I love the large size of the new Collage papers from STAMPlorations. For today’s cards, I trimmed two different STAMPlorations Botanical Beats Collage Papers down to 5″x7″ for two large cards with lots of room to write a note. For the first one, I covered the card base with the Collage Paper and then topped … Read more
The new Challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Man’s Best Friend – creating a card featuring an animal one might keep as a pet. Growing-up, our pet was a black and white beagle named Snoopy. She was an incredible partner. I particularly loved having her run beside me as I rode my bicycle around the … Read more
The current Inspiration photo at Inspiration Station is a graduation memory. I used it as inspiration for a Graduation Card I needed to make for a lady who will be going to college on a Bowling Scholarship. I started with some bowling pin designer paper topped by a postage stamp cut piece of vellum. I … Read more
The May Pinkfresh Studio Challenge is Striking Stripes. My original thought was to find designer papers in the colors of the inspiration photo and cut some strips to turn into stripes. However, the first light blue paper I found was a striped paper, so I decided to see how many striped papers I could find … Read more
The flowers I send for Mother’s Day are usually of the paper variety … in this case, the Doodlebug Design Roses are Red Doodle-Pop. I used the Pink & Main Stitched Pointed Banner die to back the flowers and positioned it on top of what I believe is a scrap of holiday designer paper, but … Read more
Today’s card is a birthday card for one of my favorite Campers. I combined some fun Simple SToriesBugs & Kisses moth paper with a journaling card that I turned into a Camping Merit Badge. I added lots of fun stickers … all from Simple Stories Trail Mix Collection. I had fun revisting camping memories of … Read more
We’re still having an EARTH Day Christmas At Jingle Belles this week. My card started with an up-cycled die cut from the front of a vintage Christmas card I found at a thrift store. I added a thin mat before creating my card base from some crafty packaging and topping it with a panel from … Read more
I looked thorugh my STAMPlorations stash and decided to make a coffee-themed card. I found various coffee-themed products in my stash, but I didn’t have a card front that coordinated, so I pulled out some ink and stamps, and altered one of the STAMPlorations Quick Cards #12 – Mixed Media A2 Card Fronts to make … Read more
I had fun using the Concord & 9th Big Happy Dies with Scrapbook.com birthday patterned papers. For the first one, I used the patterned paper for the base and die cut the letters & birthday from cardstock. For the next one, I reversed the recipe using the cardstock outline and patterned paper letters. And the … Read more
