Spreading Joy Through Handmade Cards
Here’s another Gift Card Holder, this time using the adorable White Christmas Stamp which I also made a matching tag (see here). I love snowmen, unfortunately, they go hand in hand with the cold weather which I don’t like so I’m just going to stick with my stuffed, glass and stamped snowmen. I can display them in the summer and they won’t melt and I …
Hi Friends! Another quick project – this time let’s do some packaging. Have you seen the bags and boxes in the catalog? They make for some great gift packaging. I used the Chevron bags to wrap up the cards I posted yesterday as a gift for a recent workshop hostess. I used two new stamps – Kinda Eclectic for the butterflies and the hostess stamp, Let …
The Peaceful Petals Stamp Set is a great set in the Occasions catalog that is going away on June 1st. I used this set last night at my technique club meeting to make this beautiful detached bookmark card using the Stampin’ Trimmer with the Rotary Addition and the Perforating Cutting Blade. I also used the Scallop Tag Topper Punch on the bookmark (another great tool!). Not …
I’ve heard many say that they have a hard time coming up with masculine cards. Images such as trees, cars, tools, etc. can be used, but did you know that giving your cards texture and using ‘manly’ colors also makes a great masculine card? Here’s a masculine card I made for my nephew who shares the same birth date as me. I was going to stamp a car from the Rev the Fun stamp …
I made this card 3 weeks ago and forgot to post it. I needed a masculine card for a Mechanical Engineering graduate so I looked through my stamp collection and thought the cogs from the Clockworks stamp set would be great! I cut out 3 banners and stamped the cogs randomly and used one of the Apothecary Accent Framelits to frame my sentiment. Two of these stamps are retired but …
Have you ever gone apple picking? It’s fun climbing up the trees to get those apples you think are the best. I had never gone apple picking until 4 years ago when my daughter was in college and we went to visit her during family weekend. She went to school in a beautiful area in NY state where there are plenty of apples to pick – and not to …
I needed to make a special card for a sweet and special elderly couple who used to attend my church before they moved away and who are going through a rough time with the husband on hospice and the wife dealing with cancer. I decided to use one of my favorite stamp sets, Just Believe for this card. I like the softness of the flowers. I colored the flower image …