Happy Fourth of July!

Real Red and Night of Navy inks were perfect for this set of cards! Background stamp from Taylored Expressions and die from PaperTrey Ink.

Real Red and Night of Navy inks were perfect for this set of cards! Background stamp from Taylored Expressions and die from PaperTrey Ink.
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…
Are you making your holiday cards this year? Are you looking for more ideas to make sparkle and shine? Kathy Skinner and I have teamed up this year to offer you our own Holiday Card designs along with Gift Tags and Stocking Stuffer/Hostess Favors. We held a survey earlier this year to see how many…
Christmas cards have been made and will be hitting the Post Office this week! Can I confess something? It’s been so long since I have made cards and blogged about it that I got nervous at one point and huffed. I know all about cutting out for 24 cards at a time, but I had…
When I was a little girl, I’m pretty sure I remember a silver Christmas tree. I was in a horrific accident in first grade and lost all my memory, but I think I remember having a metallic tree that was popular in the early sixties. After that, Daddy insisted on a real tree every year…
I'd like to talk today about The Card Corsage Technique: How I Invented It. I have always loved the simple elegance of a Clean and Simple (CAS) card, but felt the need to add more layers and embellishments for the longest time. Many of the cards we made decades ago were hour-long processes, much like…
Sending a card just to say “Hello” is my favorite reason to send one. Anything from birthday, belated birthday (ahem), thinking of you, sympathy, … well, you get it. You’re a card sender!