I love to get birthday cards, but let’s face it: that’s once a year. I love to send them. Most of us get so little personal mail anymore, and I like to be a little bit of sunshine in someone’s mailbox. As a result, I make a LOT of birthday cards! … More You’re A Peach and Biggest Wish Birthday
Here’s one last peek at the Sassy Snailed It snails! It’s a snail parade, celebrating great accomplishments -I’ve die cut and colored this lineup with Stampin’ Blends. … More Sassy Snailed It Snails
Can I just go out on a limb and say you NEED the Color and Contour Bundle? The images and sentiments make gorgeous cards, and the dies – especially the layering scalloped rectangles – are indispensable. … More Color and Contour and Stampin Blends
I need to practice my coloring skills with Stampin’ Blends, so I produced a handful of images from Hand-Penned Petals and got to work. To my delight, this image is a PERFECT image for the purpose! Not too big, not too small, not too complex – it’s just right. … More Hand-Penned Petals and Stampin’ Blends
When I realized I had yet to create a seashells calendar I had a moment of disbelief: how had I neglected that? Never fear, the situation is remedied. And June is a lovely month to think of seashells and sandy shores and all things beachy. … More Friends Are Like Seashells: June 2021 DIY
I did my best to create a simple card, using the Hand-Penned Petals set and just the Big Boss and some dies. It’s not an absolute beginner card, but it’s an easy one to re-create. I’d love it if you gave it a go. … More Hand-Penned Petals and a DIY background
There’s a sweet four petal flower image in Pretty Perennials. It’s a rather uncommon shape in the flower world but it’s quite charming on a card. … More Pretty Perennial Petals
There is such fabulous inspiration in the January-June mini catalog! Pretty Perennials was the first stamp set that caught my eye, and I’m an absolute pushover for black-and-white, so pairing those stamps with the True Love Designer Series paper was inevitable. … More Pretty Perennials and True Love
The Stampin’ Up! January – June mini catalog is filled with delights, and these sweet mushrooms are Exhibit A. They remind me of the Alice in Wonderland sort of mushroom, and I find coloring them to be endlessly appealing. Because they’re magical, they lend themselves to whimsical colors. … More Snailed It: Magical Mushrooms
I’m a keeper. I keep stuff – bits and bobs, odds and ends – because I just know I’ll need it. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. But I’ve had an assortment of die cut Forever Fern pieces in multiple shades of greens in my collection for months, and Today Was Their Day. … More An afternoon with Forever Fern
