Guest Designer: How to Make a Fall Mixed Media Collage Painting Using the October Hydrangea Hippo Kit

We’re excited to welcome Melissa Johnson as this month’s guest designer! Melissa is a self employed small business owner, artist ,wife, and mom to 5 amazing kids. We loved her work on her blog and knew she would bring a whimsical, artist touch to her work with our kit. Without further ado, here’s Melissa’s take on
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How to Make a Child Artwork Display – A Clearsnap + Walnut Hollow Blog Hop

Welcome to the Clearsnap and Walnut Hollow blog hop today!!!I love both of these companies with their quality, “Made in America” products, and I’m super excited to be working with them both on this hop today. I’m sharing a child artwork display pallet. I received product from Walnut Hollow and Clearsnap to create this post. All
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How to Decorate a Paper Bag Book – Fancy Pants + Clearsnap Blog Hop

I was provided product from Fancy Pants Designs and Clearsnap for this blog hop. All opinions are 100% my own. I’m so excited to be on the Clearsnap and Fancy Pants Blog Hop this week! Today is the final day of the hop and Denise Hahn and I are the featured designers for Clearsnap. I
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DIY Ombre Wood Stain

Just FYI, cuz I like to be upfront like that: This post is sponsored by Crafty Hangouts and their advertiser, Minwax. Additional product was provided by Walnut Hollow. All opinions and product experiences are my own. I have had all of these gorgeous Walnut Hollow wood planks in my stash for sometime now. It seemed
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Easy Fall Altered Tray with Tombow Xtreme

I was provided product for this project and review. All opinions are 100% my own. I was recently inducted into Tombow’s Sticky U! I was sent a sample of Tombow’s new Xtreme adhesive and given an assignment to create something with this new adhesive, putting it to the test. Way back in the day I was
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Beiber Believer

It’s totally impossible that I have Beiber on the brain. But somehow, I made a card with glitter and sunglasses and a “believe” sticker. I was thinking birthday.  THEN the girl comes around the corner and says, Oh, it’s a Beiber card.” #CraftFail Really? Now I can’t see this card any other way. But it’s
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