Spreading Joy Through Handmade Cards
Today’s card features Garden in Bloom which is another favorite stamp set of mine. I needed an encouragement card and I thought this was the perfect sentiment . . . “Hope you’re feeling special because that’s just what you are”. I stamped off some of the flowers, embossed the flowers on the vellum paper with Gold Embossing Powder and tied 3 Burlap strands from the …
Today’s card is one I made back in May to celebrate my sister’s birthday. My sister LOVES glitter so this card was a hit – she loved it!! I made one of these screen divider cards last year for my son & daughter-in-law’s 5 year wedding anniversary but never posted it so I decided to make another one – this time with a birthday theme. …
It’s been a while since I’ve posted, although I have projects to share, I haven’t had the time to post. I was busy preparing for my daughter’s baby shower that took place this past weekend. Her due date is in a couple of weeks! Here’s a card using products from the Occasions Catalog. I used the Painted Petals and the Butterfly Basics stamp sets and …
Here are 3 more gift card holders . . . I used the image from the Ornamental Pine stamp set for the first one and the faux diamond dust technique. How to Get a Beautiful Glittery Effect: Stamp your image Cover your entire cardstock with the stamped image with VersaMark ink Pour Heat & Stick Powder to cover entire cardstock; shake off excess Using heat tool …
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 …
My dad asked me to make him a card for his ’92’ year old cousin so I gladly started working on one and this is what I came up with. Doesn’t it feel great when someone likes your work and asks you to make a special card for them? I felt honored that my dad asked me – how sweet! I thought of the Hello, Doily Background …
Hello friends! When I was preparing for my Black & White with a Touch of Color Card Class, I immediately thought of making a piano using the Word Window Punch and using the Music Note Wheel. Music has always been an integral part of my home being that both my daughter and I were music majors so this was definitely a must and a fun …
May is a month full of birthdays in my family so in addition to Mother’s Day cards, I also made some birthday cards. Here’s a masculine fun shaped card using the chalkboard technique I gave to my nephew. May is a month I was inspired by Becky Roberts’ easel card. I stamped images from the Clockworks Stamp and punched them with the Petite Curly Label punch. I …
Here’s my last Mother’s Day card. I made this one for my sisters. You’re probably wondering why I didn’t post these last week . . . that’s because one of my sisters visits my blog and she would see it ahead of time! Don’t need a Mother’s Day sentiment? Change it to make it any occasion. Did you notice it’s the Field Flowers Stamp set again …
Last week was a busy week of making birthday cards – here’s one I made that works great as a masculine card using By the Seashore Stamp and French Foliage Stamp and the VersaMark Resist Technique. I love the colors and the illusion of depth. I got the idea for this card from Ilina Crouse. What do you think of it? Leave me a comment. Stamping Supplies …
I wanted a ‘springy’ (my own word for spring-like) type of card and so I decided to use the Secret Garden stamp set and use the Secret Garden Framelits to cut them (better than scissors!) Since my mom was spending her birthday in the hospital, I thought she should have some bright colors to cheer her up. I started out with a center step card so I …
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 …