Author Archives: Kimberly
Stampin’ Up! came out with their first ever Advent Calendar this year. It’s the 12 Days of Crafting Advent Calendar. The calendar came with a double stamp set. It include several images in one set and an entire set of sentiments in the other set. I’m now up to day 5 and I’ve been enjoying making a card… Read More »
Today’s gift from the Stampin’ Up! Advent Calendar is revealed below! This is the Day 4 gift… It’s a nice set of foiled sentiment tags! There are 19 tags in all and they all have some foiling detail on them. I made two cards using the stamps and dies, the patterned papers, the sentiment… Read More »
If you didn’t order the 2025 Stampin’ Up! Advent Calendar, I hope you are enjoying this daily reveal. It can help you decide if you want to order a future Stampin’ Up! Advent Calendar. For today’s reveal, I did not have time to create a project yet. I just wanted to post a photo of what the gift… Read More »
I’m really loving the Advent Calendar that Stampin’ Up! came out with this year. What a nice treat for myself! I’m spending several hours each day playing with the goodies that have been included in the reveals so far. Here is today’s reveal: The Day 2 gift was designer series paper! We got 20 sheets of single… Read More »
I’ve been looking at all the Advent Calendars that you see during the holiday season. I’ve been contemplating purchasing one for myself for a couple years and I finally did it! I purchased the Stampin’ Up! 12 Days of Crafting Advent Calendar. I actually purchased it in October (or whenever they first came out with it)! It felt… Read More »
This week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge has the following sketch: I started by cutting a Cherry Cobbler and a Shaded Spruce mat to 4 x 5-1/4″. I lined the diagonal up with the track on my trimmer and cut each piece in half diagonally. Then I gently turned the cut pieces so the other diagonal lined up… Read More »
I enjoyed playing with this week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge! Check out this week’s sketch: I love this sketch. It feels like a classic layout that you could use over and over again with so many different stamp sets. I chose to do a Christmas themed card today. The stamp set that I used for this… Read More »
I have another sketch challenge from the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge! This isn’t one of the weeks my team is scheduled to create a card for the sketch challenge, but this is one of my favorite card layouts. I decided to play along! I’m still playing with the Mix & Match Christmas cards & envelopes, tag… Read More »
This week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge is a slimline style card sketch! I decided to create a Christmas card since my craft table is literally filled with Christmas papers and ephemera! I added lots of dimension to this card, along with some ink blending for the background. I used Soft Sea Foam ink with a blending… Read More »
If you are looking for some easy and whimsical Christmas card ideas, check out the Gift of Joy stamp set from Stampin’ Up! Add some of the Specialty Christmas Cards and Envelopes and keep it simple! I made 6 quick cards using 2-1/2″ white card stock squares, 2-3/4″ Real Red card stock squares, and the Christmas Greetings cards… Read More »
This week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge has a fun torn paper detail! I think this is one of the go to techniques for paper crafting lately and I love the touch it adds to my projects. I think this is a lovely sketch and a quick one to create as well. I pulled out the Peaceful… Read More »
This month’s scrapbook challenge for the Challenge YOUrself scrapbook challenge is a black and white challenge…with a splash of color! I love a black and white layout. It was a fun twist to be able to add a splash of one color. Ordinarily with a black and white challenge, I would use black and white photos. This… Read More »
There is a new sketch challenge for theAtlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge this week. For this challenge, I wanted to do a little watercoloring with my watercolor pencils. I used the new Amber Autumn stamp set from Stampin’ Up!. I stamped my image in StazOn ink and the added color with my watercolor pencils. I used my blender… Read More »
This week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge gave me an opportunity to highlight one of the gorgeous new papers from the Lights of Aurora DSP set from Stampin’ Up! When I was thinking about what I wanted to create with this sketch, I didn’t notice that all the rectangles were different lengths. When I cut my paper, I… Read More »
This week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge is all about using those paper strips you have sitting in a pile somewhere in your craft room! I actually don’t have a big pile of paper strip scraps sitting around, so I decided to try a twist on this sketch. I pulled out one sheet of pretty Beautiful Gallery Designer Series… Read More »