Hello crafty friends!! We love putting a personal twist on our handmade birthday cards, don’t you? Today we are sharing a card that we made for our animal-loving niece’s birthday. The darling little birds in this set from Photoplay make us smile! Focal Point: The bird, branch and flower images were stamped on 80 lb. cardstock using alcohol marker friendly ink. Once the ink was dry, the images…
Welcome! Have you experimented with alcohol inks to make fun colorful backgrounds? If so, how often do you actually put them to use in your cardmaking? Admittedly, we haven’t mastered that step yet, but we are trying! Today’s card is the result of using one of those backgrounds and we think it worked perfectly. Focal Point: Using the solid maple leaf die, cut one leaf from a Yupo…
There is no doubt that sympathy cards are the hardest types of cards to make. Unless, of course, you need to make a pet sympathy card. Those are absolutely THE WORST! A dear friend recently lost their 15-year old furry family member. We envisioned a puppy angel for this card so we started hunting through our stash and found the perfect puppy image and a set of wings…
Welcome crafty friend! Today we are participating in an Instagram Hop to celebrate the famous Swiss tradition Alpabzug. In the Autumn, the cows who reside in the mountains are brought down to their lowland farms wearing beautiful floral wreaths. There are prizes for participating in the hop, so be sure to stop by our Instagram account and leave a comment. Photo Courtesy of Patrick Aegerter Focal Point: A…
Hello friends! What is your favorite color? Although we agree on many things and have similar tastes and styles, naming a favorite color is not one of them. Michele loves all things Teal but Maureen is fond of the warmth and happiness emitted by Yellow. Either way, we are in 100% agreement that both colors can be used to generate pretty cards. Today we are sharing a card…
Hello and welcome! We are so grateful for your visit. Today we are sharing a masculine birthday card. Masculine cards always seem to be more challenging for us to create, but we knew that the recipient of this card is a beer-lover, so we used that information as the starting point for our design. We searched through our stash to see if we had anything that we could…
Happy New Year, friends! It has been a while since our last post, but we hope that your holidays were safe, happy and relaxing. Today we are sharing a card that features several new products we have recently added to our stash and have been very excited to use. When My Favorite Things released their Winter Songbirds stamp set, we fell madly in love with it and just…
Hello and welcome! We are so happy that you dropped by today. Today we are sharing another project that features the stunning “Christmas Wishes” digital stamp set from Graciellie Design. We were feeling inspired to create something a bit different and decided that the beautiful poinsettia image would look wonderful as the backdrop in a shaker tag. Here’s the steps we followed to create our striking and elegant Holiday…
Welcome! We are grateful that you stopped by and hope you are well and staying safe. It was another beautiful autumn day here in Western New York so we thought it would be fun to play with the Pumpkin Patch stamp and die set from Honey Bee Stamps. Our post today is all about having fun with die cuts and while this was not a fast card to…
Hello crafty friends & welcome! We are so happy that you stopped by. Today we are sharing a project that we created this past weekend. We had a super-fun crafty day together (we have been isolating to stay safe, but just needed some Sister/craft therapy, and it was just what the doctor ordered)! We spent the day getting inky and made tons of new alcohol ink backgrounds. Then…