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 […]
Four Seasons Framed Art
This weekend my sister and her husband are moving into their new lakefront home. It’s beautiful! I wanted to make a quick gift for them, and since I never got around to using this frame I thought I’d so a four seasons framed art piece. Pressed for time, I whipped this up in a few […]
The Open Sea Retirement Card
Today we have a retirement card featuring The Open Sea and Maritime Designer Paper… a perfect pairing! I pulled out my Blendabilities to add some quick color to the world, ship, and anchor stamped images. The greeting came from Itty Bitty Banners, and then I cut it out using my Big Shot and Bitty Banners […]
How to Make a Birthday Card
The secret of how to make a birthday card is to start with images that work well together. Stampin’ Up! has taken the guess work out of that by creating sets with images that coordinate with each other. That’s one of the main reasons I fell in love with Stampin’ Up! to begin with all […]
Birthday Card for Friend
Today’s card is a birthday card for a friend. She’s one of my oldest and dearest friends, and though we never see each other anymore due to distance I love our chats over the phone. 🙂 Using the Back to Black designer paper really helped bring this card together quickly. I adore all the patterns […]
It’s a BIG DEAL! Big Shot Deal, That Is!
Purchase a Big Shot in August and you’ll receive your choice of one of the five stamp set/framelits bundles listed below FOR FREE! Already own a Big Shot? You can still purchase these designated bundles at an amazing 15% off! You won’t want to miss this opportunity, only available during August, as these bundles are […]
Funny Friendship Cards
I’m sure we ALL have someone we could send these funny friendship cards to… right? Or is it just me? 😉 I love this stamp. You can make quick and easy handmade cards in no time, but it really gets the message across. LOL! I used the Big Shot and the Labels Collection Framelits to […]
Lovely as a Tree on the Water
Well, I dug out my brayer again to create this lovely on-the-water themed card. The photo doesn’t do it justice, I think my lighting washed it out, as the colors are much more intense in person. The ink colors used with my brayer were Marina Mist, Island Indigo, So Saffron, Chocolate Chip, and Basic Black. […]
Wetlands Thank You Card Ideas
Today’s card features one of my favorite nature stamps, Wetlands. I love the new Lost Lagoon color from the new 2014-2016 In Color collection, so that was my starting point. Pairing it with Soft Suede gives it a masculine feel, which is what I had in mind when I started this card. The “Thank You” […]