Sweet Sunday Card with People Like You
Happy Sunday and “SPRING FORWARD” day! Did you set your clocks ahead yet? Its funny, I always use to hate this time change because of losing an hour, but now as a parent of toddlers, I love that it means that bedtime is a little bit earlier today. ha ha. Also, if you haven’t…
Too Kind – A Clean and Simple Card with Vellum
It’s been a crazy few days around our house here in freezing cold Washington… surprizingly it has been actually hanging out in below freezing temperatures here (normally we are cold but not this cold!) My stamping and blogging time has been put on hold a little bit as we’ve celebrated my daughter’s 2nd birthday this…
Pretty Snowflake Fun with Vellum
I recently held my Vellum technique class and one of the favorites from the class was this holiday card: One of my favorite things that I love to do with vellum is run it through the BigShot because it makes the coolest bright white image over the frosted white of the vellum cardstock. Then I…
Playing a Bit with Stamping on Vellum
What is that item in your craft room that you completely forget about and then when you find it, you suddenly remember how cool it is? For me, I always do that with vellum! I never think to pull it out, but when I do, I have the best time with it. Take today’s card…
Vellum Fun with Everything Eleanor
How about a clean and simple card for today? 🙂 This is one of those cards that started out SUPER simple but I kept thinking it needed just a touch more here and touch more there until I made myself stop with this: This card all started because I was going to CASE a…
Progressive Scrapbook Page using Spice Cake DSP
So, yesterday I shared with you the first part of my progressive scrapbook page. I had created an 8.5” x 11” scrapbook layout and so today I wanted to share how with a few simple touches you can turn that into a 12” x 12” scrapbook page. You can see how the original 8.5” x…
Mix & Matched Embossing Folders Wedding Card
Ever have those weeks where the mojo just isn’t flowing? Sometimes I’m jazzed to get crafty but then I sit down at my craft table and just stare at everything and have no idea what to make. That would be this week for me! Thank goodness for swap cards! Today I thought I’d share a…
Fun and Creative Convention Swap Cards
I am always so amazed and inspired by the swap cards I get at convention. From the cards that make you go “WOW!” to the cards that are so simple to make that I realize you don’t have to go over the top to make a striking card. I started taking pictures of some of…
Mother’s Day Card with Presto Patterns
If you got my April newsletter recently, you may recognize part of this card! I wanted to show some of the fun things you can do with Presto Patterns specialty paper. See, many people either don’t realize what it is (because in the catalog it shows up as white with brown lines to show the…
My elegant embossed wedding card
I will be flying to New York this Friday to attend my cousins wedding. I keep calling it a NY socialite wedding because it is at a fancy resort in upstate NY and I heard that they will each have 12 attendants in the ceremony. It is a black tie affair and all that,…