Spreading Joy Through Handmade Cards
Gift cards come in all sizes – so why not combine a card to place your gift card and at the same time have room to write a message inside. In this card, I used the Endless Wishes Photopolymer Stamp and used the Vellum Card Stock to hold the gift card. I liked the idea of a vellum gift card holder and cased the …
Hope your Thanksgiving was great! I love having this long weekend, don’t you? This is the weekend I decorate my house for Christmas and it’s also the weekend I have two very special birthdays to celebrate – my daughter and my son-in-law – just 2 days apart. So in honor of them I’m taking a break from Fall and Christmas cards to wish them a …
It was a little cool yesterday so I thought I would share a card I made for my niece’s shower using the same fall colors I used for her wedding invites. For this card, I embossed 3/4 of the card with the Woodgrain Embossing Folder after I stamped it with the leaf from the Kinda Eclectic stamp set. I then sponged it with Cajun Craze …
Today is World Card Making Day where crafters around the world create handmade cards. What are you doing today to celebrate this fun day? Here’s a card I would like to share with you using the Choose Happiness stamp set – one of my favorite stamp sets in the new catalog! The first thing that caught my attention was the sweet sentiment and the wood banner …
Today’s card incorporates the bubble wrap technique with a twist. I’ve done the bubble wrap technique before where you ink up the bubble wrap you get in your packages with any color you like and stamp onto the card stock–the result looks like this. Today’s next step, which I got the idea from Dawn Griffith, takes it to another level. It uses the emboss resist technique …
The minute I saw the Bloom With Hope hostess stamp, I fell in love with it and knew I had to get it! This was the stamp that I preordered before the catalog went live – a perk that as a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator I get (and you can, too – find out here!) I love the 5 sentiments that go with it and the …
One of the things that drew me to the Wonderful Blessing stamp was the Christmas details – the manger, the angels, Bethlehem-like place, the star and all the other little elements. I chose to just stamp and emboss the image but to give it a whole different look, you can use the Circle Framelits to die cut, mat it and pop it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. The …
Due to some manufacturing issues several months ago at Stampin’ Up!, the Embossing Buddy was unavailable…. but good news – it is now available for purchase! Why do you need an Embossing Buddy? Have you ever tried embossing and had embossing powder or glitter stick in areas you did not intend it to be? This is where the Embossing Buddy comes in. It eliminates static on …