July Bonus Days & New Touches of Texture Card and Tag Ideas
I’ve been busy busy getting ready for my big Craft Garage sale this weekend – if you are in the Bellevue/Seattle area, you should totally come check it out Friday and Saturday from 9-3. But in the meantime, I had to take a break and share a fabulous new special just started TODAY! Plus keep…
New Weekly Deals & Extra Holiday Catalog Paper Samplers
I can’t believe we are down to the last 2 days of 2014! I always think I’m going to get so much done during the Christmas “break” but turns out between Christmas, 3 household birthdays, and visiting family the time just flies by! For example, while rearranging and reorganizing my craft room (again), I found…
Where Do You Go for Inspiration for Your Cards?
Today is my day for sharing some fun ideas and inspiration over on the Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration blog. And so I thought I would share one unusual place I have found for getting new mojo juices flowing…. my mailbox! Crate & Barrel ads to be exact! So, I show two samples using two different ads…
Got Paper?
Well, happy August everyone! Can you believe it?! But with a new month, comes a new promotion – and who doesn’t love a fun deal? Pretty, Pretty Paper Promotion! For the entire month of August, you can stock up on your favorite designer series papers and when you buy 3 packages, you get your…
Easter Bunny Punch Art Card
I finally participated in a sketch challenge, only to realize that I totally missed the deadline. :) Oh, well. I still LOVE my card I made. I was so excited to be able to come up with a fun Easter card even though I had pretty much no Easter stamp sets. What do you think? …
Plane and Simple Father’s Day Card
I’m on a yahoo group called Late Night Stampers and each week they post a challenge for you to complete that week. This week the challenge was to create a masculine card. Well, I often fall back on Lovely as a Tree as a “masculine” set since I don’t have many stamps that are explicitly…
Quick and Easy Glimmer Hearts Valentine
If you’ve read my newsletter, you got to hear me go on about how I love the new Glimmer paper and how I have all my fingers and toes crossed that we will see more of this in more colors! Its true, I love this stuff! So, I had to share it with others in…
Wonderful Friend Vintage Card
Today I thought I’d share another card I came up with while playing with ideas for the Valentine’s workshop. I was figuring that not everyone would need four red and pink cards and so I was trying to come up with some more non-traditional cards. That way they had something for a friend or husband…
Love You Much Valentine
I’m so excited to be doing a Valentine’s themed workshop next week and so I’ve been busy getting the cards designed and ready to go. I knew when we started talking Valentine’s Day, that I wanted to use this stamp set, Love You Much. So, this is one of the first cards I created for…
Trying Out The Latest Embossing Folder–Framed Tulips!
I’ve seen the different ways some folks have rigged their embossing folders to allow for texture around the edge of their card with a spotlight in the center. It usually looks really cool and so I was excited to see a new embossing folder in the Occasion mini that takes all the work out of…