I spent the evening trying to re-claim my studio. I've been working on lots of projects lately, which resulted in quite the mess. I found a couple of dies I purchased when the Die-Versions store was closing, so I decided to use one for a quick wedding card … this one is Whispers Wedding Canopy. … Read more
For some reason, I couldn't really find a single stamp set in my stash to welcome someone to their new home … so I got creative and combined sentiments and and image from three different sets together with the gorgeous new Garden Party Collection from Bo Bunny. Yay, You! is from My Favorite Things Essential … Read more
This afternoon I'm joining in the celebration of 2014 at PaperTrey Ink. Since I don't own any of the stamps or dies featured today, I went with a similar die cut to the Text Block Birthday inspired by Laura Bassen's design. I seldom do the inlaid die cut technique because it's a bit futzy for … Read more
We're playing a second round of tic-tac-toe at Jingle Belles this week. This time I went vertical down the middle – Bling + Die Cut + Snow. I tried out my new Poppy Stamps Frozen Flakes Die Cut on silver glitter paper … love the detail. Since the Addicted to CAS Challenge is Blue, that's … Read more
Retirement cards are hard for me … do you have a good stamp set you use for retirements? I went back through my own archives and found this Teacher Retirement card I had created using a dictionary page. For today's card, I scanned the dictionary page, so I could re-size it to work with my … Read more
My sympathy card stash is once again depleted, so I decided to make another card for the Essentials by Ellen Mix-It-Up Challenge. I stamped & die cut flowers from Essentials by Ellen Bohemian Garden and colored the centers with orange glitter pen. The floral paper is from Crate Paper's Random Vintage Collection and I stamped the … Read more
When I saw Lydia's awesome card using a modified Northern Lights technique with a Halloween Twist, I knew I had to try it. I watched her great video and set-out to give it a try … first problem, I don't have any of the products she used, so I had to seek out alternatives. … Read more
I needed and Iowa Hawkeye birthday card, but I wanted something a bit more subtle than just printing out the Hawkeye logo. I used this week's CAS(E) this Sketch with some golden yellow striped paper and black glitter letters. I finished with a few pearls and a Clearly Besotted Birthday sentiment (love this set).
I'm a saver … my designer eye sees something and thinks … that would be cool on a card … so I save it. I have declared 2015 the year of *Use It Up*. I'm going to focus on using all of those great things I have *saved* over the years in my card designs. … Read more
We're still celebrating *A PINK Christmas* this week at Jingle Belles (and donating $4 to Susan G. Koman for each pink holiday card that's linked-up). My second card combines three different PINK designer papers (none of which are Christmas designs) and two PINK cardstocks with this week's Retro Sketch. It's also Christmas at Clearly Besotted, … Read more