Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Season's Giving 2019 Blog Hop


UPDATE:  WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT!!


Thanks to everyone for stopping by my blog during the Seasons Giving Hop and for your kind comments.  I really enjoyed hearing about everyone's crafty resolutions and think I've now added a few of those to my list, too!

The winner of my prize package goes to (drum roll)...
Beverly S. !!!
Congratulations, Beverly!  I'm sending you an email for your mailing information.

Thanks again!  Blessings to all for a fabulous 2019!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019!

Welcome!  Thanks so much for joining the 7th Annual Season's Givings Blog Hop and for stopping by my blog!  There are so many amazing projects being shared and every stop on the hop has prizes - wow!! (see hop list below)

This is the first year I've participated in the hop and am so excited...is this fun or what?!  The hop started as a thank you and a way to give back to the wonderful crafting community we're all part of.  I've met so many incredible people through this shared love of crafting and everyday I am inspired, supported and uplifted. YOU have enhanced my life in more ways than you'll ever know -- THANK YOU!

If you are new to my blog - welcome!  You can also find me on Instagram (@stampinkathy4), Pinterest (Kathy Schweinfurth) and Facebook (Kathy Schweinfurth).

Remember I said every stop on the hop has prizesHere's my giveaway package for one lucky winner!  To be eligible, simply leave a comment below sharing your crafty/creative New Year's resolution and become a follower of my blog by Saturday, January 5th at midnight EST.  I'll announce the winner on Sunday, January 6th.

 

One of my 2018 crafty resolutions was to learn to take better photos - still will be working on staging in 2019.  Another resolution is to try new techniques and do a few things outside my comfort zone like non-line coloring and actually opening up and trying my gel pad!  What's your crafty New Year's resolution? Here are a few of my favorite projects from this year...

 




 

 



 


 






 

95 comments:

  1. Resolution? Finish one project before beginning another. Not easy for my personality. Love your work! Thanks for sharing your creativity with us! Hope you will follow me at http://afourthlife.blogspot.com. kReN

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  2. Your cards are always so beautiful, Kathy! I love to come here for inspiration, and I especially love the critters! thank you for the awesome and very generous giveaway! I don't make resolutions, but I do set goals! My crafty goals for 2019 are (1) make holiday cards all year long (at least two per month); (2) re-organize my dies; and (3) create ink swatches for my Distress Inks and Distress Oxides. Thank you for the inspiration and I look forward to more! Happy 2019 to you!

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  3. Kathy, your cards are some of my favorites --- always so beautiful! I'm not sure I have any crafty goals for 2019 except maybe to try some new techniques and branch out from my comfort zone a little more.
    Here's wishing you a Happy and Blessed 2019!

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  4. In 2019 I want to learn to color better!!

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  5. 2019 goal is to organise my craft space which I think was last year's goal as well ; )
    Happy New Year, thanks for a great hop and chance to win these lovely goodies : )

    jennyhurley @ hotmail.com.au

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  6. Your design looks are amazing, enjoyed taking a peek and being inspired! Thank you! I am planning on designating days to try the styles of specific designers, work outside my comfort zone and try new styles/techniques in 2019! Happy New Year!

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  7. Great collection from 2018 and I know 2019 will have even more. Happy New Year and thank you for the opportunity.

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  8. Your cards are beautiful! And, personally, I think your photos are really fantastic! I am hoping to bring scrapbooking back into my crafty mix this year a bit. We'll see how that goes. LOL! Wishing you a very Happy New Year! jinglesells@gmail.com

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  9. I don't really have a new years resolution this year, but I am hoping to get my craft stash organized so I can find what I'm looking for!

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  10. My resolution is to make more time for crafting. Happy New Year!

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  11. I want to learn new tech. and how to color with copic's. Lots to do this year. Have a great new year.

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  12. Photography is such a great goal. I thought I had solved the majority of my problems last year, but I still struggle!! This year, my goal is to relax and have fun more in crafting. 2018 felt like more of a chore than relaxation!

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  13. Kathy, I have been following your blog and loving your bright and cheerful designs for a long time! I am so glad you are a part of Seasons Givings! Congratulations on your great guest designer gig on Divinity Designs too! For 2019, I am hoping to do a lot more watercolor on stamped images! have a warm and wonderful new year!
    Happy New year Hugs!
    Michele
    crimsonowl@comcast.net

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  14. Beautiful projects! Thank you for joining the blog hop. I have many creative resolutions but the one I need to try to keep for my own sanity is to clean and organize my space and supplies! I feel I can't achieve the others without meeting this big one first!

