• This Nov 2016 sale is no longer active • I don’t get to do this often, so I am super excited to share this with you… The lovely folks at Silhouette America are having a Cameo® 3 Black Friday Early Access Sale and I have a custom code for you to take advantage of the […]
Inspiration: Making Fall Backgrounds with Cozy Textures
As the weather gets chillier, I tend to start using what I call “cozy textures” for my backgrounds. Baskets, woven fabrics, and warm colors all give that snuggly comfortable feeling of fall, before you settle in for winter’s bite. For today’s card, I chose to emboss a kraft panel with a basket weave folder. Have I […]
Autumn Wreath Using a Die Cut Inlay Technique
I made this autumn wreath from a die that was released last holiday season by Simon Says Stamp. Incidentally, there are two similar dies available from that release. One is a wreath with ornaments, and you can use them to build some pretty neat holiday cards. The other is the wreath made of rings that I used […]
Papertrey September Blog Hop Challenge
The Papertrey September Blog Hop Challenge includes a lovely assortment of seasonal packaging for our inspiration photo. I love the greys and greens in this photo, so that is the inspiration I used for my card today. For the evergreen sprigs, I used a green ombré ink pad to add dimension, and a white Wink […]
Inspiration: White Die Cuts On a Painted Background
I love the look of white die cuts on a painted background. My cards are usually white with color designs added. Watercolor paint has caught my attention over the summer, though. I created a TON of backgrounds that are now stacked on my desk. I’m just waiting for them to tell me what to use them […]
Papertrey August Blog Hop Challenge: Masked Florals
The Papertrey August Blog Hop Challenge features a photo from Stella Maria Baer on VSCO. The color combination of black and blue, peach, ivory, and other earth tones is so lovely and is indicative of her work. I drew from these colors as inspiration for my card. I gotta tell ya, it was hard not to […]
Inspiration: Clean and Simple Watercolor Butterflies
For today’s inspiration post, I broke out my Peerless watercolors to put together a simple card with rainbow watercolor butterflies. The transparency of watercolor backgrounds reminds me of open skies. What better to add to a sky than butterflies, right?! I submitted this to the Pin-Sights guest artist challenge, too, along with this card. To start, […]
Lovely Magnolia Card With A White Foiled Background
Continuing from yesterday when I made this background, I decided I wanted a lovely magnolia as the main embellishment for my card. The Mondo Magnolia stamp set (by Julie Ebersole) from Ellen Hutson was just right since the white flowers on gray made for a busy background. I also entered this card in the Pin-Sights […]
How to Make a Pretty White Foiled Flower Background
I made a super cute white foiled flower background for a card I’ll be posting tomorrow that I just had to show you! With the help of Heidi Swapp’s new Opaque White reactive foil, a Minc, and a little Silhouette Design Studio magic I printed and foiled this lovely floral design on gray cardstock. It sure […]
Beautiful & Easy Floral Congrats Tag with Gold Edge
I spent the afternoon at Target rummaging through the home accents, trying to figure out what I wanted to do for today’s project. Although I knew I wanted to make a floral Congrats tag for the Tag You’re It Challenge Blog, I had no clue how to do it. Target is a great place when you’re […]