Category Archives: Handmade Cards

Artisan Design Team – Leaves of Holly & Creative Backgrounds

Hello! I’m Tami Hewlett from California, USA. Today, I’m sharing some holiday cards featuring the Leaves of Holly Bundle that I designed for the for the Stampin’ Up! Facebook and Instagram Pages. As a member of the Artisan Design Team, I occasionally get this wonderful opportunity to contribute to their corporate social media sites. This time, I decided to demonstrate some creative ways to use the Fabulous Frames Dies to… Read More »

Stamping Sunday Blog Hop – Holidays Are Coming

Welcome to the November Stamping Sunday Blog Hop. This month, our theme is the “Holidays Are Coming.” I’m excited to see all the great ideas from the designers this month. Have you taken a good look at the Santa Express Memories & More Card Pack? It is SUPER cute!!! Even if you don’t scrapbook, the pack is worth a second look, because it’s great for making cards too! The cards… Read More »

#TGIFC394 — Sketch Challenge

It’s Friday and that means a new TGIF Challenge. This week, we are using the sketch shown below. Isn’t that a great sketch? I love the creative ideas our team leaders give us!!! Since I’m on a Christmas card mission, I switched up the theme to make a holiday card, but this would also be perfect for other seasons, birthdays, etc. For my card today, I used the fabulous Lights… Read More »

7 Days of Christmas – Christmas Lights

7 Days of Christmas : Day Seven My seventh project features the Christmas Lights Bundle and a lot of watercoloring. I die-cut the images from paper that I pre-watercolored with Shaded Spruce, Parakeet Party, Coastal Cabana, Pale Papaya, Sweet Sorbet, and Polished Pink ink for a non-traditional look. I used Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper to paint rainbow stripes of each color. When it dried, I embossed the stamped images in… Read More »

Color Fusers Blog Hop — 7 Days of Christmas

Welcome to the Color Fusers Blog Hop for November 2022. This month, we have some festive colors including Pumpkin Pie, Poppy Parade, and Shaded Spruce. I think they would work for either Fall or Christmas-themed projects. But I’m on a mission to make lots of Christmas cards right now, so I decided to go in that direction. 🙂 7 Days of Christmas : Day Six — I’m posting another two-fer… Read More »

7 Days of Christmas — Trees For Sale

7 Days of Christmas : Day Five My Artisan alumni friends and I are kick starting our holiday crafting with seven days of inspiration on Instagram. To see the daily projects, go to Instagram and search for #sevendaysofchristmas. My fifth project features the Trees For Sale stamp set and elements from the Santa Express Memories & More Card Pack. I love the wood embellishments in that pack! You’ll probably laugh… Read More »

7 Days of Christmas — Framed Florets Dies

7 Days of Christmas : Day Three My Artisan alumni friends and I are kick starting our holiday crafting with seven days of inspiration on Instagram. To see the daily projects, go to Instagram and search for #sevendaysofchristmas. My third project features the Framed Florets Dies (an early release product from the upcoming January-June Mini Catalog available to purchase now) and Rings of Love Designer Series Paper (DSP), a Sale-A-Bration… Read More »

7 Days of Christmas – Ringed With Nature

7 Days of Christmas : Day Two My card today features the Ringed with Nature stamp set and coordinating Tree Rings Hybrid Embossing Folder, which includes both an embossing folder and coordinating dies. One of the dies fits inside the embossing folder to both cut and emboss at the same time! During Sale-A-Bration earlier this year, I grabbed some of the coordinating Rings of Love Designer Series Paper (DSP.) I… Read More »

7 Days of Christmas

Welcome to the 7 Days of Christmas – a celebration of the festive season with some of my #ArtisanAlumni friends and I. We will be posting our projects on Instagram and sharing them in our stories from November 2nd-8th. Check back here tomorrow for Day 1! Feeling festive? Join the fun by using #sevendaysofchristmas when you post your projects and share a few of your favs to your stories!

