3-D Advent Calendar and a Freebie!

Update: The Gingerbread man SVG was missing from the freebie zipfile. I rezipped it and you can download the freebie here. So sorry for any inconvenience
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the states I’ll be spending the afternoon with my parents having some yummy food and enjoying my family’s company. The great [...]

Letterpress Experiment {part 2}

After playing with my homemade letterpress the other day I was thinking of other things I might make printing/debossing plates with when a lady on the SCAL/Cricut yahoo group suggested that I try magnet sheets. It just so happened I have a bunch of sheet magnet scraps given to me by the local sign shop [...]

Cricut carts for $24!!!!

Holy moly, I was just at the Pink Tuesday sale at Custom Crops and all of their cricut carts are on sale! I bought Storybook for $24.99! I’ve been eyeballing that one for a while, it’s an early x-mas present to me;) They also have free shipping on orders over $100. I got a few [...]

Easy X-Mas Cards and a Freebie!

The countdown is on folks, Thanksgiving is 3 days away and we only have 32 shopping days til Christmas! As a kid I remember each Thanksgiving, after the meal had been eaten and the dishes washed (while dad watched football) mom would address all of her Christmas cards in her beautiful penmanship. My penmanship is [...]

Homemade Letterpress!

I feel like an evil genius! I figured out how to make my own letterpress contraption to use with my Big Shot Die Cutting machine, lookie at what I made:
You may be thinking “what’s the big deal? It looks like stamping” but that is only half of it because when you letterpress it debosses too! [...]

Christmas Potpourri!

That is the name of the newest stamp set at Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff. Here is a few projects I made with it:
The Christmas Potpourri set has 6 sheets of printable bingo cards in red, green and black and 7 digital stamps in both jpg and png format. It’s great for cards and scrapbook pages. Another [...]

A Festive Christmas {and a freebie!}

When I saw the sketch challenge over on the Pink Persimmon blog I just had to play along:
I made this card and box set using the Cute as a Button set from Pink Persimmon (the sketch had a scallop border and the buttons were perfect for that!) I also used new Christmas paper from American [...]

Homemade Card Candy!

I needed some “play time” in my craft room and decided to use up some leftover die cuts and some stamps to make some card candy:
I love all of the new layered stickers on the market now by companies like K&Co and Making memories so I decided to make some of my own using labels [...]

Happy Monday!

Wow, what a week! I’m so glad everyone in my house is over the flu and back to their normal routines! My poor craft room was severely neglected, I thought I was going to find cobwebs when I went down there to make this. I used the Arched Window card from Creative Cuts and More,  [...]

Aaaccchhhoooo!

Cough, hack,  sputter…ahhh, the flu. It hit my house hard this week, or shall I say last Thursday night when my kids all came down suddenly with it and hubby and I each had it by the weekend. We have been in survival mode for the past week (feed, clean, sleep) but I did manage [...]