The newest Challenge at Shopping Our Stash is to create a card where the Sentiment is the Star. Pull out those quotes or sentiment stamps or dies – or maybe look into your already stamped/printed stack and see if you have any waiting to be used (avoid stamping images … we want the sentiment to … Read more
This week we're playing Tic-Tac-Toe at Jingle Belles … hope you'll come play along with us. Just choose three squares in a row and incorporate those elements into your holiday card design. I went diagonal top left to bottom right – designer paper, silver, and Santa. I used Designer papers including … Read more
I colored one of my Snoopy stamped images that I made from Chris Dayton's Snoopy stamp collection for a very special birthday card. I stuck with primary colors, because the comics always seemed to be filled with primary colors … and then found a scrap of plaid paper in my stash that was perfect for … Read more
This weekend when I was hunting for one of several things I managed to misplace, I found sheets of vintage car illustrations that Lauren had gifted to me. She has made so many fabulous paper-crafting projects featuring the cars (including this ICAD from 2019), but I have mostly hoarded mine, so I decided I would … Read more
At Jingle Belles we're still celebrating holiday cards that contain clear elements, whether those be in the form of pre-printed transparencies, acrylic embellishments, or just shaker or window cards which utilize a bit of plastic packaging. When I saw Lauren's Transparent card base last week, I knew I had to try to channel my inner … Read more
I needed a few quick birthday cards tonight … so I combined this week's Freshly Made Sketch with some Project Life Cards. I inked my Fab Four Stamp from Viva Las Vegastamps in Versafine Clair Morning Mist & paired it with a vintage Stampin' Up Sentiment. It's also Anything Goes at Seize the Birthday. Now … Read more
I am loving these coordinating Truly Taylored papers & stamps from Stampin' Up for guy cards. The layout is this week's Paper Players Sketch.
When I saw the stacks of green containers at The Card Concept, it made me want to make my own stack of green papers. I punched a collection of papers from Stampin' Up's True Gentlemen Collection using the Tailored Tag Punch. I stamped two sentiments in green from the coordinating Truly Tailored stamp set. For … Read more
This week's TGIF Challenge features three of my favorite Stampin' Up Colors, so I had to join the fun. I broke out some new Stampin' Up sentiments from Birthday Wit & Picture Perfect Birthday. My background is embossed and I added Gold Glitter Flakes for my confetti.
For our first card-making prompt at Jingle Belles, we're breaking-out the gifts Santa brought us. I have had this Simon Says Stamp Ring Wreath Die on my wish list for quite some time … and I was thrilled with out my first card using it turned out. I started by die cutting my wreath from … Read more