When I joined the Design Team for the Challenge YOUrself Scrapbook Challenge blog, I was excited and inspired to see the sketches and the challenges that Sharon Fritchman had created for us for the coming year. I was so inspired by a link she shared to Ali Edwards One Little Word® blog that I have actually spent the… Read More »
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 »
Here is a quick card share for you today using Catherine Pooler Happy Buddies stamp set and the Feeling Chilly 6 x 6″ patterned paper set. I also added some Peppermint Scrub embossing glitter on the snowflakes from the Baby It’s Cold Outside die set and the WISH die that I got for free from Taylored Expressions. Just… 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 »
Catherine Pooler always comes up with fun holiday stamp and paper designs. I needed a quick card for this week’s Paper Craft Crew sketch and I pulled out her fabulous Patterns & Pine 6 x 6″ paper along with the sweet Happy Buddies stamp set and created a quick card with this week’s PCC sketch. How sweet is… 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 »
Are you an alcohol marker lover? Over the last year and a half, I’ve been working on my watercoloring and my alcohol marker coloring skills. I’ve taken a lot of classes with lots of different instructors. No two instructors have the same technique. My goal is to try many different techniques and then see what works for me. … 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 »
I spent last week trying to finish up a couple of classes that I have been taking and that involved creating projects to share in the class forums. Creating projects meant pulling out lots of fabulous stamps, dies and ink colors. I felt a high degree of frustration when I was using my Altenew inks because only about… 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 »