Sometime last spring I received a cute kit in the mail from my Up Line Brian King. It had a couple of things included in it that I used ages ago, but there were four flowers, two in calypso coral and two in coastal cabana that I had assembled and…
There is the cutest little stamp set in the holiday catalog called Tee Hee. Witches dress, shoes, bats, hats, cauldron, and best of all, some oh so cute phrases. I decided to mix this stamp set with the Holiday Home stamp set for today’s card. I took my design…
Recently Brian King posted on his blog that he had added Crystal Effects – really thick clear glue that adds dimension – on a punched out circle. As soon as I read that I had an idea for this card for one of my staff members, Cliff. What if I…
Welcome to day three of Box month at the Owlery. Today’s little box is so cute and unique and the best thing, it is made with the Envelope Punch Board. Yup. That’s right, the board you use all the time to make your perfect envelopes for all your cards, you…
Welcome to the second edition of Box month at the Owlery. Today’s box is technically not a box, but a bag. A fold over bag to be exact. Bags like these are very in right now, you can by paper sacks for your lunch and re-purpose, purchase some darling ones…
Recently at a family gathering, my Aunt Ruth, age 86 and hostess of the event, took a tumble. We didn’t know it at the time but found out after a trip to the ER that she had broken her hip and her elbow and had surgery the next day on…
Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop for August. This month we are showing off our favorite crafting tools – those Stampin’ Up! tools that we just can’t live without. We hope you enjoy our projects! You may just be starting the blog hop or may have come from stop number…
I recently found out that one of my customers had been very ill and in the hospital. What better way to cheer her up but to send her a card. From start to finish I whipped this baby up in about 30 mins, including design time. How did I do…
My regular readers know that I make birthday cards for all my staff and co-workers. I also make welcome cards when we add new folks to the department. This week we had three new associates join our team. Here are the cards I made for them. I wanted them to…
The other day, I was hosting a Stamp-a-stack at my home. We have lunch during our stamping days because stamping makes you hungry. I was serving chicken salad with beer bisquits. If you don’t know what beer bisquits are, read on. Yes, they are as good as they sound. Well…
