Do you find yourself drawn to a certain style of cards? Perhaps you love the distressed look or the shabby chic style. Maybe you prefer that ultra clean card with lots of layers, or are you more of a beautiful background technique person? I’ve always considered my style to be fairly eclectic. I do love a good distressed… 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 »
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 »
Over the past year there have been several self discoveries I’ve made about myself as a card maker. I like clean and simple cards. I really like that white space. I’m not always good at leaving it, but I really like it. I also like single layer cards. In that, I personally include the cards that I just… Read More »
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know that I love craft kits of all kinds. I couldn’t resist this month’s Simon Says Really Love You kit. I finally had time to sit down tonight and play with it! The stamp set is a really fun set. It has 2 border stamps, lots of fun… Read More »
Sometimes it’s nice to create a card that doesn’t require much, if any, stamping. The easiest way to do that is with the Big Shot and a great set of thinlets dies! I bought this set of giant Numbers Dies thinking that I would use it in my scrapbooks. I’ve been too busy with my unpacking and… Read More »
What Will You Stamp? is a weekly challenge blog and this week’s challenge uses one of my favorite sets from the Holiday Catalog from Stampin’ Up! Paisleys and Posies!!!! You know that I can’t get enough of that set! I’ve been dying to stamp this simple image and just color it in with the new In Colors for… 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 »
Today I have a clean and simple fall card using the new For All Things stamp set. Stampin’ Up! has continued the watercolor look of their stamp sets into the new Holiday Catalog for 2014, which you can now order from! Be prepared to be WOWED by this new seasonal catalog. You will find gorgeous products for fall,… Read More »
Celebrate Baby using a Nacho sketch challenge! Yes…I said Nacho. It’s a design challenge group that I’ve just discovered. I found the Clean and Simple Sketch inspiring, so I created two cards! The card sketch is delightfully clean and simple. You can see that my color scheme came directly from the Lullaby Designer Paper on the left. This… Read More »
Keeping it simple with a sentiment, some designer paper and a few embellishments! I’ve been meaning to use some of the Fresh Prints Designer Paper Stack and try stamping my sentiment directly onto the designer paper. I love the Crumb Cake paper with giant polka dots. It seems perfect for stamping with an Early Espresso sentiment. The one… Read More »