For some reason, I didn't pull out my red, white and blue paper collection this year (I keep it in it's own container in my studio), so today I'm pulling it out and pulling together some cards that I feel like would be okay to mail after Independence Day. I started out with the Color … Read more
The current Lawnfawnatics Challenge is Lots of Heart – to make a card featuring lots of hearts. I decided it was the perfect inspiration I needed to make a card requested by a friend. I started by using all of the Hearts from the Lawn Fawn Just Stitching Hearts on a red gellipress … Read more
The Penny Black Saturday Challenge theme is to use lots of layers. This week's Paper Craft Crew Sketch was perfect for that. I used my last Spectrum Noir Triblend colored bouquet from Penny Black Charisma Bouquet as the focal image and built my color palette around it using a piece of Authentique Sea … Read more
The February #TEMakerChallenge at Taylored Expressions is a Sketch. I combined papers from Authentique's Harvest Collection with the Taylored Expressions Hoppy Day Stamps. Clean, simple, mailable & masculine … love it.
I love stamping, but I also love great papers like the Party Collection from Authentique. This fun retro paper design comes together for a quick card using the Happy B-Day Die Cut by CZ Design. Here's the masculine version that I'm linking-up at the Crafting Happiness Challenge to Add a Sentiment. And the … Read more
Black and Gold (aka Yellow) are the colors of the nearby University of Iowa, so I tend to purchase paper collections that feature those colors for graduation or birthday cards. So needless to say, when I saw those were the colors at the Color Hues Challenge, I had to join the fun. I … Read more
It's Day 11 of the 12 Tags of Christmas – Oh Christmas Tree. I love using journaling cards in my paper crafting, so today I used one from Authentique's Colorful Christmas Collection for my tag. I matted my card on a thin red cardstock frame and then used two sizes of red bling … Read more
This week is the 500th Sketch at Freshly Made Sketches. I thought I had been with them from the beginning, but the oldest card I could find was for Sketch #24 in March 2012, so almost the entire time. I always love their layouts. Since I've been watching Soccer all day (actually mostly … Read more
I'm ready to start stocking my Halloween card stash. I resisted buying any new Halloween products at Scrapmania this weekend (I bought plenty of other products), so instead I pulled out Authentique Mysterious papers from my large stash of vintage (aka retired) Halloween papers for this week's Paper Craft Crew Challenge Sketch. I … Read more
Tonight's cardmaking goal was very specific … a Soccer-themed Thank You. I started with a piece of Soccer-themed designer paper from the We R Memory Keepers Game Day Collection. I searched through my stash and found several Gel Press Prints (the background & behind the sentiments) that coordinated. Lastly, I used the Layout from Global … Read more