Happy January everyone. What does January mean in our card making world…..that it is time to make Valentine cards for our loved ones. I’m mixed on whether valentines should be mushy or cute, beautiful or crafty, but no matter what your preferences are I think you’ll like today’s card with…
This week is my hubby’s birthday, Steve. Here are three things I love about him, not the only things, just the one’s I tell him I love about him all the time. 1) He is really tall and has really long arms. Those two things together means we never have…
My dad’s 78th birthday was on September 11. It was tough for him the first few years after 9/11 feeling like it was ok to celebrate his birthday on a day so fraught with sorrow. I reminded him though that his birthday came first and had for many years. I…
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…
I loved the images from the traveler stamp set when I first saw it in the catalog. However, sometimes loving a stamp set doesn’t always turn in to the ability to use a stamp set. I thought that was going to be the case with this until I made this…
Some color challenges can be difficult, but that is not the case with this weeks Pals Paper Arts color challenge – Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight, and Whisper white. What a great color combination this is and there is so much you can do with it. Today I used these…
I love with a sketch presents itself as the perfect way to use new products. I had on my work space the Hexagon hive framelit die I had not yet used. I also had the Honeycomb Hello stamp set as well as the Amazing Birthday stamp set just waiting for a…
I have seen several examples of file tab cards since the envelope punch board was released last year. The rounded triangle punch is the perfect shape for making the look of file tabs. Stampin Up now also sells file tab framelits where you can make the file tab shape on…
One of my staff members, Steve, is a huge Hockey fan. He plays in a Hockey league twice a week and has at least partial season tickets to the Columbus Blue Jackets hockey games. He is not just a championship chaser, as my husband likes to say, as he has…
My one final father’s day card for this year is for my husband, Steve. Between us we have 6 children, three boys and three girls, three sons-in-law, one daughter-in-law and two granddaughters. We are blessed. This card is for the great Husband, Dad and Pops that he is. It was…
