Beauty of the Season Thank You Card Ideas

Do you ever have thank you card ideas or something in mind… you can almost see them in your head… but when you’re finished, the card you made barely looks like your idea, if at all? That’s what happened here.  Although I can recognize the basic structure of the card from my original idea, it […]

DIY Birthday Cards Using Wetlands by Stampin’ Up!

Beautiful DIY birthday cards can be easily created using the stamp set Wetlands by Stampin’ Up!  Though it works well for anyone, this set is especially great  if you’re looking to design a greeting card for a man.  I created this handmade card idea for the birthday of a friend of the family. Crumb Cake […]

Stampin’ Up! Card Ideas: Holiday Home

Today’s Stampin’ Up! card ideas begins by combining Blendabilities Markers, alcohol, and Classic Ink Pads to create the sky, hills, and trees.  The home was stamped using Holiday Home and cut out with the Homemade Holiday Framelits Dies using the Big Shot.  You can actually pick them both up as a bundle and save 15%! […]

Super Star Card Making Tutorial

This cute card making tutorial features the Bright & Beautiful Christmas rubber stamps from the Holiday Catalog. (Don’t forget to check out my special Bright & Beautiful Bundle, available until Oct 15th!) Are you searching for the perfect stamp set to create beautiful Christmas cards?  The  Bright & Beautiful stamp set may be exactly what […]

Create Christmas Cards That Sparkle!

Create Christmas cards that sparkle and shine! This is one of the make & take projects we made at our team get-together last month.  Pretty, right?  Combining the Bright & Beautiful stamp set with the Stars Framelits and Silver Glimmer Paper, it’s simple yet beautiful.  The designer paper is from the Santa & Company collection. […]

Don’t Wait Until the Last Minute!

There’s just 4 hours left until we begin my 12 Weeks of Christmas, full of free project tutorials for holiday crafts.  This is exclusive for my newsletter subscribers, and you’re not going to get access if you don’t sign up now. You can join my mailing list by filling out the form below.     […]

Just 24 Hours Left!

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 […]