Flower Birthday Cards: Painted Roses

With the Timeless Elegance Designer Paper collection you can make exquisite flower birthday cards with little effort.  The paper is so beautiful to begin with, just a little stamping or coloring is all you will need to make memorable homemade birthday cards they’ll cherish.  Did you know this pattern was hand-drawn by one of the […]

Handmade Graduation Card: Remarkable You

My niece is graduating high school today and I wanted to make her more of a nontraditional handmade graduation card.  Of course, this card design would work for any special occasion — or just because — but I did have her graduation in mind when designing it. The lotus flower comes from the new Remarkable […]

Flower Birthday Cards: Flower Patch

The Flower Patch Bundle is a great starting point to create these flower birthday cards. Pulling a pattern from the All Abloom Designer Paper Stack, I used the Flower Fair Framelits and Petite Petals Punch to cut the different parts to shape the punchart flowers, and the Elegant Butterfly Punch and Beautiful Wings Embosslits to […]

Handmade Birthday Card

This simple handmade birthday card is easy to make, yet very elegant to present.  I designed it for a good friend of mine, and I think she’s going to love it!  The white embossing on the navy background just pops, and the pearls really give it an added sophistication.  You can’t see the inside, but […]

Bright Flower Birthday Cards

Today is FINALLY the first day of Sale-A-Bration.  Hooray!  For every $50 ordered you can select one item from the Sale-A-Bration catalog for FREE!  It doesn’t get any better!  Oh wait, it does!  For every $50 you spend you also get a square on my 50/50 board for a drawing for $50 in free Stampin’ […]

Sweet Flower Birthday Cards

I’ve been meaning to make these sweet flower birthday cards for quite a while now and finally got around to doing it.  I used the large framelit from the Labels Collection to create the shape of the card and for the backdrop to the flowers, and ran the front of the card base through the […]

Making Homemade Cards

Things don’t always go as planned when making homemade cards, even for me. I really like how this card came out, despite the fact that the stamped image is incomplete in the middle.  I considered putting another flower over it, but I decided to leave it as it is.  I may add a butterfly or […]

Flower Birthday Cards

I have to admit, I am not a big fan of the new color Starfruit.  On its own it looks pretty awful in my opinion.  However, as you can see in the flower birthday cards I’ve been making, I’m finding when I combine it with other colors it’s surprising how pleasing it can be.   I […]