• Cards
  • Sparkly Thanks Card

    It’s the day after Christmas…time to put away all of the gorgeous holiday stamps and dies, including the ones I wanted to use and never found the time for.  My favorite crafty time of the year is over and although we have a whole new year’s worth of holidays to look forward to now, I’m […]

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  • Christmas Coffee Cup Holder Gifts

    I’m pretty new to this school-age-kids thing…so when I realized that my son’s last day of preschool before Christmas break was this week, naturally I was completely unprepared with the “teacher gifts” that everyone gives these days.  With just 15 hours left until I dropped him off, I pulled together these quick mini coffee cup […]

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  • Snowy Christmas Trees Card

    Anyone still working on holiday cards?  I actually enjoy working on them until the very end and hand a few out in person, so today I’m sharing a quick tutorial to make this easy Christmas card using two stencils from Clear Scraps in unique ways.  The Xmas Trees Stencil is super versatile and is perfect […]

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  • Woodland Christmas Tree Card

    As the weather gets colder and snowier, far fewer critters are running around my backyard.  But the grey squirrels?  They’re at the peak of their season of craziness.  We have a ton of black walnut trees in our neighborhood…and the squirrels LOVE collecting them this time of year when the husks have rotted off and […]

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  • Winter Friends Card

    Some stamps are so adorable that you need to buy them immediately and even though you don’t get a chance to ink them up right away, you just know you’ll find your way back to them eventually.  When the Sparkle & Cheer stamp set was released by Art Impressions two years ago, I pounced on […]

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  • Winter Sparkle Card

    Yesterday I watched as a small group of deer bedded down in the woods at the back of my property just as the first flurries of the season fell, and I was immediately inspired.  When inspiration hits, I need to grab onto it and hold on tight…because chasing after two toddlers drains a lot of […]

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  • Christmas Kaleidoscope Card

    It’s the day after Thanksgiving, and everything suddenly screams Christmas to me now (ok, if I’m being honest, I’ve probably had this problem for about a month…).  So when Spellbinders sent me the new Kaleidoscope Triangles dies to try out, I couldn’t help but imagine these beautiful layered shapes as Christmas trees covered in poinsettias […]