Published again!

Not that I want to toot my own horn (OK I’m Tootin’ here!) I just really love this card and I have waited months to be able to share it with you, see it was in the May issue of Vamp Stamp News as part of their stamp masking challenge and they want to keep [...]

K.I.S.S. Keep It Simple Silly;)

Many years ago I worked as a radio disc jockey which was perfect because I have the gift of gab but my PD (boss) would always tell me to “Keep It Simple Stupid!” Although he irked me to no end with that he did have a good point, do we need to agonize for hours [...]

Moldy Oldies and a Blog Award!

Admit it, you have a drawer (or 2…or 5!) filled with supplies that you loves so much that you couldn’t bear to use them, maybe you were saving them for that “special” page and a couple of years later your treasures are outdated! Don’t throw them away, mix them up with some new product and [...]

Call it “Artistic Licence”…

I was so happy to have time to do both sketch challenges over at 2 Sketches 4 You today. There are two pretty sketches this week and I used Kazan’s sketch #27 for this one… …or, at least it started out that way As soon as I saw the sketch I knew I wanted to [...]

Card Kit Freebie!

I am a hybrid crafting kinda girl. I love the flexibility of digital but I still love to get my hands dirty with traditional supplies. When I make cards I usually just use scraps leftover from other projects. I love digital paper but I wouldn’t want to print out a full sheet just for a [...]

toot toot!

What can I say, I’m having a good month I just got the June issue of Vamp Stamp News in the mail and I have a card in there! Woohoo! The magazine had a challenge to make embossed backgrounds with a die cut machine and well, I love my die cutters so I made a [...]

Fun (and free) ways to dress up a card!

Simple is nice, isn’t it? I have more tools and gadgets at my disposal than many scrapbook stores but sometimes it is nice to get back to basics, use up my scraps and make stuff from scratch. Last year I got the crocheting book “The Happy Hooker” and there was a cute scarf made from [...]

Coffee, Tea or Three?

Happy Monday folks! Nothing softens the blow of a Monday like a freebie. There was a challenge over at Oriental Stamp Art last week to make a tea themed card and this weeks challenge is to include a dragon in your card design so I decided to combine both challenges in one and share the [...]

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

…OK you are thinking that I have officially lost my marbles, right? Not quite, it’s just that I have been working on Christmas cards all week to make the deadline for Just Holidays! Magazine (I told my girlfriend that I finally got my Christmas cards done yesterday and she looked at me like I had [...]

Curiouser and curiouser…

There is just something about Alice in Wonderland that I fine quite charming, especially the Victorian illustrations. Here I used the Alice ATC sheet to make 11 artist trading cards: What a fun way to use up all of the “junk” you’ve been collecting! And a funky necklace: Coloring tip: I used my Prismacolor colored [...]