Today’s card was created with Close To My Heart’s November Stamp of the Month—It’s the Little Things. I love these types of stamp sets–they have great solid images along with outline images for an amazing amount of versatility. The stamp set lends itself to layering of images–whether stamped from light to dark or stamped and … Read more It’s the Little Things Congratulations Card
It’s only a little over a week until Halloween so I thought I’d share some fun Halloween cards I received from a swap I participate in. Today’s card was made by Terry M. I love how the design of this card allows you to use up those small scraps you have left over from other … Read more Frightfully Fun Halloween Card
Each month with my Stamp Club I always create a project using the current Stamp of the Month. Here is the card we created this month using the Home for the Holidays Stamp Set (this set coordinates with our Cricut Art Philosophy Collection.) It was fun showing off the ease and beauty of using 2 separate … Read more Polar Bear Home for the Holidays Card
Close To My Heart has a *NEW* Halloween Stamp Set called Halloween Greetings. When preparing for this month’s Stamp Club, I decided to use this set as it’s so spectacular. I love the different fonts, images and sentiments it contains (plus, it doesn’t hurt that it’s also a Cricut compatible set, too!) I designed the … Read more Frightfully Cute Halloween Card
Today’s card is one of the projects my Stamp Club made this month. It’s a fun pop-up gift card holder card without any fussy cutting. We used the *NEW* Chalk It Up Paper Collection, the *NEW* Great Job Stamp Set, several *NEW* ShinHan Alcohol markers and the *NEW* Slate Diagonal Striped Ribbon. There are lots of … Read more Pop-up Gift Card Holder
As promised, here is the video for creating my Teacher Appreciation Half Front Card. Enjoy and be sure to leave a comment and let us know what you think!
With the start of school, CTMH’s *NEW* Teacher Appreciation Stamp Set is the perfect set to add to your collection. It has darling images along with relevant and meaningful sentiments. If you’d like to learn how to make this card–or even a card in this style–be sure to come back soon as I’ll be posting … Read more Teacher Appreciation Thank You Card
It’s birthday week around here…Wednesday marks the birthday of my husband, his sister, my aunt as well as 2 friends. Whoa, that’s a lot of birthdays for 1 day, huh?!? I really like this birthday card as it’s pretty straight forward but looks great. Plus, you get the bonus of coloring it–coloring in images can … Read more Robot Birthday Card
The stamp set Mother’s Day–with 8 different images–is a bit sassy with a retro feel to the images of the moms. This card I received from Joy M. is a great example of incorporating many fun embellishments for a true “wow” factor to the card. The supplies she used on this card are: Mother’s Day … Read more A Sassy Card for Mom
Today’s card is one of the projects my Stamp Club made this month. Everyone liked the unique spin on a traditional sized card. With simple modifications you can change the look of a card dramatically. I simply cut away the top third of the card and had them use a circle punch to draw the … Read more Just Because Card
With our End-of-the-Year party theme centered around space, I figured doing the Teacher Thank You Card in that same theme was only fitting. I made it in a 5″ x 7″ size so there was a little more room than the standard 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ card for families to sign it. We passed it around … Read more End of the Year Teacher Appreciation Cards
Today’s card was created using one of CTMH’s Hostess Rewards Stamp sets. It was a favorite of mine as soon as I saw it. I remember when I was a little girl and I absolutely adored unicorns. I had stickers, posters, figurines–you name it–I probably had it! And it seems like we’ve gone full circle … Read more Unicorn Dreams Card
Today was officially the last fieldtrip for this school year. At our school we have a parent who is the Fieldtrip Coordinator for each class. They work with the teacher to plan the trips and then coordinate drivers–no easy task that’s for sure! There were way too many times this year when trips were almost … Read more End of School Year Appreciation
It’s a new month which means another *NEW* Stamp of the Month! (It’s hard to believe it’s already June, huh!?!) This month’s stamp set–Kaboom–is perfect for preparing for next month’s celebrations. You can use it to create cards, craft some home decor or even get your 4th of July layouts done before you even take … Read more Kaboom Stamp of the Month
I was in the mood to create a simple and clean-looking card and as luck would have it, I had a bunch of random scraps left over from the Free To Be Me Paper Collection–perfect! Creating the card was a matter of matting the papers, using a little 3-D foam tape to make the sentiment … Read more It’s All Good Card