I was invited to be a Guest Designer for the House Mouse and Friends Challenge Blog (interested parties click here!) this month and next…and I am so excited to share my creations with you! The theme for this Monday’s Challenge is Autumn Leaves and I already had two wonderful House Mouse stamps in my collection to […]
Chalkboard Birthday Card
I needed to make a quick birthday card today and it was just sheer luck that my Simon Says Stamp September card kit came in the mail this afternoon. I’ve never used a kit on the same day it arrived before…I guess it was great timing and one of the patterned papers from the kit […]
House-Mouse and Prismacolor Pencils
I’ve really been enjoying coloring in these large designs from Stampabilities with Prismacolor pencils lately. Today’s card uses the “Soda Fitz” House-Mouse stamp. It reminded me of an old country general store, so I embellished with my version of country chic…including wood-grain and floral patterned papers from Echo Park, a paper doily, and some twine […]
A Headstart on Halloween Cards
I’d be hard-pressed to decide whether Halloween or Christmas is my favorite holiday…I guess the truth is I love all holidays or any excuse to celebrate anything. When I found this Gruffies stamp at a local craft store, it had my name written all over it, so here is my first of probably many Autumn-themed […]
Elegant Honeycomb Card
I had been eyeing up hexagon and honeycomb stamp sets for a long time, but was having a hard time finding the right one for my style. A lot of the sets out there are kinda cutesy, and while I do like that style some of the time, they weren’t appealing to me in this […]
Frosted Moroccan Window Card
I was very excited to get my August Card Kit in the mail from Simon Says Stamp because I haven’t used a lot of stencils in my card-making. I couldn’t get Morocco out of my head for obvious reasons, so I decided to take that inspiration and make a tropical-themed card with a Moroccan-style window: […]
Circle Sketch Challenges
I’m playing catch up after a nice long vacation, but here is a birthday card I made inspired by two different sketches…one at the Silhouette Blog and one at Online Card Classes: I designed my own circle border similar to the one featured on the Silhouette blog last Thursday (here), but instead of filling the […]
Embossed Die Cuts
I thought this technique would look great on a very intricate die cut…and with so much purple in this week’s color scheme, what’s more intricate than grape vines? This is a file I purchased from the Silhouette Online Store (design # 8116) and cut from very thick white cardstock using my Cameo. Since it was […]