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  15. Oh my goodness so many beautiful cards and tags - Love them all. My crafty goal this year is to spend more time in my craft room and build a card stash so I always have a card when I need one.

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  16. I love, love, love visiting your blog - your cards (& tags!) are always so beautiful and fun. I love your style. I have a couple of crafty resolutions this year: to get my craft room 100% completed after moving and to try to color more. Happy New Year and thanks for the giveaway.

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  17. Love your resolution to take better
    photos. I could add my name to that
    one also. I post pictures on FB and
    often feel they aren't as good as they
    could be. I'll keep trying, along
    with you. thanks for sharing this
    year. txmlhl(at)yahoo(dot)com
    Happy New Year

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  18. Your photos look pretty great to me! It’s tough taking pictures of cards so they look as good as they do in real life, but you do a great job. Thanks for sharing your work. I hope to do some more watercoloring practice this year, so that’s my goal. Wishing you and yours a very happy 2019!

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  19. Loved seeing your favourites! Great prize too!
    My goal is to learn how to use my new polychromos that Santa kindly delivered :)

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  20. Already a subscriber because I LOVE everything you do! I want to try water color! Thank you for the chance to win! Happy New Year! (meghan.kennihan@gmail.com)

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  21. Such cute cards! I want to try water coloring more.

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  22. New subscriber!! Love your cards, especially the Christmas desserts!! Yum!!! I want to organize my craft room, hone my skills in watercolor and Copics and make more alcohol ink backgrounds. Squirrelnut77@gmail.com

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  23. I'm following your blog and IG. :) I need to learn to take better pics too. It's always a challenge. Oh well LOL
    My goal this year is to get my card making book published. It will be great to see it in print. Happy new year to you and all the best for a wonderful 2019.

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  24. Love your cards. I love seeing the wonderful images and designs. Always a fan of your creations. I've followed you. I like seeing your cards on FB.. I hope to get more comfortable with water coloring. Happy New Year.. Hope its blessed.

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  25. Happy New Year, Kathy!! My plan is to use up extra die cuts and colored images along with just plain using what I have!!

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  26. My goal is to spend more "Quality time" in my craft room! :)

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  27. My crafty resolution is to clean up after every project so that my desk doesn't get so cluttered.

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  28. Kathy, I hope you have a happy and healthy 2019! I want to improve my coloring when using watercolors and also learn to use Faber-Castelle Polychromos pencils (what I used my Christmas money to order). :) Happy New Year!

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  29. Love your gorgeous colorful cards! My crafty resolution is just to spend more time crafting & making cards & try out all the new goodies I have purchased over the past year. Happy New Year to you!

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  30. I am loving your cards and your work. Very cute and pretty. I hope to make more time to craft and practice my coloring this year. I loooooove the prize give away you are offering, The little turtles are so cute and sweet.... Happy New Year !!! lindaplusthree@yahoo.com

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  31. Your creations are gorgeous!! What a super sweet giveaway!!

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  32. My crafty resolution is just to spend more time making cards

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  33. Complete the organization as soon as the studio remodel is done!

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  34. Hi Kathy, you are a "new to me" blogger and I am glad I found you! L♥VE your work and a now signed up to the teeth! (Already pinning!)
    I have SO many crafty resolutions: from mastering my Copic/water colouring skills to send more cards out and the list goes on and I am looking forward to it all!
    Happy New Year!

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  35. I want to learn more about alcohol ink backgrounds this year. [Bunny]

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  36. My crafting goal for 2019 is to become a better, more skilled colorer. PS, your cards "art happens" and "life is good" make my heart smile. Happy 2019!
    Cori (who is no longer in West Texas) cdscrappin@aol.com

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  37. I need to spend more time on my blog to do what I enjoy most...sharing card crafting with everyone!

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  38. So happy I discovered you through this hop! I am your newest follower! Love your cards. I really want to improve my colouring skills this year.

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  39. I am following now by email. And, a happy new year to you. I am going to try and keep ahead on Christmas cards by doing some every month. I have always admired your work too.

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  40. What fabulous cards! Hope you have a wonderful New Year! I hope to learn new techniques to broaden my horizons in card making!

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  41. I want to get ahead with my Christmas card making this year so that when "life happens" as it inevitably does I'm ahead of the game!

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  42. Happy New Year! Thanks for the chance!

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  43. I want to spend more time making cards and learning how to use my copics.

