Happy Birthday With A Cherry On Top
Like other crafters out there, I’m sure, I have a huge pile of scraps that are more than just left over pieces of cardstock when I cut out a shape from a sheet. But I have stamped images I decided not to use for one reason or another, punched images that I played with and…
Watercoloring Techniques: Watercolor Pencils
Alright, today is the last day of my Watercolor Technique card shares. At least for now. But with this last card, I wanted to show you the 5th technique we are doing in my watercolor technique class. So without further ado: Watercoloring with Watercolor Pencils You may think, “yeah, yeah, I know what it is…
Fun Birthday Wishes Card
While working on the sample for my upcoming Birthday Card Kit and Organizer class, I was trimming pieces from the cheerful Celebrations designer series paper. After one of my cuts, I looked at the leftover scrap and thought it was the coolest accidental trimming I had ever done and I just had to use it…
Heart Pressed and Filled with Love
Today I thought I’d share with you one my first cards using the new Heart Pressed letterpress plate. Most of the other letterpress dies are big, bold patterns that often are the focal point, so it was fun to play with a more subtle pattern. I used the Heart Pressed die as a textured patterned…
Clean and Simple Just Believe Card
Happy December everyone! Can you believe it is already here? I swear I was just making plans for Halloween, but I guess that is how it is every year. I just spent the last week visiting friends and family in Oklahoma, which was tons of fun I might add, and while I was there I…
Have a Blue Christmas
Today I thought I’d share the final card from my Holiday Stamp-a-Stack last weekend. I wanted to get away from the traditional reds and greens and ended up playing with some blues instead. I don’t know why I always forget about using white craft ink on cardstock, but thanks to a sample I saw on…
Royal Blog Tour – Sharing Northern Hearts and Blog Candy!
Welcome to my little stop here on the Royal Blog Tour! I hope you’ve been enjoying all the amazing and creative projects the princesses have been sharing along your journey. For my stop, I wanted to share with you some simple yet fun ways to use the Northern Hearts stamp set. This stamp set is…
Stampin’ Up! Regionals Display Boards
Since I’m still working on getting photos of some of the fabulous swaps I received at the regional on Friday, I thought I would share with you a couple of the display boards that I was able to photograph. Hopefully these photos are clear enough that when you click on them to enlarge you can…
Just Believe Easel Card
Here is the last of the three fancy fold cards we made this week. This final card was my first ever easel card. I had seen lots of folks making them but never took the time to figure them out until this class motivated me to create one. I started out thinking I wanted to…
Autumn Spice Gate Fold Card
Today I wanted to share with you another card we made on our technique night. For this card, we used the Gate Fold style. This style can be implemented in a various designs but the most common is the version we used below where you take a standard sized card but score your paper to…
Thanks Joy Fold Card
Tonight was another fun technique night with my meetup group and we spent the night creating three different “fancy fold” cards. Specifically, we made a Joy Fold card, a Gate Fold card, and an Easel card. Here is the first card we created – This is a Joy Fold card. That means, instead of the…
World Card Making Day Projects–Part 2
Like I mentioned earlier this week, at my World Card Making Day event, I brought supplies for everyone to make cards based on two different layouts. I shared the first layout in a previous post and so I thought I would share the second layout today. So, here is the card that I made as…