There are a few things that I love to do just to regenerate after a stressful day. I love to spend time in my craft room. I love to take long walks and I love to ride my bike. The new Crafting Forever stamp set really captures my crafty heart! Once again I find myself turning to Stampin’… Read More »
This crazy school year is finally coming to an end this week. Friday can’t get here soon enough. Between the move and my son breaking his back, it has been a crazy overwhelming few months. I’m really looking forward to getting the rest of my craft room unpacked and tidied up. I made a very quick card for… Read More »
This week’s Paper Craft Crew challenge is a Tic-Tac-Toe challenge and it has some interesting combinations! For my card, I chose one of the diagonals that included the water element, the summer challenge and clean and simple. I used the new and quite fabulous So Many Shells stamp set. This is a two step stamp set with some… Read More »
I can’t get enough of these watercolor pencils that Stampin’ Up! has come out with! If you haven’t tried them, they are well worth the $16 price tag in 13 of Stampin’ Up!’s pretty coordinating colors. I used the Pacific Point, Rich Razzleberry and Bermuda Bay pencils. I stamped the dragonfly from Dragonfly Dreams in StazOn permanent black… Read More »
I have to say that it felt great to sit down and make some cards today. I also took another trip to that great bookstore in town! I created a card for the design team at The Paper Craft Crew and decided to enter it in two other challenges. This week is the Stamp, Ink, Paper challenge blog’s… Read More »
I just couldn’t resist using a new stamp set and a new color when I was stamping today! I finally unpacked enough of my craft room that it is functional to sit and stamp. It feels good to have the table set up along with my Big Shot station. I also found my tripod so I’m hoping to… Read More »
I hope this post finds you doing well! Thank you for hanging in there with me as I get settled in my new locale! I thought I might get a chance to make a video today, but alas…I couldn’t find one of the pieces of my tripod to make it all work! After 2 months, I still have… Read More »
I finally had a little time to stamp. I haven’t had a chance to design any cards for the past several Paper Craft Crew challenges and I decided I would just schedule in some time today! I found the box with my ink pads last week and got those unpacked. I still can’t find half of my card… Read More »
Just a quick post today to share my Paper Craft Crew card with this week’s sketch. I’m still unpacking…it may never end! I’ve been trying to do 4-8 boxes a day and I have to say that I am exhausted! I still have not found the box with my ink pads and markers and I’m still missing half… Read More »
I have to say that the last 5 months have been some of the most stressful months of my entire life! Buying one house, selling another and packing up 32 years worth of stuff (a high percentage of which is craft stuff!), really takes it’s toll. In between closing on the “new” house and then the old house,… Read More »
That’s right! Stampin’ Up! is bringing birthdays back. So is this week’s Paper Craft Crew card challenge. I’m excited that I actually got to use this new **FREE** stamp set called Hey Chick. I LOVE this stamp set. It’s ridiculously cute. These are cute chicks! I foresee myself using them for everything. (Especially given that I’ve packed all… Read More »
I’m using one of the free stamp sets that you earn during Sale-A-Bration to create a clean and simple thank you card for today’s Paper Craft Crew sketch challenge. Today is the first day that you can order from the Occasions Catalog and for every $50 you spend, you can select one free item from the Sale-A-Bration brochure!!… Read More »
I’m not really the Black Tie Gala type of gal, but this week’s Paper Craft Crew sketch challenge is to create a Black Tie Gala card or project. For me, that means tone-on-tone, black, white and silver. It also means as clean and simple as possible. I’ve kept it simple with a white-on-white using the Gently Falling embossing… Read More »
Just a quick post to share my card for this week’s Paper Craft Crew sketch challenge. I used the Pretty Pines thinlets dies to create the pine bough and pine cone. I added a piece of the adhesive sheet to my cardstock before cutting the pieces out with my big shot. This made the die cuts with adhesive… Read More »
We have been so busy the last 6 weeks going to open houses, finding our downsized empty nester dream house, painting and packing to get our house ready and then showing it to prospective buyers…I just have not had time to stamp or to blog! I haven’t sent out a newsletter in ages. My New Year’s resolution (assuming… Read More »