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We are back from a wonderful trip out West!  This week has been busy with laundry, catching up on all that gets away while gone...and a studio that I had NO projects ready to film.  (Well, there were, just not ones I was in the mood for, you know what I mean?).  So yesterday I did a HOLIDAY catalog  sneak peek video (you can see it on my YouTube or on my FB page with my friend who was in Greece...then we also did another unboxing for a new side gig we have started (more on that below)....then I … [Read more...] about Welcome to the Team! A Pizza Box full of Office Notecards

Happy July!  While my family and I are on vacation – my YouTube tutorials will be autoposting.  These blog posts are also autoposting so you can see the up close pictures and keep up on all the fun specials going on.  The chit chat will recommence once I return, lol. Today's tutorial throws it back to one of my most popular tutorials to date - but this time I mix up the Butterfly Beauty Dies with the NEW foils and the Pigment Sprinkles - here you go: Sign ups are NOW UNDERWAY for July’s … [Read more...] about Super Quick and Easy Summertime Card: Stampin’ Up! Butterfly Beauty and Pigment Sprinkles

Happy July!  While my family and I are on vacation - my YouTube tutorials will be autoposting.  These blog posts are also autoposting so you can see the up close pictures and keep up on all the fun specials going on.  The chit chat will recommence once I return, lol. Sign ups are NOW UNDERWAY for July’s Online Classes.  There are 2 to pick from (or you can do both!) The Magnolia Lane Suite or the Dino Days Bundle.  Supplies will be posted by July 2nd for what colors of ink and any … [Read more...] about Silhouettes Classic Masculine Card

Today's tutorial takes us back to the Pigment Sprinkles - but in a less messy fashion. Here you go! I knew that once I started using the new Pigment Sprinkles that I would want to revisit all the ways that I have used the Brusho in the past.  The new colors give them a whole different feel though. I wanted a set that I could do a Stained Glass technique with (because I STILL have a card to film - stamps STILL mounted! Eeeshhh..... FROM APRIL.  I know) that actually uses the the … [Read more...] about Faux Stained Glass With Pigment Sprinkles: Stampin’ Up!’s Bloom & Grow

Well - THAT happened.  Somehow we have managed to zoom through another month and we sit here now at the end of June! If you missed the Live version of my broadcast yesterday on Facebook - here is the replay.  You can watch it here on YouTube - or go over on FB and watch it there.  Both places I appreciate the shares (subs, likes, comments) - it all helps the channels keep pushing it back so more people get to see it!  I will be giving away the cards I made - drawing names on Monday morning - … [Read more...] about End of June Specials from my Facebook Live! Free Paper Pumpkin, Free Magnolia Cork, Free Perennial Essence Project!

If you stopped by here yesterday or watched yesterday's tutorial - then you know I used the beautiful Magnolia Lane Suite to create the card.  It was easy - with the idea that so many of our hours in the summer are spent outside enjoying the weather with friends and family.  We still need cards and we still love to craft - but sometimes we want it to take just a bit less time to create.  Right?  Yesterday's card was super fast and no one would even know that it was one we would call a … [Read more...] about Summer Stamping: Taking Your Craft on the Road with Magnolia Lane Memories and More!

So....I know I have been on a little binge with the Pigment Sprinkles and cards that are a little bit "more"  Well, today, we take a break from that! Today's Tutorial is going to introduce a week of Stampin' Summer style.  Here you go: How easy was THAT?! Keep coming back - I will be showing you some great ideas if you are off on vacation, in the car, campground, airport, cabin, beach - when you need some fun "grab and go" stamping ideas! You may not want to take your die cutting … [Read more...] about Magnolia Lane Easy 3D Flower Art Greeting Card + Heads Up on Lots of New Specials!

Today's tutorial is super easy - and not so much for the card as for the technique. You may remember that when I first used the Pigment Sprinkles and the Friend Like You Bundle....I intended to use the Palm Trees. BUT - they are one of those dies that don't cut the way you expect.  I did figure out HOW to use them, they just didn't work with the background that I had created with the sprinkles. Since then I have seen post after post of stampers asking HOW do you use those dies.  So … [Read more...] about How to use the Palm Die in Friend Like Me

A reminder that it's time to sign up for June's Free Online Stamp Classes!  One of the classes this month features the FABULOUS summertime nautical suite - Come Sail Away!  From the second I first saw the stamps I KNEW that I wanted to do a card that used the stamps in the suite with two of last year's favorites - Sea of Texture and Magical Mermaid. The tutorial is here.  You can see how I brought together three stamp sets and two sets of dies for one supery summery project. The … [Read more...] about Free Online June Courses: Come Sail Away – With Sea of Textures and Magical Mermaid for a Summertime Nautical Card

I know so many of us in the US are stuck in the middle of a wet and soggy summer....so let's use today's tutorial to dream of that rain moving off and the sunny days that are {surely} just around the corner! Because if this card doesn't cheer you up - then.....you must be a winter person! This is the last card (promise) that you will see for a while with the resist technique and the Pigment Sprinkles! I do have two more Pigment Sprinkle cards to come, but I am switching up … [Read more...] about Friend Like You – Pigment Series Project Tutorial #4