Spreading Joy Through Handmade Cards
Today’s card is simple and quick using the Lots of Lavender Sale-A-Bration stamp for the focal point. I have a couple of lavender plants in my garden and love the fragrance as I pass by or touch them. And don’t get me started with the lavender soap – love it. It all started when I visited a lavender farm several years ago in the San …
The Occasions catalog has some great products, but let’s not forget the 2017-2018 Annual Catalog does, too. So for today’s card let’s look at a card using Jar of Love and Touches of Texture – both sets from the Annual Catalog. I made this card back in November 2016 but hadn’t posted it yet. All the products that I used are still current with the exception …
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Today’s swap card is a thank you card using Touches of Texture as the primary stamp set and One Big Meaning for the greeting. This is one of my favorite cards . . . I love the colors and having all the color focus in the middle with everything else white. Are you wondering how I got the scallops on each of the sides of …
On Saturday, I attended Onstage Local – a Stampin’ Up! event for demonstrators. Demonstrators all over the world gathered in different cities and countries and we had a good time. Among other things, we saw and played with new products, saw the new Occasions 2017 catalog and swapped cards with each other. A lot of the swapping happens while we’re waiting on line to go …
Today’s Christmas card features Painter’s Palette and 4 other stamp sets. We made this card at my Christmas in July card class before the holiday catalog was live. Many times a little thinking out of the box allows you to take a stamp that wasn’t intended for Christmas and create a Christmas card like this one. Here are the details for this card: the swirls …
Today’s Double Z Fold card is one I made for my niece’s baby shower, using several stamp sets to create it. I first came across this fold from Jan B. and knew I wanted to make a baby card using this fun fold. I wanted my main focus on Baby Bear so I stamped him on the far right so he would be seen when the …
August has been a busy month for birthdays. Here’s one of several birthday cards I will be posting. This card features the Botanical Builder Framelits and the background was done with the Touches of Texture Stamp. As you know by know Touches of Texture has quickly become a favorite of mine – I absolutely LOVE IT! To add depth to the flowers, I sponged them. …
For today’s card, I used three of my favorite sets from the Annual Catalog – Bella & Friends, Touches of Texture and Better Together to create this cute birthday card for my 6 year old niece. I think this puppy is adorable – don’t you think? I colored the dog, bird, cupcake and balloon with a blender pen. Of course, every little (and big) girl needs glitter so I …
Today’s card is a quick and easy card. I combined 3 stamp sets to create the card – Endless Birthday Wishes (the cake and sentiment), Gorgeous Grunge (stripes & splatterings) and Touches of Texture (the small speckles). This makes a perfect masculine or teen card, doesn’t it? I colored the cake with a blender pen and to add dimension, I added 2 of the star metallic gold …
I don’t usually post cards with retired stamps, but I wanted to share with you this card that I recently sent a friend who’s going through a difficult time and needed encouragement. I knew I wanted to send this Scripture verse and so I looked through my binder and went in search of what flowers would go well with it. I chose Pleasant Poppies (retired) …
Hope you had a great 4th of July weekend celebrating the freedom we have in this country and remembering those who fought for it. For today’s card, I used one of my top favorite stamps, Touches of Texture. This set has so many images that it comes in 2 separate cases. This is quickly becoming a go to stamp for creating collages and layering to …