When you only have 10 minutes to make a card, you pull out a card kit! Luckily, I had this month’s Simon Says Stamp card kit sitting on my craft table and I had a great sketch for inspiration from this week’s Paper Craft Crew sketch challenge so the card was a quick one. Thank goodness for clean… Read More »
Today I discovered that I’ve been spelling Thinlits wrong. I’ve been spelling it with an “e”. Go figure! Why has no one corrected me? I hope that error has not been driving you crazy for the last 5 years! So sorry if it has. The future will be better. On to my card…today is the start of the… Read More »
It really is the most wonderful time of the year. Just like the song says! I’ve created a festive Christmas card for this week’s Paper Craft Crew Challenge. The papers, ribbons, inks and embellishments are all from Stampin’ Up! I’ve used Designer Series Paper from the Quilted Christmas collection. I love the patterns in this paper set. … Read More »
It’s hard to resist the adorable Halloween stamp sets that Stampin’ Up! has in the new Holiday Catalog! I love that several of the stamp sets coordinate with current punches, framelits, and thinlets sets. Check out this Halloween set called Jar of Haunts that coordinates with the Everyday Jars Framelits dies. There are new ribbons and twine’s… Read More »
I found this week’s Paper Craft Crew card sketch to be quite a challenge!!! It looked like such a clean and simple card, yet the 4 sentiment banners made me pause! I grabbed my Awesomely Artistic and Grateful Bunch stamp sets, along with my bin of washi tapes to create this card. I knew that I… Read More »
A Quick Celebration Card! This card was inspired by three things: my need for a graduation card, school colors and this week’s Paper Craft Crew Sketch Challenge! I love the Bravo stamp set. It has become my “go to” stamp set whenever I need a congratulations card or a card celebrating someone’s success. The sentiments are… Read More »
The Ornamental Pine With The Paper Craft Crew Sketch! Yesterday, I shared a card, see it here, that I created with this week’s Paper Craft Crew Card Sketch. I didn’t love the way that card turned out, so I created the one I’m sharing today. I like this one! The card sketch is fabulous with lots of possibilities!… Read More »
Autumn inspired seasonally scattered stamp set using the emboss resist sponging technique! This week’s Paper Craft Crew sketch challenge inspired me to use one of the fabulous (and giant!) seasonal images from the Seasonally Scattered stamp set! For this card, I heat embossed the image with the new Crushed Curry Embossing Powder and then sponged on Mossy Meadow,… Read More »
2 Must Have New Stamp Sets: Something to Say and Kinda Eclectic are my two favorite stamp sets…for today. (There are so many other sets for me to try that I’m sure I’ll have a couple of new favorites tomorrow!) This is yet another fantastic sentiment from the Something to Say stamp set. You’ll notice that I’ve been… Read More »
Are you living the life you imagined? Personally, I don’t remember what I imagined to start with. I’m not sure that I’ve ever tried to figure out more than a few days at a time! How many weeks have you reached Friday and it felt like a small victory just to make it through the week?! My daughter… Read More »