The newest Challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Chicken! to celebrate National Chicken Month in the United States – we’re asking you to create a card that features a chicken. I had fun creating my background using the Taylored Expressions Spring Chicken Stencil & Clear Stamp Combo. I’m also joining the Simon Says: Make Your … Read more
When I saw the newest challenge at The Paper Players was to make a clean & simple card featuring a Bear, I tried to think if I had any bears in my stash … and then I remembered a classic bear from Unity Stamp Company. I stamped Winnie the Pooh and Piglet from Unity Stamp … Read more
I love the new Simple Expressions Series of Stamps from STAMPlorations. The ability to fill in the words with different colors of ink makes them endlessly versatile. For today’s card, I combined them with the STAMPlorations Pop Art Faces A2 Card Fronts … I love how it looks like they’re lovely lips are saying the … Read more
Lauren & I (aka the Jingle Belles) are thrilled to be the Guest Elves at the Christmas Kickstart Challenge where the theme is – A Friend is for Life and Not Just Christmas. This seems rather appropriate since our cardmaking friendship started over 18 years ago. I decided to use the Festive Friday Card Challenge … Read more
Beautiful Backgrounds is the August Challenge at Pinkfresh Studios. I went through my collection of designer papers and pulled out ones that had the colors in the challenge palette. I used the Pinkfresh Studio Colorblock Stripes Die to cut each of the papers into thin strips. I used a scrap of thin cardstock and angled … Read more
My friend Bev’s house in Alabama is truly one of my happy places. I absolutely adore floating in a pool, and hers is perfection. I can easily choose to stay in the shade … or paddle into the sun to get a tiny bit of tan on those super-white legs. This year we started a … Read more
I love the large size of the new Collage papers from STAMPlorations. For today’s cards, I trimmed two different STAMPlorations Botanical Beats Collage Papers down to 5″x7″ for two large cards with lots of room to write a note. For the first one, I covered the card base with the Collage Paper and then topped … Read more
This week at Shopping Our Stash the challenge is Up, Up and Away … creating cards with things you might see in the sky. It could be a balloon, bird, moon, sun, rainbow, plane … you get the picture. I decided to shop my paper stash for this week’s card and I landed on the … Read more
When I saw the inspiration photo at If You Give a Crafter a Cookie, I immediately thought of the adorable creations by Doodlebug Designs. But of course, I didn’t have any smiling hearts in my collection (I had smiling so-many-other-things), so I decided to go with this adorable smiling cloud since it included the colors … Read more
I always loved picking out my Valentines for school each year. I remember in 6th grade, I saved-up my allowance and bought a package of Muppets valentines that were actually cards that I could write messages inside and put in an envelope. I took time choosing each card for each classmate and writing a positive … Read more