Artisan Design Team – Spruced Up Bundle

Hello! I’m Tami Hewlett from California, USA, and today I’m sharing my October Artisan Design Team projects featuring the Spruced Up Bundle. This is a super cute bundle with images and dies that provide great options for holiday cards and gifts. Be sure to check out the Stampin’ Up! Facebook page to see all the Artisans’ creative projects featuring this festive bundle. You can find the Spruced Up Bundle on… Read More »

#TGIFC392 — Inspiration Challenge

Welcome to a new TGIF Challenge. This week, our challenge is “What would you do without black ink?” Ha, that’s easy for me!!! I rarely use black ink unless I’m coloring with Stampin’ Blends or watercoloring a detail image. Typically, I use lots of color and love embossing in white, gold or silver. My card today is a SUPER special one for my hubby. Our 32nd anniversary is coming up… Read More »

#TGIFC390 — Sketch Challenge

Happy Friday everyone! Welcome to a new TGIF Sketch Challenge. I decided to break out some fun holiday products and create a Christmas card. I need lots of them, so I’ve got to get cracking!!! This was actually a super simple card to make! I stamped the Jolly, Jolly, Jolly, Jolly with the Jingle, Jingle, Jingle stamp set. (Like what I did there?) To easily line up the two-step stamping… Read More »

A Secret Santa CASE

My 2022 Artisan friends and I are having a Secret Santa CASE today on Instagram! We thought it would be fun to start off the Christmas season by creating holiday projects inspired by fellow Artisans. So we all drew names and have kept it a secret until right now for the big reveal! Isn’t this fun? CASE means Copy And Selectively Edit, so in other words pick your favorite elements… Read More »

Color Fusers Blog Hop — October 2022

Hello and welcome to the Color Fusers Blog Hop for October 2022. This month, we have a super pretty color combination of Early Espresso, Mango Melody, Granny Apple Green, and Bermuda Bay. This is definitely another color combo I never would have dreamed up myself, so once again, I appreciate these fun challenges. The brown and gold colors made me think of Fall and the changing seasons, so I decided… Read More »

#TGIFC388 — Without a Sentiment?

Welcome to another TGIF Challenge Friday! This week our challenge is “What would you do … without a sentiment?” I laughed when I saw this, because I frequently find myself finishing up a card and realizing that I forgot the sentiment! I get so focused on the card that the sentiment becomes an afterthought. So, this was a fairly easy challenge for me. My card features the Apple Blossom Dies… Read More »

Commonwealth of Colour

Welcome to the Commonwealth of Colour (#commonwealthofcolour), a tribute to the recent passing of the late Queen Elizabeth II brought to you by my Artisan alumni friends and I. My Artisan friends from the UK and Commonwealth Nations created this lovely tribute, and I was happy to join in. While I was born and raised in the U.S., I have both English and Scottish heritage. My grandfather Sam lived in… Read More »

Artisan Design Team – Boughs of Holly Suite

Hello! I’m Tami Hewlett from California, USA, and today I’m sharing my September Artisan Design Team projects featuring the Boughs of Holly Suite. This is an absolutely GORGEOUS suite, definitely one of my favorites from the JD Mini Catalog! I literally love everything about it and was so excited when I received this assignment! Be sure to check out the Stampin’ Up! Facebook page to see all the Artisans’ beautiful… Read More »

#TGIFC386 — Inspiration Challenge/Perched In A Tree

Happy Friday! For today’s TGIF Challenge, we have the inspiration below. It was the perfect opportunity to try out the Perched In A Tree Bundle. I particularly love the Aspen Tree Die background and have been dying to use it. I had a lot of fun with this card, because the Perched In A Tree stamps include both a large splatter and a small dot splatter that are great for… Read More »

Crafty Carrot – Spruced Up Bundle Sneak Peek

This October, the Crafty Carrot Collective has invited me to be a Guest Designer! Participants will be able to access five live Facebook tutorials throughout the month featuring the Spruced Up Bundle. There’s also Sneak Peek inspiration and participant sharing for even more inspiration! You can sign up at https://craftycarrotcollectiveblogspot.com. My presentation will be on Friday October 7 at 6:00 PM PDT. Today, I’m sharing my Sneak Peek project. I… Read More »