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  44. your cards are beautiful. it looks like you keep very busy. my crafty resolution is to get and stay more organized.

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  45. Thanks for the great inspiration and a chance to win prizes. My resolution is to use my alcohol inks this year.

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  46. I think your photography is awesome! I need to push myself too on the no line coloring as well! Your cards are always so bright and cheerful! Happy New Year to you and your family! I am going to join you in the no line coloring and I would like to try using alcohol inks, had them for several months and still not opened a one! :-)

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  47. Hi Kathy! I love it when I go to follow someone on Instagram and find out I've been following them all along :) I'm so glad you are participating in the hop this year - it's amazing! I need to get my butt in gear and learn how to use Copics - the results that people get {like YOU!} are incredible! Happy New Year and see you on Insta!

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  48. It's my first time here so I visited your Crafty Place page. Oh my gosh, my son painted his room that same color and we called it pepto too! He was very young and that's what he picked out. I love your cards and will be coming back again. I don't make resolutions anymore so I don't feel guilty if I break one.

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  49. What awesome tags and cards! I love your style! My crafty resolution is to work on organization!
    Wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year, filled with lots of creativity!

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  50. Thanks for sharing some of your projects. My crafty resolution is to be more efficient in my crafting: making lots of cards when I have my stamping supplies out so I have cards in supply. I love doing the really intensive coloring cards, but I get so behind when I only do those kind. Also, if I have a stamp set out, I might as well stamp 2 sets of images instead of just one. Little things like that to build up my stash so I have cards to send out in a timely manner. I am a new follower (a phrase I have typed a lot this hop; so many new crafty people!), and I look forward to seeing more from you in 2019!

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  51. Beautiful card! You are so creative! My crafty goal is to get all of my Christmas photos scrapbooked and make Thank you cards.I am now a follower of your blog - yay. Thanks for the fun and happy 2019.

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  52. My crafty goal is to try my hands at various card making techniques and also start scrap booking and art journal.

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  53. Happy New Year. Mt Crafty goal is to be more organized so that I can complete my projects efficiently which would be more enjoyable. following your Blog

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  54. Happy New Year. I am new to your blog and so happy to have found you. My goal this year is to finish projects and practice, practice, practice. I am still a relative newbie and need to improve in all aspects. I also need to remember to have fun while doing it..lol.

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  55. Your crafty resolution about photography is wonderful...Your photography looks amazing to me and yet you strive to better yourself...which is so laudable!!
    I am not aiming for much this year just having one main goal- to better manage my time so that I can do full justice to my DT commitments and blog.
    Thank you so much for a chance to win such awesome goodies.
    Cheers
    Dr Sonia
    soniasv@rediffmail.com
    Cards Crafts School Projects

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  56. In 2019 I hope to spend more time making cards & perfecting watercoloring.

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  57. Happy New Year to everyone!!!
    Thanks for this chance to win!!!
    My Crafty goal for 2019 is to improve my colouring technique with Copics. I already follow your blog though Followers.

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  58. Thank you so much for sharing your talent with us and a chance to win your prize! I'm new to this craft, so my goal for 2019 is to learn as much about it as I can.

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  59. New to your blog. Beautiful cards. My crafty goal is to become more organized.

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  60. My crafty goal is to do more art journaling this year:-)
    I follow via email, thanks for the chance to win and happy 2019.

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  61. My 'crafty'resolution is the same every year, to use what I have and guess what, it hasn't happened yet, I just placed a big order today...hahahah!! Great projects too!!
    Diane {Nellies Nest}

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  62. My crafty resolution for 2019 is to make more Christmas and masculine cards.
    I already follow your blog.
    Happy New Year and thanks for the chance to win.

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  63. Your cards are so fun! One of my resolutions is to have a cleaner space to create in so that I am more apt to actually create. I really have a lot of inspiration around me, but it is a mojo killer to have to clean up my space before I can create.

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  64. What lovely projects! I should work on staging, too (looks to me like you've already mastered it!), but the past two years I've had to cut back on crafting due to health issues, so this year I'm looking forward to finally being able to do more crafting and have a goal of learning foiling of various types. Two of your batch of nifty items are on my wishlist... thanks for the chance!

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  65. I follow you all over. You are uber talented. Thank you for your constant inspiration. My crafty resolution is to get my craft supplies better organized so I can use more of them. But I would also like to get better at water coloring. Happy New Year!

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  66. Thank you for sharing your cards! So lovely! Happy New Year - I actually have not made any resolutions but I would like to spend more time w/ friends crafting!

