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Autumn is a Great time for Scrapbooking & Card Making and Cropping!!

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Are you a person who cringes thinking about the end of summer or do you love the crisp air, crunchy leaves and brilliant colors of fall?  Honestly, for me, if it's not winter in Michigan, I'm good with all of the three other seasons! Each season represents a fresh start and fall is usually the time of year when scrapbookers and stampers come back inside and start up their papercrafting again!  If that's you, here are some tips on how to prepare to begin again! 1.  Keep your crafting area clean! Easier said than done, right?  However, a couple of suggestions to help you at least do better in this area.   Start with the cleanest slate you can.   Take fifteen minutes a day, EVERY DAY,  and work on your room starting today.   You will be surprised how much progress you'll make with just a non-interrupted 15 minutes of focused work.   Do it now and you'll be clean by the first official day of fall.   To keep it clean, the moment you finish your l

A Year of Card Techniques / August 2017 / Stamping On Patterned Paper

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Welcome to A Year of Card Techniques Blog Hop where each month we feature a different card technique.  We’ve assembled a team of card makers who range from new to advanced, so you’ll see a great variety of cards and ideas. We all love our stamp sets and we all love our patterned paper.  Well, this month we’re combining the two by stamping ON patterned paper for some unique projects.  It will be fun to see what stamps and papers our team decides to pair together.   And if you would like to check out our past technique hops, you can do that here: January-Shaving Cream Marbleizing February-So Sketchy March-no hop this month April-Stamp Set Showdown May-World of Watercolor June-Basic Card Folds July-Bleaching Your Card Our amazing sponsor this month is Card a Day Challenge Blog . Please take a moment to check out the CADC blog here . And the awesome prize this month is: And the 2nd awesome prize this month is: We  really appreciate fe