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 [...]

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,  [...]

Traditional vs. Digital…who wins?

We do!!! Lucky us to be  crafting at a time when the perfect sheet of paper or stamp can be found in seconds right on our computer! We are also lucky (despite the recession) to have isle after isle of papers, punches, rubber stamps and embellishments to pick from at our craft stores! It is [...]

It’s Blog Hop Time!!!

I am so excited to be a part of another Creative Cuts and More blog hop! They are releasing some brand new die cut card kits with a  birthday theme and they are too cute for words! They were put together by our own talented designer Pam Smerker and you can see several projects from [...]

Catch a Wave (and some freebies too!)

Wow, we finally have sun up in the northeast!!! I am totally in a beachy mood right now as you can see by my latest card:
I was inspired by the gals over at Caardvarks to make a window card. I filled a zip-to baggie with hair gel and taped it to back of my window. [...]

CC&M Blog Hop Time!!!

Yippee Skippie, it is time for the Creative Cuts and More Blog Hop. If you just arrived here from Jen’s blog thanks for joining us and WOW, wasn’t her project FAB! If you are jumping in in the middle of the hop make sure you start from the beginning over at the Die Cut Diva [...]

A Mothers Day gift, make a perfect tag, how to emboss a digi-stamped image and a new DT member!

I sure do like long titles don’t I? Mother’s Day is Sunday and I thought I would share another quick gift idea with you. I bought this orchid at Wal Mart for $17, if you can believe it (just hoping I can keep it alive long enough to give it to mom;) and I thought [...]

Dare to Digi…

…stamp, that is. I found a cool digital stamping blog called dareU2digistamp and it has weekly sketch challenges. Here is a card I made for the sketch using my new Doodle Aster digital stamp:
And here is another card I made with the scraps using my Doodle Daisy stamp:
I colored them with my Bic Mark-its and [...]

Let’s Recycle!

OK I had fun today with this challenge…As part of the Rubber Cafe Design Team I was challenged to create a card using the color teal, something recycled, dimensional foam tape and of course their stamps. Easy Peasy! I usually tend to work with “warmer” colors like orange and pink so teal would be fun [...]

Faux Copics, Faux Nestabilities and Free SCUT Files For You!

Hello there! I’ve been playing around with an idea I’ve had for a while…or as long as I’ve been seeing the adorable crafts made with Nestabilites dies. If you don’t know what they are they are dies that emboss and cut. For lovely examples check out Olena’s blog. They are however expensive and you need [...]