This week's Makeover Monday comes from these Beyond Quick Thank You cards from December 2008. My square punches are out on the studio table, and I can't stop using them. I used my 1 3/8" square punch and my scrap bin and decided to do Beyond Quick Birthday cards because my stash already … Read more
Today's Makeover Monday is a Technique from this card I made in July 2008. I decide to do a re-take on the Crayon Resist Technique … this time I used a Peacock Feathers Distress Crayon with Twisted Citron Distress Oxide Spray for my background with the Taylored Expressions Splattered Embossing Folder (which I realized … Read more
I did a major clean-out of my studio last week (there's a giveaway on Instagram if you want to check it out) and boxed-up a bunch of paper to take to the local craft exchange store. I still have a large box of designer paper scraps I need to go through, but for my Makeover … Read more
Today's Makeover Monday was inspired by this card from the My Sweet Petunia & My Favorite Things Blog Hop in January 2019. I used the same My Favorite Things Lots of Hearts and Lots of Hearts Outlines in different colors to coordinate them to the Gel Press Print that I chose for my background. … Read more
When I made these Birthday cards on Saturday, I realized just how many paper scraps I had … so I decided to do another paper scrap card for Makeover Monday. I took my inspiration from this holiday card from September 2011. I used the same Top Note Die with scraps focusing on my blues … Read more
This week's Makeover Monday is for the Spring/Summer Coffee Lover's Card Hop and is inspired by this Coffee Card from March 2019. I had a piece of recycled die cut coffee box left over from this card, so I used it at my card base … since the images were horizontal, I flipped the … Read more
Today's Makeover Monday celebrates the graduates. I chose this Reverse Confetti Graduation card from April 2019 to makeover. I was asked if I could give the design a feminine twist and create it in different school colors. I chose to use the same three sentiment stamps from Reverse Confetti My Tribe and Congratulations. I … Read more
I thought it would be fun to go back to April 2001 for this week's Makeover Monday. It was fun to look through that entire month of cardmaking and reflect on my cardmaking style at that time. I loved BasicGrey and used lots of patterned paper in my designs … the card I chose was … Read more
I went back to March of 2019 for today's Makeover Monday … when I was in a different kind of quarantine with our entire first floor (which included my studio) being repaired after being flooded by a broken pipe in our wall that adjoins the trash room in our Condominium Building. I am very grateful … Read more
This week's Makeover Monday is this baby card that I stumbled upon from September 2011. I kept the layout, the use of designer paper strips, the square shape, and a three color palette, but changed the theme to incorporate Taylored Expressions Grouchy Grumplings 2 This card is for all the women who have … Read more