Betsy’s Blossom Is A Firework!

My apologies to Katy Perry!  Can you believe it's only one week until July 4th!  Wow!  This summer is flying by!  I thought I'd try a couple of red, white and blue cards to celebrate the season!  Have you noticed how much the large image from the Betsy's Blossom set looks kinda like fireworks?!  I …

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Make A Cake & Patio Party Project & Promo

CASEd from Becky Roberts at Inking Idaho. Today I had some fun with the new Patio Party Designer Series Paper by using it to do paper piecing on these Two Cool cards!  This is one of the designs we're creating at my "Last Thursdays" Monthly Card Class coming up June 28.  (RSVP now!) For the …

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“Last Thursdays” Class—Delightful Betsy’s Blossoms

It's good to be back posting after a very busy week with my Clearance Extravaganza!  Whew!  I sold lots of stuff, but I still have way too much left over!  I will be adding my list of remaining Clearance stamp sets and merchandise to my blog very soon, so stay tuned! "Last Thursdays" Monthly Card …

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Blooming With Kindness Fancy Floral Cards

Blooming With Kindness is quickly becoming one of my favorite new stamp sets!  Not only is the flower versatile enough to use with lots of stamping techniques, but the sentiments are SO PRETTY! I used Blooming With Kindness on today's Two Cool cards and I love how easily this design came together in only a …

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Simple & Sweet Twitterpated Butterflies

The Elegant Butterflies Punch is a must-have from the new Annual Catalog!  Punch a few butterfly shapes from some Designer Paper and coordination card stock, and you have a quick and cute card that's perfect for so many occasions! I mean, how adorable are these Two Cool Elegant Butterfly cards?!  And, these were so simple …

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Transforming Natural Composition Designer Paper – Part 3

I didn't mean to, but I found myself playing with the Natural Composition Specialty Paper again today!  This time I was trying a direct-to-paper technique.  I basically just wanted to experiment with how different colors of ink would look on this paper, so I cut a bunch of 3/4" strips of the "ugliest" pattern (the …

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