I decided to go for a nice quick alcohol ink background to create a sea-like feel for the fun stamp and die sets from Catherine Pooler’s Unsinkable Collection. I live in a coastal port town and I love the sea themed stamp sets. They always get a lot of use in my crafting projects. For the background, I… Read More »
Altenew recently had a new class on 3D Florals that was all about using their layered floral dies. I’m halfway through the class and I’m enjoying it very much. I decided to use a slight twist on the 3D Florals by using the Rose Filament Die set. This is not a layered die, but I decided to do… Read More »
The July Simon Says Stamp Kit is called Bee Yourself and it is a really fun kit. The kit comes jam packed with a large stamp set, 3 foilable cards, a hexagon die, Honey Bee 6 x 6″ patterned paper pack, black and yellow sequins, 5 Therm O Web Deco Foil sheets, a glue sponge, 4 sheets… Read More »
Lately I just seem to have so little time to make my cards. You know what that’s like. Some months it seems like you just don’t have time for yourself. I had wonderful reasons for not having time for myself. My daughter was able to spend the last month with us, which was fabulous. She just finished her… Read More »
This week’s Paper Craft Crew is a 2 week challenge and this is the second week of the challenge. I just wanted to remind you that this is the CASE (copy and share everything) one of the Design Team members. Pick a card that you love from their blog and create your own version of it. Perhaps you… Read More »
If ever I needed a card to be quick, this is it! What a day! I needed to create a card for my Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge and I had 15 minutes to make the card, take the picture and write this blog post. Here is what I came up with: I pulled out my binder of premade… Read More »
I fell in love with my first Concord & 9th stamp set and I’ve been hooked ever since. Now they have invented the Turnabout stamps and I just love them. I love how versatile they are and I wanted to share that with you today. I created 4 cards from the Butterfly Love Turnabout Stamp and Dies and… Read More »
Over the last few months, I have been sharing a bunch of Totally Tiffany organizing products. I answered a Design Team call because Tiffany was forming a blogging troop and was delighted when she selected me. I had never tried any of her products before, but my sister has been raving about the Scrap Rack and the carts.… Read More »
The entire Paper Craft Crew Design Team has been having a busy summer. Someone suggested that we CASE a fellow team members card for this week’s challenge. This sounded like fun and it gave me an excuse to sit for a while and browse my teamies blogs. What a talented group of people! I decided to CASE (Copy… Read More »
The July My Favorite Things Card Kit is called Flowers in Bloom and it has some fun Color Burst powders and watercolor papers from Ken Oliver. It also had a stamp and die set with some card stock as well. The Color Burst Powders were a lot of fun to play with. I experimented with several ways to… Read More »
When asked what my greatest organizing challenge is whether it is household organizing or craft room organizing, my answer is always the same. PAPER! My nemesis! By nature I pile things when I get busy or don’t feel like dealing with something and that something is almost always paper. (Although clean laundry would be a close second.) I’ve… Read More »
I have a product review for you today using the Totally Tiffany XL Pen and Ink Palace. I made the video almost a month ago and I have had this on my craft table and I absolutely love it. I have all of my Altenew Alcohol Artist Markers, my marker paper pads, my Memento ink pad, my… Read More »
This card today is super quick and it uses a stencil to create an ink blending background for a fabulous sentiment from Pink Fresh Studios Word Series Believe Stamp Set. I used an old favorite Catherine Pooler stencil called Perfect Vines and the Real Red, Sauna, and Blue Suede Shoes CP inks with my Picket Fence blender brushes… Read More »
I’ve had Altenew’s Rose Flurries 3D Die set on my wish list for almost two years! I finally splurged when I saw they created a creativity kit and it was part of the bundle. Altenew bundles products into Creativity Kits that they release weekly with a set of instructional videos that you can purchase to get your creative… Read More »
When I said I was doing a 30 Day Craft Room Clean Up, I hope you realize that I am not doing 30 consecutive days. Mostly because it is the end of the school year and it has been very hectic. I don’t really have a good excuse! Once you start cleaning up and working on fine-tuning your… Read More »