Modern Christmas in elegant black & white

I do love a good monochromatic card! Especially when it’s black, white and GOLD! And wow, are the new Modern Christmas papers absolutely gleaming with it. I did an entire hour’s presentation focused on the Modern Christmas suite at our most recent stamp camp (PDF available in My Layout Library!) and had to share a …

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What I made with my Suite Sampler: Peaceful Garden

I had SUCH a great time making the inspiration projects for the final Suite Sampler shipment that it almost made me change my mind about discontinuing the program! For years and years I’ve been taking one suite a month and making about 20 projects with it to show how much can be done from a …

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Christmas Club card designs

If you are local to Watertown, WI, and free on October 20th or 21st, I hope you’ll consider coming to play with us at Christmas Club! I make four different designs (last month’s cards shown above) and we make ten total handmade holiday cards and envelopes. Classes are at 6:30 p.m. Monday/Tuesday or 1:30 p.m. …

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What I made with my Suite Sampler: Nests of Winter

Do you love birds, too? I never really paid attention to them much until I got a feeder outside my kitchen window and started enjoying their antics, their fragility and strength, and the incredible variety of sizes and styles I’d never noticed before. I guess that makes me officially an old lady, hey? ha ha! …

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What I made with my Suite Sampler: Season of Green & Gold

I’ve not had a lot of time to play lately–I can’t believe how much is going on! — but I did manage to get a solid four hours playing with the new Season of Green & Gold Suite Sampler for November 2024. And I really enjoyed myself! If you thought papers that were nothing but …

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Double the Fun with this fancy fold card

Oh my goodness you guys, this card is SO fun to make! And it’s not only a fabulous way to show off your coordinating papers, it can be oriented horizontally or vertically, whichever direction you feel suits your patterns best! I made my sample ones using the Season of Elegance specialty foil-embossed papers from Stampin’ …

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