Carmen’s Simple Butterflies Card

I'm truly becoming a fan of simple and understated cards lately, and Carmen DeBruce showed us a perfectly elegant example of that style at our May Demo Meeting last week.    This card is so gorgeous, yet it's so quick and easy to put together! The background is created with Presto Patterns Designer Series Paper.  …

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Lattice Cross With Gilded Roses Card

My niece, Ellie, has her First Communion tonight, so it gave me the opportunity to try out a cool cross idea I found using the Lattice Bigz Die…    I'm always excited when I discover a new, unexpected use for one of my stamping tools!  I recently learned that by trimming off parts of the …

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Best Wishes To The Bride & Groom!

I didn't plan on watching The Royal Wedding this morning, but my dog woke me up at 5:00 am.  So, what the heck, I flipped on the TV and watched it for a couple of hours before heading back to bed.  It was a beautiful wedding, and the bride looked stunning, of course.  I only …

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Change of A Dress Cards

Well, it's been quite a week so far!  Definitely one of those weeks.  You know the ones, when you're trying to get your taxes done at the last minute and your computer decides to become ill, and then reports that you need to run decide to have errors instead, and the printer decides to act …

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Blossom Petals Dry Embossed Vellum Flowers

Last week, I showed you a fun way to use heat embossing on Vellum card stock to create beautiful flowers with the Build A Blossom stamp set and Blossom Petals Punch: Build A Blossom Embossed Vellum Flowers. Today's project also features embossing on Vellum Card Stock, but this time it's with the Finial Press Impressions …

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February Demo Project Showcase – Part 1

Because I'm packing, packing, packing for my upcoming move, not much stamping is going on (so sad, isn't it?!)  In the meantime, here are some of the fantastic projects created by my Too Cool Demo Team and shared at our February downline meeting last week.  Many of the cards are Valentine's related, but you'll still …

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