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Welcome to Tutorial Tuesday! A new series on my blog, where I'll be sharing quick, easy, and animated step-by-step instructions once a month! Today, I'm sharing these lacey, traditional tags, which are sure to dress up any gift!  This year, I'm using these sweet tags to tie brown paper packages of mulling spices for friends + family! What will you use yours for? STEPS 1. Start by die-cutting the floral cluster shape 2. Stamp the outline guide by using the large background stamp and lining it up with the die-cut shape 3. Stamp center of flower, buds, and berries 4. Stamp leaves 4. Die-cut a scalloped heart 5. Using a marker, color the scallops only (easiest to do with brush tip markers) 6. Die-cut sentiment 7. Adhere floral cluster, sentiment and pearls to heart base Once these are done, it's super easy to add sparkle, rhinestones, glitter, Nuvo drops, or any other little accents to dress them up even more!  It's also super easy to switch up the colors to more contem...

Happy Sunday, Friends! I hope you've all enjoyed your weekend immensely!   I have a jam-packed post lined up today, with five colorful cards - some inspired by challenges, others to showcase some new favorite products. It's been so fun playing with these colorful tones, and the pops of black throughout.  And all the yummy texture... :) To start the post off I'm sharing two cards that I'm entering into  Papertrey's Spot Color Words challenge  and  Papertrey's Transformation Tuesday challenge . First up, for Betsy's awesome Make it Monday Spot Color Word challenge , I am sharing this pastel card. I love this super simple and fun technique! I changed mine up a tad by adding some dimension to the letters and to the rest of the card, but I still followed the general idea (of localized color on a word die).  To learn how to do this, check out Betsy's awesome video  here .    To start this card, I stamped Rustic Wreath and Peonies on Parade s...

I fell in love with embroidery at a very young age, watching both my mom and grandma stitch beautiful art. It's been such a joy to see embroidery, once again, coming back into the mainstream. Have you noticed it all around lately?  Last year, among the lovely embroidered details we added to our decor, I also found the dreamiest embroidered dress and wore it practically all Summer. I can't wait for the mercury to rise so I can slip into it once again :) Until then, I've been playing with a bit of embroidery in the craft room. I'm not exactly the needle + thread connoisseur like the ladies in my family, but I sure can work embossing paste.  So I've got a cheat embroidery look for you today and it's as simple as can be. ______________________________________________________________________ SUPPLIES a stencil of your choice ( here  is the one above, but  this one  is pretty too molding paste , a variety of  ink refills  or other color mediums to dye your p...