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There’s just 24 hours left to sign up for my newsletter and receive my 12 Weeks of Christmas, full of free craft tutorials for holiday craft ideas. Every Wednesday for the next 12 weeks you will receive a new project tutorial for things such as ideas for Christmas cards, handmade gift tags, bags, and boxes, […]

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 […]

Are You Kidding Me?

I read somewhere recently that someone was recommending, as a way to eliminate clutter in your crafting area, to discard any paper scraps smaller than the size of a card front (basically 5-1/2 x 4-1/4).  Are you kidding me?  I save small pieces of scraps to use in future paper craft projects where you just […]

Gatefold Homemade Christmas Card

Isn’t this gate fold card beautiful? What a great idea as a way to send a family photo at the holidays. Last weekend we had a team get-together, swapping cards and stamping other projects.  This was one of the cards I received in the swap.  It was created by one of my team members, Donna […]

Bright & Beautiful Handmade Christmas Card Ideas

With the Bright & Beautiful stamp set (wood-135026/clear-135029) from the new Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog, it’s easy to come up with gorgeous handmade Christmas card ideas.  Couple it with the Stars Framelits, Brushed Silver Card Stock, and some frosted sequins and snowflakes, and you’ve got a dazzling combination! I used the Bitty Banners Framelits to […]

Adventure Bound Card

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Okay.  Not to toot my own horn, but seriously, how CUTE is this Adventure Bound card?!?  I just love how it came out. I had so much fun creating the look of an old worn and weathered wooden boat with paper punch art, complete with a vintage-looking porthole.  Wouldn’t this make a great graduation card, […]

Christmas Wishes

Christmas Wishes from the new Holiday Catalog is an exquisite stamp set with a wonderful sentiment.  You can see another Christmas card idea using this set here.  And the All is Calm Designer Paper collection… so lovely and tranquil… I love the colors! The color scheme for this card was Whisper White, Basic Gray, and […]

Handmade Christmas Card Ideas: Ornamental Pine

Here we are again!  It’s time to design our handmade Christmas card ideas.  The Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog is out, and it’s full of fun new toys to get those creative juices flowing. This handmade card design features the lovely new set Ornamental Pine, a very cool nature-themed collection.  I think it works well with […]

Happy Halloween Cards

Happy Halloween cards are easy to make with the Holiday Home stamp set (135025) and coordinating Homemade Holiday Framelits Dies (135857) from Stampin’ Up! These are just some of the fun new products you’ll find in the Holiday Catalog, which you can start ordering from on August 28th, just a few days away.  You can […]