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Bright and Cheery Thinking of You Card with Kind Koala
Eek the countdown is racing towards when I head out on the trip at the end of the week! But I have so many projects to share with you that I’m working furiously to get them written up into blog posts so you will continue to have lots of fun ideas and inspiration (and sneak…
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Have a Holly Jolly Christmas–Fun Card with Foiled Vellum, Glimmer Paper, and More!
So, yesterday I was (correctly) chastised for getting behind on posting on the blog. So, I had to hop-to and get another one of my recent favorites up to share with you. Today I have another card from my Holly Jolly Greetings Class by Mail, it has lots of little details but I love how…
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World’s Greatest Father Card with Guy Greetings
I can’t believe Father’s Day is coming up quick! This year I’m bound and determined to make a gift early… I’m not sure what the gift will be yet, but at least I have a card ready! I aimed for the balance of fancy but not fussy, and I think it makes it there. Tips…
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Enjoying Spring with Sheltering Tree
Are you in love with Sheltering Tree? This was the surprise favorite from the Occasions Catalog this year and I love how versatile it is. So I thought I’d share one of the cards we did for Stamp Club recently: The stamp set is photopolymer (that completely clear stamps) so it makes it really easy…
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Watercoloring a Card for Hope with Vivid Vases
I love my blendabilities but I wanted to play a little with another form of coloring- watercoloring. And what better stamp to play with for that than the Vivid Vases set! Tips for this card: When watercoloring with water-based ink (so using your blender pens or aqua pens) make sure to stamp your image with…
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Stamp Set Focus on Kinda Eclectic with the Stylin Stampin Girls
Over at the Stylin Stampin’ Inkspiration blog, today they are doing a Stamp Set Focus – where everyone uses the same stamp set and creates something different with it. Which is awesome because you get a bunch of ideas for one stamp set. This time they are doing the Kinda Eclectic stamp set and if…
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Triple Time Stamping (almost) with Petite Petals
So, I wanted to try a different idea for stamping where I did a background with random stamping and thought the new Petite Petals would be a fun stamp set to do it with. I’ll admit, I completely did it WRONG but I think I covered up my oops well enough… what do you think?…
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A Color Challenge with the Stylin Stampin Inkspiration Girls
So I was talking yesterday on Facebook about challenges and how they can be pretty handy when you need a little something to jump-start some craftiness. I’m still looking for feedback on favorite challenge sites and what types of challenges you find most fun to do, but in the meantime, I have one to share…
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Surprise! Weekly Deals Starting Today
Do you love getting a deal? Really, who doesn’t, right? Well, after Stampin’ Up! announced last week that they were going to have a Flash Sale each Thursday in October (basically one day only sales on some product in the online store), I thought that was it for the extra deals this month. Whelp,…
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Spotlighting Paper Piercing for a Fab Blog Hop on Tools!
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…
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5 Minutes to Cute–Thank You Card
You would think that the fact that I have two toddlers running around my house would mean all the cards I make are super fast cards…. Nooooooo, that would make too much sense! ha ha! But when I was working on cards for a recent card class, I came up with this simple design that…