Over the last two months, I have started two new video series on my YouTube channel. Technique Album Video Series: I’m creating a technique album for myself, and I decided that I would share the PDF printables that I’m creating to add to my album. The printables have 3 x 4″ sized cards you can print and cut… Read More »
Two challenges, a great card sketch, a video, and an easy background technique. That’s what I have for you today! I’m using this week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch to complete my card today. You can see that there is a strip detail behind the rectangle panel and the focal image. There are numerous ways to add those stripes… Read More »
I have 3 cards to share today. I was in the mood to play around with weird color combinations just to see what they looked like. I pulled out the Altenew Majestic Bloom stamp and die set. It’s an easy set to line up and layer and layering sets always make for quick cards. Especially when you have… Read More »
CAS means clean and simple. Technically, a clean and simple card should be just one layer. Since I was playing with this week’s Paper Craft Crew Sketch, which I loved, it’s not technically clean and simple because I have a layer and I popped my sentiment up on a foam strip. I did keep my focal image as… Read More »
Every now and then it’s nice to sit down and do a little water coloring. It’s so relaxing just to color things in. No wonder adult coloring books have become such a big hit these days. My favorite stamp set from the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog was the Basket of Wishes stamp set. I couldn’t resist using it… Read More »
There are some days when you have more time to create and experiment than others. If you have one of those days and you want to play with coloring in images and scenes, then the Happy Scenes and the Hearth and Home framelits are for you! This may be my new favorite stamp set! I love that it… Read More »
Need A Great Masculine Card Idea? Check out this tone-on-tone card using the Traveler stamp set and the Timeless Elegance designer paper! The designer paper really adds an elegance to this card allowing it to be a perfect choice for either gender! I also think the Sahara Sand and Very Vanilla colors add to the truly timeless quality… Read More »
Create A Card With A Sketch + Free Shipping Is On! Don’t forget that there is FREE Shipping online at mystampingstore.com with no minimum orders through Friday, April 10! I love creating cards from sketches. As a Design Team Member for the Paper Craft Crew, I create a card from the new sketch each week. It really… Read More »
Have You Played With Dazzling Diamonds Yet? Crafting for Christmas and winter provides the perfect opportunity to play with Dazzling Diamonds to add a WOW! touch to any project. Dazzling diamonds will add glitz to any project! This is a perfect way to add that snow kissed look to your winter scenes. Dazzling diamonds is… Read More »
When you first see a card or a card sketch like the one I created the other day, you probably have something in your stamping stash that you think of immediately to use with the sketch. For me, it was the Deco Label Framelits. I love them, they are new and I’m looking for cards to create with… Read More »
I find it to be a lot of fun to start creating a card by starting with a sketch. You can find websites full of them. There are sites devoted to just creating sketches and running design challenges. You can create your own sketch using My Digital Studio software like I did here today, or you can take… Read More »
My Halloween Sketch Challenge comes from my weekly Paper Craft Crew sketch challenge and one of those, “How will I ever use THAT stamp” challenge. By THAT stamp, I mean the giant image from the Toil and Trouble stamp set in the Holiday Catalog from Stampin’ Up! My Halloween Sketch Challenge design popped into my head as soon… Read More »
Create a card with Stampin’ Up!s Neutrals Collection and a really great card sketch! I LOVE the card sketch that I started with on the Paper Craft Crew Sketch Challenge today. WOW!!!! Would you look at this!!! Tell me that is not a beautiful layout! I would never have thought of this layout without a little help from… Read More »
I have really been enjoying working with card sketches. I feel like I’m a very creative person and I really love to do my own thing. I find it really challenging to take a sketch someone else came up with and create a card with it. I feel that way about teaching too. I can’t teach from a… Read More »