Let’s Make Fun Cards!

Don’t let the name fool you, there’s more to Oceanfront than watery scenes! I changed up my ink choices to create a Texas horizon.

Before I get to the details, the Spring mini catalog is ending on June 30th and everything is currently “while supplies last”. One of the stamp sets I’m using today are on that retirement list. I’m placing an overnight shipping order for you locals May 31st, so text me to get in on my paying the shipping. Otherwise, click the link here and place your much-appreciated order with me.

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I used Pear Pizzazz to turn this into a meadow card. HINT: Stamp the pasture first so that placement of everything else is skewed lower that what I have here! After I taught myself this lesson, I created layered cards for my Quick & Easy mail list and I’m really excited for that email to go out Wednesday. When you purchase the “4 Cards in 30 Minutes” online class, you are invited to an exclusive email list to get ongoing teaching emails with cards you won’t see anywhere else!

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Water Color Lifting

I love to water color, don't you? When I saw this training video that Stampin' Up! put together on a "lifting" technique, I wanted to share it with you because we may decide to do this in a class. And maybe not just a card face, but something larger to hang on the wall. Take…

Is There Anything Better Than Autumn?

No! I can answer that for you, there is nothing better than Autumn. Poetry is written about it, songs are written about it, and even our dogs know that Autumn is the changing of the guards and time to party! Soon, bugs will be dead! Hooray! So let’s make cards with colored card stock and…

How to Use a Full Card Idea for Note Cards

This year I have been experimenting around with taking a full card idea and turning them into Note Cards. It makes sense that what fits on that stamped panel we’ve been making should be able to translate to Note Cards, and they have! As I finished A2 cards for #mailitmonday I continued to stamp a…

How To Use Crafty Corners on Envelope Stamping

Something I enjoy doing when I make Note Cards is use the same position of the stamp IN MY STAMPARATUS to do envelope flaps. The hard part is making sure the image doesn’t bleed over onto the front of the envelope, unless that’s what you want. Here’s how I got started: Ignore the Crafty Corners…

Auntie Flo’s Inspiring Iris Note Cards

My husband’s great-aunt had beautiful iris gardens, and I am fortunate enough to have a piece of that legacy. Auntie Flo’s iris tubers traveled from Oklahoma to Houston where my MIL, Charlsie McLaughlin Cawthon grew them in her garden. How she kept them safe from the little Boston terriers she raised, I will never know….

Creating Ice Blue Christmas Cards

A particularly sweet winter memory from childhood involved “tobogganing” behind the truck as Daddy pulled Bill and I on a sled down the icy streets of Albuquerque. Daddy drove slowly while Mom sat on the tailgate holding the rope as we squealed and laughed around corners of those empty NE neighborhoods before construction took over….