Simple Birthday Card for Niece

Today’s simple birthday card is for my niece.  I’ve been sick for a while and was short on time, so I kept it to a simple and clean color scheme.  I used Tangerine Tango for a bright and happy fall color.  The birthday greeting came from the fabulous Happy Birthday Everyone Hostess set, which you […]

Simple Christmas Card Design

Today’s beautiful Christmas card design looks complicated but is super simple.  This is what all the guests will be making at my stamp party today! Other than the greeting, this card is made completely — and exclusively! — using the Big Shot and the Woodland embossing folder.  That’s right, even the stamping!  All the ink went inside […]

Stampin’ Up Christmas Cards Using Wonderland

I seem to be going to the Wonderland stamp set and Winter Wonderland Specialty Designer Paper collection a lot for my Stampin’ Up Christmas cards this year.  I love those trees and sentiments! Honestly, if you have a very limited budget and want to make homemade Christmas cards, I’d get those two items and a […]

Make Your Own Christmas Cards

You can make your own Christmas cards and yet keep it clean and simple.  This card uses a very basic black and white color combo with a wide strip of a black and white snowflake pattern from the gorgeous Winter Wonderland Specialty Designer Series Paper collection.  The greeting is from the Holly Jolly Greetings stamp […]

ILCS46 – Silent Night Christmas Card

For this week’s card sketch at i Love Card Sketches I focused on one of the quaint paper patterns in the Home for Christmas Designer Paper Collection. pairing with  the trees from Happy Scenes.  I should tell you, they expect to run out of this adorable paper early.  If you have your eye on it […]

Free Christmas Card Making Tutorial

Today is the first day the Holiday Catalog goes live.  Hooray!  I think you are going to love it! And as a bonus, you can get this Christmas card making tutorial absolutely FREE during the month of September when you place an order of $25 or more in my Online Store (before s&h and tax). […]

Christmas Card Sunday: Woodland

It’s Christmas Card Sunday again, and I’ve got a pretty easy card for you today featuring about four or five new items from the Holiday Catalog, which goes live on Tuesday!  And be sure to stop back Tuesday morning for my special offer! First I took our focal piece of Crumb Cake and ran it […]

DIY Birthday Cards – Happy Birthday Everyone

I like clean and simple DIY birthday cards, and this one sure is!  You could even leave off the back layer if you wanted, I thought it still looked great. The designer paper patterns are from the Neutrals Color Collection Paper Stack.  The super sweet stamps came from the Hostess set Happy Birthday Everyone, and […]

Happy Scenes Halloween Card

This simple Halloween card began with the versatile Happy Scenes stamp set (139821)from the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog, which is being unveiled in a little over one week! I did a little paper piecing for the pumpkins and used the new Fine-Tip Glue Pen (138309).  If you’re like me it will take one or two […]

Christmas Card Sunday: Merry Christmas Cards

For today’s Christmas Card Sunday project we’re looking at Merry Christmas cards using the adorable Snow Place stamp set (photopolymer – 139738) coming out in the Holiday Catalog September 1st.  Aren’t they precious?  Who remembers playing with paper dolls as a child?  That’s what it reminds me of when I’m “dressing” them.  🙂 I cut […]