Butterfly Garden Birthday

I love these K&Company chipboard Butterfly Stickers that I got at the American Crafts Warehouse Sale, and I thought they would look quite lovely in a floral garden. I used the layout from The Paper Players with some Pinkfresh Studio designer papers. I added a Concord & 9th Simply Put Die Cut Birthday sentiment. With … Read more

Holiday Spirit

I had fun making this card for the December Pinkfresh Studio Challenge – Very Merry. I started by using the Pinkfresh Studio Color Block Stripes stand alone die with the five colors from the challenge. I alternated the colors to the center of my white card base. Next I stamped the Pinkfresh Studio cup of … Read more

Year of the Snake Birthday

This card is for the Lunar New Year – Year of the Snake Challenge.     I stamped the Trinity Stamps Party Snake, colored him (or her) with Alcohol Ink Markers and die cut before positioning him on an oval die cut from Scrapbook.com ombre designer paper.     I used a sentiment from the … Read more

Art for Art’s Sake

The newest challenge at Daring Cardmakers is Art for Art's Sake celebrating Pablo Picasso's Birthday and International Artist's Day..     That was the perfect opportunity for me to turn the scraps of Graphic 45 Let's Get Artsy Collection on my studio table.  I managed to turn them into four cards. The first one features … Read more

Vintage Halloween

I keep all of my Halloween crafting products together in one big drawer (most of my other products are sorted by manufacturer) because they don't seem to really cross into other use cases.  That drawer is open and I'm having fun creating for October (I need to get them done soon & get them in … Read more

Merry & Bright

I love creating with paper strips, so I had to make a card for the newest BYSH Cardmakers Sketch.        I pulled out the Snow Day Paper Collection from The Paper Studio and cut patterns into 1/2" strips … one of my favorite color combinations for holiday cards.     I cut the … Read more