Elegant, Simple and Frugal!

*note: In this article I mention using the double piercing bug on the scor-pal. The Scor Pal company says to be sure to hold it at a 90 degree angle or you may damage the grooves in the scor-pal board. You will not damage the scor pal using the single peircing tool form EK Success [...]

2S4Y & CC&M!

Yippee, today I get to play with two of my favorite creative things: the sketch at 2 Sketches 4 You and die-cuts from Creative Cuts & More!
You can play along too, this weeks winner at 2 Sketches 4 You will get the Fall All-Occasion Card Kit from Creative Cuts and More! What are you waiting [...]

Note Cards with Envelopes Freebie!

Happy Tuesday Y’all! I spent a lovely morning out shopping and lunching with friends, it’s a beautiful warm fall day and I have some freebies to share. Does it get any better? Here is a set of thank you notes I made to send out to my daughters’ friends to thank them for their lovely [...]

New Stamp Designs {and of course a freebie!}

Happy Thursday everyone! I’m feeling the busy July wind down and I am so ready for a lazy August. I had some time to design a few new stamps for the Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff shop, here are two of them:
Irises are one of my favorite flowers so naturally I needed  an Iris digistamp!
And, well, you [...]

Happy Birthday!

In my family the summer is choc-full of adult birthdays so when I get a few spare minutes I whip up a birthday card:
I again used scraps lying on the craft table (these were actually left over form a friend who came over the scrap the other day) and I used my fave little old [...]

Here for You!

I played with my “Friends 24-7″ set from Stampin Up! a bit more and came up with this super quick card:
First I layered the 2 pattern papers and stamped over both of them and colored my image with colored pencils, then I used my Scor-Pal and Scor Bug to make the stitching holes (way easier [...]

My first Cuttlebug Embossing Folder!

I was shopping at my local scrapbook store a few weeks ago and saw this lovely Cuttlebug “textile” embossing folder. I had not tried the CB folders before so I though “why not!” I love the crisp detail I got using it in my Ellison Big Shot Die Cutter:
If you don’t have a manual die [...]

Hooray for Crochet!

I love all of the pretty dainty crocheted flowers popping up on cards and scrapbook pages everywhere.  tried to make some a while back but they were ANYTHING but dainty, then I found an easy tutorial over at Nicole Heady’s blog and it was so easy. I used embroidery floss and crochet cotton thread to [...]

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

I just started watching the show “The Lazy Environmentalist” and it got me to thinking…”Can I be even greener in my crafting?” Here is a card I made with some thick plastic packaging:
I used the cute Sock Monkey set from Stampin Up, stamped it with SU! basic black on Georgia Pacific Cardstock and water-colored him, [...]

Stars and Stripes Forever!

This is the first week of summer vacation. Imagine my surprise that I had a chance to finish a card using the sketch over at 2 sketches 4 You today. I had given my kids a stack of magazines, glue sticks, scissors, some old scrapbook paper and glitter and they collaged happily long enough for [...]