Hello friends and happy September! We enjoy the fall season here in Western New York but as summer-lovers, it’s always bittersweet as we say goodbye to the long sunshine-filled days. The card we are sharing today was created for a special niece and is filled with florals to hold on to that summer feeling for just a little longer. We hope you like it! Focal Point All the…
Have you ever heard of or tried the die-cutting eclipse technique? We think this is such a fun technique that creates dramatic results. The new Be Bold Color Block dies by Spellbinders are a collection of large word dies that are great for eclipsing. Background Panel: We chose to use the Birthday word die for our project which measures 3.5” x 8.5”, so we cut a piece of…
One of our favorite paper crafting techniques is die cutting. We simply find the process of cutting and gluing small pieces of paper together to create something beautiful so relaxing and enjoyable. Our card project today was created mostly with die cuts – there was very little stamping involved. We are pleased with how it turned out and hope you think so too! Focal Point: The deer was…
We have a plant-loving family member who celebrated a big milestone birthday this month. We felt this was the perfect opportunity to break out the die sets we have recently acquired that create adorable house plants. It was so much fun to build these adorable pots of greenery. Focal Point: Various plants and pots were diecut using various green, brown and tan scraps of cardstock. We enhanced the…
Hello friends! Have you ever seen a new product release that just spoke to your soul and you knew that you just had to have it?? That’s how we felt about the Capturing Summer Collection from The Greetery and today we are sharing a card we made using many of the products from this collection. Is there any better setting for a welcome home card than a rocking…
Welcome friends! What is your favorite season? For us, it is definitely Summer and we think our card today captures it’s essence perfectly. We used the Small Butterflies product bundle (stamps, stencils, dies and hot foil plates) for the first time and we love all the options it provides! Floral Wreath: We started by using all stencil layers to create the wreath using a pair of blue inks…
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 happy that you stopped by. We recently bought several new stand-alone layering die sets from The Greetery and finally had time to play with them. We absolutely love how easy it is to create layered dimension with these beautiful products! Today we are sharing a card that we put together featuring a few of these new die sets. We are entering this card…
Hello and welcome! We are so happy that you stopped by. We used a bunch of new products to make today’s card and we are pleased with the results – what do you think? This pretty autumn branch was created using the Bittersweet Bouquet stamp set by The Greetery. The background was created using Tim Holtz’ new Crackling Campfire Distress Ink with a stencil we created using masking…