My mother-in-law is downsizing to a smaller living space, so she gifted me with a vintage scrapbook from her youth. It is filled with all sorts of papers cut from advertisements and packaging. I wanted to use one of the post cards I found in the stash (the back said it was a sample mailed … Read more
This week's SCS Inspiration Challenge comes from the wonderful glassware (and other fun items) of Fishs Eddy. I chose this 212 Zippered Canvas Pouch to inspire my card design … I loved the text in the New York Skyline sky. I stamped Hero Arts Newspaper Skyline in India ink and clear embossed. I added lots … Read more
Love these fun new stamp sets by Teri Anderson for Technique Tuesday. I used this week's Sweet Stop Sketch together with Basic Grey Picadilly papers, which is perfect for Shopping Our Stash whose challenge this week is Fur or Feathers. The Sticker Sentiment is from SRM Stickers. I'm also joining the Harvest Time fun at the … Read more
I have really been enjoying the Card Design Handbook. I envy cardmakers who have design backgrounds and regret that I never took a formal art class after the 6th Grade. What I've learned about design has mostly been self-taught & resources like the Handbook help sharpen those skills. For my card for this week's Moxie … Read more
Somehow this card started out as an elegant design in my head … and took a left turn straight at silly-ville. I wanted to join the I Can See Clearly challenge at Paper Issues, so I started with a strip of Hambly transparency on some elegant yellow Bo Bunny Country Garden paper. I started out … Read more
My husband asked me if I would *stamp a cardinal on a card* for our mail carrier, Boston Joe. He thought it would be funny to send Joe some holiday wishes from the 2011 World Champion St. Louis Cardinals. As you probably guessed by Joe's nickname, his favorite team is clearly not the St. Louis … Read more
One more Halloween Card … this one for Card Cupids using Pink Paislee's Hocus Pocus Collection with this week's CPS Sketch. An SRM Sticker sentiment & Memory Box adhesive bling for my chandelier, and this one is ready to go in the mail.
I tried stamping today, but it just wasn't working … so I threw several messes in the trash and decided to go a bit simpler. I stumbled across some Melody Ross Soul Food Chipboard stickers in my stash that were not aging well (the chipboard was curling), so I decided it was time to … Read more
This week's Jingle Belles prompt was suggested by Marie Bingaman of Another Cardmaking Blog?, who thought we could all find inspiration with a snowy theme in which we can incorporate snowmen, snowscapes, sledding, etc, as well as decorative snowflakes… basically ALL of those things celebrated in the (very charming!) rosemary clooney song Suzy Snowflake (see lyrics … Read more
This card uses images from Rogue Redhead's Beach Babes set, together with the Horizontal Sketch Challenge at the Moxie Fab World Blog. Papers are Echo Parks's Splash Collection, and the circle element is a Summer Sticker from SRM Stickers. I added a bit of orange colored pencil to the images to help them pop against … Read more