Quick Holiday Tags for Gifts Video Tutorial How about a quick holiday TAG idea today? With a gift idea to boot! My friend Jacki made bird feeder ornaments and I helped her with the packaging. Sorry, I don’t have great photos of the ornaments, but if you follow the links at …
Stamp of Approval Girlfriend Shaker Card
Stamp of Approval Girlfriend Shaker Card Michele from CAS-ual Fridays, designed this stamp set and die for the Stamp of Approval Friendship Collection (which sold out in an hour and two minutes, by the way! Full story here!) with my logo in mind. How cool is that? My logo, fun …
Day 6: CA Vacation – Painted Ladies Foiled Flowers with Zig Clean Color Markers
Foiled Flowers with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers It is Day 6 of the CA Vacation at StampNation and we are all about San Fransisco! There are so many iconic spots to visit in San Francisco that we could easily have spent the entire week here. In the heart of …
Twisted Inlaid Die Cutting – Day 1 SN California Vacation
Twisted Inlaid Die Cutting – Day 1 SN California Vacation It’s Day ONE! It’s Day ONE! Our California Vacation kicks off today with a challenge for you to use GOLD on your card! Over at StampNation, we have more info on how to use that inspiration, dream team samples and …
Inlaid Die Cut & Stenciled Homemade Card with Reverse Confetti
Inlaid Die Cut & Stenciled Homemade Card with Reverse Confetti Earlier this year…like 3 months ago…I sat down to play with the Roundabout Stamp Set and the Upsy Daisy Dies and I loved the card I made so much that I kept on stamping. Has that ever happened to you? …
Custom Backgrounds with the Direct to Paper Technique
Custom Backgrounds with the Direct to Paper Technique The Direct to Paper technique is an oldie, but a goodie and I’ve been using it a lot lately to create perfectly coordinating cardstock to match my inks. In this video, we’ll take a bit further to create a technique accent piece …
Easy Shaker Card with Whimsy Stamps
Easy Shaker Card with Whimsy Stamps Whimsy Stamps has some new goodies out and I got to play with them! You can check out their new release here. Where do you get inspiration? I’ll show you in the video where the inspiration for this card came from. Pretty easy shaker …
Floating Inlaid and Embossed Die Cuts
Floating Inlaid and Embossed Die Cuts I have been die-ing to share this card with you! I think it’s super fun and uses some great techniques in combination with each other. View the video: What do you think? Will you try the Floating Die Cuts technique? I think I will …
15 Minute Challenge with Masking and Sponging!
Maureen visited me last week during StampNation’s Virtual Retreat. We originally planned to do three days of stamping, but life had other plans for us! We had a photo shoot for some upcoming promotions and even filmed a video (like a professional one!). I can not WAIT to see how …
Handmade card with Patterned Paper
Welcome to Day #2 of the Virtual Retreat! Our challenge is based around the theme of “Getting There!” I was stumped for a minute, but then I got this idea…view the video for this Handmade card with Patterned Paper How adorable is this sneaker from My Favorite Things? Like I …
Watercoloring with Distress Markers – special guest artist
Only SIX more days until we kick off our Virtual Retreat at StampNation! Are your bags packed? Join us for a week long celebration with new challenges and videos every single day. All of the festivities will be themed around things you do and see at a stamping retreat. Buckle …
Ombre Stamping: Hand Made Birthday Card
This medallion has an incredible ombre look and you won’t believe how easy this was to achieve! The Round Repeats Stamp Set by Papertrey Ink along with the Kaleidecolor Ink Pads made this card come together in a snap. View the video to see how quick you can make your …
Embossing with Big Shot Dies – One Layer Card
Two good stamping friends of mine, Maureen Merritt and Jill Foster are completely different stampers – Maureen being a Clean and Simple stamper and Jill being…well, what do you call the opposite of that? Jill uses a lot of techniques, watercolors, layering and bold colors. I get all starry eyed when …
Ink Layering with the MISTI Stamping Tool on KISS Cards
The MISTI Stamping Tool is perfect for making KISS Cards!! (Keep It Simple Stamper!). I was thinking about how my KISS Cards series started while driving carpool the other day (I have lots of time to think on my way back and forth from the pool and the dance studio!). …
Diagonal Window Die Ellen Hutson – Video Tutorial
I was all set to share this with you a couple weeks ago until I found out that Ellen Hutson was sold out of this darling little die! So as to not tempt you with something you couldn’t have, I postponed sharing this video tutorial. Now they are back in …