Christmas Card Sunday: Christmas Wishes

It’s Christmas Card Sunday again, and for this handmade card I’ve pulled out the retired Christmas Wishes stamp set.  So cute and versatile, I didn’t even have to use designer paper with it.  Both the trim and greeting were pulled from the balloon.  Simple, simple, simple! Everything was stamped in Real Red.  The Ovals Collection […]

Stampin’ Up! Card Ideas: Best Thoughts

Here at Stamp4Joy you’ll always find exclusive Stampin’ Up! card ideas.  This one features the beautiful new Hostess-only stamp set, Best Thoughts.  Although I realize I didn’t add one of the greetings to the front, I love the font combination in this set. The flower is gorgeous, too!  I used my ink pads and Blender […]

Fathers Day Card Ideas

This clean and simple card is a great start for Fathers Day card ideas or a wonderful birthday card for your brother, etc.   It would even make great homemade thank you cards.  Just change out the inside greeting to suit the occasion! Featuring Guy Greetings, the perfect set for all your masculine card ideas, I […]

New Bohemian Designer Paper

The new Bohemian Designer Paper, with it’s bold patterns and dramatic color palette is perfect for making cards for either men or women.  I think the rich colors in this card would be quite suitable for a card for him.  And what do you think of the new In Color, Delightful Dijon?  Don’t you love […]

ILCS28: Handmade Sympathy Card

Today’s handmade sympathy card features a sneak peek at some brand new items coming up in the next Stampin’ Up! catalog, which will be released in just a few weeks.  It’s awesome!  If you’d like one CONTACT ME with your name, address, and phone number, and as soon as we chat I’ll get one right […]

Handmade Christmas Card – ILCS26

For today’s handmade Christmas card I pulled out the retired Deck the Halls designer paper collection.  It’s so beautiful on its own. Did you notice there’s no stamping on this homemade card?  The sentiment is embedded right in the patterned paper.  I don’t think you can get any easier than that! The fancy bow was […]

Clean and Simple Friendship Card – ILCS26

This clean and simple friendship card started with this week’s clean and simple sketch over at i Love Card Sketches.  I selected a couple patterns from the soon-to-be-retiring Flower Pot Designer Paper Collection.  You’re assured they’ll always work together when they come in the same collection. The Hostess stamp set Let Your Hair Down provided […]

Card Sketch ILCS24: Guy Greetings

This card began with this week’s card sketch over at i Love Card Sketches.  I combined the Typeset Designer Paper and Guy Greetings stamp set with a Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black, and Very Vanilla color scheme. I just kept repeating the hats over and over, then used my Cherry Cobbler Stampin’ Write Marker to ink […]

i Love Card Sketches – Moon Lake

Here’s my submission for this week’s card sketch at i Love Card Sketches. For this masculine card I used Hardwood,  Moon Lake, and some of the wonderful papers from the Adventure Bound Designer Paper Stack.  The colors were kept neutral — Sahara Sand and Black — with a pop of color from the blue water […]

Christmas Card Design Sunday: Ornament Keepsakes

Today’s Christmas card design uses the gorgeous retired Deck the Halls Designer Series Paper and the beautiful stamp set Ornament Keepsakes (which you can find for sale on my Retired Rubber Stamps page).  Simple yet elegant. The card stock colors used are Crumb Cake and Basic Black..  I pulled out my Ovals Collection Framelits Dies […]