Sympathy Card Examples; Things to Say in a Sympathy Card
If you’re looking for some sympathy card examples to make, here’s a beautiful one using Sailing Home and foil paper. I started with a Misty Moonlight card base to coordinate with the designer paper. This particular pattern came from the World of Good Specialty Designer Series Paper collection. I love the subtle metallic element in […]
Handmade Holiday Card Ideas; Homemade Xmas Card Ideas
I’m a little behind in coming up with my handmade holiday card ideas. How about you? It’s not too late, though. If you have a lot of cards to make you can come up with a fairly simple Christmas card design that’s still beautiful. This cute holiday card idea was made with products from the […]
Handmade Masculine Cards; DIY Simple Greeting Cards
Your handmade masculine cards don’t have to be dull and mundane. You can add some metallic shine for a little bit of bling without making them too frilly. The World of Good Specialty Designer Paper is perfect to achieve that understated, sophisticated look. The world and stand were cut out using the World Map Dies. […]
Halloween Themed Card Ideas; Happy Halloween!
I love coming up with Halloween themed card ideas, but I’m not very inclined to buy specific Halloween themed stamp sets unless I can see other ways I can use them. That’s why I LOVE the Have a Hoot stamp set and bundle! With this adorable group of stamps you’ve got Halloween and Christmas covered […]
Manic Lockdown Challenge, Final Week 4
Today begins the fourth and final week of our Monday Manic Lockdown Challenge. The card we’re using as our starting point can be found on Page 44 of the January-June 2020 Mini Catalog. You can see it in the picture here. It’s the project shown on the left. What is the Manic Monday Lockdown Challenge? I’ll give […]
Snowflake Christmas Card for Christmas Card Sunday
I thought I’d make a snowflake Christmas card for today’s Christmas Card Sunday project. If you have a Big Shot or another die-cutting machine this card is so easy to do! I grabbed a couple of retired products to create this holiday card the Snowflake Sentiments stamp set and the Swirly Snowflakes Thinlits. You’ll find […]
Handmade Condolence Card; Homemade Sympathy Card
I find myself in need of another handmade condolence card. For simplicity I decided to start with a card layout from one of the January to June 2020 Mini Catalog project samples. You may not realize this, but the Stampin’ Up! catalogs are so much more than just catalogs to purchase rubber stamping products from. […]
Make a Sympathy Card; Black and White Sympathy Cards
Unfortunately, I had to make a sympathy card recently. It’s never a fun thing to do, but I always want to make something beautiful for the recipient. NOTE: Most of these items are retired, but you can find many of them gently used and at a substantial discount on my Retired Rubber Stamps page. For […]
Make a Simple Black and White Christmas Card
I wanted to make a simple black and white Christmas card for the first Christmas Card Sunday project of the year. And this card takes less than 30 cents of card stock, so you can make quite a few in no time and for very little money! To create the textured second layer I used […]
DIY Card Ideas for Birthday; Bday Card Making Ideas
You’ll come up with so many DIY card making ideas for birthday cards with the adorable stamp set The Gang’s All Meer. You can get it FOR FREE by placing an order of at least $50 between now and the end of March. Who doesn’t love free stamp sets?!? There is no limit to how […]