Merry Christmas my friends! I truly hope you are having a wonderful holiday season. Peaceful, restful and relaxed. (Are those things possible during the holiday season?!) A clean and simple holiday card to wish you all the best! This was inspired by this week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge: I tried to keep this quick, clean and simple by… Read More »
I’m all about making quick cards these days. Thankfully, these days are soon going to be those days when I had no time. Retirement is only 3 more work days away! How sweet it is! For my Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge Design Team card this week, I chose to keep my color palette to just white. The sketch… Read More »
Is it really December already? Where has time gone this year? It’s been a year of big changes for us with more to come in the next few weeks. We are embracing them all! I finally sat down and made a Christmas card! It’s time!! This image is a small portion of the actual stamp I used for… Read More »
I’m really excited to share that I have been selected for the Challenge YOUrself Scrapbooking Design Team for 2020. I’m retiring from my teaching career after 31 years of teaching science on December 20 and I plan to blog full time. I’m so looking forward to having time to create videos and to really share my papercrafting ideas… Read More »
I have a quick card to share with you. This week’s Atlantic Heart’s Sketch Challenge inspired by card layout while the Paper Craft Crew Theme Challenge inspired the colors. The Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge was a nice and quick one that would actually be perfect for the Christmas Holiday. It’s so cute! The wreath die cut that I… Read More »
Have you ever looked at a card sketch and felt no inspiration at all? That happened to me today when I sat down to look at this week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge. In all honesty, it is the PERFECT card sketch for using up your pretty paper scraps or Washi tapes. I just wasn’t feeling it until I… Read More »
Today I am sharing a card that I made for a technique class I am teaching. I wanted to participate in the 2019 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and I’m using this for my DT card for this week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge. After the first of the year, I will be releasing several online classes and this… Read More »
Yesterday I shared a card made from die cut ephemera from my stash. I have another card to share today from the same stash. You really can make quick and pretty cards from premade goodies you already have laying around. The card base is a premade set from Stampin’ Up! They were just too pretty to resist! … Read More »
Do you have those packages of premade die cuts and ephemera? Perhaps you have a giant stash of them. I haven’t purchased any of those items for a very long time. Until recently. I’ve been getting the Simon Says Stamps card kits for quite some time and every few months they will have some of the die cut… Read More »
Are you at a point that you feel like you know every possible paper crafting technique? Sometimes it feels that way, but I still love taking classes. I always feel like if I get just one tip or idea, I’ve gotten value from the class and it was money well spent. I’m taking a class at Altenew Academy… Read More »
Have you ever participated in a color challenge? I’ve been interested in doing the 30 day coloring challenge, but I never seem to have a 30 day period where I know I can actually commit to coloring every single day. This 14 day challenge seemed like a good starting point. It’s been very different than I expected. This… Read More »
Have you tried creating a card background with alcohol ink yet? You’ll be hooked when you do! The cards that I created to share with you today and tomorrow are both created with Altenew Alcohol Re-Inkers. The re-inkers are actually the Altenew Artist Marker refill inks, but they work beautifully on Yupo paper to create amazing backgrounds for… Read More »
I’ve been subscribing to the Hedgehog Hollow Kits almost from the beginning. This is another kit that I enjoy because it comes with amazing products. The August box came with 3 sets of 3 Nuvo Alcohol Markers, two stamp sets and a tote bag along with papers, envelopes and more. Alexandra started a two week alcohol marker challenge… Read More »
Do you have too much patterned paper in your stash? If you are anything like me, you don’t completely use up a package of patterned paper before you fall in love with a new one. I limit myself to only purchasing 6×6″ paper stacks that have timeless patterns that I will eventually use. In theory. I also subscribe… Read More »
I have a set of vintage jars that came from my grandmother’s house. They are these fantastic blue glass jars and they are giant. I absolutely love them. My card today was inspired by those jars and by this week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge. As soon as I saw the card sketch, I knew that I wanted to… Read More »