Today is a good day to do a card challenge! I’m creating a masculine card and the theme is Christmas Critters. I will confess that my stash is woefully short on Christmas Critters this year. I found one stamp that has 2 deer, so I’m hoping that is enough. Since it’s after Christmas, I tried not to make… Read More »
The new Make The Cards Challenge is a Color Challenge for this week. It’s also entitled Suit Up. I do not have any stamps with a person wearing a suit of any kind, so I decided that I would just go with the color challenge. This was a good challenge. It has a masculine feel to it and… Read More »
The new Make The Cards Challenge is a Masculine Theme challenge. I’m making a non-traditional color masculine card for this challenge! I decided to use purple for my card today. When I was helping my son set up his first apartment, I was surprised when he chose a purple, gray, and black color scheme. It was… Read More »
If you have been following my blog for a while, you know that I love taking classes and doing the virtual workshops. I find it inspiring and I love the virtual thing because it’s like crafting with friends from the comfort of your own home. I love the classes and workshops because I will never stop being eager… Read More »
Who’s your favorite Cool Kid? You should make that kid a card and let them know! It’s so easy to make cards for little girls and women. We have such limited choices for stamp sets to make for little boys and men. (It’s the same thing when you’re shopping for clothes and shoes: 5000 racks of little girl… Read More »
My goal today was to make a very quick and easy masculine card. I also wanted to practice paper-piercing! Every time I see it on a card, I think it adds that little extra touch that takes a card to the next level. I also think that it takes practice to get the lines straight, even using the… Read More »
Featured Retiring Product: Jewelry Tag Punch, A Little Greeting Stamp Set My husband’s birthday is next week. To say the man loves fishing would be quite an understatement! He not only fishes, he writes about fishing, blogs about fishing and makes Youtube videos about fishing. He dedicated his first book to me, his “best catch ever”! Ya… Read More »
Stampin’ Up!s new Parker’s Patterns Designer Series Paper and the Beyond Plaid stamp set really lend themselves to creating masculine cards. Here is a quick set of 3×3″ thank you cards in a matching folder. I used several elements to create the cards and folder. I created 6 pieces of crumb cake card stock cut at 2-7/8 x… Read More »