Spreading Joy Through Handmade Cards
Are you one of those people who has tons of patterned paper stored away because you love it so much that you don’t want to cut it up? If you are, let’s try to remedy that. I’ve had these set of cards sitting in my draft folder for quite a while and hadn’t gotten around to posting them. I shared them with my customers last …
Happy Tuesday! For today’s card we’ll focus on the Rooted In Nature stamp and the Birch Background stamp. Although this card has orange tones, it is not as orange looking in person, but somehow it looks like that in the picture. As much as I tried adjusting the lighting in my editing software, I had no luck changing it to show you the true colors …
To A Wild Rose is a nice set with great sentiments and a pretty font. Did you know that both To A Wild Rose Stamp and Wild Rose Dies are on sale for a great price?! You can get the dies for 75% off and the stamp for 10% off which totals ONLY $32.10. Now that’s a great bargain which I would highly recommend! For …
Today’s card features the Window Sheets (Acetate) Smooch technique using the Inspiring Iris stamp and used the Sweet Ice Cream stamp for the greeting. I love the watercolor and alcohol look on cards so I try to use different methods to make them. Today I’ll share with you on how to create watercolor backgrounds. You need to know that each card you make will look …
Happy Easter! Today’s card features the Timeless Tulips stamp and Tulips Builder Punch. You know it’s springtime when you see tulips everywhere in an array of colors. The Timeless Tulips is a carryover to the 2021-2022 Annual Catalog and is a distinktive stamp. The set has seven greetings and 3 different size tulips along with leaves and stems, and it coordinates with the Tulips Builder …
The Basket of Blooms stamp is the focus of today’s card combined with the Prized Peony stamp for the sweet friendship greeting. Unlike yesterday’s quick card, this card is a bit more detailed. There’s some dry embossing, coloring, die cutting, and masking. The stamp includes 14 photopolymer images that consist of a clay pot, basket, vase, flowers and leaves. Although the stamp doesn’t have any …
Before winter comes to an end, I thought I would share a card with snow using the stamp Freezin’ Fun. Although this set was from the 2020 August – December catalog and is now retired, I hope you don’t mind me sharing it with you. You can use the same design for the stamps you have in your collection. Believe it or not, winter is …
Today’s card features the Heal Your Heart stamp from the Sale-A-Bration catalog and Forever Fern from the 2020-2021 Annual Catalog to make this soothing sympathy card. Making sympathy cards is not one you look forward to creating, but it’s nice to know you can make one from your own home when you need one. Since the need of a sympathy card comes unexpectedly, it’s good …
Today we’ll take a break from the 2021 January-June catalog and focus on a stamp from the Annual Catalog – To A Wild Rose using the Blessed to Be Your Friend sentiment. I stamped the flowers with Rococco Rose and leaves with Pear Pizzazz. I used the dies for the flowers, leaves and label and popped the flowers with Stampin’ Dimensionals. Stamped an extra flower …
Happy Valentine’s Day! Woodland Wonder is an adorable set so I had to use it for my grandkids’ Valentine’s Day card because they are so loved. The Woodland Wonder stamp has 3 different sections of a tree so you can lengthen or shorten the tree. In this card, I did not include the leaves on the tree. The set has several little images like music …
Today is the last day to earn bonus dollars! For every $50 you spend (before tax & shipping), earn FIVE bonus dollars to spend in August. What’s new in August? Our August – December Holiday Catalog! The main feature of today’s card is how the dies from Ornate Layers were used to create this card. Let’s go right into the details: The 3 flower borders …
Yes, another Painted Poppies card. I told you I’ve used this set quite a bit. Unlike yesterday’s card, which I colored the poppies with my Stampin’ Blends, on this card I stamped the grunge image over the poppies to give it color. We made this card back in March at one of my classes. It’s actually a one layer card. It looks like 2 layers, …
Sailing Home is a great stamp for the nautical enthusiast. It has some great images including a lighthouse which caught my attention right away. Because I love lighthouses and visiting them, I knew it was a must have for me. The Sailing Home set, just like A Good Man from yesterday’s post, is also a carry over from last year’s catalog. It coordinates with the …
It’s been a while since I’ve posted – to be exact my last post was on May 31, 2019. Time goes by so quickly! So why the absence? Life just happened. Busyness with trying to balance many different aspects of family, church, classes and life in general. Can you relate? I thought this was the perfect time to get back to blogging now that I …
Hello Stampers! This week I’ll be sharing with you a few projects made with some retiring stamps, and along the way a few sneak peaks into the new catalog. For today’s project let’s take a look at the Best Birds stamp. This stamp set not only has birds and flowers but a variety of sentiments you’ll be sure to use – birthday, anniversary, wedding, thoughts …
Hi Crafty Friends . . . Did you know that Lovely as a Tree has been around since 2001? It is the oldest stamp set in our current catalog. Every year when a new catalog comes around we wonder if it’s retiring, yet it has been so popular that it made it through 18 years. Now that’s a long time! But, the time has come …
Today’s card is a slider card using the No Bones About It stamp. Now what 2 year old boy wouldn’t like to see a dinosaur sliding back and forth? I know my grandson did – this was his birthday card last year. Yep you read that right, last year. As I mentioned a few posts back, I’m a bit behind in my posting, but I …
Today’s card uses 2 retiring stamp sets – Guy Greetings and Number of Years. I made this card back in February for an uncle who was turning 85 years old. He loves tinkering with cars and if they’re old cars, even better. So as I was figuring out how to incorporate the number on his card I thought of Guy Greetings with the eclipse technique …
I can’t believe we’re almost done with March – how time flies by! For today’s vibrant card, I used several elements – Amazing You Sale-A-Bration stamp, Painted Harvest for the sentiment and Brusho Crystal Colors for the colorful background. If you haven’t noticed yet, I love playing with the Brusho Crystals to create my colorful backgrounds. Just like my daisy brusho card, I embossed the …
I decided to play with a sketch challenge today using the Cozy Cottage host stamp. Every now and then I need to try something different. This is a simple sketch but makes a big impact. As we wait for another huge winter storm coming through here, I’ll just enjoy my spring flowers on paper. I’m so tired of snow! Here’s the sketch I cased: The …