Crafting Tradition

Over the year, ok generations, the women in my family have been serious crafters. My post today is not about paper crafting but about the crafting gene handed down to me and then to my daughters and hopefully granddaughters. In other words, the Crafting Tradition. My grandmother The crafting tradition…

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A Pretty Purse

pretty purse

This week we have two Granddaughters with birthdays. Emma turns 4 on Friday and Penelope turns 3 on Wednesday. We picked up some little girls’ things for them, necklaces, bracelets, unicorns, and nail kits that will fit perfectly in these pretty purses. I have made these little purses before but…

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Reserve Your Product Shares

Product Shares

I’m announcing my Mini Catalog Product Shares for Paper and Ribbon today.  This is a great way to get a little bit of everything offered in the catalog.  You’ll have plenty of paper and/or ribbon to use for the season, or know what you would like to order more of.…

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Happy Memorial Day

  No card today, just a wish for a Happy Memorial Day for everyone.  Please stay safe and remember your mask and social distancing as you picnic. I’ll be back on Wednesday with the InKing Royalty Blog Hop.  The theme is Sunshine and don’t we all need it this year. …

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Square Holiday Ornament

Again, from Julie DiMatteo, I created these super cool square ornaments with a shadow box.  Julie can be found at PaperPixie.com or on You Tube and she is worth following.  She is very talented at 3D and Origami.  Her video for this project is below. ORNAMENT The ornament uses one…

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Quilted Christmas Oragami

This year for Christmas I decided to do our entire Christmas tree in paper crafted ornaments.  It was time to purge out some of the old broken ones but certainly saving the very special hand crafted ornaments from my children and grandchildren. ORIGAMI TRIANGLE ORNAMENT I created 12 of these…

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I’m Cocoa….For Cute Gifts and a video

Hello, I’ve just returned from an inspiring trip to Atlanta hosted by my Stampin’ UP! upline, Brian King (StampwithBrian.com) and his upline, Pam Morris (Taptapstamp.wordpress.com). For the last 5 years Brian and Pam have hosted a World Card Making Day event in Atlanta, where they live, to celebrate all things…

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