For this week’s Make It Monday (35th edition), I’m sharing this adorable gnome holiday card. I created it with the Gnome for Christmas Stamp Set + Thin Cuts. I absolutely LOVE this set! All of the images in this set are so adorable. I used a pattern from our retired Wishes Card Pattern Book called … Read more Adorable Gnome Holiday Card
For this week’s Make It Monday (34th edition), I’m sharing this super fun Sending Warm Hugs Animated Card. The Seasons in Motion Special offers fabulous *NEW* animated stamp sets like the one I used on my card today–Animated Autumn Air. Plus, you can now get the fun *NEW* Animation Window Thin Cuts to create these … Read more Sending Warm Hugs Animated Card
For this week’s Make It Monday (33rd edition), I’m sharing this beautiful Thankful for You Card. I used our brand *NEW* Serenity Paper Pack to create this card. This paper pack is SO gorgeous. Seriously. While creating this card I realized that while you might not have this paper collection yet (because it’s only been … Read more Thankful For You Card
For this week’s Make It Monday (32nd edition), I’m sharing an easy way to scrapbook with a Pocket Scrapbooking Pattern. Pocket Scrapbooking is a quick and easy approach to scrapbooking that allows you to simply insert your photos into pockets of specially designed page protectors. You then use patterned paper or Picture My Life (“PML”) … Read more A Pocket Scrapbooking Pattern
For this week’s Make It Monday (31st edition), I’m sharing this fabulously easy Handmade Thanks Card. Over the weekend, I hosted an all-day virtual card class and crop. As part of the day’s fun, I provided a challenge of creating a handmade card using this particular pattern, which I’m going to share with you today. … Read more Handmade Thanks Card
For this week’s Make It Monday (30th edition), I’m sharing this lovely I Love Music Card I received from Janice Hodgkin. I love the simplicity of her design and how this would be perfect to use up those scraps we all have laying around. So I decided to make up this card sketch to inspire … Read more I Love Music Card
For this week’s Make It Monday (29th edition), I’m sharing this beautiful You Make My Heart Happy card. I love the rich, warm colors of Sangria and Toffee together–perfect for autumn, don’t you think? So I thought we’d do a little color challenge this week! This sentiment from our current Operation Smile Stamp Set, Every … Read more You Make My Heart Happy
For this week’s Make It Monday (28th edition), I thought I’d share this Hey Pumpkin Distress Oxide Card I made. This was actually my first take at using the Distress Oxide inks that we are now carrying. I think it’s safe to say–I am in LOVE. It was so fun to blend the ink. Then … Read more Hey Pumpkin Distress Oxide Card
Since today is the last day of summer, it seemed like a great time to share this Happy Halloween Embossed Card. It’s the perfect time to start preparing for Halloween, right? I received this card from Brenda Hussen in a swap and loved several elements of her card. In fact, I thought the color combination … Read more Happy Halloween Embossed Card
For today’s Make It Monday (26th edition), I’m sharing this sparkly birthday party time shaker layout. There is so much new goodness in this layout! Since my twins have a birthday coming up, I thought this week would be perfect to share another fabulous Scrapbook Layout Pattern with you. And what better paper to use … Read more Birthday Party Time Shaker Layout
For today’s Make It Monday (25th edition), I’m sharing this fun Stitched Florals Handmade Card. I thought since today was Labor Day we could do another Color Challenge this week. We’ll be using one of Close To My Heart’s *NEW* colors, Scarlet! It’s such a beautiful, rich red. Along with Scarlet, we’ll also be using … Read more Stitched Florals Handmade Card
For today’s Make It Monday (24th edition), I’m sharing a special handmade thank you card. Over the weekend I was asked for some help in planning out a special thank you card–both in design and supplies. It needed to be a card that could hold many signatures on it. Whenever I need a card for … Read more A Special Handmade Thank You Card
For today’s Make It Monday (22nd edition), I’m sharing this beautiful Celebrating You Gatefold Card I made with this month’s Stamp of the Month. It’s part of another Color Challenge. Today I’m challenging you to use the following colors together in a project–Glacier, Nectarine and Candy Apple. You get such a happy, cheerful feeling when … Read more Celebrating You Gatefold Card
For today’s Make It Monday (21st edition), I have this adorable Hang In There Card created with today’s FREE Card Pattern. This card pattern is a fun one as it’s a bit smaller than a standard A2 card. And it’s a square card! The stamp set I used for this card is so stinkin’ cute! … Read more Hang In There Card
For today’s Make It Monday (20th edition), I thought I’d share the FREE card pattern from the Happiest Place Collection. Close To My Heart shared this on their blog last week and it perfectly aligns with what I share with you here each Monday. So let’s continue that tradition of sharing shall we? 🙂 We’ve … Read more FREE Card Pattern from the Happiest Place Collection