As you know, I love colorful cards! But today’s card is a white on white with a touch of gold, very elegant and continues my non-traditional holiday color cards. I was inspired by last week’s FMS#309 sketch and used it as a starting point for this card. I’ve also been anxious to try out the […]
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Eastern Palace, meet elegant Christmas card
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 […]
Cheers to FMS#309 challenge
I’ve been working on Christmas cards and showing the versatility of the new stamps sets, but today’s card was a last minute deviation of my traditional Christmas colors cards to enter this week’s Freshly Made Sketches #309 challenge. It just spoke to me and I loved how my first non-traditional colors Christmas card turned out […]
Peace on Earth, to everyone today
Yesterday I shared my card I made using the “Deck the Halls” stamp from the new Carols of Christmas stamp set. Today I’m sharing the card I made using the other large stamp, “Peace on Earth.” This greeting seems an appropriate one for the past month of natural (and manmade) disasters that have happened around the […]
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 […]
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 […]