Mesmerizing twirling disks

Do you know how hard it is to come up with snazzy post titles? Anyway, the May sassy stampers classes were all about ‘cards that move’. So we had the spiral popup, the freestanding popup, and this cute little gem, the suspension card. The quick version of this is to have two different sized punches, [...]

Standing tall

Another of the sassy stamper’s May class projects was this free-standing popup card (tutorial can be found on splitcoast stampers here).
There are three variations to this style of popup card. The original ‘look’ is a single, central tag that is revealed when the tag ribbon is pulled.

A variation to this is to have gatefold tag [...]

Soft as a butterfly’s wing

As promised, here is a look at the full butterfly card. Lots of doodling using one of those magical Stardust Clear Glitter pens…I highlighted all the patterned papers and of course the butterfly wings (each vein is traced as are the antennae). I stamped and colored 2 full butterflies and adhered them together at [...]

Flutterby oh butterfly

Butterflies are so inspirational, don’t ya think? And they can represent so many ideas (self-confidence, graduation, new baby, acknowledgement of a mother’s role in guiding her young ones into adulthood…okay I’ll stop, this is getting a little ‘deep’). I saw some in-the-wild butterflies on the way home from work and that quick glimpse encouraged me [...]

What’s black and white and red all over?

We used two of the five April black and white FREE download digital papers to create this card in our April sassy stamper classes.

By sponging all the white pieces in black and all the red pieces in white, the paper pieces have a nice warm cozy feel to them.

And you know a card isn’t complete [...]