It seems like more and more each year I give gift cards for Christmas presents. And what makes a gift card better than a beautiful way to wrap it up! The gift card holder idea came from Sue Mohr. I did a recent post about it here and a video showing how to make it …
Today’s inspiration comes from challenges over at Freshly Made Sketches and Going Global Project. My card uses the Early Espresso as a base and then is layered with Whisper White and Real Red cardstock. I then mixed some new and old material, using a pattern from the NEW Sending Love DSP from the 2017 Occasions …
I have joy on my mind lately. I heard the best talk on joy last Thursday at my church’s MOMs group. You know, joy, not to be confused with the emotional roller coaster happiness. It left me encouraged, challenged, and ready to sink myself into the Christmas season with joy. So no challenge inspiration today…We’ll …
My card today was inspired by the embossing challenge over at Stamp, Ink, Paper this week. My card starts off with Real Red and is layered with a diagonal pattern from the Candy Cane Lane DSP. I then layered another smaller “heart” pattern matted on Real Red over that. Next I cut a banner in Whisper White …
Recently my upline held a little fun challenge for her downlines, ready… An ugly sweater challenge. How fun, right?! You’d think making an ugly sweater card would be easy, but it ironically was challenging. Making something ugly goes against everything I try to do. So here we go. Ugly sweater #1: In case you didn’t get …
The other day I posted a card in which I stamped a snow background onto Early Espresso cardstock. You can see that card here. Before I settled on the Early Espresso, I started out with Basic Gray cardstock. In the end I didn’t use it. When thinking about my card today, I saw the Basic …