Hello Card Making Friends, I’ve been trying to organize my craft room and I’m amazed by the amount of stuff I have accumulated since the last time I cleaned my space which was about 6 months ago! Does that happen to you? I have a huge number of new (unused) retired stamp sets, dies, punches, ribbons, …
Welcome to the September Blog Hop! This is my Birthday Month! I’m so excited to be doing my first live virtual card making class tomorrow evening! I have really missed making cards with my friends. Normally we have an in-person card class once a month and my customers have truly become close friends. Before coronavirus, …
Welcome to the August Blog Hop! My husband and I usually mail out 100 handmade Holiday cards every year with a letter and photo collage of our annual activities inside the card. I …
This week’s scrap card features the Poinsettia Petals Stamp Set and Shaded Spruce ink. The trick to making this card is to space all the Very Vanilla cardstock scraps in order (smallest to largest) before stamping the poinsettia image in Shaded Spruce ink. Before assembling the card, place a Shaded Spruce cardstock border behind each Very …
Today’s card features a custom piece of cardstock that I made using the Poinsettia Petals Stamp Set and Flirty Flamingo ink. I like making my own cardstock using stamps and ink so I can produce cards with a specific color combination or make it monochromatic as in this example. Since the background …
Here is another card I made with the Poinsettia Place designer series paper and the amazing Poinsettia Petals Bundle. I selected two different papers from the paper packet and using the Poinsettia Dies I cut out the two flowers and the the berries. Then I selected a third paper for my background on the front …