Feeling a bit Challenged today…

…but in a good way! I had a chance to play in my studio this morning with my new pile of “rubbah” from About Art Accents (I so needed to get inky) and I got 2 challenges done! The first is this weeks sketch over at 2s4u:
I know the simple sketch would showcase the beauty [...]

Oh la la! A Fancy Tea Party! {and freebies!)

If you are a parent of a 5 year old girl you know all about Fancy Nancy. My friend Kathy and I (she also had 5 year old twin girls) decided to take our kids out Christmas shopping and to dinner the other night. We ate at Denny’s (does it get any fancier?) and when [...]

Quick cards and freebies!

Tomorrow is December first so I thought we should make some quick cards that are easy to mass produce for Christmas. Everything in the Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff shop at Shophandmade is 10% off until Dec 2nd AND you get a free stamp for ever $5 you spend before dicount! I challenged the Lindsay’s stamp Stuff [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Christmas Cookies, Digital Embossed Mats and Freebies!

Yep it’s Thursday as you could probably guess from the title! I had an idea rattling around in my head for a while of making printable paper mats that had embossed edges. You can use the png version of any digital stamp to add them to the mat before you print it too! I made [...]

Hip Cool Aunt!

The coolest thing about being an aunt is that you don’t have to be the fuddy-duddy responsible mom, you can have fun!
A friend took this photo of me holding my sister’s baby last week when he was just hours old. Cute!
I wanted a funky look so I used my new Wood Grain Background stamp and [...]

Hey Girlfriend!

ser⋅en⋅dip⋅i⋅ty: (noun) an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
That explains this project. I was lucky enough to get published agin last month in Vamp Stamp News, I was extra lucky to be the winner of 10 back issues of VSN and I was even more lucky to pick the April 2000 issue that had [...]