Triple Time Stamping Technique-Perfect Pomegranate
Triple Time Stamping Technique Images cross over from one layer to another with this fun and easy card-making technique! It’s also a great way to use up paper scraps and incorporate collage-style stamping into your projects! For this card, I used Perfect Pomegranate, the Sale-A-Bration Hostess set. There’s still time for you to earn this […]
Sharing Sunshine Card
Sharing Sunshine Stampin’ Up! Winter is here. Brrr…. This sweet hello card will help shake off those winter blues and bring a smile. I used the stamp set Sharing Sunshine, pairing it with a basic borders die for the clouds. The clouds were cut out of Snowy White Velvet Specialty Paper and have a nice […]
Sunflower Inspiration-Celebrate Sunflowers Card Idea
Celebrate Sunflowers Card Idea Inspired by the sunflowers growing in my garden! I’m often find inspired for my card making in my surroundings. This was the case with this pretty sunflower growing in my garden! This sunflower just makes me want to smile! What a great inspiration for this card using Celebrate Sunflowers: (Click Here […]
February Sketch Challege-Acrylic Block Watercolor Background
Sometimes it helps to have a jumping off point with your crafting, and a sketch challenge is a perfect way to start! Use the sketch as a blueprint for your own creations. I will be sharing sketch challenges every so often. I hope they provide inspiration, and you’ll share your creations with me! I created […]
Woodland Wonder Valentine’s Day Card
Woodland Wonder Valentine’s Day Card closed Woodland Wonder Valentine’s Day Card opened One of the nice things about having grandchildren is looking through the Stampin’ Up! catalogs and contemplating stamp sets that I would have barely noticed before. That was certainly the case with the Woodland Wonder stamp set found in the Jan-June Mini Catalog. […]
Plaid Tidings Festive Post
I used the fun stamp set Festive Post(retiring) and coordinating Rectangle Postage Stamp Punch to create these two cards. I paired them with Plaid Tidings 6″x6″ Designer Series Paper (retiring). Colors used for the Christmas car card are Bermuda Bay, Mossy Meadow, and Seaside Spray. The greeting is from Itty Bitty Greetings. I used the […]
Bermuda Bay, Melon Mambo Festive Post
As soon as I saw the little car image in the stamp set Festive Post (retiring!), I knew I had to purchase the set. You see, the little car reminds me of my car, a turquoise all electric Chevy Bolt! I used my car as inspiration for a card in non traditional Christmas colors! This […]
Country Home and Buffalo Check
Country Home with Basic Gray and Night of Navy Buffalo Check Country Home with Mint Macaron and Smoky Slate Buffalo Check Here are two more cards I created using the stamp set Country Home. For these, I paired them with the background stamp, Buffalo Check. To create the background, I used the Stamparatus to get […]
Mountain Air Sending Prayers
Unfortunately, I needed to send out a sympathy card to the family of a neighbor who passed away recently. The images in the Mountain Air stamp set and coordinating Majestic Mountain Dies are perfect for our setting here in the mountains of southern Colorado. To create the mountain scene, I started with the background on […]
Ready to Layer and the Stamparatus
Basic Gray, Real Red, Smoky Slate, and Gray Granite Ready to Layer I’ve had the Ready to Layer stamp set for awhile, but I was a little apprehensive about using it until recently. I really liked the look of the stamped image, but to be honest, I wasn’t quite sure how to go about using […]
Easy Buffalo Check Thank You Cards
Buffalo Check has become one of my favorite of Stampin’ Up!’s big background stamps. The color possibilities are endless. Switch up the colors, and you’ve got a great background for holiday or masculine-themed cards. For these card, my color was Flirty Flamingo stamped on Whisper White card stock. I drew the horizontal and vertical lines […]
Golden Afternoon Watercolor Background Sympathy Card
Golden Afternoon Watercolor Background Sympathy Card Unfortunately, I needed a sympathy card for a friend of mine who recently lost her brother. This is one of the reasons I purchased Golden Afternoon, found in the 2019 Occasions Catalog. I liked the images, plus the sympathy greeting because, you just never know. To create this card, […]
Golden Afternoon Acrylic Block Watercolor Background
Golden Afternoon Acrylic Block Watercolor Background The Occasions Catalog is here, and one of my favorite stamp sets found in the new catalog is Golden Afternoon. I’m always a sucker for a tree image, but what sold me on the set were the birds in flight. They just make me smile. And of course, the […]