Christmas in July: Handmade Holiday Card Ideas
Christmas in July — the perfect reminder to get started on those handmade holiday card ideas! Here’s a card idea using the Christmas Pines stamp set and the coordinating Pretty Pines Framelits. You can find both of these retired items on my Retired Rubber Stamps page. I do offer a discount if you’re interested in […]
Handmade Friendship Card Design Idea
Today’s handmade friendship card starts off with a couple elements of the new Bird Ballad Suite: the Free as a Bird stamp set and the Stitched Nested Labels Dies. You can find everything included in this suite on Page 91 of the 2019-2020 Annual Catalog. Of course, if you’d like to save 10% on the […]
Black and White Christmas Card Design
I chose a black and white Christmas card design for today’s Christmas Card Sunday idea. It began with a deer I had cut out for a different project and never used. I always set things like this aside in a container for future use. One of the dies from Detailed Deer Dies was rescued for […]
Retirement Card Idea; Make a Retirement Card
Though I really like the concept, I’m not sure I care for how this retirement card idea turned out. What do you think? Sailing Home is today’s featured stamp set. I decided to stamp the sailboat a little off center on the card front using Memento Ink. Then I made a mask using a Post-It […]
Let’s Make a Taco Tuesday Handmade Card
Today I thought I’d make a Taco Tuesday handmade card. What do you think? The cutest graphic was the inspiration for this homemade card idea. When I saw it an adorable retired Stampin’ Up! stamp set immediately came to mind. It’s called Tasty Trucks, and you can find the set for sale on my Retired […]
Make a Simple Christmas Card For Christmas Card Sunday
You can make a simple Christmas card and crank out as many as you need in no time at all. And just because it’s a clean and simple design doesn’t mean your homemade card has to be boring, either. Here I started with a card base of Soft Suede Cardstock. I cut the next layer […]
Common Stamping Mistake – Has This Happened to You?
Have you ever made this common stamping mistake? Has this common stamping mistake ever happened to you? After all these years I still have to be very careful that this doesn’t happen, and yet I’m a little embarrassed to say that it still gets by me once in a while. My first thought was, “Well, […]
Need Handmade Christmas Card Ideas? I Stopped Counting at 75!
Do you need handmade Christmas card ideas? You’ll find a lot right here! See that little magnifying glass in the upper right corner? Just click on that and enter what you’re searching for. In this case I entered “Christmas” and came up with a lot of ideas — I stopped counting at 75! A couple […]
Make a Simple Handmade Card With Magnolia Lane Suite
Make a simple handmade card using the all new Magnolia Suite. Two of the items used from this suite were the Good Morning Magnolia stamp set and the Magnolia Lane Designer Series Paper Pack. Choosing different paper patterns to use on the card front was simple because the beautiful designs and colors coordinate effortlessly. Each […]
Christmas Card Sunday Begins Anew!
Christmas Card Sunday begins again today because it’s definitely NOT too early to start thinking about making Christmas cards. Today I’m focusing on the adorable Snow Place Photopolymer Bundle, which includes the retired Snow Place stamp set and the retired Snow Friends Framelits. I’ve also added a strip of patterned paper from the lovely retired […]