Happy Halloween!

This new thinlit circle card die was just crying out for a spinning bat, so here’s my offering for today! For those of you who celebrate – Happy Halloween!  It’s at times like these that I wish my grandchildren were closer.  They’ll be trick or treating in the evening, supervised, of course! Here’s what I […]

MDS MONDAY, CELEBRATE ANY DAY – HYBRID CARD

Hi everyone – MDS Monday!  A hybrid project today – what does that entail?  It means you design a project in My Digital Studio, print it and then add extra layers or embellishments. The picture above shows a  5-1/2″ x 4-1/4″ landscape card which is one of the greeting card Designer Templates in MDS. I […]

Wonderful Wreath

Eek, you’re probably thinking – this early for christmas fayre?  Well week 4’s countdown to christmas (my videos 12 week countdown were scheduled so that they stopped on the 18th, a week before actual christmas day ) so  now is the time to be gathering ideas, stocking up on materials etc to make some cards.  Die-hard crafters […]

Getting Closer!!! Another Sneak Peek!

I’m so excited!  I cased this from Stampin’ Up! but put my own twist on it.   Do you want to see more? I only revealed a partial picture on my facebook page, but I couldn’t contain my excitment anymore!  I need your help, so please please like and share my page!  The delicious new […]

Sneak Peek – Regarding Dahlias

Happy Sunday!  Today’s share is a sneak peek – a rather ambitious project which started off as a card, then morphed into an album of sorts, but I didn’t have any photos in hand so it became a long, long card!  I left two of the circles blank so that I could add a photo […]

Regarding Dahlias #3

I’m back with more Regarding Dahlias.  This time I used a strip of Venetian Romance DSP to coordinate with my Crisp Cantaloupe card base and stamped the dahlia image with versamark and clear embossed it. The top layer was also stamped and then got the heat & stick with dazzling diamonds treatment. Here’s the inside. […]

Regarding Dahlia #2

Stamps used are Regarding Dahlias, Four you, Sketched Birthday and the Gingham Wheel.  Cardstock was Island Indigo and Very Vanilla.  I made my own DSP by using the Gingham Wheel.  The Dahlia was stamped in versamark and white embossed then adhered to “polaroid” frame (all the rage now) and attached with dimensionals skewiff as shown. […]

Regarding Dahlias

At the end of September, Stampin’ Up! held a Creative Tour seminar for Demonstrators in the S E Region.It is always a wonderful opportunity to exchange ideas with other demonstrators by swapping card fronts. It was very much touch and go as to whether or not I’d have any swaps done.  As time was at […]