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  67. Happy New Year, Kathy! I hope you’ll have an amazing year.
    My crafting resolution is to learn more about mixed media.
    Thanks for a chance to win your prize pack.

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  68. Kathy, the crafting projects you've shared on this post are amazing...I just subscribed to your blog so I look forward to seeing more of your creativity in this new year. I've enjoyed your work as it's been shown on other crafting venues like Divinity Designs (Our Daily Bread) and Reverse Confetti. My crafting resolution is to spend an hour a day playing with my crafting materials...day 3, so far, so good!

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  69. HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Wonderful cards, thanks for sharing!! My 2019 crafty resolutions are to learn more card techniques, have at least 5 cards ready for mailing and attend a crafty conference.

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  70. You are so talented Kathy! Love all your inspirational fabulous showcasing and I am Happy I cased one of your card Art happens for Stamplorations!
    Every Year I also try new techniques and improved my coloring skill as well and This Year I want to more organized and focused! Thanks for the chance to win!
    Happy New Year filled with all joy, love and Happiness with more craft!

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  71. Happy New Year Kathy! Your cards are all so lovely. Your photos really showcase your cards nicely. I'm looking forward to spending more time crafting this year. I also want to try to make something every time I get something new. Hope you have a blessed 2019.

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  72. My resolution is to work on my alcohol blending as well as trying no line coloring.

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  73. Happy New Year! Love your card designs! I want to become a better colorist this year with all mediums! Thanks for sharing and the chance to win!

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  74. SQUEAL!! BEAUTIFUL Inspiration!! LOVE them ALL!! THANKS for sharing and for the chance to win such an AMAZING Prize Package!! My resolution is to get more organized, get back into shape and share more on Social Media!! I hope you have a FABULOUS WEEK!!

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  75. Your cards are gorgeous! This is my first time following along with this blog and I'm enjoying seeing all the talented folks! Thank you for the chance to win your lovely crafty goodies! I hope to learn watercoloring and coloring techniques this year! I hope you have a blessed new year! truthinlove2001@gmail.com

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  76. Gorgeous inspirations. Label all my stamps for easy finding them. Im your new follower too. THanks for the chance to win.

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  77. Lovely projects. I am a blog follower. Happy New Year. cccrafting(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  78. Gorgeous projects from 2018! I hope to find more time to craft and focus on the process rather than being critical of the results.

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  79. Love all your gorgeous inspiration! My crafty goal this year is to use more of what's in my stash especially my pattern paper.

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  80. Wow! Your cards/tags are awesome!! My crafty goal is to actually have my Christmas cards sent out BEFORE Christmas this year! I just became a follower of your blog!

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  81. Happy New Year! Your cards from 2018 are very cute and really like your style. My crafty goal for 2019 is to improve my watercoloring skills. Thanks for sharing!

    ledillard@mcast.net

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  82. Lovely cards and Tags ms Kathy! your style is a true delight. The thanks a Latte card is my favorite - Love the background too - really sets the image off. My crafty resolution in 2019 is to be better organized with my crafting supplies. I have so much that sometimes its hard to find what I need - So, I'm already off to a good start by starting the reorganization - A long way to go, but at least I've started! Thank you so much for all the creative inspiration you give us, and for the awesome giveaway!

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  83. Kathy, your coffee cards are fabulous! I've seen your cards all over the CLC blog/hops... but became a new follower of your blog today :o) For resolutions... I'm wanting to continue to improve my lettering skills, and just always trying new things in general. Happy New Year!

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  84. Happy New Year! I need to reorganize my stash so that I can craft more!!
    mjy8888 at yahoo dot ca

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  85. Cute projects. I plan on using more of my stash this year. I am a follower.
    slrdowney at hotmail dot com

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  86. My crafting goal for 2019 is to become a better artist

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  87. My goal for 2019 is to get my craft studio organized.

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  88. My goal is to manage my time better, so i can craft more. ^_^

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  89. My goal for 2019 is to try out a new knitting pattern each month.

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  90. One of my favorite places to visit! Thanks so much for all of the inspiration all year! I also want to try some techniques out of my comfort zone... I often fall into what's familiar... maybe something new each month at least...

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  91. Love your designs! In 2019 I am looking to try some new crafting tools and techniques.

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  92. Thanks for the chance. I plan to use up my pretty papers instead of keeping just-in-case.

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  93. I love love ,love, love the Sugar Pea wreath card... so beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
    Debbie_82366@yahoo.com

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