The new Challenge at Shopping Our Stash is If the SHOE Fits – create a card featuring a shoe (or shoes). Well, you know I’m all about the shoes, so picking one was the challenge. Since we’re nearing Halloween, I went with an old Favorite from The Project Bin – Haunt It! While I was … Read more
I love these fun little Campers of Cheer from STAMPlorations. There is a lot of Christmas in July going on right now, so I used them to make fun holiday cards for my camper-loving friends. For the first one, I parked my camper among the holiday trees on one of the STAMPlorations Simply Christmas Card … Read more
I had fun watching the Cardinals play baseball and playing with some paper. I started with the Inspired By … Donuts Challenge … makes me think that a stop at the donut shop just might be in my future (I hear a maple long john or apple fritter calling my name). I went with a … Read more
Adult Coloring Books have been all the rage with the return to the relaxation of childhood coloring. STAMPlorations offers lots of colorables that bring the same relaxation … and then you can turn the colored panels into a card. I had fun coloring the largest STAMPlorations Love Always Colorable (the pack has multiple sizes of … Read more
As many of you know, I make holiday cards all year long, so I have enough when December rolls around. Today I’m sharing two Christmas cards I made with STAMPlorations Quick Cards #15 – Simply Christmas A2 Card Fronts. For the first one, I used some new watercolors to paint the STAMPlorations Holiday Lattes Poinsettia … Read more
A sweet little valentine made with one of my GelliArts prints. I added some silver Love from Lizi Peel-off stickers on each side of the print. For the January Art Nudge Challenge, the multiple shades of pink are inspired by the roses with the valentine heart inspiration from the bottom right prompt. The sentiment is … Read more
The final Jingle Belles prompt of 2024 is Banner Holiday – to create a card inspired by our gorgeous Jingle Belles Banner (created by the uber-talented Jingle Belle Lauren). I started my design by hunting for something in my stash I could use to create the star banner Lauren has across the top. … Read more
Our newest prompt at Jingle Belles is Something OLD and Something NEW. We are asking you to use some of those new items you got for Christmas (or maybe you were your own Santa … whatever works) together with older items from your stash. I bought myself the Christmas Gift Tag Stack Stamps & Coordinating … Read more
Since Lauren & I started Jingle Belles in 2010, I've been recapping my five favorite Christmas cards of the year (you can find 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 here) … I always enjoy revisiting my creations for the year. Here are this year's favorites in no particular order. 1. This card was when I was a Guest Designer … Read more
The December Memory Box Challenge is to use Patterned Paper. When I was looking through my product collection, I thought this adorable Memory Box Wonderland Snowman cut from white felt with a touch of glitter would look fabulous dressed in some Memory Box Patterned Paper from the Memory Box Garland paper collection. I added a … Read more