TGI Friday! It’s time for a new product highlight challenge at the TGIF Challenges website!!! Today, we are pulling out our punches! This is a great challenge for beginner stampers, because punches are a lot less costly than die cuts. But it’s also a great challenge for seasoned stampers too, because punches are quick and easy to use. Stampin’ Up! has loads of great punches, and many coordinate with particular… Read More »
It’s almost the end of May already!!! That means it’s time for a new installment of my 2019 Desktop Calendars. My goal is to design and create at least one calendar page a month for the following year. That way, by December I have a full set of calendars to hand out for gifts during the holidays. For the May 2019 calendars, I used up some of my absolute favorite… Read More »
It’s time for another TGIF Challenge! This week is a technique challenge … marker to stamp!!! “Marker to stamp” is when you use markers to draw directly onto your stamps, instead of inking them with a pad. It’s one of my favorite techniques, because it’s how you can add multiple colors to one stamp. To see all the AMAZING projects the TGIF designers created using this technique, go to the TGIF… Read More »
Happy Valentine’s Day!!! Hope you have a sweet day filled with love! I have one more Valentine’s Day card to share … this is one I made for my sweet daughter. I CASED some great ideas from Stesha Bloodhart. (She posted an absolutely gorgeous card on the TGIF Challenges blog last week.) I was so inspired that I wanted to create one of my own. I stamped the Petal Passion flowers with… Read More »
It’s time for another TGIF Challenge! This week is a technique challenge to create a “Card in a Box.” To see all the designers amazing projects, go to the TGIF Challenges website. I decided to go literal and make a traditional card in a box, but I think you could use some freedom in interpretation for this challenge and come up with other shapes and ideas. For example, I almost… Read More »
It’s Friday and that means time for a new TGIF Challenge! This time, we have a sketch challenge. The template is clean and simple, so there’s lots of possibilities for interpretation. You could add your favorite stamps, coloring technique, designer paper, and/or embellishments. Just have fun!!! Click on the template below to go to the TGIF Challenges website and see all the designers’ projects for this week. For my project,… Read More »
December’s Paper Pumpkin kit is called Flora And Flutter, and I have to admit that I was super excited when I opened the box! The cards are really different from any of the past kits, and I LOVE the color combinations. (I love to be inspired by color combinations I never would have thought of myself!) The kit includes supplies to make 8 cards total, 4 each in two designs. See… Read More »