I love this design trick for making a smallish focal point pop, by visually bringing the eye in with a fake border. I often use it while scrapbooking, to knit separate images together to form a cohesive collection, but it's lesser known as a cardmaker's tip. If you took the white Stitched Rectangles frame off …
Ahhhh my BFF and stampy assistant Penni has been saving my bacon lately! She's been stamping for me like a crazy woman and I appreciate her so much. My hands have not been good lately (I blame this crazy see-sawing weather) and Penni helps me keep up with all the cards I want to send. …
I've been having a lot of fun this week working on a BIG challenge I took on earlier this month–sending a valentine to anyone on my email list who wanted one! I love making valentines and I don't need a bunch in real life, so I decided to send a bunch randomly–over 200, all told. …
I've been having so much fun playing with the new Love You To Pieces stamp set and coordinating dies from Stampin' Up. It's just so unique and the ideas just keep coming! I've made fancy cards, simple cards, wedding cards, birthday cards, etc, all from the same bundle. I wanted to come up with an …
Last month 27 members of my team and I had the enjoyable adventure of descending on Orlando, Florida, with thousands of other stampers for the national Stampin' Up OnStage convention. It was a blast! I had team nametags made, and my assistant Penni whipped up a bunch of tropical cards to mail them out in …
The set I chose to feature this month for my online class is At Home With You, and I think my favorite project of them all might be this cute little cabin card. The Corrugated embossing folder works perfectly for making the logs– and the tin roof, too. The door even opens to show a …