations, like stamping on cardstock and punching out a shape, but in the end we just liked it stamped on the paper. That’s how you have to play around sometimes with rubber stamping until you just “know” you have the right design!

This is how you make the bunny: The head is the Extra-Large Oval Punch. The body is the 1 3/4″ Circle Punch, cut in half. The ears are the Large Oval Punch with the pink insides made with the Word Window Punch. We opted to fold down the top of the ear for cuteness! The cute little heart nose is punched with the Owl Builder Punch. The eyes are just drawn in with a black marker and Miss Elsie did the whiskers with some wispy strokes with the Crumb Cake Marker! The rabbit paws are just 1/2″ circles. The carrot is punched with the Modern Label Punch and then just trimmed down with Paper Snips. With the heart punch in the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack you can make the carrot topper and even fringe it with the Paper Snips if you want to make it look real.

The ribbon on the tag is the Tangelo Twist 3/8″ Satin Ribbon. It really goes well with the tag.

Hang this tag on an Easter basket or put the tag on a card for Easter. Or just make the punch art bunny on an Easter card. Have fun with it.

If you need any of these supplies, you might be able to earn a FREE Sale-A-Bration product with a $50 purchase. Due to the Blendabilities not being available any more, other Sale-A-Bration items may sell out so if there is something you really want, don’t delay.

Don’t forget about the Weekly Deals and New Arrivals.

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Category Archives: 3-D, Gifts & Things

Altered Folded Mini Treat Bag

Smaller Mini Treat Bags

Place your order at my Stampin’ Up! Online Store!

Mini Treat Bag Altered Christmas Gift Bag

Altered Mini Treat Bag

Cherry on Top Cotton Paper Mini Treat Bag

Gift Bag Punch Board Bohemian Gift Bag

Sara Douglass Farmers Market Party Ideas

Last Days for Retiring Stampin’ Up! Products!

My Digital Studio

Shop Stampin’ Up! Online 24/7

May 2015 Paper Pumpkin Kit

Take advantage of the 50% off special for the first two months! It’s for new subscribers so join NOW! Good through June 10, 2015. Use Promo Code SAVE50

JOIN PAPER PUMPKIN

Mini Treat Bag Card or Gift Card Holder for Mother’s Day

Happy Mother’s Day!

Make a Pretty Box With the Gift Box Punch Board

A Handmade Berry Basket for Easter

Shop HERE at Stampin’ Up!

Stampin’ Up! Coloring Techniques for You!

Coloring Techniques with Sale-a-Bration Papers:

Watercoloring with Blender Pens – A Happy Thing Stamp Set

Watercolor Wash Technique – For Being You Stamp Set

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Make Yourself a Triple Berry Basket

Easter Bunny Tag

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