It’s no secret that my craft room is the home to all the unloved furniture, thrift store finds, dollar store deals, and yard sale goodies that I’ve collected over the years. While I don’t have one of those beautiful professionally designed and constructed craft rooms that we all drool over on Pinterest and the organizing Facebook groups we… Read More »
The challenge this week for the Paper Craft Crew is to create a simple single layer card that a beginner could make with minimal supplies. This card used a precut and pre-scored notecard in white card stock, a bone folder (although not necessary), a black ink pad, a stamp set and a clear block. That is it! The… Read More »
This week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge inspired me to use a couple of new tools that I recently treated myself to. Check out this card: I used Catherine Pooler’s aquatini and lime rickey inks to create the flower and leaves using the Bloomin’ Bouquet and Die set from a Stamp of Approval from long ago. I still love… Read More »
I have a clever idea to share with you today from my friend and fellow crafter, Candace Cubito. We’ve been hearing about the new Sizzix Sticky Grid Sheets that are the latest, greatest product on the market. I would have tried them by now if they weren’t sold out every single time I’ve gone to order them. Well,… Read More »
About a year ago, I picked up a book about Zentangle Pencil Drawing Techniques. I really wanted to learn to add these fun drawings to my bullet journal pages. You know how it is…life happens. You get busy, the kids need you to do this, you have to go visit family, the house needs a good cleaning, work… Read More »
I just have a quick post today. When I was cleaning up a couple of weekends ago, I came across the first scrapbook pages my daughter ever made. She was 5 and in Kindergarten. I think they are pretty fabulous myself. I would say that she has a clean and simple style and her text gets right to… Read More »
Have you ever browsed an online stamp shop like Altenew and you think you’ve seen all the possible stamp sets they have. Then you look again and there is stuff you’ve never seen before and you wonder how you missed that fabulous stamp set? That happened to me a couple of weeks ago when I found this cute… Read More »
Have you seen Catherine Pooler’s last Stamp of Approval release? The Sweet Home Wreath stamp and die set is one of my very favorite stamp sets. It’s so versatile that I’ve used it a number of times since I’ve gotten it and every card is completely different than the ones I made before it. I has a layered… Read More »
I love clean and simple one layer cards. This is a quick and easy one! I used a stamp set that I love from Altenew called Dandelion Wishes. It has fabulous sentiments to go along with the images. Isn’t this just a beautiful image? I love it. There are several other images and some layering pieces that go… Read More »
Once in a while I like to experiment with new techniques and new products. Well…I like to do it all the time. I really enjoy getting sucked into experimenting with techniques and products that I’ve never tried before. I LOVE the card that I made from just such an experiment! This may look like a hot mess to… Read More »
My Favorite Things Stamps has some really fantastic dies. I have so many sets that I just go to all the time. Their Stax dies and the Die-namics are just wonderful to have in your stash. I love the shape dies that give you every size possible. You just use those over and over and you really get… Read More »
I wanted to create a quick and easy card that hints at spring. I can’t wait to see green on the trees again! This was so simple! I used some scraps from my stash and a stamp set that I had not used yet. This is Altenew’s Blooming Branches. I used their Milk Chocolate and Mountain Pine ink… Read More »
I created a quick and easy card for the Paper Craft Crew challenge this week. I did edit a couple of things out of the sketch for my card. As I look back through my blog photos over the years, the cards I like the least are often cards that I made for sketch challenges or color challenges.… Read More »
I’m combining this week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge with the Double Trouble Challenge. The card is a clean and simple card with lots of color and lots of white space. It also has a lot of dimension thanks to foam tape and foam dots! This is an older Catherine Pooler Designs Stamp of Approval stamp and die set… Read More »
Catherine Pooler is releasing her new collection and it will be available on February 13! Mark your calendars! You can get a preview of some of the new goodies on by clicking the image below: