I’m thrilled to be hopping along with the Crazy Crafters, Kylie Bertucci’s amazing team of stampers in Australia, for their November Crazy Crafters Blog Hop. What an honor to be asked! Welcome to the Crazy Crafters Blog Hop for November. This month we are excited to show off our “most used stamp sets”. We hope you find great inspiration from the projects. You may just be starting the blog hop here or may have come…
On Thursday I shared a warm and friendly card I made with Stampin’ Up!’s Festive Fireplace stamp set. The card was for this week’s Pals Paper Arts Color Challenge, so I wanted it to be exactly what I wanted it to be. That made sense, right? Here’s the card I shared with you on Thursday (you can click on the picture to see the original post): What you might not have known at the time…
This week’s Fab Friday Color Challenge is filled with great colors: Cajun Craze, Blackberry Bliss and Hello Honey. Individually or together, these colors are great colors for Fall. When I played around with the colors, though, my mind kept telling me that these colors would be powerful on a sympathy card. We tend to go “dark” for sympathy cards, but I believe yellow can be such an uplifting color – and isn’t that point of…
This week’s Pals Paper Arts Color Challenge includes three colors from the 2014-2016 In Color collection: Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey and Tangelo Twist. I love each of them, but it was a challenge for me to put them all together. I had just received the Festive Fireplace photopolymer stamp set when I sat down to create this card, so I challenged myself to use it with these colors. Here’s my card for this week’s challenge:…
Welcome to the Pals November Blog Hop. We’re so thankful you stopped by! This month we are showcasing projects that feature Stampin’ Up! Thanksgiving or “thank you” products. We hope you enjoy our creations. You may just be starting the Blog Hop or you may have come from the previous blog on the Pals Blog Hop listing shown below. The full lineup will help you move along from blog to blog so you can enjoy…
Vintage Leaves is a gorgeous stamp set in Stampin’ Up!’s Annual Catalog. As its name implies, the set showcases leaves with a very “vintage” appeal. How about that?! This weekend I made two cards with Vintage Leaves, and both cards have a very modern look to them. Score! Today I’m sharing the first of the cards, and I’ll share the second one tomorrow as part of this month’s Pals Blog Hop. Today’s card was inspired…
This week’s sketch for the Global Design Project is super-simple, and there are so many ways to “dress it up.” I chose to piece together four squares of Home for Christmas Designer Series Paper to make one pattern – oh what fun! I hope you’ll play along with this challenge, too – I’d love to see what you come up with. Here’s my card: And here’s the super-fun Global Design Project sketch that inspired my…
Today I just wanted to share a quick-and-simple card with a super-sweet image from Santa’s Gifts stamp set. The layout is simple, the colors are fun and the images are festive. Does it get any better than that? This card is a perfect “thank you” for a sweet holiday gift or to leave with a party host during Christmas. Sweet, simple, fun. Because I don’t want you to forget about all the Holiday items in…
In a world that’s filled with negative news and badly-behaved people, it’s nice to remember that good things are still happening every day. With today’s project, I throw my hands in the air and dance away the negative. So, maybe this doesn’t represent ME dancing, but you get the idea. 🙂 Karren Johnson is hosting a fun sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches this week. I’m not very skilled the the collage style of design…
It’s a simple fact – we all love to make greeting cards. Some people enjoy the creative process, while others only enjoy creating. Some actually send our cards to loved ones and some collect the cards they’ve made, while others love to sell or give cards that others can send. It takes all kinds of people, right? When my friend’s husband was horribly injured in an automobile accident (he was on his bicycle and was…
