Sail away into the sunset

Splitcoast Stampers is an awesome website for inspiration. I was looking through the gallery and found a sailboat card I ‘needed’ to duplicate. I didn’t have the SU! Elegant Soiree patterned paper but had something similar. I made 12 of these to start my August Operation Write Home box, and doing them assembly-line went pretty [...]

Kitchen stamping

Do you tease your hubby in the kitchen? You know what I mean . . . getting out your toaster oven, pasta machine, or cookie sheets only to use them for papercrafting instead of preparing food? It is amazing how many stamping techniques use kitchen products. Today’s card uses two: stamping with sweetened condensed milk [...]

A masculine card to start my Christmas card blitz

I have a few golfing buddies that wouldn’t ‘appreciate’ a be-ribboned and be-jeweled Christmas card, so luckily I was able to find a marvelous card design by Frances Byrne (StampOwl) in the Splitcoast Stampers gallery. I changed up the colors for a more Christmasy feel and used TAC stamps and paper. The golf ball was [...]

Fun flocked GUY card

Sometimes it’s really hard to design a masculine card.  So when I finally craft one I like, I make it in lots of flavors.  The depicted saying is for father’s day but I’ve also made this card with Happy Birthday, Get Well Soon, Thinking of You, and Thank You.  So…the trick to using fun flock [...]