Hi Friends and Happy Saturday! I have a quick share for you today featuring a Snowman juggling Snowballs. The Happy Snowman is a die set received as a gift last year and I've just gotten around to using it. I've paper pieced his festive outer wear, the snowballs and hat brim are cut from glitter card.
Saturday, December 6, 2025
Juggling Snowballs
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Thanksgiving Gratitude
Hello Crafty Friends and Happy Wednesday! I have a quick share for you today featuring an Autumn theme. In the States, tomorrow is our Thanksgiving Day holiday and we will be spending it with family and friends. It's been a tough year for us as a family and I've had fleeting thoughts of foregoing Thanksgiving and Christmas, but that would not be honoring our son Dylan, as the holiday season was his absolute favorite time of year.
We are spending the holiday with my brother and my sister-in-law's family, and I needed to make a thank you card to go along with the hostess gift. I thought these tattered and distressed leaf die cuts were perfect for the card.
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Santa Knows!
Happy Tuesday Friends! I have a quick share for you today featuring a die cut Santa Claus from Spellbinders. I picked this set up during their clearance sale a few months ago and couldn't wait to put him on a Christmas Card.
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Let's Play with Circles
Hello and Happy Tuesday! The last Tuesday of the month...wow, I know February is a short month but this time it flew by faster than years' past. I have a quick share today using a geometric shape and ink blending.
Saturday, November 26, 2022
Christmas Wishes Poinsettia
Happy Saturday Friends. Today I have a quick post sharing a sweet and simple Christmas card where the patterned paper made creating this project easy.
Friday, August 26, 2022
Respond with Grace
Saturday, January 22, 2022
Altenew Academy Level 2 Course: Impressive Heat Embossing
Hello Crafty Friends! Today I'm sharing a card created for the Altenew Academy Level 2 Course: Impressive Heat Embossing. I love to heat emboss so this class was right up my alley. This course covered tips, tricks and techniques for adding heat embossing in ways that differ from the standard stamp and heat embossing method.
For my card, I've used the Altenew "Here For You" Stamp and Coordinating Die Bundle to create a Sweet and Simple Card....my term for a Clean and Simple Card that had a bit more pizazz.
- To start my design, I stamped and heat embossed the large coneflower using watermark ink and fine detail Gold Embossing Powder. The flower was cut using the coordinating die.
- Using Staedtler Watercolor Pencils, I've watercolored the floral and leaves then set aside to dry.
- To prepare the background, I created a frame using an Embossing Pen and Fine Detail Gold Embossing Powder. TIP: I scored the panel at 1/4" on each side before going over the line with the embossing pen. This created a "trough" and gave the embossing dimension.
- The sentiment, from the same set, was stamped with watermark ink and heat embossed with the same gold powder.
- To create additional interest in the background, I splattered the card with water, sprinkled with powder and heat embossed again. The powder will stick to the water droplets and this technique was one shared in class. I never thought to use water instead of watermark ink to emboss with.
- Lastly, I've adhered the panel to a 110 lb. card base, popped the floral on craft foam for dimension and placed it on the embossed panel.
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Thankful, Grateful and Blessed with Sunspot Background Die
Hello Crafty Friends. Today, I'm on the Kat Scrappiness Blog with an Autumn themed card featuring ink blending, the Kat Scrappiness Sunspot Background Die, new Embellishment Spoon and Gold Mine Rhinestones.
from: Kat Scrappiness, Inc Gold Mine Rhinestone Mix - New Release
from: Kat Scrappiness, Inc Embellishment Spoon by Kat Scrappiness - New Release
from: Kat Scrappiness, Inc
Thursday, August 5, 2021
Altenew Academy Level 1 Course: Easy Die Cutting Techniques
Hello Friends! Today I'm sharing my project for the Altenew Educator Certification Program Level 1 Course: Easy Die Cutting Techniques. This is a great course, loaded with ideas and tips for easy but effective die-cutting. My card features layered die cuts and ink blending.
I've used the Altenew Craft-A-Flower Morning Glory Die Set to create 4 Morning Glories and leaves in shades of Purples and Greens. This is a lovely set and appears intimidating, but actually it was enjoyable and therapuetic putting the pieces together.
Saturday, July 24, 2021
Watercolor Bouquet Slimline
Good Day Friends! Today I'm sharing a slimline card created using the Altenew Watercolor Bouquet Layering Stencil.
Thursday, July 22, 2021
Krafty Chicks Challenge - Any Occasion
Hello Friends and Welcome! Today begins a new challenge at the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog and I'm back with my 3rd Guest Designer project. The theme this week is Any Occasion and my project today features lovely florals and Ink Smooshing for a Birthday Card.
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Monstera Layering Stencil
Hello Crafty Friends and Happy Tuesday! Before I continue with sharing my Card of the Day, I wanted to remind everyone of the Blog Hop that is active until Midnight EST on 14 July so hop along for your chance to win some holiday themed prizes. To find the hop, click HERE and you can also find the post in the sidebar to the right. Hope to see you there!
Monday, July 5, 2021
Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge - Newton's Nook
Hello and Happy Monday! For those in the States, I hope your 4th of July Holiday was filled with food, family and fun! Today begins a new challenge at Pammie's Inky Pinkies with an Anything Goes theme. We have the fun Newton's Nook as our sponsor and I created my design team project using the Terrific Terriers Stamp and Coordinating Die set. This is a retiring set so if you like it, head over to Newton's Nook and grab it before they are gone forever.
Friday, July 2, 2021
Altenew AECP - All About Layering 3
Hello Friends and Happy Friday! Today I'm sharing my submission for the Altenew Academy All About Layering 3 course. This course goes further in depth with instruction on multi-layer stamping and has lots of great tips and tricks to get a perfect layered image.
For my class project, I've used the new Altenew Bearded Iris Layering Stamp and Coordinating Die Bundle to create my A2 sized card. This is the newest set in the Build-a-Flower monthly subscription plan and it's a beauty.
To start my card, I brought out the color wheel for a bit of color wheel theory on the design of this card. I decided upon an Analogous + Complimentary color scheme. For those not familar, Analogous are colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel and Complimentary are colors that are directly opposite each other. So, my floral is stamp layered with Analogous colors and the background is a complimetary color.
Thursday, July 1, 2021
Krafty Chicks Guest Designer - Stamp Act
Hello Friends and Happy July 1st! Wow, where did June go? I've been invited to Guest Design with the Krafty Chicks Challenge for the month of July...Wow...I'm honored to be invited to be on the blog with these Chicks. They are an awesome, crazy talented group of crafters!
The theme this week is Stamp Act..meaning soemthing on the design must be stamped. For my GDT project, I used the new Gina K. Designs Sketched Flowers Stamp and Coordinating Die Set. This set is part of the Time to Coast June 2021 Release.
Saturday, June 26, 2021
AECP - All About Layering 2
Hello Friends and Happy Saturday! I'm back to share my 2 submissions for the Altenew Academy All About Layering 2 class. This course continues with instruction on multi-layer stamping with different tones of inks to achieve visual impact and depth.
For my first project, I used the Altenew Budding Thanks Stamp and Coordinating Die Bundle to create my A2 sized card. I stamped the solid leafy portion of the image on a snippet of card using a shade of teal green ink, matching up the outline portion and stamping over the solid with black ink. I used black because I wanted high contrast against the green. I matched up the floral bud portion to the leaf and stamped the 2 layers using a light and midtone yellow. I did the same layered stamping for the stem.



































