Floating Strip Card Technique-November Fresh Ideas
Floating Strips Card Technique! A great way to use up those paper scraps. Create the look of floating strips by cutting strips of paper and adhering them to a piece of window sheet, leaving a small space between them. Want to Learn More? My November Fresh Ideas Card Making Tutorial will feature the Floating Strips […]
Quilt Cards to Make-Oct Fresh Ideas-Fall Leaf Quilt Card
Quilt Cards to Make! Leaf Quilt Card for Fall I have said many times that I love working with fabric but don’t enjoy sewing. Although I have a sewing machine, it rarely gets used. I don’t quilt, but I appreciate the beauty and time it takes to create one. I discovered the Faux Quilting Technique […]
Mountain Air Stampin’ Up!-Fall Leaf Color Card
Mountain Air Stampin’ Up! card ideas Fall Leaf Color Card Leaves are changing colors here in the mountains of Southern Colorado! After a recent leaf-peeping trip, I was inspired by this photo to create my own fall color card using Mountain Air stamp set from Stampin’ Up! You can see more of my Mountain Air […]
Welcoming Woods Fall Card
Welcoming Woods Fall Card The new Holiday Mini Catalog from Stampin’ Up! is Here! One of my favorite stamp sets found in this catalog is Welcoming Woods. Believe it or not, Fall is not far away with winter/Christmas right on its heels! With the Welcoming Woods Stamp Set, you can make cards for all of […]
Paper Towel Background-Winter Woods
Recycle and reuse! I always try to use the paper towels in my crafting that I’ve used to blot the color from Pigment Sprinkles, watercolor, or after cleaning stamps. That was the case with this card. I incorporated the paper towel I used to blot the Pigment Sprinkles from this Winter Woods card HERE. I […]
Emboss Resist Winter Woods
Winter Woods is one of my favorite stamp sets. This grove of trees is perfect for my setting in the mountains of southern Colorado. For these cards I used the Emboss Resist Technique. Stamp the image in Early Espresso and heat emboss using clear embossing powder. Then, add color to the background. The ink […]
Incredible White Masking Winter Woods
I found this idea shared by Tina Wardell using a fluid masking product to mask the aspen trees found in Winter Woods, allowing you to add color behind the trunks without getting color on the trunks. I thought it was such a cool idea that I immediately started searching for where I could purchase the […]
Copper Embossed Falling for Leaves
Copper Embossed Falling for Leaves The Falling for Leaves Bundle has quickly become one of my favorites. This quick, yet elegant card was easy to create. I embossed a piece of Very Vanilla card stock using the Big Shot and Planks embossing folder and matted it with a piece of Copper Foil paper The leaves […]
Bokeh Falling for Leaves
Bokeh Falling for Leaves The changing leaves have been so pretty this year here in the mountains of southern Colorado! This card was inspired by this photo of one of the wild Choke Cherries growing on our property. It always is a show-stopper! Choke Cherry fall color, Wetmore, CO To create the bold colors […]
Lovely as a Tree Fall Sponged Sunrise
Here’s one more fall-themed project using the perennial favorite stamp set, Lovely as a Tree. This is a clean and simple, 5-minute card creation! Here’s how: Stamp trees from Lovely as a Tree and greeting using Early Espresso ink on Very Vanilla card stock. Heat emboss with a heat tool and clear embossing powder. Lightly […]
Field of Fall Flowers-Daisy Delight Clear Block Background
Field of Fall Flowers After a very warm summer, I think fall has finally arrived here in the mountains of southern Colorado! Cooler temps and changing colors. Fall is my favorite time of the year! To celebrate, I have been busy creating fall-themed cards which I will be sharing over the next few days. This […]
Baby Wipe Sunrise-Happy Thanksgiving
I wish you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving! This card was created from a scrap piece of baby wipe left over from my tie dye leaf background card found HERE. I often use baby wipes that I have used to clean my stamp sets in my crafting. They provide interesting backgrounds. You can […]