Since my husband is a postal carrier, I'm always on the look-out for new "mail" themed stamps to add to my collection. For CardPatterns Sketch 59, I used Stampavie's Love Letter set. I stamped it on blue DP from the Kioshi Collection by Basic Grey and then paper pieced the image with other papers from the … Read more
I received an e-mail this week from our Marketing Director at work letting me know that he was going to recycle an entire box of paper samples. He guessed I could probably use them in my creative endeavors, so he wanted to give me the opportunity to take them home. I love when people think of … Read more
On Saturdays I usually start my day by spending time catching-up on my blog-reading for the week. I use Bloglines and try to keep the number under 700. There is just so much inspiration out there … and I don't want to miss out on any of it. As I go through the blogs I … Read more
I spent time on Sunday walking up and down every aisle at Michael's. I like to look at all sorts of different products, and think about possible alternate ways to use them. On the cake aisle, I picked up a package of 4" Wilton doilies thinking they might be fun to play with using inks … Read more
I knew I wanted to find time to play along with this week's Moxie Fab Blog Tuesday Trigger, which is to be inspired by this fabulous card by Kimberly Crawford. Kimberly & her family recent relocated to my town of Cedar Rapids, so I'm excited to have another on-line creative soul nearby. Her work inspires … Read more
This week's Moxie Fab Blog Tuesday Trigger is a wonderful photo from a hallway bathroom on The Daisy Cottage Blog. I looked at this picture & all of the pictures of the bathroom (love how she used three different fabrics for the shower curtain panels) as I thought about my inspired card. I decided I … Read more
Did you ever notice that when you start thinking about creating with something (in this case vintage pictures), then all sorts of opportunities present themselves? When I saw this awesome vintage photograph at The Graphics Fairy, I knew I had to make another Tainter-tude card. This time I used a Sketch from Clean & Simple … Read more
When I saw this week's Tuesday Trigger from The Red Thread (I love the idea of punching shapes from vintage children's books), I immediately thought of these Valentine Cards I made here & here last year. I decided to combine the same stapled heart concept with a sketch from a new to me blog … the Diva … Read more
The challenge at the Moxie Fab Blog is to make some cards in the style of the amazing Anne Taintor. Allison clued me into this amazing Gallery of Graphic Design. I had so much fun looking through all of the vintage advertisements and thinking about how I could use them in card designs. I made … Read more
When we traveled this fall, there were several planters in Savannah that used cabbage in with the flowers for wonderful bursts of texture and color. When I saw this week's Tuesday Trigger was a gorgeous head of King Cabbage, I knew I had to play along. Green and Purple is a favorite color combination of … Read more