If you’re visiting for the first time, welcome to my handmade card and home decor blog! I hope you’re enjoying the hop so far, and if you need to get back to the top, you can click on the banner above or right here. The theme this year was to make a red, white, and […]
Birthdays
Birthday Bubble Card
Admittedly, this is one of the weirder cards I’ve made lately…but I needed a fun birthday card and my Simon Says Stamp November Card Kit was still sitting on my bench today. I designed the bubble overlay in Silhouette Studio (free cut file linked below) and cut this out of one of the 6×6 patterned […]
Paper Smooches Pull-up Birthday Card
I needed a cute and colorful birthday card for a special little guy who’s at the age when anything that moves or makes funny noises makes him laugh for days, so I pulled out my favorite birthday characters set from Paper Smooches and made him a pull-up card. The groundhog and worm are from the […]
Chalkboard Birthday Card
I needed to make a quick birthday card today and it was just sheer luck that my Simon Says Stamp September card kit came in the mail this afternoon. I’ve never used a kit on the same day it arrived before…I guess it was great timing and one of the patterned papers from the kit […]
Circle Sketch Challenges
I’m playing catch up after a nice long vacation, but here is a birthday card I made inspired by two different sketches…one at the Silhouette Blog and one at Online Card Classes: I designed my own circle border similar to the one featured on the Silhouette blog last Thursday (here), but instead of filling the […]
Holiday Stamp Repurpose
I really like holidays…so naturally I have plenty of holiday stamps. For today’s challenge, to use holiday stamps to create a non-holiday card, I decided to work with several images from the Fiskar’s “What A Hoot” set and a strand of Christmas lights from TPC Studio’s “Modern Christmas” set: I used the strand of Christmas […]
Card Camp Week 2, Day 1 – “Circle Card”
I rarely make shaped cards, so I definitely wanted to try out sketch #1 today. I also needed a birthday card for my nephew, and when I saw the color scheme for this week I couldn’t get Granny Smith apples out of my head…so I just went for it: I designed this apple-shaped card in […]