Thank You Card Ideas Using Market Fresh
I needed some thank you card ideas, so I dove into my soon-to-be-retired stash to see what I could come up with. On this handmade card design I’ve featured Market Fresh and Stake Your Claim, two sets retiring the end of May. You can even pick up Market Fresh on sale right now! The background paper […]
Happy Birthday Dad Cards
Do you need any “Happy Birthday Dad” cards? Here’s one I think he’ll love! It’s using two sets that are retiring in May, The Open Sea and Going Global. Update: These sets are retired. Though I no longer have The Open Sea, I do have the Going Global stamp set for sale on my Retired […]
Faux Wooden Sign Cards – Adventure Awaits
A while ago I went on a spree of making faux wooden sign cards. Here’s one I designed using the Adventure Awaits stamp set. This group of greeting card sentiments is perfect because of the large, bold images. They’re awesome all by themselves! I can see them being used for any celebration: a handmade retirement card, a homemade […]
Paper Pumpkin Kit-of-the-Month Preview
Here’s a little sneak peak at the May Paper Pumpkin kit-of-the-month, Many Manly Occasions. Hmm, I wonder what the theme is? 😉 Rubber stamp classes that come right to your door… what could be better? Every month you’re a member you’ll receive a new cute box in the mail full of stamps and enough precut supplies to […]
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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 […]
Christmas Card Sunday: Country Christmas Cards
Welcome to Christmas Card Sunday, a weekly feature where I design various handcrafted Christmas cards to inspire your creativity and get you started rubber stamping Christmas cards early instead of waiting until the last minute! Let’s get them done this year, what do you say? 🙂 All you really need to make beautiful country Christmas cards is a tree stamp or […]
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 […]