Quick and Simple Vintage Card
I realized in writing this post that the word “vintage’ has a few different meanings. I’ve seen it used to describe victorian and lace, while other times it is more rough and aged. Or in this case, when I look at this card and think it looks more western or um..I don’t know… vintage? Well…
A Letterpress Card for the Stamping 411 Challenge #168
If you’ve seen the holiday mini, you’ve seen one of the new products Stampin’ Up! just released – the Letterpress Plates. These plates are made to use with your BigShot and instead of embossing your image by causing the pattern to raise up off your paper, these plates deboss your image – making empressed images…
Jack-o-Lantern Gift Card Holder
As I was thinking about projects for the Halloween Punch Art Blog Hop, I came up with this idea in my head for an interactive Jack-o-Lantern. I had ideas for making it hold a gift card and some other stuff, but when I sat down to make it, it just wasn’t coming together. Finally today…
Halloween Punch Art blog hop
Man, can you believe the stores are already putting out their Halloween decorations and candy? I guess that means the holiday season is creeping up on us. But that also means fun holiday projects like a ton of fabulous Halloween Punch art. I’m participating in a blog hop with 13 other extremely creative folks. I…
One More Summer Card–Just for You
Ever have a project that you see in your head…you start cutting/stamping/punching and then suddenly go “that doesn’t work”? That is what happened to me on Monday. I wanted to get in one last farewell to the Summer mini card and was thinking how I got the Bouquet Bunch stamp set because I loved the…
A few Fur-ever Friends
Well, I didn’t get my farewell to the Summer mini card done before the catalog retired, so while I finish that card and start breaking out my new Holiday mini goodies, I thought I would share a couple cards I made with the Fur-ever Friends stamp set. I liked being able to make totally different…
Introducing Northwest Stamper and some Blog Candy!
I’ve been working for a while on setting up my own website and all the related things like email addresses, facebook, etc. Finally last night I got the last few pieces changes and flipped the switch. So welcome to my new home – Northwest Stamper at www.nwstamper.com THANK YOU for stopping by today. Here is…
An Owl Punch Flower Pendant Card
When I was visiting my mom last week, we got a chance to try out some different stamps and punches. (One of the fun things of having an upline/downline – you can share stamps and products so you can try them out without having to buy everything yourself). One of the items she had just…
Technique night – Masking and Reverse Masking
Last night was my August technique night with my meetup group and we focused on masking and reverse masking. For those of you not familiar with masking, this is the technique for using paper to cover (or mask) the area you don’t want to get inked. So, in this first card we did, you stamp…
More baby gifts – thank you card set and a frame
It seems like I know a lot of people having babies right now. I reconnected with a friend recently on Facebook and learned she was due at the end of August with her first child. I was so excited for her, I decided to make her a few things to send in addition to a…
Baby brag book and photo frame
My friend Sue was so excited to share the news of her new baby granddaughter born a couple weeks ago. This is her second grandbaby and it was her daughter who gave birth and everytime I talked with her you could hear the excitement and pride in her voice. So, I had to make her…
Training the trainer – an introduction to stamping
Last week, I had the fun of introducing a friend to awesome world of stamping and paper crafting. Nikki is my personal trainer from the gym (gotta kick out those last few pounds of baby weight!) and she has been very curious to check out Stampin’ Up!. Since she wouldn’t be able to get a…