Barbara came to me wanting to create her own stationery. She wanted the recipients to know right away they were getting a message of love from her before they looked for a return address or a signature. Just like sheets of paper with your monogram, your cards can say right away that it is from…
Texas Bluebonnets are popping up in the garden even before the ground is warm enough to support them, so why not get your package of Note Cards out and stamp along with me? I stamped a single clump of bluebonnets just to be quick about it, but if you have the time, stamp all the…
Do you have an adorable stamp set but you can’t make it fill the visual? Use my favorite cure: a background stamp! I used my favorite background stamp from Artistically Inked because it is so beautifully distINKtive that it reads as a much lighter ink than the one I use! When you make cards, I…
A2 cards have enough space inside for writing quite a bit when you need it most: Sympathy Cards. When you buy a card from Hallmark, there is usually quite a bit written inside. When you make your own card, you need to write some condolences, too. While this isn’t a Sympathy Card per se, you…
When I was a little girl I was in love with miniatures. I never had a dollhouse and several of my adult friends told me I should indulge that “inner child” and buy one, but I never did. The last crafted project I can remember working on before I left Colorado in 1995 was a…
Have you ever sent a sympathy card? As time goes by, do you ever think about that recipient again, maybe pray over their situation? I know I have, and wanted to check in with them and see how they’re doing. I needed to come up with a way to not only keep in touch with…
When my husband’s niece got married, she and her husband came to our table at their Wedding Reception. It was mostly a chance for us to be introduced (finally) to her US Marine husband, but also to talk to me about how each of my cards to them had been scrapbooked over the past year….
My sweet granddaughter has just turned 13! I was there when she was born, and it doesn’t feel like 13 years or even 8, but here she is playing Mozart by heart and doing that hand cross over move. She just exudes confidence as an adult! I’m floored! When she and the family visited the…
One of the things that I have tried to pass on to Mark’s kids and the grandkids is a love of the outdoors. It’s such a healthy outlet and completely foreign to these screen-addicted couch potatoes, that they look at me amazed that I can do things like catch and gut a fish, identify birds,…
