Many years ago (I won’t admit how long ago) I made a baby quilt for each of my new nieces and nephews when they were born. I know some of them still have them and keep them safely tucked away as a sweet memory of growing up. Sad to say, the grand nieces and nephews […]
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A Lone Star Quilted Christmas
Another Lone Star quilt pattern, but this time as the focus of the card. Isn’t it gorgeous?! Too much work you say? Not so! This is one of the patterns from the Quilted Christmas DSP. There are 4 of these on one sheet so I cut them into 4 individual squares. And then the magic […]
Painted Harvest for Christmas? Yes!
Another day, and another example on how versatile the Painted Harvest stamp set can be for many stamping occasions! Today’s card uses the Painted Harvest stamp set again, but this time to create a Christmas wreath! Really! Changed the colors from Fall and Spring (see my last two days blogs, here and here) to traditional […]
Lessons learned on stamping Painted Harvest!
As I said yesterday, I was not entirely happy with how my Painted Harvest 2-step flowers were looking as I was playing with different color combinations. So I went to YouTube and found Patty Bennett’s tips (PattyStamps.com) on how to get a good Painted Harvest flower (don’t you just love the wonderful bloggers who share […]
Painted Harvest, not just for fall colors
Saturday was World Card Making Day and I spent the weekend catching up on my card crafting. It felt good to be back in my craft room after so much time away. I decided to start with the new Painted Harvest stamp set and coordinating Painted Autumn designer series paper. I’ve seen lots of fall […]
October – what a great month! Take a look!
Well, I’m finally back after five months offline. My post will be a little long today so I can catch you up on my life and things going on, so please stick with me! We had to move our 90-year-old dad to a senior living community in June (after an entire year trying to convince […]
Watercolor wishes for your birthday
The Watercolor Wishes card kit has a fantastic assortment of wonderful greetings that you can use long after you make all the cards from the kit. And that’s exactly what I did with today’s card. I love the “happiest birthday wishes” greeting and have used it on many cards. It says so much in such […]
Cool treats for a Happiest Birthday to you!
I’m back to making more birthday cards for my contribution to #imbringingbirthdaysback! I’ve had so much fun this year creating lots of birthday cards to send to family and friends! We were challenged last year to make and send more “snail mail” birthday cards, such a rare occasion these days with all the social media outlets. […]
The last of another great year?
Ah, yes, they say all good things must come to an end and today’s card is the end of my cards made from December’s “Another Great Year” Paper Pumpkin. Enough already, right? But I found this last design and couldn’t let it just languish on my crafting table, could I? Nope! I wanted the Smoky […]