Are you ready to celebrate? With the Designer Series Paper Sale Buy 3 Get 1 Free taking place during July online at mystampingstore.com, I find myself focusing on using and highlighting the truly wonderful papers that Stampin’ Up! has in the catalog this year. This card today uses the Park Lane Designer Paper as the real star of… Read More »
Create a colorful birthday card with the Kaleidoscope Designer Series Paper!!! This is beautiful paper full of happy colors and geometric shapes. This card was created with this week’s Paper Craft Crew sketch challenge for the week. Check out the sketch below! Product List (Click on the pictures to view more details or to order the supplies… Read More »
How to make sure you get a handmade birthday card on your birthday: craft with your kids! Last year my kids surprised me for my birthday by coming home for the weekend. They both go to schools about an hour and a half from New York City, but in opposite directions. They met at Penn Station and then… Read More »
Having fun with Simple Stems! This is one of my favorite stamp sets in the Occasions catalog! April is the month to fill your wish list from the Occasions catalog. Remember that in May, the retired list comes out and you will have some of those items on your wish list for May. Then June…the new catalog comes… Read More »
Need a children’s birthday card? Here is a quick one using the Birthday Basics Designer Paper, Zoo Babies and some coordinating Designer Buttons! The stamp set is Zoo Babies. These are the cutest little graphic animals. Here, I’ve stamped it in Bermuda Bay and I’ve included a sentiment from a hostess set called Sweetly Framed. (You can get… Read More »
This is one of my favorite card layouts for this DIY birthday card! We all have card layouts that we fall back on when we are creating and crafting with new stamp sets and tools. This is one of my favorites. This is another one of the cards I created with the set of cards I made over… Read More »
DIY birthday cards can easily be created with the latest trends! One of my favorite trends is the banner! Stampin’ Up! has made this so simple to do with the new Banner Framelits! This DIY card started with a sketch from the Paper Craft Crew! I love this sketch! You can see that I added a detail… Read More »
How many layers are too many layers to put on one card? I began wondering that as I was trying to participate in an Operation Write Home sketch challenge! Wow! The card sketch was very specific about layer measurements, which is kind of nice. It was like following a recipe with all the measurements and I got to… Read More »
Happy Birthday, Mikey! You’d think that by the time a guy turns 20, his family would stop calling him “Mikey”, but somehow the nickname just fits. He’ll always be Mikey to me just because he’s my youngest “child”. I can’t wrap my head around the fact that he’s 20 now. When did that happen?! If you have a… Read More »
Stampin’ Up! has given us some great stamp sets to make masculine cards. The Open Sea is a fantastic set because it makes great cards and scrapbook pages! Whether you are taking a vacation or cruise, visiting an aquarium or documenting a family history, this stamp set has the versatility to do that! I was participating in another… Read More »
I have a fun and colorful card that uses two of my favorite stamp sets today, Mixed Bunch and Perfectly Penned. Of course there is a coordinating blossom punch to go with the Mixed Bunch set just to make me love it even more!!! The colors that I was challenged to use included Wisteria Wonder, Summer Starfruit, Gumball… Read More »
Oh man! The UPS woman came and delivered my first order out of the new catalog! Where do you start? I’m one of those people that needs to have my choices narrowed down for me. Just show me two things to choose from. Any more than two things and it’s too difficult. The papers are so gorgeous. I… Read More »
Today is my husband’s birthday. I won’t name any numbers. Lets just say, it’s official. I’m married to an old guy. When AARP starts filling your mailbox with offers, it’s official. Actually, what was worse than that…I was browsing the newspaper and saw that Foreigner (a hot band in 1980!) was giving a concert near here. It was… Read More »
I have a Google Plus account. I think I needed it to create my Youtube Channel or a gmail account and I use it to view the analytics of my website. Yesterday when I logged on to my computer and opened my browser to use Google to search something, the Google Letters were spelled out in birthday cakes… Read More »
The fun thing about not having time to clean off your desk is that the next time you sit down at what should be a mess, it’s full of inspiration for your next card. This card came from the leftovers sitting on my desk. I merely had to pull all of the pieces together. The base of the… Read More »