Fathers Day Handmade Card; Make a Fathers Day Card

Try a Vintage Fathers Day Handmade Card Idea For this Fathers Day handmade card design I pulled out an assortment of stamp sets to create a vintage-inspired collage: Lift Me Up Sheet Music  Timeless Textures Touches of Texture Labeler Alphabet Rooted in Nature Everything was stamped randomly in Soft Suede and Early Espresso inks, usually stamping […]

Birthday Cards for Him; Handmade Cards for Men

Birthday Cards for Him or Her You can design fabulous birthday cards for him using the True Gentleman Designer Series Paper, which was obviously created with the idea of making handmade cards for men, but the more generic patterns could be suitable for feminine cards, too! The patterns in this collection have a very tailored […]

Handmade Birthday Card Ideas, Pop Up Cards

Pop Up Handmade Birthday Card Ideas   NOTE:  These items are retired, but you can pick them up on my Retired Rubber Stamps Page. Are you looking for more handmade birthday card ideas?  Make a birthday card that’s sure to please using the fun Let the Good Times Roll Bundle from the Occasions Catalog.  Of course […]

Throwback Thursday: Wetlands DIY Birthday Card

Today’s Throwback Thursday is featuring a diy birthday card using the Wetlands stamp set (wood mount or clear mount). This set lends itself beautifully for water coloring with your Blender Pens or Aqua Painters. Check out the full post HERE.

Feel Goods Handmade Card Designs

Here’s another of my handmade card designs featuring the retiring Feel Goods stamp set (clear mount or wood mount).  This set is guaranteed to be available until May 22nd, and after that it’s only while supplies last. I love the color Turquoise, and I think this color scheme is rather sophisticated, don’t you?  Of course, […]

Handmade Thinking of You Card

Lovely as a Tree (comes in wood or clear mount) is a most versatile set.  You can use it for just about any occasion or sentiment.  Here I used it for a handmade thinking of you card.  I made this for a friend who might get some bad news later in the week, and I wanted […]

Christmas Card Sunday: Holiday Card Ideas

Welcome back to Christmas Card Sunday, where each week I share different holiday card ideas so we’re not frantically rubber stamping Christmas cards at the last minute. Thanks for stopping by. Today’s Christmas card making idea combines some retired with some current Stampin’ Up! catalog sets and accessories.  Do you recognize them? First, let’s talk about […]

Throwback Thursday: Handmade Sympathy Cards

Today’s Throwback Thursday features one of the handmade sympathy cards I made four years ago. Beautiful texture comes from running the background Vanilla Top Note shape through an embossing folder and then softly sponging the relief with some ink. The soft palette is a nice combo for a sympathy card, don’t you think?  The colors used are shown below. […]

Going Global World Traveler & Tax Relief

In today’s card making idea I combined the Going Global (wood mount and clear mount) stamp set with the World Traveler Embossing Folder, a perfect combination.  I think they were made for each other! 😉 Everything is done in Very Vanilla and Lost Lagoon, which is one of the 2014-2016 In Colors that’s going away the first […]

Handmade All Occasion Greeting Card

Today I decided to create a handmade all occasion greeting card.  You can use this little vignette to make a thank you card, make a birthday card, homemade Mothers Day cards, tea party invitations… the list is endless. Most of this vignette consists of die-cuts from the Cups & Kettle Framelits Dies in the Occasions […]