Have you ever wondered what to say a few months down the road when someone experiences a loss? I know how you feel! We’ve all known someone to experience a death and we might reach out at the time, but then falter as to what to say months down the road. You know they are…
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…
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…
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…
As we open into the New Year, let’s give our imagination room to explore Stationery Trends for 2024. Where has this year gone? I can’t believe that we are having the Christmas lights installed this week! Listen to what Wild Apple had to say about stationery trends in 2024: “In the digital age, where screens…
We’ve already talked about the use of stamp set “kinds” that will hasten your Clean and Simple card making, all in the effort to avoid coloring. We talked about DistINKtive Stamp Sets HERE, and Two-Step Stamp Sets HERE. This third kind of stamp set is called Etched. Celebrate Sunflowers came out in the annual catalog…
Not hard to imagine what’s on my desk this morning when you realize that I’m all about flora and fauna. These Note Cards have been on my mind since I saw that Two Tone Flora stamp set AND the coordinating dies, are going to be in the new catalog. Cards that I made on the…
Without including stamp sets or the punches/dies that may coordinate, I’m grinning that it’s only 15 basic products to get started on this “band wagon” of making 20 Note Cards on the 25th. I had my Coffee and a Card group make three Note Cards & Envelopes each this week. Do you remember this one?…
You’ve been following me for a while and see that I’m going from Clean and Simple (CAS) to using a punch that coordinates with the stamp set … and you have questions. I get it. And I have answers. FIRST QUESTION: Not another flower stamp set, again? Well, as a gardener I’d have to say…
