Your mission if you choose to accept it: Gather your Big Shot tools, clean them up and put them away! Join me over the next few weeks as I organize my craft room, one step at a time. I’m not talking about doing a marathon session to get it all done at once. I’m also not talk… Read More »
Crafting On A Budget When I graduated from college and got my own apartment, I was living on a pretty tight budget. I had to learn to feed my craft addiction on a budget while living in a small space. The small space part was easy at first. I became the queen of the plastic bins and tote… Read More »
Woohoo! We celebrated our 200th sketch at the Paper Craft Crew last week and most of the design team crew members offered blog candy! Thank you to everyone who participated!! The winner of the blog candy shown below is Anita Cripps! Congratulations to Anita Cripps!!! Anita, send me a quick email with the address so I can… Read More »
Once again, I find myself using Stampin’ Up!’s great designer series paper as the inspiration for my card color scheme for today! This paper is the Blooms and Bliss Designer Series Paper which I have paired with the Garden In Bloom stamp set, along with this week’s Paper Craft Crew sketch challenge. I’m actually sharing two cards… Read More »
Have you seen the Best Birds Photopolymer Bundle? This little set is a great one! I shared a fun technique that you can use with the branch stamp in this set. You can check that out HERE. This stamp set would be a fun one to color in with an aqua painter or blending pen. For today, I’ve… Read More »
Have You Ever Participated In A Creative Convention? I decided to treat myself to a creative convention for this weekend. It started at 1:00 PM yesterday and it ends tomorrow. I’ve been attending seminars on various aspects to boost my business and I’ve been participating in make-n-takes. I’m so happy that I treated myself to a weekend… Read More »
Welcome to the Paper Craft Crew’s 200th Card Sketch Challenge I’m offering my first blog candy contest…see the details below! I’ll be honest: I’ve had the You’ve Got This stamp set since the last catalog was out and I finally used it for this challenge! I don’t know why it has taken me so long to use… Read More »
Photopolymer stamps have become my favorite stamps to use. They just have so many advantages. They cost less than wood mount or clear mount rubber stamps. I can see what I’m stamping and where I’m stamping it because they are see through. As a result, they are easier to line up and fit in small spaces. If I… Read More »
You know those days where you have a lot of business errands to run and you decide to treat yourself by stopping at a craft store? I had one of those days! One of the other design team members (Justin) on the Paper Craft Crew recently set up shop locally. (I live on Long Island, so by locally… Read More »
Creating a layered card! I am going to ‘fess up and tell you that this card went through at least 3 permutations before I finally landed on the one I liked! Some days are all about experimentation. I think that I will start calling my craft room the stamping lab! I was so sad when the Everything Eleanor… Read More »
Create a very quick feather embellishment for you papercrafting projects using Washi Tape! Shelli Gardner, the Co-Founder of Stampin’ Up!, showed us how to use Washi Tape to make these quick feather embellishments for our projects. I really love this idea! It’s so simple. It uses Washi Tape and thick baker’s twine. I started with a 7″ strip… Read More »
Too corny? My daughter will be telling me that my blog title for the day is too corny! My goal lately has been to create clean and simple single layer cards without a lot of extras. I would consider these cards to be clean and simple except I couldn’t settle on a color scheme and I pulled stamps… Read More »
Create a great beach inspired all occasion card. The Serene Scenery 6 x 6″ Designer Series Paper Stack has fantastic real image scenes and backgrounds that make it look like you are using a photo or a piece of fabric on your card. Can you tell that I’m really ready for summer vacation to get here already?! … Read More »
Stamp sets that allow you to create a great background to a sentiment or a favorite image are an essential tool in your stamping toolbox. The new Playful Backgrounds stamp set contains 4 great images that you can use alone or together to help you create wonderfully unique cards. No two will look alike! I finally got a… Read More »
Are you a fairly new stamper wondering what stamp sets to start with? I have a couple of great options for you! I love stamp sets that I can use for a lot of different occasions. I made a couple of quick baby gift cards just to show you how easy it is and how great the stamp… Read More »