Do you remember the Bokeh technique? The big trend for making your cards look like they had the out of focus light spots? Well, I shared how to make your own in this blog post, but sometimes I want to go the quick route and just use pretty paper like … Read More
Share the Love with a Clean and Simple Watercolor Wings Card
Summer is flying by and if your schedule is like mine… I don’t have quite as much time to create and craft as I did when the kiddos were in school. I have lots of projects in my brain… now to get them out on paper! Ever have that problem? … Read More
Classy and Not-to-Flowery Birthday Card using Beautiful Bunch
Ahhhh…. finally getting back in to creating! Last Friday I had my monthly Creative Cards Class and so while I was on my family trip to Orcas Island at the beginning of the week, I had packed a few supplies and I started playing around and I was so excited … Read More
CASE This – Clean and Simple Thank You Card with Layered Letters
As I’ve been working on getting my crafty mojo back – I swear, when you take time off from creating, it gets a little creaky getting back into it – I realized that what really helps me is a cute and simple card that I can CASE (you know, Copy … Read More
Walkthrough Wednesday – Clean, Simple, and a little bit Funky 2015 Convention Card Swap
Every year I go to the Stampin’ Up Convention in Salt Lake City and it is the highlight of my summer. I mean, come on – getting to spend 3 days being surrounded by amazing creative ideas and even more creative men and women?! What isn’t to love about that? … Read More
Clean and Simple Hi Card with the Awesome Layered Letters
I don’t know about where you are in the US but up here in the far Northwest, we are trying not to melt! We have been hit with a week of 85+ degree weather… which wouldn’t be too bad except none of the houses here have AC! And I’ve spent … Read More
Simple Spotlight Card with Sheltering Tree
Sometimes I see a card online that I LOVE and totally inspire me. Today was inspired by a card I saw by Michelle Long and I had to play around with the idea! Because you know me and my deep love of clean and simple cards! It is a fun … Read More
A Quick 5 Minute Card using You’ve Got This Video Tutorial (Walkthrough Wednesday)
Sometimes we want a card but we don’t have a lot of time or supplies to come up with something. Well, today for our Walkthrough Wednesday project, I have a card that is fast to make and only takes a few supplies! Change up the colors and you will have … Read More
Sprinkles of Life Cupcake Birthday for the Fun n’ Crafty Blog Hop – (Wednesday Walkthrough Video Tutorial)
If you missed it yesterday, the new 2015 Stampin’ Up annual catalog launched yesterday and so today we are in full swing of everything ramped up and ready to go with all the changes that come with the new catalog. If you haven’t seen yours yet, here is the link … Read More
Clean and Simple Congrats Card with Pleasant Poppies and Hey You
Remember how I told you that stamp sets on the retiring list were now while supplies last? Well, on a whim as I was getting this blog post ready, I thought I would check out how the stamps were doing and discovered that the Pleasant Poppies stamp that I used … Read More
Memorial Day Weekend Sale & a Feels Good Clean and Simple Rainbow Card
So we decided today to go pick out a big kid bike for Nicholas, which seems like a great way to kick off a holiday weekend. So, I grabbed my newspaper and was checking the ads when I realized that another tradition here in the US is lots of sales … Read More
Quick and Easy Card for that Special Someone
I was looking for a quick card idea as a bonus card for my Stamp Club recently and after being inspired by the lovely Connie Stewart and her cards using the One Tag Fits All stamp set, I made a few changes to one of her cards and came up … Read More