Just a quick card share today – this was another card we made at our recent club night. I was playing with a little bit of everything at my craft table to create this texture-rich card. The one thing that is a little different about this card, but can be hard to tell when looking…
If you didn’t know, today is World Card Making day! It is a celebration of our love of crafting around the world along with the joy of sharing these handmade pieces of art with others to lift them up and help them have a better day. Well, I decided to celebrate by participating in the…
Have you been wishing you had a fast way to create a pile of handmade cards to have on hand that you’d be proud to send out? And do it without breaking the bank too! If so, you should check out this new Everyday Occasions kit! When we were at Founder’s Circle last week, they…
Thank you so much for joining us for the September Stylin’ Stampin’ Squad Blog Hop! This month we are focusing on the tools of the stampin’ trade. Specifically, each of our favorite stamping tools. It’s amazing the kinds of tools that have been created to help us along in our paper-crafting addictions. This month’s blog…
So turns out when I start working on something, I can get really focused on that task. In the case of last week, that task wasn’t any of the handful of crafting projects and event prep I needed to work on, but instead was an even more daunting task – picking a preschool for Nicholas! …
Every year that I go to convention, I get caught up in swapping. The idea of taking a bunch of card fronts with you to convention and then trading them with everyone else so that you can get new ideas to take home and share… or copy… or hang on your wall and drool over!…
Today is the kick off for a new blog that I’m excited to be a design team member for – Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration! It is a blog that will have daily posts to help give you new ideas and project challenges to inspire new ideas for you to try at home! Most of the posts…
I’ve been learning something about myself this week – when I’m in the middle of a big task, I have a hard time focusing on other things. So, in this case, when I completely pull apart my craft room, I was having a heck of a time bringing myself to do any new crafting or…
Recently, my mom showed me a new way to try coloring in your images with your markers. To show me what she was talking about she created this card: It uses the new Flower Shop stamp set and punch sitting atop the stem from Field Flowers. Great idea, huh? Now, to do the coloring, she…
The stamping world has had Photopolymer stamps for quite a while and I used to try to play with my “completely clear” stamps. I love the idea that I could see totally through the stamp so that I knew precisely where I was stamping. However, I discovered that not all clear stamps are created equal. …
Sometimes I hear about the promotions that will be starting up in the near future, and sometimes I log into the Stampin’ Up! website for demonstrators and I’m surprised by a new sale that is being announced. I figured that since we have the two big catalogs out this weekend that there would be no…
It’s the last Thursday of the month, which means it is my final week as guest designer over at Cute Card Thursday. This week is a fun challenge, the theme is Too Cool for School Now, since I’ve been out of school long enough, all I could think of were 80’s movies (like Ferris Bueller’s…