I decided to continue my non-traditional colors for Christmas and Holiday cards after sharing yesterday’s card, shown here. I’ve had the Eastern Palace DSP for a while now and keep taking it out, looking through it and then setting it aside for another day. Well this weekend was “the other day”. This card uses another […]
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Deck the Halls…Carols of Christmas to come!
It was a whirlwind week for us. My dear hubby and I tend to spend a lot of time at home immersed in our hobbies. His is reading research articles for the two journals he manages…yes, that’s a hobby for him since he loves it! Mine is paper crafting, of course! It’s been a while […]
Babies, babies and quilts for babies!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Go wild becomes sympathy card…really?
When you hear “Go Wild” I’m sure you can think of all kinds of wild cards, but you wouldn’t think tasteful sympathy card, right? Well, I’m here today to show you how that assumption would be so wrong. The wonderful thing about Stampin’ Up!’s Go Wild DSP is that one side is wild animal prints, the other side is more sedate, […]
Star blast with Another great year
Yesterday I shared my card using the beautiful garden of flowers sheet from my Another Great Year Paper Pumpkin kit. Today’s card is the back side of that paper. When I cut the flower garden side in half, almost all of the flowers were on the bottom piece. So I turned the remaining top piece over […]