Beat The Winter Blues With Vivid Vases!

Beat the winter blues with Vivid Vases!  This is a single stamp that is ideal for watercoloring.  That means that you can color it in to fit your mood.  My mood today needed some brightening up, so it was the Bright Color Family for me! Get  your Aqua Painters or Blender Pens out and get watercoloring!   I… Read More »

Inspiring Colors And Creatures To Spark Your Creativity!

Inspiring colors and creatures will spark your creativity every time!  The Kaleidoscope Designer Series Paper has bright, trendy colors that are guaranteed to make you run for your craft room and start stamping!!! I haven’t bothered to put the Bermuda Bay and Coastal Cabana papers back in their drawers lately.  I have just fallen in love with these… Read More »

Want A Quick And Easy All Occasion Card For A Friend?

Want a quick and easy all occasion card for a friend?  You need a clean and simple layout!  It’s easy when you have some colorful patterned paper and a large, fabulous sentiment. This is one of my old favorite stamp sets using some bright and trendy colors.  The My Friend stamp sets has some really great images that… Read More »

Need A Fresh And Fabulous Thank You Card?

Need a fresh and fabulous thank you card?  How about Retro Fresh?  That’s the name of the new Designer Series Paper and Washi tape used on this card! When I tell you that I love these new papers, I mean that I LOVE these papers!  The colors are lovely and the patterns are right on trend with the… Read More »

Create A Mini Album With The Sweetheart Treat Bags

Create a mini album with the Sweetheart Treat Bags!  Add inspirational quotes, gift cards, candy treats, pictures…you name it!  This is a fun little album to create for yourself or as a gift for someone special!   Album Video Tutorial: Project Recipe: Materials: Sweetheart Treat Bag Kit Real Red from the Brights Designer Paper Stack cut 2 at… Read More »

Quick And Easy Crafting With Kits + Free Markers

Quick and easy crafting with the new and improved My Paper Pumpkin kits!  I always have a few craft kits around my craft room.  There are just some days that I want to be creative but I don’t want to think about the measurements and layout and I don’t want to dig through my craft supplies and create… Read More »

Trendy Tags: Need A Quick Card For A Friend?

Need a quick card for a friend?  How about trying one of the latest trends:  Tags!    I found a couple of tools and stamp sets that make it easy to create a quick all occasion card with a trendy tag! This card reminds me of the 70’s.  (Although…I was very young and don’t remember much about the… Read More »

Favorite Card Layouts: DIY Birthday Card

This is one of my favorite card layouts for this DIY birthday card!  We all have card layouts that we fall back on when we are creating and crafting with new stamp sets and tools.  This is one of my favorites. This is another one of the cards I created with the set of cards I made over… Read More »

DIY Birthday Cards With The Latest Trends

DIY birthday cards can easily be created with the latest trends!  One of my favorite trends is the banner!   Stampin’ Up! has made this so simple to do with the new Banner Framelits! This DIY card started with a sketch from the Paper Craft Crew!  I love this sketch! You can see that I added a detail… Read More »

Create A Valentine Treat Holder With Monster Hugs And Weekly Deals

Create a Valentine treat holder with Monster Hugs and Weekly Deals!  You know how much I’ve been enjoying the Valentine’s Day products that Stampin’ Up! came out with!  I just received the Monster Hugs kits and found that this week’s Weekly Deals gave me a great excuse to use them!     Project Recipe: Monster Hugs Kits Girls… Read More »

Create Great Layers With Framelits

Create great layers with framelits!  Stampin’ Up! has two fabulous sets of framelits on sale until Monday at Midnight!  The circles framelits and the window framelits are a great combination for creating a layered look.   You can see that the circles and the windows framelits layer beautifully.  It’s a great way to get perfect shapes that layer… Read More »

Woo-Hoo And Life In The Forest

Woo-Hoo and life in the forest are just two of the new stamps you can now purchase with Stampin’ Up!’s Occasions Catalog.  The Occasions Catalog features stamp sets, accessories and papers for spring and spring holidays. I didn’t purchase the Life In The Woods stamp set right away.  I wasn’t actually sure that I wanted it, but then… Read More »

New Stampin’ Up! Products For Spring!!!

New Stampin’ Up! products for spring are available starting today!  The Occasions Catalog is now live and we can order from it!  I can’t decide what my favorite products are!  Here are a few things to check out: The papers…the designer series papers are so pretty in this catalog. The papers are just so pretty.  I love the… Read More »

Free Calendar Printable For 2014!

Here is a free calendar printable for 2014!  You can trim the monthly calendars down to any size that you need and decorate them for each month of the year! You can get acrylic frames in several different sizes.  Here I have trimmed the calendar for January and decorated it with two sneak peek stamp sets from the… Read More »