The Imperfectionists Rules of Cardmaking Rule 1: All cards should have sparkle, sheen, shine, or a metallic detail. That’s right. I’m making up my own rules for cardmaking now! Rule 2: Always use a score board to score your folds and a bone folder to crease them for a tidy fold. Today I’m on The Hedgehog Hollow blog… Read More »
This week’s Make The Cards Challenge is a color challenge! It is our 8th challenge and we would love to have you participate with us and share your creations! This is a great color challenge for spring! I have this beautiful Calla Lily stamp set from Maker Forte called I Adore You designed by Alex Syberia. I… Read More »
I have a new digital stamp released today from Star Stampz called 4 Leaf Clover. I created a card just for the release! I think this little miss is so sweet! Star Stampz releases a new digital image each month and the design team takes turns being the first to create with the new images! Copic Color… Read More »
I had a very relaxing morning today. I decided to color an image just for the sheer joy of coloring while having the TV on. What a great way to spend a morning! I chose an image from The Paper Shelter called Tropical Fun. I just finished coloring an image from them for one of my future challenges… Read More »
I’m over on the Maker Forte blog today with my first design team post! I’m excited to share the spring card I made with iridescent raindrops. You can get all the details on the Maker Forte blog. I used lots of new products and a couple new mediums! Here is a sneak peek: I also have a video… Read More »
Kinda Cute by Patricia is having a special mini release for Easter! This sweet Easter Set of digital images has a coordinating sentiments set and a coordinating digital paper set that you can purchase as well. I fell in love with the fun images and fantastic papers in this set as soon as I saw it! I originally… Read More »
I have 4 cards to share with you today using cards you can create with just cardstock and your dies! I’m using some of my favorite die sets from Scrappy Tails Crafts to create the cards that I’m sharing with you today. I had a pile of scraps on my work table and I’ve been wanting to use… Read More »
Happy International Women’s Day! I’m participating in this year’s International Women’s Day Blog Hop and Linky Party! Today is a celebration of all women around the world and the qualities that that describe us. We are taking a step toward women empowerment by being positive, encouraging, and uplifting to each other via our papercrafts! The love for crafting… Read More »
The Make The Cards Challenge for this week is a Coffee Themed Challenge! I don’t really have a good coffee cup stamp set, so I purchased a digital stamp from Not 2 Shabby for this challenge. I have a great stamp set from Cas-ual Fridays Stamps called Coffee Talk and I finally had a reason to use… Read More »
I have a fun card using TLC Designs Happy Dragon stamp set and the Celebrate Frame Set. The card is really fun because I also used a set of Pear Blossom EZ Lights that Tammy from TLC Designs sent me to try and they are really fun to play with! This is a sweet little card even without… Read More »
The new Challenge YOUrself Scrapbook Challenge is a theme challenge this month! You need to make a layout about YOU! I decided that any layout that I create about myself needs to include a mixed media background. I consider myself a mixed media artist even though I don’t share all those projects here or on YouTube. I’ve… Read More »
There is a new challenge on the Scrapping 4 Fun Challenge site and it is a stitching challenge! Your project needs to include stitching! It is still an Anything Goes challenge, so you can make any kind of project, but there should be some stitching on it. Our sponsor for this week is Oddball Art Stamps and… Read More »
Slimline cards are one of the new trends in cardmaking and I have to admit, they are fun to make! I love the scenes you can create when you have 8-1/2″ of space instead of 4 or 5-1/2″. It’s just fun to make them. I have collected a few slimline products over the last few months. I have… Read More »
I can’t believe it is the sixth Make The Cards Challenge already! It seems like we just started last week! I’m loving this challenge because is something new every week. Last week we did a color challenge and the week before it was a theme challenge. This week, we have a sketch challenge! I was excited about… Read More »
I have been looking for ways to use up my patterned paper scraps and some of the 6 x 6″ paper pads that I haven’t used in ages. Seriously! The new spring paper pads are coming out and I can’t justify buying any more pretty papers if I still have some left on my shelf! Today I created… Read More »