Once again, I find myself using Stampin’ Up!’s great designer series paper as the inspiration for my card color scheme for today! This paper is the Blooms and Bliss Designer Series Paper which I have paired with the Garden In Bloom stamp set, along with this week’s Paper Craft Crew sketch challenge. I’m actually sharing two cards… Read More »
Create a very quick feather embellishment for you papercrafting projects using Washi Tape! Shelli Gardner, the Co-Founder of Stampin’ Up!, showed us how to use Washi Tape to make these quick feather embellishments for our projects. I really love this idea! It’s so simple. It uses Washi Tape and thick baker’s twine. I started with a 7″ strip… Read More »
Have you tried making a one layered card lately? I have a fun technique that I like to use with silhouette type images. The Wild About Flowers is a great silhouette two step stamp that works well with the clear block technique. The clear block technique just involves inking up a clear block directly from the ink pad… Read More »
Create a fun, cheerful card using the new In Colors for 2016-2018. The inspiration for this card came from this week’s Paper Craft Crew Sketch Challenge. I found this sketch so inspiring! The real challenge was finding designer paper that I wanted to use!! Since the old catalog is retiring and the new one is coming out on… Read More »
Combining Elements For A WOW Card! Playing along with the Paper Craft Crew Sketch this week, I was trying to use some of the new In Colors and stamping supplies that I’ve gotten recently. This is one of those cards that I had to let sit overnight and look at the next day. You know how you make… 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 »
Making Your Spirits Be Bright Card Sketch! I always love when it’s time for me to create a card for the Paper Craft Crew. The sketches created by my friend Pam are fabulous. I think they just get better every week. I love how each person on the design team uses the sketch in such very different ways.… Read More »
Create Your Own Journaling Cards For Your Project Life Albums! I was browsing through Papercrafts & Scrapbooking magazine today and they shared a journaling card sketch. I decided to use the sketch to create a couple of quick cards of my own. This is a great way to use your scraps and that giant basket of stash in… Read More »
Virtual Tag Swap: The Santa Stache Tag! One of the benefits of being an Independent Stampin’ Up! demonstrator is that I get to join all kinds of demonstrator forums. One of the forums decided to hold a virtual swap! I love this idea! I didn’t have to make 100 of the same tag to exchange and then end… 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 »
Imagine the possibilities when you choose happiness! Stampin’ Up!’s Choose Happiness stamp set, that is. While I couldn’t go to Stampin’ Up!’s Annual Convention this year (two kids in college…a new roof…priorities!), I loved that Stampin’ Up! did a live stream of some of the big events. On the last day, they did a live stream of the… Read More »
Celebrate Baby using a Nacho sketch challenge! Yes…I said Nacho. It’s a design challenge group that I’ve just discovered. I found the Clean and Simple Sketch inspiring, so I created two cards! The card sketch is delightfully clean and simple. You can see that my color scheme came directly from the Lullaby Designer Paper on the left. This… Read More »
Need inspiration? Start with designer paper! This is often one of my favorite starting points. The designer paper helps you select your color palette for your card, as well as the stamp set or shapes your images might take. I used the Flashback designer paper as my inspiration today, as well as this week’s Paper Craft Crew Sketch… Read More »
Enjoy the new catalog goodies! I love when a box of Stampin’ Up! supplies arrives on my porch. Oh, the fun it holds! One of the new stamp sets that I ordered is called Num-Num. This set is designed to make tags for the tasty treats that you give to friends. I picture these working really well with… Read More »
Try a sketch or color challenge to get your creativity flowing. There are tons of design challenges all over the place. I am participating in two challenges today. One is a color challenge and the other is a sketch challenge. It’s fun to see what you can do when someone else chooses the colors or the card layout.… Read More »