Stampin’ Up! treated my like a star this week. I was greeted at the airport in Salt Lake City by the limo driver holding this sign: The bag behind it is one of the gifts I found in my room when I arrived. It contained all of the basic supplies you need to stamp! Right next to it… Read More »
Here is my shoebox swap Christmas card! Phew! This is a pretty quick and simple card, but I really like how it turned out. I really think that sometimes simplicity adds a touch of elegance! I made about 20 card kits to take with me and then I made a bunch of extras to share with my customers!… Read More »
Trends In Card Making: Colorful Side Strips and Rounded Corners! There are two trends in card making that I have to admit to being slow to embrace. Both are simple and both have grown on me! The first is to add a simple rounded corner or two to the bottom of the card. I used my Project Life… Read More »
Crafting With Kits And Kids For The Holidays! It has been a long tradition in our house to craft for the holidays. We love craft kits that take the work out of creating and let us do the fun assembly and decorating parts. I’ve been crafting my entire life, as have my children, and I still love a… Read More »
Bright And Beautiful Foil Stars! Have you seen my videos showing some beautiful touches that you can add to your holiday crafting using Stampin’ Up!’s Foil Sheets? These are beautiful embossed, either dry embossed or heat embossed. It adds a simply stunning touch to cards and tags. You can’t help but say, “WOW!” The card features dry embossed… Read More »
Time To Start Getting Merry And Bright! You are no doubt in the midst of thinking about your Christmas cards. Here is one card that is quick and easy. It would be easy to mass produce. It uses 4 pieces of card stock and one piece of designer paper, one stamp set, two framelit sets and two ribbons.… Read More »
Start a new holiday tradition that you and your friends will look forward to every year! Have a Holiday Crafting Gathering! (I don’t mean a catalog party either!) How does this work? It’s so simple. You invite 4 friends over to your house to spend an evening crafting for the holidays and sharing stories and laughs! Don’t over… Read More »
Stampin’ Up! Holiday Supplement! Stampin’ Up! has a new set of Holiday crafting goodies for you to create with! These are exclusive Christmas-themed products and projects to inspire you. Check out the supplement below! It’s stuffed full of ideas for these new products as well as some of the products in the Holiday Catalog itself! You can… Read More »
Are you ready for the 12 Weeks of Christmas? What is the 12 Weeks of Christmas? The 12 Weeks of Christmas is a series of tutorials for Christmas cards, bags, tags, boxes, home decor and gift ideas that you can make to create your very own handmade Christmas! Each week you will receive an email with a printable… Read More »
Get A Wonderful Wreath Card Class With Your Online Order! This is a small sample of the ideas you will get with this printable online stamping class!! Wonderful Wreath Cards Stamping Class Are your ready to “WOW” your friends and family this Christmas season? You will learn: Some fancy folds to create fun and fabulous… Read More »
Stampin’ Up!’s 2014 Holiday Catalog is here! You are going to love this one! There are new framelits and punches to coordinate with the wonderful new stamp sets! Check out the wrapping paper and all of the new bags and boxes you can decorate for your holiday gift giving! This catalog is filled with amazing products and fabulous… Read More »
My all time favorite Big Shot project from the archives of Stamping Imperfection (2 years worth!) includes the Daydream Medallions stamp set and the Floral Framelit set. Guess what! This bundle is on SALE for 15% off through August 31! My favorite projects: Christmas Ornaments and Package Decorations! Here, I heat embossed the stamped image in silver… Read More »
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas!!! Today’s Paper Craft Crew Sketch Challenge is a Christmas and a sketch challenge! Card Details: Papers: Whisper White, Old Olive, Season of Style Designer Paper Stamp Set: Perfectly You (Hostess Set) Inks: Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive and Summer Starfruit Accessories: 2-3/8″ Scallop Circle Punch, 1-3/4″ Circle Punch, Frosted Finishes Embellishments, Rhinestones, White… Read More »
Need last minute quick tag tips and ideas? Here are a few quick tags I just created because tonight is gift wrapping night! Tips: Use your punches to create quick and easy tags. The base of some of these tags was created quickly and easily by cutting 2″ strips of Whisper White card stock and giving the strips… Read More »
Are you resisting clean and simple cards? Everyone seems to define an advanced card design as one with lots of layers and fancy techniques. We all like to show off our skills with a flashy techniques and the latest crafting tools. Sometimes, the hardest designs to create are the simplest ones! I found this to be true with… Read More »