I have been doing the Penny Black challenges for a few weeks and this week the challenge was to make an ATC. This is right up my alley as I have participated in a monthly ATC swap for over a year. I thought it would be fun to have the little hedgehog running in the leaves. Well when I looked at my sister’s stamps, she did not have one with leaves. She did however have…
I was in Michael’s and they had their Halloween ribbon on sale. I picked up a bunch as I am always looking for ribbon at a good price, besides I always buy my ribbon on sale during the holidays so I have some to put away and use the next year. I find I like that ribbon better than the first release of ribbon for the holiday. I found this ribbon (it is really called…
While looking yesterday for directions/patterns for card boxes and cards I ran across this cute box that fits 3 x 3 cards. It was really easy to make and I was able to put 4 cards and envelopes inside. It has been a lot of fun creating yesterday’s box and today’s. I was able to use up some of my scraps of paper. I love it when I can do that as I have so much!!!!!!…
I am sorry this post is so late. I have had some fun this afternoon with several sketch challenges and my Halloween stamps . I have made quite a few cards that I will share with you over the next few days. The first card I made was for Taylor’s sketch challenge. I loved the layout and while I don’t have cupcakes I knew I needed some more Halloween cards to send out so I…
Sorry I did not post yesterday but I was so busy. I have contemplated making some cards in a box to sell at the base craft show. I also needed some of these for Christmas gifts for a few people. I spent the morning looking for dimensions/patterns for the boxes and found a couple 3 x 3 boxes. I never did find one for the invitation size cards so I ended up making my own. This took quite…
I was reading on Charmaine’s blog that there was an embossing challenge on the Verve blog. I went over to check it out and decided I needed to use my Fall embossing templates since it had been a while since I had done any dry embossing. After I had it embossed I decided I wanted to color it so I placed the template on top of the embossed image and used my sponge daubers and ink…
