- Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Autumn Blessings Bundle
- Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Harvest Bundle
- Sizzix Thinlits Dies by Tim Holtz - Tag Collection
- Stamp Simply Steel Dies - Farmhouse Signage (tiny heart)
- Craft Consortium Ink Drops Vivid 6x6
- Echo Park It's a Boy 6x6
- May Arts 5/8" Faux Linen Canvas Ribbon Sampler - 27 yards
- Spellbinders ovals
- distress oxide inks
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Count your blessings and give thanks!
Thursday, September 4, 2025
We Will Never Forget
- Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - The American Eagle Bundle
- Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - The Pledge of Allegiance
- Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Patriotic Sentiments
- Stamp Simply Steel Dies - Fishtail Sentiment Banners
- Stamp Simply Steel Dies - Welcome Baby Basics (baby star)
- Spellbinders Nestabilities - Standard Circles SM
- Spellbinders Nestabilities - Standard Circles LG
- echo-park-let-freedom-ring-6x6
- Luxury Pearlescent Metallic 105# Cardstock - Gold 6 ct
- Sizzix Thinlits Dies by Tim Holtz - Countdown
- Memento ink, Copic markers
- Faded Jeans and Fired Brick distress oxide inks for sentiments
Thursday, August 28, 2025
With Heartfelt Sympathy
Hello everyone. I'm here today with a sympathy card for one of our dearest friends whose father passed away in the wee hours yesterday morning. We were close enough to this sweet, gentle, kind man to call him "Abuelo." He always had a huge smile on his face and was quick to offer a hug and a soft word of encouragement. We loved him, and he will be sorely missed.
I wanted the card for his family to be filled with the kind of Light and Life that his life represented so I selected some designer paper in lovely Summer sky colors paired with a bright and colorful sunflower.
The sentiments are from a couple of our Sympathy sets. These sets come separately or in various bundles, and include a nice selection of sentiments to choose from.
Supplies:
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
Hi friends! I have been working on some crocheted squares for a remembrance blanket for a crafter who loved purple, so I was drawn to these colors for this week's card as well. I recently spent some time with another friend who is a real book lover (real physical books of paper and ink, not digital) and so the idea came to me to make this project a relatively clean and simple bookmark card. The bookmark can be sliced off the side of the card and tucked into a card while the card remains intact.
I wanted to keep this card relatively thin and low profile so I stamped the sentiments directly onto the designer paper using Versamark ink and gold detail embossing powder.
- Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Worship & Praise
- Stamp Simply Steel Dies - Crosses
- Stamp Simply Steel Dies - Fishtail Sentiment Banners
- May Arts 5/8" Faux Linen Canvas Ribbon Sampler - 27 yards
- Craft Consortium Ink Drops Vivid 6x6
- Luxury Pearlescent Metallic 105# Cardstock - Quartz White 6 ct
- Luxury Pearlescent Metallic 105# Cardstock - Gold 6 ct (if I had had gold I would've used it!)
- Kaisercraft Self-Adhesive Round Rhinestones - Aqua
- VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
- Delicata Non-Tarnishing Ink Pad - Celestial Copper
- gold detail embossing powder
- gold metallic embroidery floss
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Masculine Textures & Tim Holtz Numbers
Sometimes it is really fun to look through your deep stash and see whether you can find ways to extend the use of the images and sentiments in your stamp inventory. Both of my cards for today started with Metal Textures, and numbers from various Tim Holtz die sets.
Here's the inside. I thought this sentiment paired well with the idea of a player running for the goal line. It always makes me smile when they take the time to give credit where credit is due after they score! If they are wise, they know where their talent comes from!
Birthday Odometer- Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Birthday Sentiments
- Craft Consortium Metal Textures 6x6
- Luxury Pearlescent Metallic 105# Cardstock - Copper 6 ct
- Sizzix Thinlits Dies by Tim Holtz - Postale
- Stamp Simply Steel Dies - A Man of Knowledge Books (gears)
- brads and a scrap of map paper from stash
- Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - A Godly Man
- Craft Consortium Metal Textures 6x6
- Craft Consortium Grunge Light 6x6
- Sizzix Thinlits Dies by Tim Holtz - Collector
- Sizzix Thinlits Dies by Tim Holtz - Tag Collection
- May Arts 2" Wide Stripes - 25 yard Spool - Orange/White
- distress oxide inks
- very old snap brads from stash
- thin paper strips for laces
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Vintage Peonies with Organic Seed Farm
Supplies:
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Another half-front card
This week's card is a variation of the half front card from last week, but with a "peek from underneath" wreath from one of our Seasonal Wreaths sets. Without the bow it would be a perfect card to make flat-for-mailing. You could substitute a vertical strip of patterned paper to keep things interesting.
I used a second layer of white card stock inside, as I knew I'd be using Copic markers and didn't want the colors to bleed through the back of my card. I am running low in some colors of card stock so I needed to get creative about a border to emphasize the edges. My solution was to make a loosely painted watercolor-y border using diluted distress oxide inks in colors similar to the Copics I used to color the pumpkins. (Although this is the inside, it would make a lovely card front if you are so inspired!)
- Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Seasonal Wreaths, Fall/Winter
- Carta Bella Welcome Autumn 6x6
- Spellbinders Nestabilities - Standard Circles SM
- Spellbinders Nestabilities - Standard Circles LG
- Memento Full Size Dye Ink Pad - Espresso Truffle
- Copic markers
- distress oxide inks for sentiments and "watercolor" border
Thursday, July 24, 2025
Christmas in July!
Supplies:
- Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Christmas Stockings & Mittens Bundle
- Carta Bella A Wonderful Christmas 6x6
- Craft Consortium Brick Textures 6x6
- Spellbinders Nestabilities - Standard Circles SM
- Spellbinders Nestabilities - Standard Circles LG
- Stamp Simply Steel Dies - Fishtail Sentiment Banners
- May Arts 5/8" Faux Linen Canvas Ribbon Sampler - 27 yards
- Melissa Frances Self-Adhesive Round Pearls - Cream
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Thinking of You...Be Strong!
I loved the way the colors of that paper were like spilled ink, so I took a piece of card stock and splashed and splattered it, then dragged it through some ink pressed onto my craft mat. Then I added the sheet of designer paper stamped with a swan and sentiment. (It's raining here today, so I may have to get a dry iron to completely dry and flatten the paper which was still a bit damp when this photo was taken).
A very easy and fun card! I hope you like it!
Supplies:Thursday, July 10, 2025
Sunflower Season!
- Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Sunflower Season Bundle
- Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Vintage Seed Packet Bundle
- Craft Consortium Grunge Light 6x6
- May Arts Baker's Twine - 110 Yard Spool - Kraft
- Ric Rac
- button from stash
- Copic markers
- white acrylic paint, distress oxide inks for spattering