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5 Minute Designer Series Paper Cards

Do you ever need quick and easy 5 minute cards? Here are some ideas using various designer series paper and the stitched rectangle dies. The possibilities are endless! You can add a greeting and other embellishments I like did with these 2 cards. Made with Perennial Essence Designer Series Paper. Greeting and butterflies are from […]

Sending Smiles 5 Minute Card

Sending Smiles 5 Minute Card

Sending Smiles 5 Minute Card Sometimes you need a quick and easy card idea. Here’s one with simple stamping using the Sending Smiles stamp set from Stampin’ Up! Here’s How: Stamp leaves from Sending Smiles on a Basic White card base using Granny Apple Green ink. Stamp flowers and greeting using Sweet Sorbet ink. Stamp […]

How to Add Color to Black and White Cards

how to add a pop of color to black and white cards

How to Add Color to Black and White Cards using the new Perfectly Penciled Designer Series Paper from Stampin’ Up! and Stampin’ Blends or Stampin’ Write Markers I’m here to help with this quick and easy card using  Perfectly Penciled Designer Series Paper. Sometimes a simple black-and-white print is the touch of elegance a paper […]

Five Minute Card Using Perfectly Penciled DSP

Five Minute Card

Five Minute Card using the new Perfectly Penciled Designer Series Paper from Stampin’ Up! Need an easy five minute card? I’m here to help with this quick and easy card using  Perfectly Penciled Designer Series Paper. Sometimes a simple black-and-white print is the touch of elegance a paper project needs, and the Perfectly Penciled 12″ […]

Tidings & Trimmings for Easy Christmas Cards

Tidings & Trimmings Clean and Simple Christmas Card

Tidings & Trimmings from Stampin’ Up! for easy Christmas card crafting Clean and simple easy Christmas cards made using the Tidings & Trimmings Bundle, and one of my all-time favorite sketches. Sometimes having a sketch challenge helps get those creative juices flowing! (You can see more of my sketch challenges Here) (You can see more […]

Clean and Simple Sketch Cards

Clean and Simple Sketch Card

Clean and simple cards made using one of my all-time favorite sketches. Sometimes having a sketch challenge helps get those creative juices flowing! (You can see more of my sketch challenges Here) One of my favorite sketches is this one: This sketch lends itself to clean and simple cards that can be put together in […]

Faux Cathedral Window Quilt Cards

9 Square Faux Cathedral Quilt

9 Square Faux Cathedral Window Quilt Card Create the beautiful, but easy Cathedral Window Technique in a matter of minutes! All it takes is card stock, circle punch or die, and a template for easy folding. Fill each window with squares of pretty designer paper, then add embellishments to complete. This is a great way to […]

Paper Pumpkin Be Mine Valetine’s Day Cards

These fun little cards were created using parts of the Be Mine Paper Pumpkin kit for January. The kit included pouches to put treats in which would be great for kids to bring Valentine’s Day cards to their classmates. But, I wanted cards I could put in the mail. So I cut down the pouches […]

Blast from the Past-Extra Postage Required Cards

This year, as I was going through my stash of Christmas cards, I came across a few cards that I had made over the years that I never mailed. Why is that, you may ask? I didn’t mail them because I knew they would require extra postage. They were bulky because of embellishments that I […]

Simple Card Making Idea Using Designer Paper

Simple Card Creation using Pansy Petals

  Let me share a simple card making idea using pretty designer paper. Choose your designer paper, and simply add a greeting. This will give you a quick and easy, 5 minute card creation! That is exactly what I did for this card using Pansy Petals Designer Series Paper from Stampin’ Up! I love the […]

Stencil

I needed a quick birthday card recently.  I got out one of my favorite Decor Stencils and Color Coach.  I always seem to be drawn to the color combination of Poppy Parade, Not Quite Navy and Crumb Cake!  This was one of those 5 minute cards, and most of that was deciding which stencil and […]

Delicate Forest Grid Sheet Background

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Delicate Forest Grid Sheet Background One of my Wetmore Stamping Ladies purchased the Delicate Forest Bundle and wanted me to use it in our February stamping class. Since I wasn’t planning on purchasing the bundle, she lent it to me before the class so I could make a card we would create in class. This […]

Let Designer Paper Do the Heavy Lifting

Let Designer Paper Do the Heavy Lifting

Let Designer Paper Do the Heavy Lifting Sometimes you need fast and easy cards. Cards that take less than five minutes to create. Stampin’ Up’s Designer Series Paper is perfect for creating pretty cards in a matter of minutes! For these 2 cards, I simply used the designs from Fresh as a Daisy and Masterfully […]

Paint Chip Happy Birthday

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Paint Chip Happy Birthday One of my all-time favorite stamping techniques is to use paint chip samples found in the paint department at our local home improvement store. The paint chips do most of the heavy lifting for easy 5 minute card creations! You can see more of my Paint Chip Cards Here. Here are […]

Fractured Card Technique for Christmas

Fractured Card Technique for Christmas

Fractured Card Technique for Christmas The Fractured Card Technique is a great one for fast card assembly as it is truly a 5-minute card-making technique. I paired the technique with the online exclusive Shining Christmas Designer Series paper for these two quick and easy cards. This is a perfect technique for assembly-line, 5 minute Christmas […]