This week I’ve been designing Fall and Thanksgiving cards using the Gilded Autumn designer series paper and the Forever Ferns bundle and the Gather Together stamp set. I cut scraps of the Gilded Autumn designer series paper and Mint Macaron cardstock on an angle to make the background for this card. To make the rest of …
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 …