New Toy Tuesday: Stocking Patterns

I am very excited about the next project on my to-do list. Everyone in my family has matching Christmas stockings that were knitted by either my grandmother or my cousin Gail. [I don’t have a picture. SISTER: If you send me old Christmas pictures that include the stockings I’ll take down the embarrassing one of you below.] Anyway, in the …

So Amazing

I created this card for an amazing new charity called Card Cupids. They collect cheerful cards for children with terminal illnesses. This card started with the image. What better stamp for a cheerful card than Cheerleader Marci from La La Land Crafts? Here’s a tip, though. When you’re making a card, don’t color your image before you pick out your …

Candy Cane Card

This card was so much fun to make, and relatively quick too. The design is based on CPS #189, though I modified it to fit a standard A-2 envelope. The patterned cardstocks came from my stash, and the Candy Cane La-La image is one that I actually colored several weeks ago. I often stamp a page full of images and …

Help, Please (And A Mini Giveaway)

For every card I post on the blog, there are 2 or three that I don’t, usually because reality just doesn’t live up to the idea in my head. I realize that a lot of very creative and artistic people read this blog, so I figured that instead of just throwing out my “crap-fts” as I call them, I’d give …

Confetti Card

There is not any confetti in or on this card. Instead, the card is named for the state of my desk after it was done. Craft punches are messy business. And before my mom, my sister, my aunt, and/or my godmother go nuts, let me explain that my friend Heather asked me to make this card for a friend of …

New Toy Tuesday: Scoring Board

Ugh. I know, it’s Wednesday on the east coast. And the quality of the pictures you’re about to see is laughable. It’s been a long day; both of my cameras had dead batteries, and the one that charged fastest was of course the crappy one. Please forgive me. Today I’m showcasing another tool that I use almost daily: the scoring …