Today’s post is all about a very quick Tool Tip: Tailored Tag Punch to fishtail those strips too narrow to fit in the Triple Banner punch. I have started using my stamp positioning tool on pre-cut strips of paper for my sentiments, and I need length on them to place the magnet. Once the strip is ready to place on the card face, I like to snip a banner ending to it!
How do you snip your strips?
I absolutely love great sentiments, and found this one in a stamp set from Honey Bee Stamps. Do you know them? They are based in Oregon, and I have been buying some photopolymer stamp sets from them for quite a while. This set is called Mailbox Memos and I have been using the sentiments one…
This is a crazy weekend for sales from Black Friday through Small Business Saturday and then Cyber Monday, but let me share with you a few of My Favorite Things … Stamp-n-Storage! From ink pads to punches and paper, I can't even begin to tell you how these sturdy pieces have revolutionized my stamping. Having…
Since I resigned from Stampin’ Up! I have organized and cleaned my Nook in between doing loads of laundry. DistINKtive stamp sets are still my very favorite kind of stamps, and they are the most efficient for my Wednesday session of stamping for the Kitchen Table Ministry. I’m thrilled to have found so many in…
I love working close to Sundown in the Studio, with the light dappling through the oak tree and windows. It’s the perfect “alarm” for me to turn the radio off and start cleaning up. I showed you a new organizational element I added to the studio in my latest newsletter, and you can see it…
Several years ago at convention we heard a new song from Stampin’ Up!, Be The Difference. The theme for our learning that year was the opportunity to Be The Difference in the world around us, and I couldn’t let it go. In psychology Maslow had a hierarchy of needs which he outlined in his paper,…
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…
